Wake Island - Unofficial Mega HotFix

(Donnovan) #1

Hi!

As a megatexture lover i was messing with Wake Island megatexture files.

I made a 1 mega pk4 file that is supposed to be a hotfix to improve visual of megatexture + atmos on Wake Island.

My idea is to use it on today Nirvana event, if Chris (map releaser) and Scrupus (server admin) agreed with that.

Here the hotfix:
http://glory-of-the-weak.googlecode.com/files/z_wake_a2a_hf1.pk4

Here the last Nirvana Campaign file with the hotfix applied:
http://glory-of-the-weak.googlecode.com/files/zzzz_ice_custom_20110814.pk4

Here some shots:

(Donnovan) #2

Tweaks:

  • Lowered atmos postprocessing brightness from 129% to 100%.
  • Lowered Sun Color Saturation (yeloow) from 176 (range from 0 to 255) to 100.
  • Lowered sun from 48 degree to 35 degree, to better match sun flare and, mainly, cause less shine.
  • New atmos has the name “wake_temp”.
  • Changed “atmosphere” entity, on .entities file, to use “wake_temp” atmos instead of “island_final”. This was needed to avoid the change of “island_final” atmos since its a retail atmos.
  • Fixed detail texture on alpha channel missing due to image storage on internet image site (sorry Chris).
  • Changed the “granular/dirt” sand detail to “waves/dunes” sand detail.
(Donnovan) #3

Files on the hotfix:

maps/wake.entities (only entitie “atmosphere” was changed)
atmosphere/wake.atm (now eith wake_temp atmosphere)
megatextures/wake_lit_detail.tga
megatextures/wake_lit_detailmask.tga

(Donnovan) #4

Changes on the Nirvana campaign file:

FILE ADDON.CONF:
Changed from:

// “0x74530ad9” //wake_a2
“0xc0663ff6” //wake_a2a

To:

// “0x74530ad9” //wake_a2
“0xc0663ff6” //wake_a2a
“0x8809d975” //wake_a2a_hotfix1

FILE ADDON.CONF~

The same change above!

(Ashog) #5

That’s sounds and looks great! Thanks for these tweaks Don. But Chris of course has the last word.

That last screenshot reminded me totally the Oasis and Battery feel from W:ET…