The Bliss Farm Fire

[Jack ONeill]

Norb/Team,

Is there any way to turn off the Bliss Farm fire on the Picketts Charge map? I was trying to figure out why my troops were moving so slowly all of a sudden. I don't use this map very often so it took me a while to get it. The burning buildings must consume, ( :laugh: ), a fair amount of memory or what-not. I already have the buildings turned down on the "Options" page. Thoughts?

Jack

[Davinci]

Hey, what's new in your world?

Back on Topic:

Copy the 4_PPT.csv file from the SDK into your Mods\Maps - folder

Scroll down umtil you see the Terrain Table Sounds

Lines 65 and 66 Column E - remove the entries.

or

Viewing it from the Notepad option!

Change this to…

56800,77100,0,1,GFX_Smoke_1,,,,,,,,,,,,
54170,77520,0,1,GFX_Smoke_1,,,,,,,,,,,,

Look like this…

56800,77100,0,1,,
54170,77520,0,1,,

davinci

[bedbug]

..... and I'd be interested to know if you thought removing the fire had much, if any, effect on performance.

[Jack ONeill]

DaV,

Yes, that worked.

Bedbug,

Will run a few games past it to test and let you know.

Sic Semper Fidelis

Jack O'Neill B)

[Jack ONeill]

Bedbug,

There is definitely a change for the better with the fire and smoke turned off.

Jack B)

[bedbug]

Great news

[Jack ONeill]

Bed,

I run a relatively old Dell 2350 Comp, w/an ATI HD 2400 card installed. I have to turn down the options as much as possible to play. It does run the game though, both SP and MP.

Jack

[Kerflumoxed]

I have a relatively new computer (about 3 months old) and I see no slow-down at all when the the fire is blazing! However, I have yet to figure out on how to turn the fragrant aroma of burning wood!

J

[bedbug]

In theory there should be almost no difference with the fire on or off. The main hog is the sprites followed by the vegitation. The vegitation can be tweaked on-the-fly ingame by toggeling the "T" key and this will give you several levels of fps pickup.