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#4510260 - 03/10/20 02:40 AM Re: VonS "Casual Campaigns" WOFF Thread [Re: VonS]  
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(note: 1.4/1.2/1.1.1 GPU Tuner Patch combo. in place; BB's clouds ver. 2.9.2 loaded and functioning well; JJJ's Multimod ver. 2.1 activated; claims/promotions are at "medium" difficulty settings, as for all previous missions)

[Narrative removed - see relevant update in the very first post of this "casual campaigns" thread for more info.]

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#4510703 - 03/13/20 03:52 AM Re: VonS "Casual Campaigns" WOFF Thread [Re: VonS]  
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[Narrative removed - see relevant update in the very first post of this "casual campaigns" thread for more info.]

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#4512790 - 03/26/20 02:56 AM Re: VonS "Casual Campaigns" WOFF Thread [Re: VonS]  
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(note: WOFF GPU Tuner Patch in place, with combo 1.4/1.2/1.1.1; also in place is ver. 2.1 of JJJ's MultiMod; as well being tested is a beta ver. of BB's clouds mod. for WOFFpe, to be released later)

[Narrative removed - see relevant update in the very first post of this "casual campaigns" thread for more info.]

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#4512839 - 03/26/20 01:21 PM Re: VonS "Casual Campaigns" WOFF Thread [Re: VonS]  
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VonS, I just caught up on your pair of pilots and it was some very enjoyable reading. “Der blaue Eberhard”, that one made me laugh out loud. And to Captain Dobson’s dreams of the elegant lady attending to his wounded nether region, I’m thinking that scenario has been played out more than once in certain short films featuring “bow-chick-a-bow-bow” musical scores. Great screenies by the way.

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#4512883 - 03/26/20 05:35 PM Re: VonS "Casual Campaigns" WOFF Thread [Re: RAF_Louvert]  
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Originally Posted by RAF_Louvert
VonS, I just caught up on your pair of pilots and it was some very enjoyable reading. “Der blaue Eberhard”, that one made me laugh out loud. And to Captain Dobson’s dreams of the elegant lady attending to his wounded nether region, I’m thinking that scenario has been played out more than once in certain short films featuring “bow-chick-a-bow-bow” musical scores. Great screenies by the way


Glad these casual campaign tales are enjoyable. If anything disastrous happens to my pilots, I will then "formally" apply to join the real men in the DiD thread. cowboy

Von S

Last edited by VonS; 06/02/22 12:43 AM. Reason: Edited post.

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#4513146 - 03/28/20 07:36 AM Re: VonS "Casual Campaigns" WOFF Thread [Re: VonS]  
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And the plot thickens ... I go into the WOFF campaign menu, click to see the duty roster and aircraft types available...and May 27th of 1915 rolls in - and then a pleasant surprise pops up on screen smile. Hope to fly the latest mission soon, with the Bristol Type C that has been offered.

Von S

Last edited by VonS; 06/02/22 10:01 PM. Reason: Edited post.

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#4514433 - 04/03/20 06:06 PM Re: VonS "Casual Campaigns" WOFF Thread [Re: VonS]  
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(note: BB's clouds ver. 3 installed, "full weather" package; ver. 2.1 of JJJ's MultiMod in use; combo. 1.4/1.2/1.1.1 of the WOFF GPU Tuner patch active)

[Narrative removed - see relevant update in the very first post of this "casual campaigns" thread for more info.]

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#4514445 - 04/03/20 07:22 PM Re: VonS "Casual Campaigns" WOFF Thread [Re: VonS]  
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VonS - I am really enjoying the unfolding story. Keep up the excellent work. I look forward to more


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#4514453 - 04/03/20 07:57 PM Re: VonS "Casual Campaigns" WOFF Thread [Re: VonS]  
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Great stuff VonS,keep up the great work pal


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#4514455 - 04/03/20 08:04 PM Re: VonS "Casual Campaigns" WOFF Thread [Re: VonS]  
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I'm also enjoying it, Thank you!

#4514469 - 04/03/20 08:46 PM Re: VonS "Casual Campaigns" WOFF Thread [Re: VonS]  
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Nice story, VonS.

Hopefully, the weather will continue to cooperate, although I have a feeling that will not be the case!


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#4514530 - 04/04/20 03:20 AM Re: VonS "Casual Campaigns" WOFF Thread [Re: VonS]  
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Thank you everyone for the kind words - WOFF is wonderfully immersive and I look forward to more adventures with the Bristol Scout. Will be interesting to compare it with the Fokk. E.II. Already it flies much more nicely. The Eindecker is always a handful - tweaked FM or not.

@ BB, considering the realism of your "full weather" clouds upgrade, I'm sure that I will be in rain, winds, and overcast skies very soon. Looking forward to the bad weather! biggrin

(I will include the FM tweak for the Bristol Scout Type C with a ver. 5.0 of the FM update pack, sometime in the coming months - no official release date yet since I want to comb over the Nieups. 17 and 24, and will visit the M-S and Pfalz Parasols too, since I will have more free time then.)

Hope to fly the latest mission soon, then another couple of missions for the RFC before switching to Bosta 2 and the northernmost sector of the front.

An excellent sim for building a novel...providing these two campaigns last long enough - I'll then have to decide on a title that maintains the spirit of the 1910s as much as I've attempted to do with the diction in the reports. smile

Perhaps something like:

Master Caligula's Easy Chair: Tales of WW1 Aerial Heroes and Their Escapades for the Armchair Enthusiast

or

Lady Harbury's Burlesque Studio: Wild Days and Nights Above the Trenches of the Great War

Von S

Last edited by VonS; 06/02/22 12:46 AM. Reason: Edited post.

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#4514550 - 04/04/20 09:25 AM Re: VonS "Casual Campaigns" WOFF Thread [Re: VonS]  
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Excellent so far Von s, setting a standard I can only dream of! Very enjoyable thank you

#4515071 - 04/07/20 07:37 AM Re: VonS "Casual Campaigns" WOFF Thread [Re: VonS]  
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Originally Posted by VonS
Mission No. 3 for Hauptmann Kiener

(note: GPU Tuner Patch 1.4/1.2/1.1.1 combo. in place; also BB's optional clouds ver 2.9.2 being used and they work fine in the platinum ed. of WOFF, have spotted no problems so far; as well used is JJJ's Multimod ver. 2.1)



Guys, do you know if BB's Optional Clouds Mod is compatible with Cloud Popping fix by HarryH?

Thanks.

#4515079 - 04/07/20 08:10 AM Re: VonS "Casual Campaigns" WOFF Thread [Re: VonS]  
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I'm afraid it is not compatible with VonS's GPU Tuner Mod as it also modifies preload.xml

Thanks.

#4515129 - 04/07/20 02:47 PM Re: VonS "Casual Campaigns" WOFF Thread [Re: VonS]  
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My mod and Harry's work just fine with each other, I'm not sure about Harry's and VonS's.


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#4515145 - 04/07/20 04:15 PM Re: VonS "Casual Campaigns" WOFF Thread [Re: Dirk98]  
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Originally Posted by Dirk98
I'm afraid it is not compatible with VonS's GPU Tuner Mod as it also modifies preload.xml

Thanks.


For those using HarryH's cloud pop fix, I recommend loading it first via JSGME, and then loading my GPU Tuner patch for WOFF - this way you will get the benefits of the cloud pop mod and my tuner patch - since the preload.xml file that my patch loads works just fine with the cloud pop mod (it is just a minor expansion/modification of the preload file that comes with HarryH's fix). Simply override Harry's preload file with mine - and you should have no compatibility problems (don't forget to remove my mod first, then Harry's, when upgrading to newer ver. patches of WOFF).

Hope to fly the latest mission soon in the Scout Type C.

Von S smile

Last edited by VonS; 06/02/22 12:47 AM. Reason: Edited post.

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#4515413 - 04/09/20 02:10 AM Re: VonS "Casual Campaigns" WOFF Thread [Re: VonS]  
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Again thanks for your tweaks VonS they really are an excellent addition.
I was wondering if you could give me some advice? I noticed that you mentioned that you've put "tree congestion has been slightly thinned out in this patch (by about 10-15%) from stock"

If i wanted to add some extra trees (i know id lose some fps) then in what file would i add them? Also i use V1.1.1 v1.3 and v1.4 would i have to change a file in the latest JSGME setting (1.4)? Thanks in advance for any reply VonS
Cheers Adger


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#4515422 - 04/09/20 04:33 AM Re: VonS "Casual Campaigns" WOFF Thread [Re: Adger]  
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Originally Posted by Adger
Again thanks for your tweaks VonS they really are an excellent addition.
I was wondering if you could give me some advice? I noticed that you mentioned that you've put "tree congestion has been slightly thinned out in this patch (by about 10-15%) from stock"

If i wanted to add some extra trees (i know id lose some fps) then in what file would i add them? Also i use V1.1.1 v1.3 and v1.4 would i have to change a file in the latest JSGME setting (1.4)? Thanks in advance for any reply VonS
Cheers Adger


Glad the WOFF Tuner Patch is proving so helpful Adger. In terms of tree congestion, two ways to toggle that. The easy way is simply to increase forest/tree density in the main WOFF menu from medium to full - but I have no idea what kind of an impact that will have on fps - have always left that setting at medium.

The other, more subtle way is to tinker with the last numbers in the budget rings entries of the compositescenerybudgets file, located in the terrain folder, of my Tuner Patch. For example, since you are using ver. 1.3, that changes the compositescenery numbers already provided in ver. 1.1.1 that needs to be installed for the other addons to work - ver. 1.4, on the other hand, changes the compositetexturebudgets file provided in the main ver. 1.1.1 patch. So, in your case, the relevant entry from the ver. 1.3 compositescenerybudgets file (which is the one you want to tinker with) is as follows:

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<Budget Name="One">
<Rings AboveGroundLevel="0" MaxDistEyeInnerRing="0">
<Ring PatchWorldDim="2048" RingDim="10" LOD="17" MajorDensity="0.00001" />
<Ring PatchWorldDim="1024" RingDim="17" LOD="50" MajorDensity="0.00004" />
<Ring PatchWorldDim="512" RingDim="15" LOD="70" MajorDensity="0.00011" />
<Ring PatchWorldDim="256" RingDim="11" LOD="90" MajorDensity="0.00013" />
<Ring PatchWorldDim="128" RingDim="12" LOD="100" MajorDensity="0.00015"/>
</Rings>
</Budget>
<Budget Name="Two">
<Rings AboveGroundLevel="0" MaxDistEyeInnerRing="0">
<Ring PatchWorldDim="2048" RingDim="11" LOD="17" MajorDensity="0.00002" />
<Ring PatchWorldDim="1024" RingDim="17" LOD="50" MajorDensity="0.00005" />
<Ring PatchWorldDim="512" RingDim="14" LOD="70" MajorDensity="0.00013" />
<Ring PatchWorldDim="256" RingDim="11" LOD="90" MajorDensity="0.00015" />
<Ring PatchWorldDim="128" RingDim="11" LOD="100" MajorDensity="0.00017"/>
</Rings>
</Budget>
<Budget Name="Three">
<Rings AboveGroundLevel="0" MaxDistEyeInnerRing="0">
<Ring PatchWorldDim="2048" RingDim="11" LOD="17" MajorDensity="0.00003"/>
<Ring PatchWorldDim="1024" RingDim="13" LOD="50" MajorDensity="0.00008"/>
<Ring PatchWorldDim="512" RingDim="20" LOD="70" MajorDensity="0.00011"/>
<Ring PatchWorldDim="256" RingDim="13" LOD="90" MajorDensity="0.00015"/>
<Ring PatchWorldDim="128" RingDim="11" LOD="100" MajorDensity="0.00018"/>
<Ring PatchWorldDim="64" RingDim="10" LOD="110" MajorDensity="0.00019"/>
</Rings>
</Budget>
<Budget Name="Four">
<Rings AboveGroundLevel="0" MaxDistEyeInnerRing="0">
<Ring PatchWorldDim="2048" RingDim="11" LOD="17" MajorDensity="0.00004"/>
<Ring PatchWorldDim="1024" RingDim="13" LOD="30" MajorDensity="0.00008"/>
<Ring PatchWorldDim="512" RingDim="20" LOD="50" MajorDensity="0.00012"/>
<Ring PatchWorldDim="256" RingDim="20" LOD="70" MajorDensity="0.00016"/>
<Ring PatchWorldDim="128" RingDim="18" LOD="90" MajorDensity="0.00018"/>
<Ring PatchWorldDim="64" RingDim="13" LOD="100" MajorDensity="0.00020"/>
<Ring PatchWorldDim="32" RingDim="11" LOD="110" MajorDensity="0.00021"/>
</Rings>
</Budget>
<Budget Name="Five">
<Rings AboveGroundLevel="0" MaxDistEyeInnerRing="0">
<Ring PatchWorldDim="2048" RingDim="10" LOD="17" MajorDensity="0.00006"/>
<Ring PatchWorldDim="1024" RingDim="13" LOD="30" MajorDensity="0.00009"/>
<Ring PatchWorldDim="512" RingDim="19" LOD="50" MajorDensity="0.00013"/>
<Ring PatchWorldDim="256" RingDim="19" LOD="70" MajorDensity="0.00017"/>
<Ring PatchWorldDim="128" RingDim="17" LOD="90" MajorDensity="0.00019"/>
<Ring PatchWorldDim="64" RingDim="11" LOD="100" MajorDensity="0.00021"/>
<Ring PatchWorldDim="32" RingDim="10" LOD="110" MajorDensity="0.00022"/>
</Rings>
</Budget>
-----

The density values in the various budget levels are already a bit more "congested" in ver. 1.3 than in the ver. 1.1.1 compositescenerybudgets file, and especially so when compared with the ver. 1.2 file - but if you want to tinker further, I recommend increasing each of the "majordensity" values by a number of about "0.00002" or "0.00003." This, for example, will give you majordensity numbers, for budget ring level one, of:

<Ring PatchWorldDim="2048" RingDim="10" LOD="17" MajorDensity="0.00003" />
<Ring PatchWorldDim="1024" RingDim="17" LOD="50" MajorDensity="0.00006" />
<Ring PatchWorldDim="512" RingDim="15" LOD="70" MajorDensity="0.00013" />
<Ring PatchWorldDim="256" RingDim="11" LOD="90" MajorDensity="0.00015" />
<Ring PatchWorldDim="128" RingDim="12" LOD="100" MajorDensity="0.00017"/>

Take note however that such tweaks may result in a slight fps hit when compared with the unmodified, possible fps numbers for my patch. Also possible is that micro-stutters may be reintroduced. And, most of all, tree density may not so much be increased as the distance to which trees are seen - for noticeable increase in tree density, we have to toggle again the forest/tree congestion in the main WOFF menu to a higher setting (which I avoid tinkering with).

Anyway, hope you can get desired tree congestion/viewing distance with the tweaks suggested above. (I won't tinker anymore with the Tuner Patch myself since I don't want to reintroduce any oddities.)

Von S smile

NOTE: Don't forget to unload the Tuner Patch in JSGME before modifying the relevant compositescenerybudgets file, and before loading it up again.

Last edited by VonS; 04/09/20 04:59 AM. Reason: Fixed typos.

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#4515447 - 04/09/20 11:19 AM Re: VonS "Casual Campaigns" WOFF Thread [Re: VonS]  
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As always a massive thanks VonS,I'm going to have a tinker about later cheers for your detailed explanation pal.


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At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
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