None of my mods available so far does affect raw frontlines. I've started working on Frontlines.txt files, but nothing finished yet.

@Xjouve, thank you for letting me know regarding this - I will therefore be extra careful if experiencing engine trouble near the front lines.

Von S

Have managed to bring up the FPS noticeably with the total water map mod (ver. 1.1) installed via JSGME - thank you again for these water maps Xjouve. Tips will be posted soon under my casual campaigns thread - for those who enjoy the water map but would like more FPS.

EDIT: Relevant tips are now in this post.

Von S

Very interesting!! Thanks for posting.

So, maybe the FPS problem comes from files that are too big to load at once. Don't know but perhaps I can split watershapes into smaller files.

Entirely possible that that is the case - I'm very pleased with the "lite" tweak to your total water map ver. 1.1 - and will most likely have it loaded regularly in WOFF. I do have one extra tip, however. If you decide to tinker with the water maps in the future, I recommend having the "cel" files extending to a maximum size somewhere at least in the 260s or 270s KB. I noticed that if I remove the files in that range of sizes as well, dropping down to the biggest file being 249 KB or so - then no water at all is present in WOFF - even the sea disappears. Perhaps this is a strange "threshold" thing that carries over from the cfs3 coding days. To be on the safe size, I therefore went about 20 KB above the threshold for disappearance of all water - with my tweak of your ver. 1.1 water map.

Another good variant is to go as high as about 399 KB or 400 KB, for the "cel" file sizes - I tested up to those sizes as well, although FPS are slightly better overall with my suggestion not to go above the 270-275 KB range. If increased to about 400 KB, there is higher flooding saturation again up north near Niewpoort, and also an extra waterway immediately north of Ghistelles. With the max-270KB recommendation, the waterway above Ghistelles disappears, but the flooding area (less expansive now) still remains between Niewpoort and Ghistelles, as does the system of waterways next to Niewpoort.

Thank you again for your excellent water mods.

Von S

Hi,

For my side the mod1.1 is absolut enough. The important water for navigation exist, that's the main thing! Additionally in WOFF-world little creeks are visible too much, as good as the big ones. So it is more real in my eyes to concentrate on the bigger navigation-relevant water.
The 1.1 works very fine on my system without any fps-impacts. And additionally all mods together must be suitable for the older cfs3-engine. So I will use it continuously.

Hello Xjouve,

There seems to be a problem around Dover in WOFF (or if used in WOTR). VonS says it is down to the water mod.

Obviously the cliffs are important can that area be tweaked?
https://SimHQ.com/forum/ubbthreads....mesh-water-map-for-wotr-tips#Post4526871

https://SimHQ.com/forum/ubbthreads....casual-campaigns-woff-thread#Post4526870

Thanks Pol for pointing this out. Sure I'll have a look.

Many thanks Xav

Links updated

Hallo @xjouve,

nice to "hear" from you after a longer time!
I hope all is okay.

A short question:
You have updated the links from your water-, landcover-, and Inflight Map mods. Have you also updated the link from your toplogy (meshData) mod?


Thanks and Greetings!

Hallo!
I'm good, thanks. Unfortunately, I had no time to work more on the mods due to professional constraints.




It's a bit long to upload everything but it's in progress.