SurlyBen Posted March 31, 2001 Share Posted March 31, 2001 This has been mentioned already, but I just finished some replacement skies for dawn/dusk to go with my blue skies. They can be downloaded over at the Dogs of War website in the download section http://members.tripod.com/johnnocmdow/down.htm . The zip has replacement files for both the high and low res versions of the skys, for you people who have voodoo 3 cards . Be aware that both verisons are bigger than the stock skies. Anyway, here're the shots. I've managed to reduce the posterized look of the skies somewhat on these (and on my blue skies). Comments? Flames? Criticisms? SurlyBen [This message has been edited by SurlyBen (edited 03-31-2001).] [This message has been edited by SurlyBen (edited 03-31-2001).] [This message has been edited by SurlyBen (edited 03-31-2001).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alla_keefek Posted March 31, 2001 Share Posted March 31, 2001 Truely stunning mate. My cyber soldiers will just look up at the sun set/rise. They will be so taken by the view. I loved your Blue Sky mods too. Now have to get a better 3D card.. ------------------ "Alla Keefek" is a Brit soldier's corruption of an Arabic phrase. It means "couldn't be bothered". A Firefly of the 4th County of London Yeomanry had it painted on the rear of the turret. This Firefly was knocked out by a Tiger from 501st SS. http://www.geocities.com/alla_keefek/ Home of my Interface/Splash screens for CMBO & DFDR mod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Heinz 25th PzReg Posted March 31, 2001 Share Posted March 31, 2001 :-O Yummy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stix Posted March 31, 2001 Share Posted March 31, 2001 Originally posted by SurlyBen: The zip has replacement files for both the high and low res versions of the skys, for you people who have voodoo 3 cards . Be aware that both verisons are bigger than the stock skies. Great lookin sky's mate. I'm not sure just how my system will go with all these mods. I've got a PIII 600 with 128Mb PC133 and 32Mb VGA card. Do you think this will run yours and alot of the other Hi-Res mods ok? ------------------ "We don't wanna to die for our country, we wanna make the other bastard die for his" - Patton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pud Posted March 31, 2001 Share Posted March 31, 2001 STREWTH!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SurlyBen Posted March 31, 2001 Author Share Posted March 31, 2001 Stix, my skies shouldn't cause your system any trouble. I run CM on a 350 mhz machine with a voodoo 3 card, and I don't have a problem with my skies. The thing is, at most you will see two sky textures at any one time (well, the same texture twice). Compare that to grass, where every 20 square meters of the map shows a grass texture, and you can have a map several kilometers on a side on your screen at once. A 1km by 1km map is showing 2500 of those 20 meter squares... SurlyBen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrcobbler Posted March 31, 2001 Share Posted March 31, 2001 Surly, these are excellent. My low-res (Boooo!) Voodoo card thanks you too. Now make the overcast ones for three seasons; take a lot of care here, 'cause I think these are the toughest of the lot to get just right. Thanks. Shoeman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deejaykaotic Posted April 1, 2001 Share Posted April 1, 2001 oooh.. the second one down is swweeeettt! good work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikhael Posted April 1, 2001 Share Posted April 1, 2001 Holy ceerap, those are beautiful! Many thanks, Ben! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest *Captain Foobar* Posted April 1, 2001 Share Posted April 1, 2001 Looks great!!! Pleez send them to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted April 1, 2001 Share Posted April 1, 2001 Heavenly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigmac@work Posted April 1, 2001 Share Posted April 1, 2001 Get 'em here! ------------------ All CM All the time! Check out the Dogs of War CM Players Community Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pillar Posted April 1, 2001 Share Posted April 1, 2001 I'll be the first to offer a flame. You sky watching good for nothing CM addict wannabee. (They look great!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rex_Bellator Posted April 1, 2001 Share Posted April 1, 2001 Great work SurlyBen. If you haven't got them yet make sure you also grab the Clear Sky mods which IMHO are the best to date. The second one is my fave as well ------------------ In blossom today then scattered, life is so like a delicate flower, how can one expect the fragrance to last forever Vice Admiral Takijiro Ohnishi - Commander Kamikaze Special Attack Force Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanir Ausf B Posted April 1, 2001 Share Posted April 1, 2001 First of all Ben, let me say that these mods are amazing. Just incredible. However, for some reason the "Reddawn" sky never shows up. "Falldawn" shows up for Sept-Nov, but "Summerdawn" shows up for all the other months including winter months. What setting do you need to get the Reddawn? I actually had the same problem with Tiger's recent sky mod. The summer skys show up in winter. It seems to ignore bmps # 1410, 1412 and 1442. I'm on a PC. ------------------ What a bunch of horsecrap. -Steve [This message has been edited by Vanir Ausf B (edited 04-01-2001).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SurlyBen Posted April 1, 2001 Author Share Posted April 1, 2001 The red dawn sky (1412.bmp and 1442.bmp) only shows up on clear days with snow on the ground. This means that you will never see it in a quick battle: any time you have snow on the ground in a QB, it is snowing, so you'll get an overcast sky. This is true of my winter blue sky mod as well as tiger's sky mods. Kind of a bummer, but that's just the way the game does things. The upside is that this means that if you get sick of the regular skies, you have a sky that you rarely see that you can swap in by changing the filenames around. Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanir Ausf B Posted April 1, 2001 Share Posted April 1, 2001 Ah, ok. Thanks for the pointer Ben. Ground conditions independant of weather in QBs is on my personal wishlist for CM2 as well. ------------------ What a bunch of horsecrap. -Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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