Psychonaut

Looks nice, but somehow the chopper smoke effect is messed up with the new dmsmoke.pbo. The tank smoke looks still fine.

And at last you are mentioned at armaholic.com. Seems, that you will become very popular in the community !!! And if you ask me, you deserve it! The new beta looks very nice. The blurry thing does not bother me very much, but it´s good to hear, that you fixed it. I´m using your addon with the newest version of XAM, ´cause they have some nice tank-explosion effect. I had to edit some eventhandlers to get it to work, but nothing too complicated. What can i say:it feels and looks like a totally new game. Of course it works only with the large world trigger but i´m sure sickboy will find a solution for it. I´ve tried it by myself, but i was not able of coding a working eventhandler an script. Sorry, i really would have liked to help you with it. I´m looking forward for the next version.

Hey nice. I will test it asap. And good news, that sickboy is working on it, too. You are turning Arma into a totally new looking game.

Maybe i´m the only one interested in this great addon but are there any news or at least somt tipps how to get this to run in the SP campaign?

I´ve tested the whole evening to get this stuff to run in every mission by editing the cfgVehicles.hpp and inserting eventhandlers, but it don´t work at all. I´m not really into this stuff and it´s a lot of trial and error. Maybe someone have the right idea, how a working eventhandler could look like and how to get a working .hpp file. It´s really frustrating to have this great addon and can´t use it in the campaign. me think, editing OFP was much easier, wasn´t it.

Placing an activator for every single mission is pretty much work to replace the vanilla BIS smoke. As far as i know a sloution would be to implement a config.cpp to your mod and change the eventhandlers for every unit to use your smoke. I did some config-editing once in OFP, but thats long ago and things got much more complicated in Arma. But there are a lot of code wizzards around here. I bet there is someone, who can help you creating something, which will be able to replace the vanilla BIS smoke (at least for singleplayer).

Is it right, that the new smoke just works with your included mission. I hoped, the addon would replace the BIS smoke, so that every mission could profit from the new one. But maybe (hopefully ) it´s just because of the Beta. BTW: there some bugs like the blurry smoke, but i´ts really some eyecandy stuff. Keep on your good work Just a suggestion: maybe you should half the size of the cloudlets esp. for the tanks. Now it looks a bit overdone.

Sounds really promising Can´t wait to test it!

@DMarkwick You´re smoke-mod does really look excellent. Any Idea, when you´re able to release it? And most important: does this work in SP, too?

@ Thunderbird yes, you´re right the debris appears green in the radar. It doesn´t bother me that mutch, but i think it really causes some slowdowns. You´ve changed the ammount of debris in the plane explosion, aren´t you. I´m really looking forward for 5.0. I think there are always some things left, which can be made better. You became a real perfectionist, lately

Once i´ve edited the effectpack.pbo, where you can find the turret thing, to have less debris. With that setting it works much faster than the ffur4.5 explosion and looks way better. I´ve send thunderbird this effectpack-light, but he said, it causes some trouble. Me for myself, everytime a new release came out, i changed the tank explosion to the effectpack-light version, and i´ve never noticed any problems with it.

I know, i´ve been here often critizise your hard work. But what can i say? Flashpoint with FlashFXUR feels nearly perfect. Like a whole new game. awesome Job (now take some rest )

I´ve noticed 2 Bugs so far: 1. the bn_tracer doesn´t seem to work temporarly (sometimes it does, sometimes not) EDIT: the tracer depends on the weapon you use. I just havn´t noticed it before, so it seems no bug 2. the satchel-charges disappear after 3-4 seconds from the screen and from the "action-menu" (3.) the icp-effect still don´t work The new apache seems to be in beta status, because it has no spec map and a weird explosion effect, when destroyed. The anims are pretty cool.

What i wanted to say (I guess i have to work on my english a bit)::D The icp-effect (this line: _this exec ""\ICP_effects\tankstvol\tankstvol.sqs"") doesn´t seem to work any longer. Its the effect that causses a huge flame and flash when firing a tank. It worked till 2.0 so i think that there is another script, that overrides it. I´ve fooled aruond with the config a bit, but i couldn´t find a solution. BTW: I´m just joking. Your mod pack is good as it is, with or withuot my explosion The error message, that you get with the Tank-effect has IMHO something to do with some ai-scripts. It seems to occur, when the tank crew tries to leave the tank when the explosion begins (something like that).

In Germany you would say "man sieht den Wald vor lauter Baeumen nicht". This means: sometimes the solution is that near, that you are not able to see it. The ClassTank EH doesnt work any longer because of the new ClassAbrams EH (or the "new" unit CLASSes at all). What i didn´t find out, why the icp-effect (the big nice flash, when you fire a tank) doesnt work any longer. Getting this to work would make it perfect. BTW: the sounds you chose are awesome. I also like the plane splash and explosion. The effectpack explosions have much more "oopmphh" than the nmod ones. The good balance you choose makes the game look better than ever.