Summer flowers

[Off_Winters]

Hi All,

EDIT: changed attached Please see this thread for final version.

Its still very much WIP but a start. theres no FPS hit as theres no new files added, just colour splashes added to an original file.

 

 

I have attached the files in jsgme ready format. just place folder "Wildflower mod" into your MODS folder and activate using jsgme.

regards Rob.

 

 

Edited October 9, 2020 by Off_Winters
set link to final version and dedicated thread

[FurphyForum]

Yep, sure has been done before, see here;

 Always good to have another version of it but. 

[SARFlytitus]

@Off_Winters hey m8, if you can improve/refine my flowers mod, feel free to use “My files “. I only ask you to give well deserved credit to @FF*VaSoK*22 and his original summer grass texture mod.

the more the merrier!  Always good to have more choice!

 

cheers???

[Off_Winters]

Hi All,

Well I can cease and desist from this project, SARFlytitus, you and VaSok have done an amazing job mate. 

being relatively new to IL2 its a pity there is not a library (for want of a better word) to house all these MODS in to make it easier for newer players to find them. I would gladly contribute money to the web master on an annual basis to pay for the web space required for such a venture. SimOuthouse have a great set up like that, which allows for easy cataloging of files by type and purpose.

regards Rob.

[Dutch2]

9 hours ago, Off_Winters said:

Hi All,

Well I can cease and desist from this project, SARFlytitus, you and VaSok have done an amazing job mate. 

being relatively new to IL2 its a pity there is not a library (for want of a better word) to house all these MODS in to make it easier for newer players to find them. I would gladly contribute money to the web master on an annual basis to pay for the web space required for such a venture. SimOuthouse have a great set up like that, which allows for easy cataloging of files by type and purpose.

regards Rob.

Think the best grass improvement would be to make the hight of the grass much lower so that “ in a row 2D effect” of  the grass (incl flowers) would be much lesser to notice.   

[Off_Winters]

Hi All,

its in jsgme ready format. place unzipped folder into MODs folder and install. It will work on all maps. it has partial files from the set that SARFlytitus created, which he based off 4K grass textures from FF*VaSoK*22. I have edited areas of the sheets to reduce grass heights and changed the texture format to DXT5 as per the original IL2 file type.

I have my config file edited to draw grass at 600m as opposed to stock 100m it flows much better and I didn't see any performance drop.

Readme file included. Thank you SARFlytitus for allowing me to use your original work. I have also upload this set in the thread about change of Kerch map to Tunisia where I had been working on the idea for Nth Africa. if you get it here you don't require the set in the other thread.

regards Rob.

 

Edited October 9, 2020 by Off_Winters
new link to final version in first post.

[Mysticpuma]

4 hours ago, Off_Winters said:

Hi All,

attached is the grass I have been working on, its in jsgme ready format. place unzipped folder into MODs folder and install. It will work on all maps. it has partial files from the set that SARFlytitus created, which he based off 4K grass textures from FF*VaSoK*22. I have edited areas of the sheets to reduce grass heights and changed the texture format to DXT5 as per the original IL2 file type.

I have my config file edited to draw grass at 600m as opposed to stock 100m it flows much better and I didn't see any performance drop.

Readme file included. Thank you SARFlytitus for allowing me to use your original work. I have also upload this set in the thread about change of Kerch map to Tunisia where I had been working on the idea for Nth Africa. if you get it here you don't require the set in the other thread.

regards Rob.

CW_short grass-flowers.rar 3.8 MB · 0 downloads

 

Hi Off_Winters, genuinely your short grass mod should be a topic on its own, it adds so much to the realism of the airfield, maybe even change the name of this thread to "Shortened Grass at airfields Mod". 

 

(or create a new thread completely? This mod deserves not to be lost ?) 

 

Cheers, Mysticpuma 

[HotPursuit]

Great Mod!

I'm enjoying having short grass around the runways ?

[FF*VaSoK*22]

 

I am glad to see that people continue to work in this direction ?

[SARFlytitus]

@Off_Winters  Great work m8!  Shortened grass now looks more real. I've made only a brief test and it seemed to me that the number of flowers is drastically reduced and that their presence is evident only in the tree-lined areas and not in the open spaces.

Is it a desired effect or is a side effect due to the shortening of the grass?

Anyway, Keep up the good work!

[Off_Winters]

Hi All,

SARFlytitus there is a reduction in the flowers where the short grass is placed. The flowers are still in the major fields and in clumps around road edges and plowed fields as per your original set.

I have added some small ground cover type flowers to the low grass areas now. below screen shot of first attempt with no flowers and the grass with small flowers added. I'll change the flowers in the grass a bit more to add in some yellow colour.

regards Rob.

a view showing the change in height of vegetation, from almost bare dirt (runway road edges etc)  through low grass into field crop height plants.  

Edited October 1, 2020 by Off_Winters

[Off_Winters]

Hi All,

I have placed a few yellow flowers into the grass and made the top of the stalky plants in the baron ground areas a yellow/orange colour and I have given the grass seed pods a slight creamy colour.

I have attached the updated set for testing and feedback, remove the old set from your MODS folder and replace with this set. any comments welcome.

regards Rob.

 

Edited October 9, 2020 by Off_Winters

[SARFlytitus]

@Off_Winters very well done m8!!!

Finally no more Amazonas airfields and definately it is a Great improvement of my original and rudimental repaint!