abrupt large city fires ...

[jollyjack]

Is there a trick to make large city fires appear less abrupt after a bomb drop?

I'd like to experiment a little, but i am afraid it's another time waster .... maybe some of you have tried already?

[JimTM]

1 hour ago, jollyjack said:

Is there a trick to make large city fires appear less abrupt after a bomb drop?

I'd like to experiment a little, but i am afraid it's another time waster .... maybe some of you have tried already?

 

Perhaps start with a few smaller fires/smoke (e.g., cityfiresmall_loop and villagesmoke_loop) and then start the city fire.

[jollyjack]

Tried that, but all of a sudden it's there, poof, with a sky high smoke column.

Usually fires expand from start with smoke gradually increasing.

Maybe that's only possible with another separate effect set we could light a candle for with the devs?

Edited August 7, 2021 by jollyjack

[AEthelraedUnraed]

4 hours ago, jollyjack said:

Maybe that's only possible with another separate effect set we could light a candle for with the devs?

Gotta be a pretty huge candle then, if you want it to grow into the city fire

 

But no, apart from what JimTM suggested, there's currently no way.

[Beebop]

On 8/7/2021 at 3:52 AM, AEthelraedUnraed said:

Gotta be a pretty huge candle then, if you want it to grow into the city fire

Place a cow in the O'Leary's barn.......(we do have cows and barn objects).......

Make the cows a linked entity then link an Activate MCU to the cows.........

[352ndOscar]

You starting a city fire or a BBQ?

[IckyATLAS]

10 hours ago, Beebop said:

Place a cow in the O'Leary's barn.......(we do have cows and barn objects).......

Make the cows a linked entity then link an Activate MCU to the cows.........

Where are the cows. I was looking for animals like dogs, horses, sheep and cows.

In my search to make things a little more alive I found a bycicle.

Where are the cows please?

Thanks

[Beebop]

A little over 1/2 way down the >>Blocks<< list towards the end of the "town_eu_xxx" entries;

 

COWS:  town_eu_objgrp_01
HORSES: town_eu_objgrp_02

[jollyjack]

howzabour effalunts, giraffes and dogs BTW?

[Beebop]

That will be coming in the "Battle of Gorky Park Zoo" DLC due sometime in Q3/4 of 2224.  ?

[Avimimus]

On 8/6/2021 at 2:48 PM, jollyjack said:

Is there a trick to make large city fires appear less abrupt after a bomb drop?

I'd like to experiment a little, but i am afraid it's another time waster .... maybe some of you have tried already?

 

I haven't tried - it might be possible to modify the timers in the effects files though?

[firdimigdi]

On 8/6/2021 at 9:48 PM, jollyjack said:

Is there a trick to make large city fires appear less abrupt after a bomb drop?

I'd like to experiment a little, but i am afraid it's another time waster .... maybe some of you have tried already?

 

Somewhat sketchy, but I had some luck changing the height (Y) so that a series of smoke effects after an extra explosion effect (there's one that generates a nice puff of smoke) is rendered starting under the ground and then the next one a little higher, etc. This also can be used with the other smoke types to add some variation and not have all smoke stacks look like carbon copies.

Edited February 10, 2022 by Firdimigdi

[Beebop]

4 hours ago, Firdimigdi said:

"smoke" stacks look like "carbon" copies.

Edited 4 hours ago by Firdimigdi

Welcome to the pun thread.  ?