OOPPS!! Sorry about that, Ankor was the author of this.
With the files from ETO 1.50, and Wieknieia files.
I have my CFS3 Advanced install set up.
Likes being able to "custom" the water from install to install.
With the ETO 1.50 set up with the files in the ETO 1.50 Expansion package..
I have only to do the PTO and Rising Sun expansions, to see how this works there.
Thanks to ALL for this work.
Slowly getting the various installs sorted.
@Thanks icutler!
@dancat, there's lot improvement to this day, especially for the clouds & shader thing and i've to admit they make CFS3 looks better and better
and also need more highres skins!
@Hobbit you've always good in making some action shots ! and i think MAW need new ground replacement too, don't you think?!
i do agree with you @mongoose..each way has different light shade
Great news @gecko!, Ankor always impress me with his unexpected things coming..truly giving CFS3 ETO and WOFF a bright future !
Last edited by wiekniera; December 27th, 2014 at 23:43.
No problem Owen. BTW, where did you get that B-24 skin, I've not seen it before?
Daniel, I have no idea where the skin on the B-24 came from?/ I Know it is a Firepower bomber.Originally Posted by gecko
But in my Advanced CFS3 setup I have files going back to the beginning of this, so over 10-12 years I collected and set up many stand-alone using whatever files I found at the various sites over the years.
And having several developers send me items also over the years, I can not say where this bomber's skin came from now.
RATS!!
New scenery textures for MAW would be wonderful Master Wieknieria, Oh Yea!
With this many installs on my various computers right now it will take me sometime to set them up using all the new improvements being developed..
Onward and upward. also the first time in many many months I have flown in CFS3, usually just fly in the various expansions available.
I like the sky in the P-39 screenshots in the CFS3 advanced set up ( Win 7), as the clouds change and the light changes so does the colors for the sky and water depending on the time of year, time of day and clouds being used. This was with WM 4.7 Scenery files in the Autumn. (light snow) Morning.. The Spitfire and Lancaster was with Autumn ( no Snow) afternoon.
All Brings this alive even more.
The only issues I have at this time, is with the polished bare metal aircraft, the seen to just look "white" now, not the shiny metal finish. The P-55 screen shots show this.
Master Andy has a fix for this I think he has developed for Win 7/8 machines. I hope..
@hobbit
i've to learn it first owen as there's no wmscenery with MAW, maybe you could make it for me and try to install it with MAW then give me all the file inside assets folder so i can change each tile that connect to the map because it's file name little confuse me but some common file i can read where it goes and that if i want to do it manual
maybe gecko or anyone have experience how to install wmscenery in MAW, i really don't know if WMscenery would work with MAW or not
.............
The city
No WM's scenery doesn't work well in MAW, wrong trees, etc, and the desert scenery files needed for MAW aren't there.
I learned this years ago,.
I learned years ago to pick apart WM's work and add the bits and pieces as I wanted to the Scenery in CFS3 and ETO expansion.
But I don't have the skill to make any of this myself.
I mainly try just to build missions, but have had to learn much the past ten or so years to reverse engineer some of this.
Just received a new set from Przemek, otherwise known as Stary from the SF2 world
He has skills and is moving into CFS3 world now, been chatting with him on FB Nigel(Ndicki) has been working and reviewing his new Shader, scenery work just started.
I expect he will be a GREAT help in the future, has G max skills, and scenery skills.
like a true Master.
So many things happening at once in our CFS3 world, with ETO 1.50 released and the shaders/shine work done by Master Ankor, and the several Masters (like you) dancing with this all of this is changing daily
Has a Hobbit spinning on his furry feets like a top. and very grateful.
More rejoicing!
Naahh owen, im not deserved to be called as master, so many expert around here including you !..im just beginner with all this stuff
btw i thought Ankor was Stary at first...yap i know stary, he's making lot effects stuff,terrain and some shader stuff like cinema fx that i use it with my SF2 and so he's now turn deeply into CFS3 world and that would be awesome! hope many other comes to help making this ETO becomes more better
Last edited by wiekniera; December 28th, 2014 at 17:20.
Back to my first love, ETO 1.50
Only changed the shaders with Major Magee's lines.
And modded the water to my tastes (today) And off I go.
With the ENB files added.
Looks great, Autumn is nice..
And can fly like a Hobbit should too.
Thanks to the Masters for this MUCH REJOICING>>
To ALL who made ETO 1.50 so COOL!!
and So hobbit loves bare metal shine now
Now using panoramic 1.50 with different reflection result
Wow! What can one add??
I'm in Love!! That is beautiful!! Wiekniera, Yea I likes the bare metal shine.
And ETO 1.50 out of the box, with the Ankor/Gecko files I get this..
Hard to find a prettier bare nasty Bird.
And believe many wonderful things on the horizon.
But still just ETO 1.50 and pretty metal and I am in Hobbit Heaven.
Last edited by HouseHobbit; December 30th, 2014 at 05:04.
Only change from stock ETO 1.50 I am completely taken with is the ENB files from Wiek, and Borek.
Other then change the water color ( for my tastes) and add the ENB files..
**added the new WOFF cloud files offered for download
ETO 1.50 with this ENB with the proper enbpalette file.. Looks even better ..
The ENB files are wondeful in bringing out the rich colors. and detail.
Yea the before and after shot from above virgin ETO 1.50
These with the ENB program.
More rejoicing!
I never knew how very beautiful, a sight could be in this, untill now.
The Shine/shader. Win 7
The most Beautiful Bf 109 to ever take flight in the history of Hobbits.
The ENB program, and off I go..
I haven't updated my ETO advanced with the Items from ETO 1.50 yet.
Still running older buildings and such.
But It so COOL with this Bird it doesn't matter..
That is my story and I am sticking to it!!
Okay, for the first time in CFS3 this truly looks like a bare metal aircraft. How can we add this effect to ETO 1.50 again?
ACC Member, ETO and PTO contributor & librarian
Your -r.dds needs to be something brighter than pure black. I'm finding 10% brightness is about the max before it starts to look too much like the silver surfer (all reflection and no airplane texture).
US Army, Major, Ret.
Service To The Line,
On The Line,
On Time
US Army Ordnance Corps.
Escorting a crippled B-24
how can I get more shiny skins ?
Thanks @icutler & @frosty!
@Hobbit
Thanks owen!...but im sure we're using the same Ankor shader file owen the only different is im still using my old custom shader.xml 1.40, im still having trouble with this bare metal shine with Ankor self shadow
when choose reflection in game option menu this ankor shader won't work normal resulting strange anomalies and my ground color becomes really dark but becomes normal when im switch off the ankor self shadow
do your Ankor shader both can get work together between reflection option menu and self shadow? or you've to switch off ankor self shadow to get this bare metal shine? as mine have to switch ankor self shadow off and choose reflection game option on
already using shader.xml & suneffect.xml from 1.50 but no luck
@gosd
i think the files already in 1.50, try installing ankor gecko shader files and you should see that shiny plane
Last edited by wiekniera; December 30th, 2014 at 22:05.
I also noticed the ground turning dark with the ETO 1.5 shader package. In checking it against a slightly earlier version I have that does not do this I found that there is one line about 2/3 of the way down the Terrain.fx file that says
Color.rgb *= saturate(Sun.vDiffuse * saturate(In.Diffuse.rgb - 0.2) * 0.0 + vAmbientLight * 0.8);
whereas the earlier version (not so dark) said
Color.rgb *= saturate(Sun.vDiffuse * saturate(In.Diffuse.rgb - 0.2) * 1.2 + vAmbientLight * 0.8);
Try making that change and see if it works for you as well.
US Army, Major, Ret.
Service To The Line,
On The Line,
On Time
US Army Ordnance Corps.
@wiekniera
These shots where taken from ETO 1.5.
I will have a look at the .m3d files of the P-51b.
@Majormagee
Thanks a lot major! will try it when i get home
@gosd
hmm..but what shiny effect you looking for? the bare metal shine or the body/cockpit glowing shine? in my experience they both can't work together so have to choose it between one of them. if you activate these Ankor self shadow then makesure you uncheck the reflection button in game option to get body glow shine effect (mostly it will get more shiny planes) but if you wanna get that bare metal shine should turn off these ankor self shadow and turn on those reflection button in game option ( but only few planes have this bare metal shine effect)
i guess the expert like majormagee and gecko can explain it more detail
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