jjelinek Posted November 5, 2002 Share Posted November 5, 2002 While playing the Russian side in A Morning At The Zoo scenario on the CD I tried dropping smoke with my 82mm mortor spotter. I watched the ammo decreasing during the turn as the mortors were firing. The grey smoke line was fixed on the target. No smoke or anything ever appeared. Could the smoke shells have been duds? Has anyone ever seen anything like this before? Could it be a bug? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agua Posted November 5, 2002 Share Posted November 5, 2002 You sure your smoke graphics are enabled? Shift + I toggles the level of smoke graphics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjelinek Posted November 5, 2002 Author Share Posted November 5, 2002 The smoke worked for my 120mm mortor spotter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted November 5, 2002 Share Posted November 5, 2002 Did you check to see whether they were falling off-map? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjelinek Posted November 5, 2002 Author Share Posted November 5, 2002 I didn't look off the map. The map size is about 700m x 350m. The target was almost in the very center and the spotter was about 125m from the target. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agua Posted November 5, 2002 Share Posted November 5, 2002 Hmmmmmm......... I haven't seen that before. Could you check it again to make sure its not toggled off? I HAVE seen effects "vanish" before, like fog and falling snow. That was the result of either the video driver getting corrupted (fixed by uninstalling the driver, then reinstalling), or the CM executable itself getting corrupted (fixed by removing BMP, scenario, saved game, quick battle map folders to my desktop, or anywhere out of the way) then deleting the entire CMBB / CMBO folder, and reinstalling CM from scratch. After it's reinstalled, just put the BMP, scenario, saved game, and quick battle map folders back into the CM folder and let it overwrite the files in there. Good luck. [ November 04, 2002, 08:37 PM: Message edited by: Agua ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjelinek Posted November 5, 2002 Author Share Posted November 5, 2002 There was dark grey smoke from fires and I tried tracing a line of site through the area where I thought the smoke should have been. The line of sight was open. My troops moving through the area took heavy losses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruceov Posted November 5, 2002 Share Posted November 5, 2002 I have had my art spotters with los firing HE at a target and no explosions appear, while at the same time on my side of the board the enemy art explosions work fine; is this a game bug, extreme fog of war or my video drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjelinek Posted November 5, 2002 Author Share Posted November 5, 2002 Made a mistake. I was play the German side. I just restarted the scenario twice and tried using smoke with the 82mm spotter. It worked both times. I'd have to think that it was probably falling off the map. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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