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Lancefighter

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Posted: Fri, 3. Jul 09, 03:38 Post subject:

The effects file shouldnt be the problem - I took the cmod effects file and uncommented the lines... Umm also - When i take the mod manager to compare cmod and the engine effects, there is a 'dds/-79.dds' that is in both sets, what is this file? _________________ in the market for a new sig, willing to pay 1 billion credits for a proper sig...

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Posted: Sat, 4. Jul 09, 11:21 Post subject:

dds are the texture files, open that file with Photoshop or download a random freeware software that can open it. that file is the texture of the particle trail imho. _________________ Trade, Fight, Build, Think, Modify. Ship Rebalance Mod OOS Rebalance Resized Aldrin Big Rock SIDE/TOP/FRONT Ship Size Comparison Remember young Padawan: money stolen can be, time cannot.

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Posted: Tue, 7. Jul 09, 03:29 Post subject:

@SS_T: So were you saying the effects defined in effects have some effect on the particles trails as well? (hehe fun sentance..) Because so far as I can see a ships trail may be adjusted in Tships quite independently from its engine effect.. why should effects have any bearing on it? _________________

Wintermist

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Posted: Tue, 7. Jul 09, 06:56 Post subject:

Oh, once all ship get lens flares I'm definately going to use this

SS_T

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Posted: Tue, 7. Jul 09, 23:25 Post subject:

Algoran wrote:

@SS_T: So were you saying the effects defined in effects have some effect on the particles trails as well? (hehe fun sentance..) Because so far as I can see a ships trail may be adjusted in Tships quite independently from its engine effect.. why should effects have any bearing on it?

tbh re-thinking what I wrote in the guide, the particles are not in the effects file. The particles are listed in Particles3.txt and the tships links to the id numbers in that file.

effects.txt

Code:

5;3;0;0;1.0; // Effect 5 argon engine effect(bright blue)
EEDF_SPEEDDEPENDENT|EEDF_RELATIVESIZE; I3DF_2D;
11; 0.000; 0.120; -1; 0.150; 0.000; 0.000;-0.050; -1; 0; 0.40; 0;

<- is another part of the engine effect

Code:

EEDF_SPEEDDEPENDENT|EEDF_RELATIVESIZE|EEDF_LENSFLARE; I3DF_HASLENSFLARE;
-1; 0.000; 0.070; -1; 0.100; 0.000; 0.000;-0.050; 13; 10; 0.40; 0;

<- is the lensflare

Code:

EEDF_SPEEDDEPENDENT|EEDF_LIGHT; 0;
118; 0.153; 0.153; -1; 0.100; 0; 0; -6553; -1; 0; 0.750; 0;

<- is another part of the engine effect

particles3.txt

Code:

// 3: green cloud structure / teladi
3; 4; NULL;
PEDF_2D; 395;0.500000;0.500000;1.000000;1.000000;0.5; 0.2; 0.0; 0.0; -1.0; 800; 800; 1100; 300; 2100; fadeduration: 500;
PEDF_2D; 406;0.500000;0.000000;0.750000;0.250000;0.65; 0.1; 0.0; 0.0; -1.0; 100; 800;1000;240; 1500; lifetimevariation: 300;fadeduration: 700;
PEDF_2D; 406;0.250000;0.500000;0.50000;0.750000;0.4; 0.05; 0.0; 0.0; -1.0; 100; 800; 250;150; 1700; lifetimevariation: 50;
PEDF_2D; 410;0.085000;0.585000;0.425000;0.925000;1.0; 0.0; 0.0; 0.0; -1.0; 100; 1000; 400; 80; 1000;

to fix the bullet effects problem with cmod you have to modify the particles3.txt, and not the effects. sorry Rolling Eyes

Its been a month or more since I was editing these files Surprised

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Posted: Wed, 8. Jul 09, 10:33 Post subject:

still anyone has ideas on how to change the colour of trails? _________________ Trade, Fight, Build, Think, Modify. Ship Rebalance Mod OOS Rebalance Resized Aldrin Big Rock SIDE/TOP/FRONT Ship Size Comparison Remember young Padawan: money stolen can be, time cannot.

ShadowWolf_Kell

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Posted: Thu, 16. Jul 09, 00:43 Post subject:

I'm looking for a CMod compatible version as well. It didn't dawn on me that this was reverting CMod back to vanilla effects until I turned it off to determine what was causing such a massive FPS loss in large scale battles. Once I did, I realized that it was reverting all the effects back to vanilla, which explained everything. These are the most impressive engine effects I've seen since XTM and I really don't want to have to make a choice between large scale battles, or the engine effects. It's just not fair!

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Posted: Thu, 16. Jul 09, 00:45 Post subject:

ShadowWolf_Kell wrote:

I'm looking for a CMod compatible version as well.

It didn't dawn on me that this was reverting CMod back to vanilla effects until I turned it off to determine what was causing such a massive FPS loss in large scale battles. Once I did, I realized that it was reverting all the effects back to vanilla, which explained everything.

These are the most impressive engine effects I've seen since XTM and I really don't want to have to make a choice between large scale battles, or the engine effects. It's just not fair!

well my x1pf is cmod compatible as it is built around the combat mod, but I just cannot remember how I made it compatible with the effects. I guess I just made it compatible when I went a long as I wasn't really think about making it compatible with anything.

EDIT: Saying that I haven't heard anything about the advice I gave a couple of posts up.

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Algoran

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Posted: Thu, 16. Jul 09, 14:32 Post subject:

I might get myself cmod and see if I can merge engine effects with it, when I have a bit of time. Then I can release that too. Shouldnt be too hard... And maybe try to work out what those other lines in effects are doing while im there. _________________

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Posted: Mon, 20. Jul 09, 11:20 Post subject:

Ok, Ive merged engine effects with cmod, all appears to work correctly I put the link in the OP. If anyone finds anythings buggered up, be sure to tell me! Lancefighter - I noticed that -79.dds, not sure what it actually is but it appears to be the same in both cmod and fud's mod, so hopefully there wont be a problem. Btw, thanks for all the positive comments ppl Ive never released a mod before, so its good to hear em! _________________

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Posted: Mon, 20. Jul 09, 12:55 Post subject:

-79.dds is the default engine texture for all ships (vanilla). I left it for the Terran ships, and made new ones for the other races.

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Posted: Wed, 22. Jul 09, 01:00 Post subject:

Ah I see, makes sense. _________________

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Posted: Wed, 22. Jul 09, 08:40 Post subject:

Thanks Algoran for the update, and thanks fud for making all this possible.

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Posted: Sun, 29. Nov 09, 00:13 Post subject:

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Posted: Thu, 18. Feb 10, 03:03 Post subject:

Baleur wrote:

THANKS!

You're welcome! Smile

So I've recently come back to X3, and quickly found myself playing around with mods again. Following a couple of minor breakthroughs in engine and trail modding (so far as I'm concerned anyway), I've released a new version of Engine Effects, details of which are in the OP.

I was just playing with trails for my own entertainment really, but I noticed that people are still downloading this mod so figured it was worth updating it.

The update includes unique trails for Otas, Terran and Yaki ships (although I'm not really happy with the Yaki one yet) instead of the standard white smoke I had on them before.

I've also got a vague hope of adding additional effects to bigger ships (covettes etc) and to fighters that don't have as many as they should - for example the Paranid M5's, which have several engines widely spaced apart, but only one particle trail. Hansi helped me work out how to do this, and I should be able to include fixed fighters at least in the next version. I'm not going to say when that is though Razz

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