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NordKindchen I'm really surprised that your idea hasn't generated more interest and support from the Arma community, it's an excellent idea that deserves far more attention.

It looks bloody awesome when blowing holes in the walls, it would great if we could do this on buildings too because it looks far more convincing then the current damage models. It would be so cool pounding buildings with tank shells and blowing holes through wall segments rather than the entire building collapsing.

The patterning effect is fixed now but in my opinion there isn't enough contrast, I feel that the infantry don't blend in enough with the environment - You can really notice the difference here with Bad Benson's Sharp1 version, in my opinion the high contrast makes the terrain appear more natural and helps to camouflage infantry -

HELL YEAH!!! Thanks so much Mondkalb. Breachable doors and wall segments! No sleep for me tonight.

Thanks gammadust I got it working now. When viewed through a scope at mid range the textures look very nice, but I have to agree with the comment DNK made earlier about patterning occurring over the landscape when viewed from a distance, you can clearly see it in this video - Please don't be discouraged mate, I'm confident that if you keep experimenting you will get great results.

This is the error message I get on startup - Cannot load texture gam\gam_stratis_midrangedetail\data\mid_range_mco.paa.

I look forward to it, I think it's an area that's really worthwhile experimenting with because it can have a dramatic effect on gameplay. BTW I tried to test your download example but got an error message soon as the game loaded. Your 'alternate sighted' screenshots are definitely a step in the right direction. I think for long and medium ranges it's almost impossible to surpass the ULTRA texture mod - but when the textures are viewed through optics (zoomed in) your 'alternate sighted' examples are the best I've seen so far. Please keep experimenting when you get some free time, your efforts are appreciated mate.

I wish I found this thread earlier, downloading the example now, the screenshots look brilliant.

When you can produce a texture mod equal in quality to this then I'll take you seriously - Until then your comments are nothing more than thoughtless blabber...

Great work someguywho. I especially like the Woodland camo, it blends in very well with the Stratis environment.

Ghillie suit.

I'll take your word for it. I haven't done any benchmark testing but my computer is old and shitty and the texture replacement mod has shown no noticeable impact on performance so that's good enough evidence for me.

Ghillie suits found in g00d69‎'s ghillie suit mod.

Thankyou g00d69. I made a quick video to demonstrate how incredibly hard it is to spot units wearing ghillie suits in Arma 3, I had to shoot a friendly unit otherwise I would have been killed before I had time to zoom in.

Really, you think this isn't a massive improvement? - If I were using default textures that helicopter would stick out like the proverbial sore thumb.

There's no denying it Bad Benson...you are a badass! Thanks.

A short preview of Bad Benson's incredible 'midrange terrain texture replacement' mod. The mod version featured in the video is 'sharp1'. I urge anyone who hasn't yet installed the mod to give it a try, it's awesome.

OK after rigorous testing I now prefer Bad Benson's 'sharp1' version, IMHO it's the best overall version. It's almost impossible to spot stationary infantry at distances of 200+ metres without the aid of optics (in fact it's even quite difficult to spot moving infantry at distances of 200+ metres), and spotting prone infantry at those distances will certainly require skill and optics, and the textures now look far more natural without all the dark black patches. I'd like to thank Bad Benson, SQB-SMA and everyone else who contributed feedback and screenshots, it's been a pleasure seeing the mod evolve into something that is so beneficial to gameplay. Bring on the ghillie suits!!!

I will test these out soon, thanks for all the screenshots guys. One thing for sure is that compared to these texture mods the original texture looks damn crap.

Yes it certainly does get the job done, selecting suitable camouflage patterns is now highly important, before camouflage patterns and ghillie suits were nothing more than decorative costumes, I mean snipers might as well have been wearing tuxedo's because it made no difference to gameplay when fighting at medium and long range. I increased my view distance to test out the ULTRA texture, the results left me speechless.

I totally agree NeuroFunker, the ULTRA texture isn't perfect yet and any improvements are always welcome, but it's miles better than the vanilla alpha texture so lets hope the devs can take a look at this sometime and get it right for the finished game.

Nice comparison shots Predator.v2. I've been doing a lot of testing with the ULTRA texture and have found that units using effective camouflage patterns are REALLY hard to spot.

It always bugged me that the grass layer wasn't rendered at mid and long range distances, prone infantry were easier to spot at 300 metres than 30, very annoying when trying to simulate realistic sniper missions. In my opinion the new ULTRA texture posted by SQB-SMA is the best system I have seen thus far of simulating units hidden by grass.

OK I've been playing the OFP series since 2001, have played with literally hundreds of different mods, and I shit you not, your ULTRA texture is the first mod I have seen that is so visually impactful that it changes gameplay. Finally a ghillie suit will be capable of blending into the surroundings at mid range. Thankyou SQB-SMA and thankyou Bad Benson.