Undaunted Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 I've posted a few hi-res sky mods at CMMODS. The textures are made using Terragen. The clear day is my favorite of the bunch, with almost unnoticeable dithering: Dawn: Dusk: May be too "peachy," I may redo this one if I have enough time. Overcast (light coloured). This is my first attempt at the overcast. I like the way the raindrops realistically blend to the sky, but I think it is to light, especially during dawn/dusk overcast scenarios. This version is not posted at cmmods. Overcast. This is a darkened version of the previous one. The rain still blend to the sky to some extent. For some reason I think this version is the best for the snowy times. Overcast (Dark). This version is less blueish and imitates the colour scheme of the original skies. Can't Resist: I've "found" some wartime photos and it seems that world war 2 armies did adopt my clear day mod. German Panzers just after taking out a Soviet tank in southern Russia, June 1943. The Russians lost 1 KV-1 and 3 T-34 in this tank battle. The Panzer on the left was credited with two kills. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroCat Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 Hey, I really dig the sky mods! Downloaded them right away! Jordan "AstroCat" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kump Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 Thanks! Great work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Wacky Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 zang 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Wacky Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 GAH! Cmmods is slower than Christmas tonight! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom TCMHQ Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 :eek: :eek: :eek: This one deserves a MONSTER BUMP CMBB looks much more realistic with these new sky texture eye candy. No more painfull dithering pixels ! Sweeeeeet My current No.1 for any " CMBB mod of the year " contest. Cheers Tom 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steiner14 Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 :eek: Wow. Can't wait to try them out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Carr Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 Thanks for these mods. I'll be getting them as soon as I get a chance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Undaunted Posted October 23, 2003 Author Share Posted October 23, 2003 Thanks for the support guys! BTW how about the black and white screenshot? I jacked the contrast way up to make it more look like a historic photo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzman Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 Looks great. I have them all, but the overcast skys. Seems that the overcast sky zip file (not the dark overcast) is corrupt. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParaBellum Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 Thx Undaunted, outstanding work! I really love the clear sky version. And the b&w screenie looks nice, too. Here's one of mine, already with your new sky (although you don't see much of it here... ). Edited 'cause I like the 2nd version better... [ October 23, 2003, 04:11 PM: Message edited by: ParaBellum ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Die Easy Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 Hi Undaunted, Your sky mod is really really good Thanks!!!! Would it be possible to use some of the files as sky in CMBO? Best regards Mr. Die Easy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gautrek Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 Any chance of posting these in my forum as well. Thanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Hornet Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 A MUCH needed mod. Thanks so much for doing this! Bravo, sir. :cool: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Undaunted Posted October 24, 2003 Author Share Posted October 24, 2003 Gautrek: Have posted at the modding forum. Panzerman: I've re-uploaded the overcast version at cmmods. I tested downloading this twice, first time I got a corrupted zip, and the second time it's ok. I am not sure why this happened , my only suggestion is to try to download it again. Mr. Die Easy: I'm not sure if that's possible, given that the sky bitmaps are used and organized differently. CMBO uses one bmp for the whole sky, where CMBB uses three. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie Monster Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 Great work! DL'd them as soon as I saw this thread. BTW the B&W shots have inspired me to do a little "picture taking" of my own! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Die Easy Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 Originally posted by Undaunted: Mr. Die Easy: I'm not sure if that's possible, given that the sky bitmaps are used and organized differently. CMBO uses one bmp for the whole sky, where CMBB uses three. If you discover an easy way to convert one of the bmps to a sky in CMBO do not hesitate to tell us. I would love to use your mod in CMBO too. Mr. Die Easy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
................................... Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 I had to chime in with more praise. This mod makes the biggest visual improvement to CMBB by far. Outstanding work. Thanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGDreamerX Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 Anyone able to host the files on another server? CMMODS is going really slowly for me. Judging from the screens though, this mod looks GREAT! Also it's awesome the textures are made in in Terragen, which is a fantastic program. I hope you can import them into CMBO someday. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markl Posted October 25, 2003 Share Posted October 25, 2003 The best sky I have ever seen, really improves the game. Does anyone know how to convert the sky for use in CMBO? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawyer Posted October 25, 2003 Share Posted October 25, 2003 I've got 'em all. Thanks. Do I need to choose between dark overcast and plain overcast, or do I use both of them for different scenarios? I don't know if they are separate skies or alternative skies for an overcast scenario. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Undaunted Posted October 25, 2003 Author Share Posted October 25, 2003 The two overcast sets are alternative skies so you have to choose between them. However, you can use one version for say snowy scenarios and the other for summer scenarios and so on. See the readme file to find out which bitmaps you need. For example to use the plain overcast sky for snowy scenarios use the 1413.bmp, 1433.bmp and 1453.bmp (overcast-snowy-east, north, west respectively) from that zip file. As for using the bitmaps for CMBO I don't have CMBO installed and don't know which bitmap is for which sky. But I can tell you how to combine the 3-bmp sky into a 1-bmp complete sky (which iirc is needed for cmbo). Use paintbrush to append the 3 bmps (eg. 1400.bmp, 1420.bmp, 1440.bmp for summer clear day sky) into in the following order: [east sky][north sky®][west sky][north sky] where north sky® is a horizontally flipped version of the north sky. The resulting bitmap would be 4096(!) x 512. You may need to somehow shift the bitmap left or right to get the right orientation, and find out what is the bmp number for that sky in cmbo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Other Means Posted October 27, 2003 Share Posted October 27, 2003 i've just started using this on a new dawn match. it's absolutely beautiful. it gives me the feeling of men creeping round, before the action starts. tired from too little sleep but warmed by the sun on their skin & the knowledge of hard action to come. stunning. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicky Posted October 27, 2003 Share Posted October 27, 2003 Installed them yummy skies on my Mac with ATI AGP Retail Radeon 32mb but they failed to work (went psychadelic). I remember installing a previous release of hi-res skies and the same thing occured. Is it just me or has anyone else on a Mac had similar problems? (Writing this I think I'll try a little experiment and convert the Hi-res skies to the default BMPs resolution and see what happens). edit: Yup knocking them back down to 1024x256 @72dpi from 2048x512 @ 96dpi gets them up and away - shame there's now some subtle banding [ October 27, 2003, 05:00 PM: Message edited by: Wicky ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzman Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 Originally posted by Wicky: Is it just me or has anyone else on a Mac had similar problems? edit: Yup knocking them back down to 1024x256 @72dpi from 2048x512 @ 96dpi gets them up and away - shame there's now some subtle banding Yeah I had that problem... good to know there is a way to fix it without having to reinstall or have someone dig up the default bmps. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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