Short Grass and Field Crops Final version

[Off_Winters]

Hi All,

EDITED 26-02-2021 to include a low resolution set of files for computers that may be impacted by the higher texturing loads.

Attached is the link to the final revision of the short grass and field crop MOD I have been working on. (which was discussed in a couple of earlier threads about summer grass and flowers started by other authors. I have put a link in those threads that points to this post, and removed the links to previous versions). 

The set is based off an original idea and work that SARFlytitus created, which he based off 4K grass textures from FF*VaSoK*22. I have edited areas of the texture sheets to reduce grass heights and introduce additional ground covering flowers and changed the texture format to DXT5 as per the original IL2 file format. The set is jsgme ready and includes a readme file with full details on how to install and also the credits to original authors that the set is based off. 

The set introduces short grass around airfield aprons, along road edges and around building infrastructure.
 

These sets include 2 versions of the grass modification. ONLY install 1 version at a time.  Install using JSGME

Set: 1_CW_short grass_V4 includes short grass around airfields and roads with NO low ground cover flowers.

Set: 2_CW_short grass-flowers_V4 includes short grass around airfields and roads with WITH low ground cover flowers.

 

Out in the fields you will see larger grass types and taller crop type vegetation with a variety of flower and plant types and low flowering bushes/grass in the fields with areas of sparse vegetation where the ground cover is thin.

If you have downloaded any previous versions please delete those and replace with this set.

regards Rob.

HIGH RESOLUTION set of files.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ej3j2na548dkwqe/CW_Flowers_Final_BoS_10-2020.rar/file

LOW RESOLUTION set of files.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/foxyg7i4nzhdsxe/CW_Grass_and_Flowers_Final_BoS_LOW_resolution_26-2-2021.rar/file

Edited February 25, 2021 by Off_Winters
added low res version of files

[esk_pedja]

My vote goes for type 1... 

Thanks mate!

 

( I thought that you are in North Africa presently... )

 

 

Edited October 9, 2020 by esk_pedja

[Off_Winters]

5 minutes ago, esk_pedja said:

My vote goes for type 1... 

Thanks mate!

 

( I thought that you are in North Africa presently... )

 

 

Thanks Esk,
yeah I am, the work over there helped me finalize what I was doing with the grass. theres a unique set that will be included in the Nth Africa area I'm working on.

[Dutch2]

I can not test it, still waiting for the RTX3080, but I would say always flowers in the grass. 

[vonGraf]

The short grass at the edges of the small taxiways in winter is a nice touch. I had sometimes problems to see the ways when I had the grass disabled.

Another problem solved! 

[JSOflyer69]

this mod should be in the stock game,now no more sniffing flowers in your cockpit

??

[vonGraf]

Wanted to land 'offroad' to see the flowers but ground was too muddy.. 

 

[FlyingH]

@vonGraf, did you forget the Rasputitsa?

[esk_pedja]

On 10/9/2020 at 4:48 AM, Off_Winters said:

Thanks Esk,
yeah I am, the work over there helped me finalize what I was doing with the grass. theres a unique set that will be included in the Nth Africa area I'm working on.

 

Did you manage to implement extra short and rare grass in the Nth Africa... in a current version ?

Thanks, Rob for your effort.

 

I would be eager to implement it privately... in some of my "sandy" versions that I never uploaded...

 

For example, N.A. Landscape that was, maybe, too saturated with a dark desert spots... will be less saturated, in a low altitude flight..

 

 

 

 

 

[Off_Winters]

4 hours ago, esk_pedja said:

 

Did you manage to implement extra short and rare grass in the Nth Africa... in a current version ?

 

Hi Esk,

Theres a basic version included in the Bet1 set. but I'm still working on it for NA. I'm playing around with adding in various small cacti type plants on the grass sheet and replacing current bushed with Cacti which will be larger than the cacti rendered on the grass sheet. I'd be happy to give it to you once I have it tidied up a bit more.

I'm revisiting some of the base texture sheets as they are made up of a variety of texture sizes and this impacts how the green bushes you painted into your original set are rendered in game. That's some of the problem you mentioned where some of the painted bushes/dots do not look dark enough.

regards Rob.

[Oyster_KAI]

@Off_Winters Nice work!!
This is the length of grass that the airport should have. I wonder if there is a way to make the grass in the wilderness as long as before.
Does anyone think that the flowers seem a little too pink?

[Off_Winters]

13 minutes ago, Oyster_KAI said:

@Off_Winters Nice work!!
This is the length of grass that the airport should have. I wonder if there is a way to make the grass in the wilderness as long as before.
Does anyone think that the flowers seem a little too pink?

Hi Oyster,

The tall vegetation is still out in the wilderness. If you fly about you'll see changes in vegetation types across various farm fields and forested areas.

regards Rob. 
 

[Yankee_One]

Well done and great job!

 

Like this mod, thank you!!

[JG_deserteagle540]

Great work on the grass Mod! Thank you very much!

 

Might it be possible to make some lower quality grass textures{still low grass} in order to keeps the Fps almost unaffected?

The grass distance in my startup.cfg file is set on 800meters so it doesn't pop up out of nowhere, but it takes a beating on the Fps.

So I thought that increasing the grass distance , but lowering the texture quality might bring a nice balance.

 

[PA_Willy]

Thank you!

[Off_Winters]

On 2/23/2021 at 11:40 AM, JG_deserteagle540 said:

Great work on the grass Mod! Thank you very much!

 

Might it be possible to make some lower quality grass textures{still low grass} in order to keeps the Fps almost unaffected?

The grass distance in my startup.cfg file is set on 800meters so it doesn't pop up out of nowhere, but it takes a beating on the Fps.

So I thought that increasing the grass distance , but lowering the texture quality might bring a nice balance.

 

Hi Desert Eagle,

 

Attached is a set with the main grass textures reduced by 50% resolution, if your parked you can see the details are not quite as crisp as the main set, but from the air or even taxiing you would not really notice any drop in detail. Be interested to see how your FPS behaves with this set. If it improves your game play I'll make it part of the main download in the first post for people to chose. 

the attached is jsgme ready, please uninstall any other version of the grass before installing this one.

regards Rob

3_CW_short grass-flowers_V4_low_res.zip

Edited February 24, 2021 by Off_Winters

[JG_deserteagle540]

Hi Off_Winters,

 

Really appreciate your Mod. Thanks a lot for your time and help!

 

I am going to test this Mod and see what it does. I will let you know.

I guess that the Rtx 2070Super just can't pull that amount of grass(800meter distance). Time for an GPU upgrade, but where to buy?

[JG_deserteagle540]

15 hours ago, Off_Winters said:

Hi Desert Eagle,

 

Attached is a set with the main grass textures reduced by 50% resolution, if your parked you can see the details are not quite as crisp as the main set, but from the air or even taxiing you would not really notice any drop in detail. Be interested to see how your FPS behaves with this set. If it improves your game play I'll make it part of the main download in the first post for people to chose. 

the attached is jsgme ready, please uninstall any other version of the grass before installing this one.

regards Rob

3_CW_short grass-flowers_V4_low_res.zip 4.42 MB · 2 downloads

 I like it!

 

Would it be possible to make a low resolution short grass Mod without flowers please?

 

 

 

I noticed that the grass in the video below is really short and with very little flowers ?

 

 

[Off_Winters]

14 hours ago, JG_deserteagle540 said:

 I like it!

 

Would it be possible to make a low resolution short grass Mod without flowers please?

I noticed that the grass in the video below is really short and with very little flowers ?

 

Hi Desert Eagle,

done mate, updated post one with low resolution set download which includes both the grass with ground cover flowers and the plain grass version.

regards Rob.

Edited February 25, 2021 by Off_Winters

[JG_deserteagle540]

Thank you very much mate! Really appreciate it. 

[JG_deserteagle540]

Hi Off_Winters,

 

I am afraid that both versions have flowers...............

 

 

LOW RESOLUTION set of files.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/3w24b830vl92v3b/CW_Grass_and_Flowers_Final_BoS_LOW_resolution_25-02-2021.rar/file

[Off_Winters]

1 hour ago, JG_deserteagle540 said:

Hi Off_Winters,

 

I am afraid that both versions have flowers...............

 

 

LOW RESOLUTION set of files.
 

Hi Desert Eagle,

I just checked the files in the main set and reuploaded.

I have changed the link in the first post.

the set of grass textures on the right are the ones used around the airfields and roads etc.

 

this is the set with flowers

regards Rob.

Edited February 25, 2021 by Off_Winters

[JG_deserteagle540]

Thank you very much for your help.

 

Downloading right now.

[Robert_Molders]

As always brilliant job mate!

[Reggie_Mental]

I have ballsed up my config file and turned all grass off. How do I turn it back on again?

[javelina]

The flower version sorta reminds me of "the Crittendon Plan"....  (all credit for that courtesy of Colonel Rodney Crittendon, RAF   ?  )

[Oyster_KAI]

I made this short grass mod based on the summer grass of HD textures grass from FF*VaSoK*22.
Just a small 1K file, but the details of the grass in his file are very clear?

↓The short grass area in the airfield


↓The long grass area in the wild

short grass_RE.rar

Edited July 11, 2022 by Oyster_KAI

[esk_pedja]

Fine improvement, but the grass patches should be more dense, with less bare soil ( green plastic ) areas between grass chunks...

This was the main reason I reworked and use modified FF*VaSoK*22 HD texture grass. 

[Vamandrac]

On 7/11/2022 at 7:53 AM, esk_pedja said:

Fine improvement, but the grass patches should be more dense, with less bare soil ( green plastic ) areas between grass chunks...

This was the main reason I reworked and use modified FF*VaSoK*22 HD texture grass. 

 

Do you happen to have a link to the grass you use?  I wouldn't mind checking it out.

Edited July 15, 2022 by Vamandrac

[esk_pedja]

15 hours ago, Vamandrac said:

 

Do you happen to have a link to the grass you use?  I wouldn't mind checking it out.

Check out the message inbox

[Dauntless]

I would like to try it, also! 

 

[Picchio]

1 hour ago, Dauntless said:

I would like to try it, also! 

 

Me too!

[352ndOscar]

This is what you’re looking for…… duplicate this.

 

 

[Nic727]

Any ways to get something similar to Rise of Flight grass?

 

Even if it was less dense, I feel like it was much better for airfield.

 

Also have questions about this mod.

Does it have different grass for airfield, farmland, etc.? Also does it work in multiplayers?

 

Thank you

[KOKSair]

Unable to download the mod from the links in the first post. Please update links if possible.

[Off_Winters]

7 hours ago, KOKsar said:

Unable to download the mod from the links in the first post. Please update links if possible.

G'day KOKsar,
 

I just double checked the file status on my mediafire account, and the links and all appears to be correct. I was able to download both files using the links above. I did have to click on the download manager icon in my browser window and confirm I was happy to continue download, due to MS edge thinking the file could not be downloaded securely. It may be a similar situation for you?
 

If you still cant get them, PM me your email and I'll send them over to you via email. there under 20mb in size so should attach.
 

regards Rob.

[Ala13_UnopaUno_VR]

It would be nice if the DEVS gave the vegetation a facelift.

[KOKSair]

19 часов назад, Off_Winters сказал:

G'day KOKsar,
 

I just double checked the file status on my mediafire account, and the links and all appears to be correct. I was able to download both files using the links above. I did have to click on the download manager icon in my browser window and confirm I was happy to continue download, due to MS edge thinking the file could not be downloaded securely. It may be a similar situation for you?
 

If you still cant get them, PM me your email and I'll send them over to you via email. there under 20mb in size so should attach.
 

regards Rob.
 

Hey Off_Winters!
Thanks for the tip. It did not worked in Opera. Installed Firefox and downloaded there.
I installed the mod and I love it. It is it. Thank you !

Best,
KOKsar
 

Edited September 22, 2022 by KOKsar

[IckyATLAS]

On 7/20/2022 at 5:30 PM, 352ndOscar said:

This is what you’re looking for…… duplicate this.

 

 

To have this short grass thick cover like a carpet means that every grass texture must be replicated in high numbers per say square meter of land. 

My question here is that even if we do have a very nice-looking short grass texture, we may not get a so nice result simply because density of the grass items is not in our hand. It seems related to map design and so none of us to control.

 

In Rhineland map high corn type grass (height 1.10-1.20cm) density is high in the open fields which allows if you stand from a human perspective or say Truck, Tank driver perspective, to see the high grass covered fields with a nice visual rendering as the grass is dense enough for you not to be really bothered too much by the empty ground patches between the grass units.

 

But on Normandy map they lowered drastically the grass density for the same settings and even with high grass fields look really bad. I have no idea why they did this but maybe again to have acceptable framerate probably (like a polygon budget), but they should have allowed us to set the density as a parameter and not as a map related feature.

 

For short grass (0.3-0.4 mt) the human perspective becomes like viewing from above and so the grass density for a nice visual rendering has to be much higher even than for the Rheinland case where the empty patches will become more visible as the grass will not hide them.

 

There is another nasty visual effect, that is due to the grass that is rendered as a circle around the player. This to again lower graphic load. This is handled partly by the GRASS setting from NONE or OFF just to ULTRA. ULTRA makes it at 300mt which is not good if you have some not perfectly flat ground and are at grass height. You can very well see the grass rendering circle move on the field as you move. It all depends from which height you look. From the top of a tank or the cockpit of your taxiing plane it is very visible. But you can manually increase this parameter in the Startup config file and I use 600mt which is good enough. It will all depend on your graphics card capability. I tested my system based on a 3090 and 11900K, up to 1000 meters. At 800mt it is rendered in 4K at 120fps. At 1'000mt I have blinking patches of grass or blinking patches with no grass rendered. Seems video memory issues probably.

 

Clearly here the devs have much room for improvement to have the grass correspond to the geography the season and with a much better grass layout or coverage on the ground.

Edited November 5, 2022 by IckyATLAS

[Leftenant_Soap]

Just wanted to say thank you for this mod!

It's great ?