[Mod Pack] IL-2 Enhanced Version 2.2 (Updated 8/30/24)

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

On 9/14/2021 at 3:50 AM, curiouslysophie said:

 

I was wondering about this. I use this mod pack. Can I just overwrite the existing clouds in it? Or should I wait for an updated version?

Yes, that would be just fine

Edited September 15, 2021 by drewm3i-VR

[Yo-Yo_Kirby]

Your efforts are appreciated! I've noticed already multiple glaring issues from the first days I flew in IL-2. Pe-2 gunners have done quite a bit of damage me even in situations where it would've been practically impossible for a gunner to track. The 50 cals also do too little damage even at <200m at things aside from killing the pilot. I'm playing through the career right now. Noticed the German accent feels more authentic with this as well. Thanks

[JG5_Schuck]

It would be nice if the devs actually incorporated some of these "fixes" into the game....
and gave a nod to the people who made them.

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

On 9/13/2021 at 8:34 PM, rowdyb00t said:

Heads up @drewm3i-VR  got a new version of clouds. 

I see the new versions of the clouds. What would you recommend for vr? I am still running Clouds VR2 Grey Sky in this pack for now.

[rowdyb00t]

5 hours ago, drewm3i-VR said:

I see the new versions of the clouds. What would you recommend for vr? I am still running Clouds VR2 Grey Sky in this pack for now.

  Try out the performance version. I run the detailed version myself and also fly in VR. 

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

2 hours ago, rowdyb00t said:

  Try out the performance version. I run the detailed version myself and also fly in VR. 

The next iteration will use your performance version 16 with the gpreset. I tried it last night: big improvement!

[[EGGS]amagony]

It seems like the weapon effects / tracers doesn't work with the newest update. But it's possible that the reworked effects will look as great as in this modpack. I haven't tried without this pack yet.

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

On 9/21/2021 at 3:51 PM, [EGGS]amagony said:

It seems like the weapon effects / tracers doesn't work with the newest update. But it's possible that the reworked effects will look as great as in this modpack. I haven't tried without this pack yet.

Yep, very likely the new update broke @QB.Rails Weapons Mod and/or @ACG_Cass AP Fix. 

 

I'm also working on a .3 version of the pack for release soon.

[rowdyb00t]

19 hours ago, drewm3i-VR said:

I'm also working on a .3 version of the pack for release soon.

  Let me know before you release it, I have a revised version of 16 but I haven’t had time to post it yet. I fixed the some skydomes in the morning and evenings, the light 180 degrees from the sun was too dark. Also worked the detailed versions light clouds. 

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

7 hours ago, rowdyb00t said:

  Let me know before you release it, I have a revised version of 16 but I haven’t had time to post it yet. I fixed the some skydomes in the morning and evenings, the light 180 degrees from the sun was too dark. Also worked the detailed versions light clouds. 

I can wait for this. Sounds good!

[Yo-Yo_Kirby]

On 9/23/2021 at 6:21 AM, drewm3i-VR said:

Yep, very likely the new update broke @QB.Rails Weapons Mod and/or @ACG_Cass AP Fix. 

 

I'm also working on a .3 version of the pack for release soon.

Around a day or two, I had my 15 minutes of luck downing 5 He 111s with just burst in the P-40E, setting them on fire. Must’ve been my superb aim day. Had this installed already too.

Looking forward to this!

[FupDuck]

Hi there,

I installed this mod pack (IL-2 Enhanced VR Performant Version) last night from the latest link in the OP. It makes the game look spectacular, but unfortunately I am getting an error:

 

It usually happens while I'm firing my guns (so far I've only flown the Spitfire and Tempest). The game doesn't crash, but it prevents any input from me until I hit OK, so I usually end up crashing my plane if I'm anywhere near the ground.

 

This mod pack is the only mod I have installed.

Any help would be appreciated - thanks!

 

Edited October 10, 2021 by sandmonkee

[Stonehouse]

It's most likely QB Rails Weapon mod which was at least partially, if not fully superseded with the last patch for the game. I'm not sure how the IL2 Enhanced mod pack presents each individual mod but if it is all merged into one big single mod then you're pretty much stuck until the pack is amended and I think you will have to disable the mod pack (I am assuming you are using JSGME or similar) for now. 

 

[FupDuck]

6 hours ago, Stonehouse said:

It's most likely QB Rails Weapon mod which was at least partially, if not fully superseded with the last patch for the game. I'm not sure how the IL2 Enhanced mod pack presents each individual mod but if it is all merged into one big single mod then you're pretty much stuck until the pack is amended and I think you will have to disable the mod pack (I am assuming you are using JSGME or similar) for now. 

 

Yah it appears to be all merged together. I was kind of bummed to see that after downloading 6.5 GB, especially since the first post says 

Update 9/1/21:

This modpack is now going to be offered in one modular version going forward with various options included as jsgme add-ons

 

So there's no way to fix this myself? Seems a huge pity to have to disable the whole thing because of one file from one mod. ?

[Stonehouse]

Seems so I think. It's the downside of a merged pack I'm afraid, the upside being simplicity for the user in that you just have one thing to enable and someone has figured out the inter mod dependencies for you (ie the order they should be loaded in).

 

Your alternative is to go and get the individual mods that make up the pack and just leave out the weapons mod and AP fix and load the individual mods if you prefer not to wait. I guess you could also get the weapons mod and AP fix and try to cross compare to the merged pack and remove the files that correspond to the weapons mod and AP fix from your copy of the merged pack. Pretty sure the weapons mod had quite a large number of files so not impossible but could be a few hours work.

Edited October 11, 2021 by Stonehouse

[Afghanicus]

V3 coming soon?

[Wolzow]

On 10/11/2021 at 2:21 PM, sandmonkee said:

So there's no way to fix this myself? Seems a huge pity to have to disable the whole thing because of one file from one mod. ?

Deactivate the mod and the search for the "luascripts" folder in the IL2enhanced file (data). Delete it or put it somewhere else reactivade the mod and the script errors are gone.

I just started a mission doing this and no problems at the moment.

Edited October 16, 2021 by Wolzow

[Stonehouse]

Only a suggestion but I suspect you are clobbering quite a few other mods than the QB Rails weapon mod and AP fix mod by renaming the luascripts folder.

 

Perhaps try disabling this big merged mod pack in JSGME or whatever and go into the mod and find the luascripts folder and then within that folder find

• the ballistics folder. Rename that to ballisticsx or something
• then do the same for the folder explosions - so rename this to explosionsx
• then folder weapons - rename to weaponsx.

The re-enable the merged mod pack and see how you go.

 

I don't use this big pack as I like the flexibility of individual mods and instead I use the mod profiles you can create in JSGME to ensure easy & correct one click loading (well 2 perhaps) of a large group of mods, so some of the above is a guess based on the contents of the weapon mod and the dispersion mod but I believe doing what I suggest will limit things to removing just the weapon and ballistics and related explosion effects mods and revert things to the base game files for that aspect. Hopefully it helps you and works better.

Edited October 18, 2021 by Stonehouse

[JadeLotus19]

Hello! I just got this mod a few hours ago and I seem to be having issues with an error message that comes up each time I go to engage an enemy aircraft, not sure what is going on but if anyone knows a fix it would be apprecited. Update figured out it was the ap mod! Sad to see this isn't working right for its an amazing mod! I will get the single files, but know this mod was worth it! ❤️

Edited October 21, 2021 by JadeLotus19

[FupDuck]

On 10/20/2021 at 10:37 PM, JadeLotus19 said:

Hello! I just got this mod a few hours ago and I seem to be having issues with an error message that comes up each time I go to engage an enemy aircraft, not sure what is going on but if anyone knows a fix it would be apprecited. Update figured out it was the ap mod! Sad to see this isn't working right for its an amazing mod! I will get the single files, but know this mod was worth it! ❤️

This was discussed in the posts above yours...

[Spinnetti]

Tried out the mod, thanks. Not sure if just me, but when using it playing tank crew, and being in a field, I got a near white-out. not sure if some of the settings aren't suitable for tank crew (?). I don't think I had other mods running.

[Wolzow]

On 10/18/2021 at 7:20 AM, Stonehouse said:

Perhaps try disabling this big merged mod pack in JSGME or whatever and go into the mod and find the luascripts folder and then within that folder find

• the ballistics folder. Rename that to ballisticsx or something
• then do the same for the folder explosions - so rename this to explosionsx
• then folder weapons - rename to weaponsx.

The re-enable the merged mod pack and see how you go.

Works just fine, even after the last patch.

[slipper]

On 9/23/2021 at 2:21 PM, -332FG-drewm3i-VR said:

Yep, very likely the new update broke @QB.Rails Weapons Mod and/or @ACG_Cass AP Fix. 

 

I'm also working on a .3 version of the pack for release soon.

Hi Drewm3i

 

Any news on a new version of this mod please?

 

Thanks

[FlyinCoffin]

Does this pack cost fps? /resources of the gpu?

 

Does the game still operate on server without this mod?

 

 

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

On 9/11/2021 at 12:01 PM, Garafrax said:

Thank you for putting this together!

 

I'm trying out the Flat Screen version and found two issues:

 

First, you have read-only files mixed into the zipped directory tree.  Specifically data/graphics/textures/common/damage0.dds but there may be others.  Mod installation works, but when a mod manager like OvGME tries to uninstall or update the mod it fails because of the new read-only files.

 

Second, a note for OvGME users: the mod will not run straight from the zipfile.  You will need to extract the zipfile into a folder.  This issue may be because OvGME's bundled zip library can't handle unicode file names and therefore does not see the mod pack as a valid zipfile.

 

Two other pieces of feedback:

 

There is a "Graphics Presets" mod/config file that is mentioned in the Clouds mod thread.  It tweaks data/luascripts/gpresets.cfg.  Should that be included as an optional dependency for this mod pack?

 

I ended up removing one of the mods in the pack.  It would be great if you could publish a list of source mod zipfiles or URLs so others can tweak and build their own mod packs based on your work.  I'm fine grabbing the source zips myself and dump them into my mods/ folder instead of having to unpack this mod and surgically remove the target .dds files.

This pack is designed for JSGME, not OvGME. 

 

The GPresets file kills my FPS in VR so I left it out. Add it if you wish.

On 9/19/2021 at 5:13 AM, JG5_Schuck said:

It would be nice if the devs actually incorporated some of these "fixes" into the game....
and gave a nod to the people who made them.

Indeed it would, especially the updated textures.

On 10/10/2021 at 4:25 AM, FupDuck said:

Hi there,

I installed this mod pack (IL-2 Enhanced VR Performant Version) last night from the latest link in the OP. It makes the game look spectacular, but unfortunately I am getting an error:

 

It usually happens while I'm firing my guns (so far I've only flown the Spitfire and Tempest). The game doesn't crash, but it prevents any input from me until I hit OK, so I usually end up crashing my plane if I'm anywhere near the ground.

 

This mod pack is the only mod I have installed.

Any help would be appreciated - thanks!

 

Try the new version of the pack, I updated the OP.

On 10/15/2021 at 7:55 AM, Afghanicus said:

V3 coming soon?

Yes, check the original post ?.

On 10/11/2021 at 5:21 AM, FupDuck said:

Yah it appears to be all merged together. I was kind of bummed to see that after downloading 6.5 GB, especially since the first post says 

Update 9/1/21:

This modpack is now going to be offered in one modular version going forward with various options included as jsgme add-ons

 

So there's no way to fix this myself? Seems a huge pity to have to disable the whole thing because of one file from one mod. ?

Try it now. New version out.

On 11/2/2021 at 2:59 PM, slipper said:

Hi Drewm3i

 

Any news on a new version of this mod please?

 

Thanks

New version out now, with fixes and additional mods/updates.

On 11/23/2021 at 8:29 AM, FlyinCoffin said:

Does this pack cost fps? /resources of the gpu?

 

Does the game still operate on server without this mod?

 

 

Yes it does cost FPS, but you can lower some settings perhaps to compensate. The clouds are a big FPS killer.

On 10/26/2021 at 1:58 PM, Spinnetti said:

Tried out the mod, thanks. Not sure if just me, but when using it playing tank crew, and being in a field, I got a near white-out. not sure if some of the settings aren't suitable for tank crew (?). I don't think I had other mods running.

This pack has not been tested with Tank Crew.

On 10/17/2021 at 10:20 PM, Stonehouse said:

Only a suggestion but I suspect you are clobbering quite a few other mods than the QB Rails weapon mod and AP fix mod by renaming the luascripts folder.

 

Perhaps try disabling this big merged mod pack in JSGME or whatever and go into the mod and find the luascripts folder and then within that folder find

• the ballistics folder. Rename that to ballisticsx or something
• then do the same for the folder explosions - so rename this to explosionsx
• then folder weapons - rename to weaponsx.

The re-enable the merged mod pack and see how you go.

 

I don't use this big pack as I like the flexibility of individual mods and instead I use the mod profiles you can create in JSGME to ensure easy & correct one click loading (well 2 perhaps) of a large group of mods, so some of the above is a guess based on the contents of the weapon mod and the dispersion mod but I believe doing what I suggest will limit things to removing just the weapon and ballistics and related explosion effects mods and revert things to the base game files for that aspect. Hopefully it helps you and works better.

AP Mod is now deleted from the pack.

[PA_Willy]

Thank you. I will try It this evening!

[Woulve]

I am getting some errors with this mod. I have the latest version, but I get some warnings. I think these are related to the VREM mod. I deleted the bin folder from this mod, and now they are gone. I hope there is no other mod in this package, that needs files in the bin folder.

Great mod.

 

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

9 hours ago, Woulve said:

I am getting some errors with this mod. I have the latest version, but I get some warnings. I think these are related to the VREM mod. I deleted the bin folder from this mod, and now they are gone. I hope there is no other mod in this package, that needs files in the bin folder.

Great mod.

 

Those errors while loading do not matter. The game works just fine with them in my experience.

[PA_Willy]

I have tested it. Several error windows (Luascripts etc, etc) in taking off. At the beginning of mission. Moscow map, October 1941. I can't play with those pop up windows.

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

1 hour ago, PA_Willy said:

I have tested it. Several error windows (Luascripts etc, etc) in taking off. At the beginning of mission. Moscow map, October 1941. I can't play with those pop up windows.

Okay, I think I'm going to make a new version of the pack without the weapons mod. 

 

Would you mind posting the error messages?

[NewWinter]

 

On 11/27/2021 at 12:14 AM, -332FG-drewm3i-VR said:

Okay, I think I'm going to make a new version of the pack without the weapons mod. 

 

Would you mind posting the error messages?

Hi, I have theseproblems too, i've written the error message.

The situation was the start of a career in Moscow theater, soviet side, 34th Air Defense Regiment (the one with the stripped tiger Migs)

Settings was Start at the air, Dense frontline. First Mission was Intercept Bombers.

Just a few seconds in, i got first only these 2 error messages:
 

Error reading ArmorParameters

File:
"luascripts/worldobjects/ballistics/ammunitionfornpc/npc_shell_rus_45_he.txt"

class_name = "CBatchBallistics"

"Armor" not found !

________________________then the next error message where the faulty file is in the same folder as above_______________________________

Error reading ArmorParameters

File:
"luascripts/worldobjects/ballistics/ammunitionfornpc/npc_shell_rus_85_he.txt"

class_name = "CBatchBallistics"

"Armor" not found !

 

They only both showed up once then there was the spam...

 

Object undefined
luascripts/worldobjects/explosions/shells/tnt660g_frag9kg_he_expl_air.txt

_______________Either those two would be spammed_________________________

Object undefined
luascripts/worldobjects/explosions/shells/tnt660g_frag9kg_he_expl_ground.txt

 

Hopes it help, i'm gonna try to look for some other errors on the rest of the theaters and gather the luabugs 
-----------------------------------------------

career Moscow theater axis side

flown an escort bomber mission and got exactly the same errors above

______________________________________________________________

career Stalingrad theater soviet side

same errors as above 

______________________________________________________________

Career Kuban theater soviet side
flown a free hunt mission as wingman for a flight of 2, few seconds in got the npc_shell_rus_45 bug as usual

no bugs showed up until an encounter whith a flight of 4-5 bf-109 G4 (or G6 i forgot)

 

out of nowhere during a turn fight, this message showed up just once

Object Undefined
Luascripts/WorldObjects/Emitters/WaterSpray5_1.txt

 

after the fight, halfway through my ammo, me flightleader still went circling around the marked point

when suddenly the npc_shell_rus_85_he.txt showed up

 

then going back to base got the spam of the tnt660g_frag9kg_he_explosion_[air||ground].txt

 

 

Edited November 28, 2021 by NewWinter
reporting luascript bugs of modpack, testing with all theaters

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

The error may be cleared by deleting the offending files from the pack @NewWinter

[NewWinter]

1 hour ago, -332FG-drewm3i-VR said:

The error may be cleared by deleting the offending files from the pack @NewWinter

Hi there,

so i decided to check the file npc_shell_rus_45_he.txt for any of this "Armor" error as returned by the error message and only found Armor1, Armor2, Amror3 and Armor4 value.

Then I compared with the other files and found that they may have four values for the armor thingy but all name was Armor and not enumerated.

It was the same for npc_shell_rus_85_he.txt, i'm wading trough the files content from the error i got to check any discrepencies compared to their brother/sister files of the same folder

 

so in npc_shell_rus_85_he.txt line 24 to 28, you'll have Armor1=..., Armor2=...ect

remove the enumeration so there's 4 lines beginning like this Armor=

 

do the same for npc_shell_rus_45_he.txt

 

two issues remain :

Object Undefined

tnt660g_frag9kg_he_expl_air

 

Object Undefined

tnt660g_frag9kg_he_expl_ground

 

the npc_shell_rus_85_he.txt call them for its hits effects,

the modpack as it's current state gonna pop the error message each time an effect of the npc_shell_russ_85_he is called.

The target file is either at the wrong address or has a wrong name. Or both...

Or just simply inexistant...

It could be some variables in the target file that don't match.

 

I tried to replace the call of the hit effect of npc_shell_rus_85_he.txt to be similar with npc_shell_rus_45_he.txt but alas the issue of Object Undefined npc_shell_rus_85_he_txt still remain.

I'll be deleting npc_shell_rus_85_he.txt, this looks like i lose a bit of the overhaul since it does quite some stuff for just a type of ammunition.

 

 

found an issue that might depend on the map :

Object Undefined

Luascripts/WorldObjects/Emitters/WaterSpray5_1.txt

 

Effect called in : a bunch of files in Luascripts/worldobjects/bots

in line 66, 64 or 69 depending of the file

line is SplashConfig="LuaScripts\WorldObjects\Emitters\WaterSpray5_1.txt"

just below Parachute

Hypothesis : Each time a parachuted pilot reach the water (lake, river, sea, ect) it wil call the splash effect.

I shall now shoot down a bunch of bombers and transporters (full of paras of course) over the sea to see if this will spam the error

 

Edited November 28, 2021 by NewWinter
trying bugfixing

[NewWinter]

Alright, i've finally done it, by simply muting the faulty call, if i've understood correctly mods override existing assets of the game (vanilla assets), so by commenting witk // the faulty call, we get instead the original visual effect of game but with tweaked damage value, ect, of the mods

 

Thanks god almighty the virtuous creators of Sublim Text 3 for finding and editing quickly quite a lot of files in short amount of time

 

PS : I may haven't found every faulty calls and there can be very actually specific

modpack_luascrpits_patchwork.zip

This archive contains my work-in-progress patchworks.

Dunno if it is the right strucuture for JGSME, but for non JSGME install you just drop in the game folder such as :

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

On 11/28/2021 at 1:52 PM, NewWinter said:

Alright, i've finally done it, by simply muting the faulty call, if i've understood correctly mods override existing assets of the game (vanilla assets), so by commenting witk // the faulty call, we get instead the original visual effect of game but with tweaked damage value, ect, of the mods

 

Thanks god almighty the virtuous creators of Sublim Text 3 for finding and editing quickly quite a lot of files in short amount of time

 

PS : I may haven't found every faulty calls and there can be very actually specific

modpack_luascrpits_patchwork.zip 947.76 kB · 5 downloads

This archive contains my work-in-progress patchworks.

Dunno if it is the right strucuture for JGSME, but for non JSGME install you just drop in the game folder such as :

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad

Thanks for this hotfix my friend! I will update the OP.

[ShovelHook]

I am getting some strange looking trees in the Stalingrad winter map.  

[Mtnbiker1998]

Did you ever pin down the cause of the weird blue and black damage decals? Almost looks like it might be an alpha issue? Or some kind of strange lighting bug.

 

Theres also some strange repeating textures in the damage decals, I saw it on the P-47, not sure if its on other planes.

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

1 hour ago, Mtnbiker1998 said:

Did you ever pin down the cause of the weird blue and black damage decals? Almost looks like it might be an alpha issue? Or some kind of strange lighting bug.

 

Theres also some strange repeating textures in the damage decals, I saw it on the P-47, not sure if its on other planes.

I can't see what you are talking about in these pictures, but may it is @Oyster_KAI Oyster_KAI's damage decal mod?

[Mtnbiker1998]

comparing them directly it definitely looks to be some kind of alpha issue. I think the blue that I was seeing is the reflection of the sky, and for some reason it defaults to black otherwise. One of the mods may have edited the decals causing the black/ultra reflective blue effect. Using the same P-47 skin as a reference, here is some vanilla screenshots. Notice the grey which is gone in the modded version, this looks way better. Also visible is what I think is the vanilla texture for the burn/flash damage around the holes in the middle of the P-47s wing, wondering if one of meplane's replacement textures is causing that issue (this is why I stick to vanilla effects in my game, even though meplanes effects can look quite good in some circumstances, they can cause issues in other places where the same texture is reused)

 

I don't have screnshots but I've also seen some similar weird white artifacts in the wooden damage decals (visible on the Hurricanes fuselage, and P-51 Rudder. Reverting these back to vanilla is probably the best bet

[Oyster_KAI]

7 hours ago, -332FG-drewm3i-VR said:

I can't see what you are talking about in these pictures, but may it is @Oyster_KAI Oyster_KAI's damage decal mod?

Probably not, the damage decals I modified did not include P-47s, Fw-190s, Hurricane.