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[WxTech]

Well, I think I've got things just about where I want 'em with aircraft fires. (And I did more work on ground object fires and explosions.) All fire hues are less cartoonishly garish in hue (with formerly uber strong reds and yellows), now looking more toned down and realistic.

For the fuel leak fire that separates from the plane, I got the animated texel to display 'out of sync', by having each instance of the 6 in train to have a different rotation. And I've incorporated an alpha channel texture that has more variety in density. These together give the whole fire some variation in appearance along its length. (Previously all 6 instances had the same rotational orientation, making each look like exact clones.)

In the process I've dscovered an interesting thing about effects using animated texels. The Size parameter in the .mat file, if having two different values for the start and end, does not cause the texel to alter in size over its lifetime. Instead, it appears that the average of the two values is applied to a fixed-size representation. For example, if we set

  Size 5 15

The texel will have a fixed size of 10m.

[Andy H]

Looking good - so glad you've found a way to overcome those...er, uniform balls. 

[Atoka220]

I'm here to drop the nuke

I think the more saturated reddish-orange flames look better like the ones in the opening post

[shardana]

Looking forward for a video in your channel

[WxTech]

I'm here to drop the nuke

I think the more saturated reddish-orange flames look better like the ones in the opening post

I can understand. After all, that's what I myself set up for myself. In part because it's been the 'norm' since forever.  Not all have been toned down to the same degree (such as oil fires), but overall the boldly pure primary colors are largely gone.

All the old textures will still be present, and so one could choose to use those I the relevant .mat files. Anyway, I'll look at providing the alternative 'colorful' versions the user can select from...

[Chaoic16]

I'm here to drop the nuke

I think the more saturated reddish-orange flames look better like the ones in the opening post

I can understand. After all, that's what I myself set up for myself. In part because it's been the 'norm' since forever.  Not all have been toned down to the same degree (such as oil fires), but overall the boldly pure primary colors are largely gone.

All the old textures will still be present, and so one could choose to use those I the relevant .mat files. Anyway, I'll look at providing the alternative 'colorful' versions the user can select from...

Having customizable options is always the ways to go.  I support that fully.

Thank you for excellent mods and we are looking forward to the next version of your effect mods.

Cheers!

[WxTech]

I've been tweaking the color some more, getting back to making the red component a bit stronger that the last round of adjustments. Here are a few screen grabs of a poor Zero during its demise. I'm on the verge of calling things done well enough for the time being. I've gotta call a halt at some point, or v1.4 will never get released.

[shardana]

This Is perfection!!!

[baggo]

that looks spot on that does Glen, kev.