Print

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

[WxTech]

Over the past couple of days I've managed to invoke whatever water effects I desire to replace the stock land effects when stuff explodes against winter ice on water. In the stock implementation, when water is frozen and thus specified as ICE, it is treated exactly and always as land. Now, instead of a bomb bursting on ice and throwing up a dark brown dirt geyser, the same effects which apply to water are now used. (I also add a burst flash, which is typically not included with the water effect set.)

Additionally smaller impacts from bullets and cannon shells are handled similarly, with the water geysers now replacing the dirt/dust effects for land hits, and with burst flashes included where appropriate.

I also added a new ice crater to replace the land crater for rocket/bomb explosions, which is shown here. A string of bombs was run across a river, where both land and ice craters have resulted.

[WxTech]

Here's a quick video to show the new use of water type effects for ice, along with the land effects that formerly would have applied to hits against the ice. I'm shooting HVARs and firing the .50 guns against land and river ice...

[shardana]

Now that's so real!! great job indeed!!

[wolf44]

The difference is obvious!Great work!

[Piotrek1]

Very realistic, great job!

Best Regards,
Piotrek

[Kopfdorfer]

More great work WX.

Kopfdorfer

[Dimlee]

About the impact of rockets on the ice. Geysers are all white in the video. In real life, the colour probably depends on the thickness of the ice. The thinner the ice, the darker.
Not criticising, just thinking aloud.
Thank you for your work.

[WxTech]

Dimlee,
The increasing geyser darkness with decreasing ice thickness you propose would imply that water geysers where no ice is involved should be darkest. Yet we have always had the water (no ice) effects as essentially white, and it is these effects that are used here.

The whiteness of water droplets results from their sheer number

[Dimlee]

WxTech,
After another thinking... I agree with you.