Updated 2013/08/17 (only for v4.121 and v4.111):
Visual MOD (Stereo 3D + Extra Features) v7 Pack (TrackIR 6DOF, EcranWide & ScreenShots) + New RealFollow Mode 6DOF
Since 2013/08/17 new improved versions are for v4.121 and v4.111 only. v4.101 was not updated
Ok People,
for a long while I haven't formally updated the Visual MOD (the original Stereo 3D plus all the other features). I only posted in some places some different updates but never really released nothing new from v5.
The new main feature of this version is something that really was lacking in the Il-2 Sturmovik game and that allows specially for filmmakers, etc., a much lively rendering for many situations. Real Follow:
The game only had the traditional external view (F2) which moved you to the exterior and that followed the position of the plane but pointing always in a fixed direction. The alternative was the follow (F8) view that in a very strange way (always vertically aligned and without tilt) followed your plane. So now I have implemented a Real Follow mode (it replaces the F2 and F8):
I developed a quite inertial behaviour for it which makes it quite real how the camera follows the plane. For those who haven't been following the development thread and don't know much about the MOD, etc., please consider that 95% of the answers you need are in a disordered sequence here:
The ReadMe.pdf included in the .rar is old but quite exhaustive and explains in a detailed and ordered way all what you may need to operate and configure the MOD. I took the time to write it, so please: read it if you don't know what to do.
I will not discuss the features or the basic configuration here, because it was quite analyzed in the quoted thread and everything is in the ReadMe. The main changes for this v7 are:
BugFixes and Additions on 2013/03/23: -New
HeadShake for Gunner Positions!!! This was something that due to a contradiction on Stock Game never worked. It was necessary to made a change in the FM to allow this to work. Inside the .rar you will see a folder called 00_PAL-VisualMODFixFM-v4111. IT IS BASED ON SAS AI Engine MOD 2.6RC. You need that MOD and load my fix over it. Without that combination, please don't try to activate it because the consequences could be a non-loading game. Without this you will have all the other functions but not so real Gunner Positions, nothing else.
-New
Sluggish response for Gunners (Turrets or manually handed Weapons). Much more real represents the non-instantaneous response on aiming.
Aparently this collaborates to make AI Snippers less exact. Still to be confirmed!.
-New
4 Levels of Stereocity (External, Cockpits, Gunners and Aims / Tubes) => Independent Settings for better Stereo Comfor in any condition of the game.
-New
Stereo Settings for all 4 Levels (External, Cockpits, Gunners and Aims / Tubes) are remembered by the Game. So Next Time you load Il-2 everything is as the last time used (no need to edit Conf.ini for Separation and Convergence).
-New
MOD Remembers Stereo Mode (or Stereo Disabled) => No need to set this either through Conf.ini.
-Now if plane is On Ground and in External View your sight is not aligned with the plane axis. So you see it as if being a person on-ground. When it gets out of land, the MOD starts to make the camera aligned with it. It shows to be much more reasonable this way.
-Now if you press "P" for Pause, and the view (this was particularly observable in External View) of the camera was inertially going to some position, it really frozens. Then you can reorient or whatever, but it stops repositioning when you pause the game.
Previous Change Log: -New
Real Follow Mode.
-New
6DOF for External Views.
-New
Fixed Padlock Mode which didn't have Stereo 3D.
-New
Includes Cockpit Change Wind Issue. Original Features of the Stereo (Visual) MOD: -Fully integrates TrackIR 6DOF MOD (you wont need an indepenent TrackIR 6DOF anymore). There were some isolated problems reported by users that didn't seem to be specifically related to this MOD.
-Fully integrates EcranWide (you wont need an independent EcranWide anymore). But in this case consider that some extra stuff that you were accustomed to (small fonts, small icons, etc.) would be needed by you. I have added the module Extras For EcranWide.rar that includes all that stuff.
-ScreenShots are possible in .jpg and .tga format in any Mode.
-Video captures are possible in most of the current Modes.
-ModeD has been made perfectly operative and will not conflict basically with any modern card.
-ModeC includes since v5 Final the chance of directly managing 3D Feature of nVIDIA cards (Quadro series). I still don't have such a card so I cannot effectively test it but it should work. For ATI or nVIDIA non-3D this mode will be a basic mode with auxiliary buffers and a slow one (not recommended).
For new features now formally added to this released version, please read the post below in this same page, here:Credits:This Stereo 3D MOD by requirement of many users was adapted to support TrackIR 6DOF and EcranWide. Nonetheless I have implemented these two functions in a slightly different way, I would credit for the inspiration these MODders:
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sHr for the mouse 6DOF (I use my previous reworked MOD of Mouse Headshaking 6DOF).
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Josse and
CirX for the settings for Wide Monitor support.
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Kegetys for TrackIR 6DOF (and different changes made by others as far as I know).
Aknowledgments:-X-Raptor
-Herra Tohtori
-cgagan
-gianlucabagatti
-phbrajon
-pditrich
Regards,
Pablo