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[CWMV]

Fuel tank fires at 1:30
Air bursts at 1:40
Small flak puffs and the thick, oily smoke from heavily burning aircraft. The dirtier nature of explosions and impacts. Less hollywood effects!

Just Wow. Seriously this is beautiful stuff.

[ben_wh]

Steppenwolf,

Congratulation on this new version - agree that it is very realistic looking and works well without huge FPS sacrifice.

Cheers,

[*Steppenwolf*]

CWMV & ben_wh,
I'm glad you guys like it. And thank you both for the kind words.

Steppenwolf

[CWMV]

Well I liked the video.
Still cant use it...
But I wait patiently!

[PO_MAK_249RIP]

Installed this over Plutonium for DBW without the classfiles - works a treat for me !!

[CWMV]

Well if you really wanted to you could just replace the TGA's/textures in plutonium with these and probably have a pretty good approximation.
I however will opt for waiting for the 4.10 version. its just too beautiful for me to foul up!
but I will ask this, whats the tga for the aircrat burning/flame effects? I really like them!

[Roger Smith]

dude, your filming skills are kick ass. I assume the camera shaking is from the TrackIR/FaceTrack mod.

[*Steppenwolf*]

Thanks CWMV! Actually, the tga for the fires is from Plutonium. The fire effects for burning aircraft, inflight and on the ground, are at: 3DO/Effects/Aircraft...FireSPD and FireGND. Sadly, swapping .tgas will only replace the single image that the effect is made from. While this is very important, it is only half the effect though. The rest is the .eff parameters. This controls everything that makes the .tga "perform", for lack of a better word, the way you want it to. Either way, I'm glad you're digging it!

Solo_wing_Pixy,
Thanks for the compliment! I use TrackIR, but my videos were recorded with a mouse. I think it's being zoomed in that makes it look shaky.

[ben_wh]

Thanks CWMV! Actually, the tga for the fires is from Plutonium. The fire effects for burning aircraft, inflight and on the ground, are at: 3DO/Effects/Aircraft...FireSPD and FireGND. Sadly, swapping .tgas will only replace the single image that the effect is made from. While this is very important, it is only half the effect though. The rest is the .eff parameters. This controls everything that makes the .tga "perform", for lack of a better word, the way you want it to. Either way, I'm glad you're digging it!

Indeed, I used the Plutonium pack as the base and overwrote with Steppenwolf's texture (.tga) and effect (.eff) files.  It is working very well so far.  The low particles effects enable a very dense 'smoke-filled' environment in ground attack missions and still allows a smooth frame rate, which gives a strong - but not overblown - feeling of carnage in the battlefield.   Very nice work.

Thanks again,

[zack]

Indeed, I used the Plutonium pack as the base and overwrote with Steppenwolf's texture (.tga) and effect (.eff) files.  It is working very well so far.  The low particles effects enable a very dense 'smoke-filled'(...)

Hi Ben,
Could You upload somewhere this merged mod? Steppenwolf's mod is amazing, but I'm running DBW only, no more 4.09 m version...
Actually - I'm desperately looking for this kind of heavier smokes (which I do really miss a lot in Plutonium!):



Thanks a lot in advance.

[ben_wh]

Hi Ben,
Could You upload somewhere this merged mod? Steppenwolf's mod is amazing, but I'm running DBW only, no more 4.09 m version...
Actually - I'm desperately looking for this kind of heavier smokes (which I do really miss a lot in Plutonium!):

Thanks a lot in advance.

Zack,

Here's what I did - actually very simple. 

1)  Download the plutonium pack from here (make sure you select the right version, depending on whether you use the AI mod in DBW):

https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,19849.0.html

2) Extract the files and set up a folder structure to use JSGME.exe in DBW (i.e. create the necessary folder, e.g.  #DBW_Plutonium_Effect_with_Low_Particles/#DBW/__0_Plutonium_Effect_w_Low_Particles/... within the jsgmemods folder in your DBW install)

3)  Download the latest low particles effect pack from the first page of this thread.  Extract to somewhere.

4)  Copy and merge the '3DO' and 'Effects' folders from the low particles pack to folders with the same names in the DBW plutonium effect folder you created in (2).  Overwrite when prompted.  (You can always re-extract the plutonium effect files from your original download).  Do _not_ copy any of the class file - those with names like '00B509F2DD168B52' - from the low particles pack.

5) Use JSGME.exe to activate your mod

This worked for me in a DBW 1.6 install.  Now, you may want to experiment with mixing and matching the effects in plutonium and low particles pack, and editing the .eff files as discussed by Steppenwolf in this thread. 

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

[zack]

Thank You Ben,

4)  Copy and merge the '3DO' and 'Effects' folders from the low particles pack to folders with the same names in the DBW plutonium effect folder you created in (2).  Overwrite when prompted.  (You can always re-extract the plutonium effect files from your original download).  Do _not_ copy any of the class file - those with names like '00B509F2DD168B52' - from the low particles pack.

I don't understand this point - should I just simply move (copy/paste) folders "3DO" and "Effects" from "Lower Particles Pack" folder to "Plutonium" folder?

Thank You.