Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[I/JG1_Adler]

I want change the Mixture Effect Smoke in my game, but i dont know, which number is transparency for the smoke. Can anybody explain the lines in this mat file? Which line must i edit to become a shorter and more transparent smoke effect by mixture?

[ClassInfo]
  ClassName TMaterial

[General]
  tfDoubleSide 0
  tfShouldSort 1
  tfGameTimer 1
  tfDropShadow 0
  tfMotionBlur 0
[LightParams]
  Ambient 1.00
  Diffuse 1.00
  Specular 0.0
  SpecularPow 0
  Shine 0.0
[Layer0]
  TextureName PlaneDamageSmoke.tga
  PaletteName
  Frame 0.0
  VisibleDistanceNear 0.0
  VisibleDistanceFar 12000.0
  TextureCoordScale 0.0 0.0 1.0 1.0
  ColorScale 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
  tfWrapX 1
  tfWrapY 1
  tfMinLinear 1
  tfMagLinear 1
  tfMipMap 0
  tfBlend 1
  tfBlendAdd 0
  tfTestA 1
  tfTestZ 1
  tfNoWriteZ 1
  tfUpDateClear 0
  tfModulate 1
  tfNoTexture 0
  tfAnimatePalette 1
  tfAnimateSkippedFrames 1
  tfImageResident 0
  SubPictures 0
  tfCompressMajorAlpha      1
  tfNoCompress16Bit         1

THX for any help ...

[SAS~Malone]

...should be easy enough to do, but i'm having a bit of a brain-fade at the mo....
I'll get you a smoke expert to give the definitive advice, HG or Potenz can probably solve this for you with their eyes closed....

[I/JG1_Adler]

I solved my issiue, sorry for spam   You can delete this topic. THX

[SAS~Malone]

no - once you've posted, we hope that you can post the solution, to help those that have similar questions. Its the whole point of tech help section. 
So, please let us know, and I'll just mark the thread as solved.
Thanks mate 

[santobr]

This is not the correct way to do that.
To change a specific smoke effect you need to modify the specific effect file (.eff) for that effect.
Because, if you change a .mat file, all effects that use the file will be changed.
And you can't modify the lenght of the effect in the .mat file.

Take a look at this effects file (.eff) example:
Color0 0.6 0 0 0.27            // R G B Alpha start
Color1 0.6 0.3 0.3 0.018     // R G B Alpha end
LiveTime 27.0                   // time in seconds of each particle

santobr.

[SAS~HolyGrail]

Agree 100% with Santobr , nothing else to say  .

@ SAS~Malone
 

I solved my issiue, sorry for spam    You can delete this topic. THX

I hear ya man , what an overwhelming response L.O.L. 


S! HG 

[I/JG1_Adler]

  OK, my problem was the mixture effect, when i have openable cockpit for P-40E/F etc. ... others can see the smoke effect ... i use for hosting CRT=2, so all players must have same install (in UP2.0m), i removed the mixture effect for all planes in my little addon and so i removed the problem with openable pits in online fights. Of course, it works only when CheckRuntime is set 2 in conf.ini, because all have same files. I know, that my solution is not very ok, but it works fine and i need P-40 for campaign.

I do simply this ... VisibleDistanceFar 12000.0 changet to 0.0 and done.

But very thanks to santobr, for effects moding explanation !!!