[Psychonaut]

as the topic says, i would really like to share this "new" explosion with the community. All i need is a little webspace (860 kb) to upload it. What i´ve done is to use an existing explosion (i think it was exp4-ani) and change the color. I also changed the weapon table a bit, so that the explosion don´t appear that huge. I used the modular table format, so you can use it easily with the most existing mods and campaigns without changing the existing table files. It´s curious, that no one else seems to use modular tables   .

Installation: just put the eff and pcx files to data\effects and the flak-wep.tbm to the data\table or mod\data\table directory.

maybe there is someone to mail the file to????


Edit: did i say, that the effect really looks cool;7

[Deepblue]

Go to freewebs.com, create a website, and upload to "My Documents."

[Psychonaut]

Ok, here you go.......




You have to download both files (sorry for that). extract them in one directory an copy all *.eff and *.pcx files to your data\effects folder. The flak-wep.tbm goes to the tables folder in the freespace root or mod directory.

[mitac]

Would you mind putting up a screenshot? I'm currently setting up my system, and I'm still far from any FS2 installation.

[Krackers87]

wtf.. sez my current security settings wont allow me to download it.

[Psychonaut]

I don´t know. the download works for me. Does anyone else have the same problem? Did you use the right mouse button?

And screenshot, ahh ....yeah, how do i get some??

ok try these links

http://www.freewebs.com/psychonaut/FlakExplosion1_2.zip
 http://www.freewebs.com/psychonaut/FlakExplosion2_2.zip

again use the right mouse button, this might help. I´m not really into this website - upload - download stuff. So gimme time.

[mitac]

Press the "print" key. The pics can be found in the main FS2 directory.

[Overlord]

But convert them to jpg, we don't want nasty bmps!

[Psychonaut]

I do as you told me, but the pribt key doesn´t seem to have any effects. The game stops for a part of a second, but there are no images in the freespace folder. I´m sure i`m doing something wrong


Edit: now i´m sitting here for more than an hour trying to get some f***ing screenies. Is there anyone. who can help me. I´m using the newest build and the game pauses after hitting the print-button. But there are no screenshots anywhere on my harddisk. This really becomes frustrating:mad:

[Psychonaut]

after houres. I have two screenshots but no way to show them. I will try later!

[FireCrack]

www.photobucket.com

or

www.imageshack.us

[Psychonaut]

ok, there they are. Hope you like it. Getting this on the web was much harder than modding the explosion.

[Ulala]

Cool, nice to see different effects.

[karajorma]

Looks pretty cool from what I can see of it. Reminds me of the flak guns from COW.

[Deepblue]

Does look quite nice.

[Psychonaut]

COW means Casualties of war? I can remember that campaign. I never played more than 2 missions, cause it is not SCP compatible and i had lots of CTD. Maybe i should try a second look:-)

[karajorma]

It's SCP compatible. Just not very 3.5.1+ compatable. Try it with 3.5 and it should work fine (You might have to move the media.vp files out of the way though).

[DaBrain]

ANI is prefered over EFF ATM. But if the ANI is in the VP the EFF should be prefered, I think...

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by karajorma
It's SCP compatible. Just not very 3.5.1+ compatable. Try it with 3.5 and it should work fine (You might have to move the media.vp files out of the way though).

Pre-HTL, that's why.  

I do wonder if it might work better running 3.5.1+ in non htl mode, though.

Oh, and the blue flak ani in CoW was literally the normal explosion recoloured and slightly brightened.   It was the fire rate that I think worked better; set it up to fire a lot of low damage flak bursts.

(one thing to note about CoW is that I did the weapons and planets myself; so they're not as high quality as, for example, those Lighty or Icefire etc could have made - Icefires nebulas were, however, **** hot)

[taylor]

Originally posted by DaBrain
ANI is prefered over EFF ATM. But if the ANI is in the VP the EFF should be prefered, I think...

It searches for an EFF first and then ANI.  It does search everywhere for the EFF first though (unless it's for a model) so if one exists it will get used.  I do want to mention that -jpgtga does affect EFFs.  If you don't use -jpgtga then it will not use EFFs with TGA or JPG images.  The problem there is that it won't go back and try to use the ANI.  I haven't decided exactly what to do about that one yet, it is fixable but not in a way that makes me happy.