Update 12/22/12: HD Cloud Improvement

[TheVino3]

I've retextured all the clouds in higher resolution, vastly improving the overall look of the gameworld.

High clouds resolution has been increased by 15x (minimal - no loss of performance)
Regular clouds resolution has been doubled from 512 x 1024 (minimal loss of performance)

These textures were tested on a moderately high-end machine, with no real performance issues on max-settings, I would not recommend using this texture pack on a machine that struggles with performance.

This will not work with the upcoming atag-patch, so I have removed the DL.

Screenshots

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/3632/cloud1e.png
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/8144/cloud2.png
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6843/cloud3.png


Video by subdd

http://serveur.subdd.fr/nacy/IL-2%20Sturmovik%20Cliffs%20of%20Dover/Mod%20Nuage%20avec%20ou%20no.wmv


Regular cloud textures were not made by me, they came from here:
http://jgt.akpeters.com/papers/Wang04/

Please report back if you notice any issues, performance hits, or any suggestions for improvement. Thanks.

[Stirwenn]

DL page is unreachable even with direct link.. do you have an other link ? Thx.

[TheVino3]

DL page is unreachable even with direct link.. do you have an other link ? Thx.

Are you sure? its working from my pc (logged out of filefront)

Ill put it up somewhere else as well anyway.

[Stirwenn]

thx... 2nd link working :)

[Cujo]

Excellent wok m8. Keep it up. Thank you.

[ChiefRedCloud]

Nice .... thanks Vino and other modders .... with this said quick question for ATAG forum modirators. Do we have a modding thread? If not perhaps it's time for one.

[Blitzen]

Great!:D

[LcSummers]

Very cool.

I am using this mod and its fantastic. Great job.:)

[KDN]

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[wildcard1]

Both links seem to be down sir....

[Salmo]

Both links seem to be down sir....

Don't worry about getting these clouds mate, there's a patch about to be released that includes clouds & much. much more.

[Oersted]

Hope it will be possible to choose not to have these clouds. My computer may not struggle in a one-on-one dogfight mission, but when more planes are added, video capture is running, teamspeak etc is running, then I cannot run extra bells and whistles...

If we suddenly have 20 different features running, each of them with "little or no performance hit", then the trouble can start...

[ATAG_Septic]

Hope it will be possible to choose not to have these clouds. My computer may not struggle in a one-on-one dogfight mission, but when more planes are added, video capture is running, teamspeak etc is running, then I cannot run extra bells and whistles...

If we suddenly have 20 different features running, each of them with "little or no performance hit", then the trouble can start...

TF are very mindful of this concern. The patch in its current form runs at significantly better fps than vanilla on my setup and I've every reason to hope this trend will conrinue!:D

Septic.

[TheVino3]

These cloud textures are actually not in the current patch, they were originally going to be, but this exact concern led us to decide to leave them out for now.

Cheers

[Kling]

I was never really a big fan of the regular clouds in the Clod. They look almost exactly like the clouds in good old il2 BuT. On top of that also create alot more stutter. Must be something in the coding.
The only sim which so far has really good looking clouds is ROF. They have good shape and also cast shadows reflect sunlight etc.

But im glad that you guys are working on the clouds!!:thumbsup:

[wildcard1]

Well after Team Fusion patch install leastways for me,some form of hd cloud has been implemented...so beautiful now and great work sir!:salute:

[TheVino3]

Well after Team Fusion patch install leastways for me,some form of hd cloud has been implemented...so beautiful now and great work sir!:salute:

No thanking me is necessary, I didnt modify the cloud shaping which has been modified - but I agree it looks a lot lot better :D