Desolate Mods

[grave rivet]

A channel for feedback my simple mods. Note that I'm a begginer so no special skills in Reforger's modding.
What i did so far:

• Simple Autumn Mod
  https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/61C47B43088CEFD8-SimpleAutumn
• Simple Autumn Weather Addon
  https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/61FAC6B20078EF65-SimpleAutumnWeatherAddon
• PMC US Overhaul
  https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/61CA732F0714B122-PMC-USOverhaul
• RUS Vehicles Depot
  https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/61D2BD4A1E34A0EF-RUSVehiclesDepot
  And some other smaller mods or fixes

Updated the Simple Autumn. Reduced the orangeness of the grass and tweaked some trees so it should look a bit more realistic than before.

[grave rivet]

Some testing on @warm lake Chernarus Reforged. Really fits the vibe. Maaan, cannot wait for your map to be finished!

[blissful drift]

autumn mod is cool but i wanna point out a few things because im a perfectionist:

• the grass looks a lot better in some parts, but the grass that is dominant in chernarus is still a bit too orange compared to the map's grass texture

• these trees change colour when close up

one of the LODs for these trees have the entire tree as orange, including the trunk

lod colours clearly change with these trees

i recommend checking out the mod 'cursed reforger' and see how they do LODs and colours if u can

btw the screenshots uve taken look really good

[blissful drift]

also idea for the weather mod: make the ground a bit wet during overcast; it makes it seem a lot colder plus it looks really cool

perhaps you could even just make a new weather setting where its overcast but wet and very lightly raining

[grave rivet]

Hey, thanks for feedback. Spent some time over mod and here are results:

1. Changed the coloring method so it should look better while changing distance to the trees (LOD fix)

2.Changed the ground textures satmap blend so it should be less green in the distance

[grave rivet]

This one was tricky but I think it looks better now

[grave rivet]

3. Updated the Weather Addon and added Light Rain preset

So overall mod should look much better now. Here are some screenshots from the update

[blissful drift]

very good screenshots m'lord. thank you so much for taking onboard my feedback. here is some feedback for the new patch since im very naggy (i also want this mod to be the best it can be): the colours are great. the lod problems still persist that i pointed out before from what ive noticed. you cant really notice it if its foggy or if ur not paying attention to the trees. if u load up chernarus in GM and hover high above the trees in the north west corner of the map, and then go closer you can definitely see a colour change (especially if you have the 25km view distance mod loaded).
the rest of the non pine trees in chernarus that are green only go autumn-coloured when you're like 5-10m in front of them
the apple trees that had orange trunks look way better at the LOD i pointed out but now when you go further away from that they turn green :(

you should definitely be able to spot this stuff when inspecting the trees in GM (especially in chernarus
i really wish i could help you with these lods but i tried tinkering with reforger tools and it's very frustrating for me (ive never modded before). you're doing a great job adding autumn to this game.

as for the weather, noice job on adding light rain but it would be cooler if the fog density was like a middle ground between normal rain and overcast, or if it was just overcast's fog density

thanks for your hard work!!

[grave rivet]

Chernarus I think have some own ground and grass textures so don't test there. Maybe I should make a Chernarus compability mod or smth, dunno. I was testing it on Everon and it looks much better. Propably also there are some engine limitations that I cannot jump over. Maybe will test it out more further and try other things if I have time.

Also I want to stay in workbench and using its tools to modify textures, not to make screenshots of them and edit - too much work to do with lack of export textures feature in workbench. So problably Orange trunks in LOD will stay as they are

Overall, for now I'm satisfied how te mod looks but it doesnt mean that I'll wont sit on it and improve it a bit more

Btw I dont want to colorize lods that much because when I add much of orange tint to them the trunk also becomes orange. As i said, without external texture editing it's not possible to colorize only leaves in lods

[blissful drift]

oh ok

[grave rivet]

Okay, decided to put some more work on mod. Modified few tree lods by myself using external image editor. It should look better now. Especially in this part of chernarus what you mentioned (screenshots)

1. Updated Simple Autumn with some more lods tweaks https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/61C47B43088CEFD8-SimpleAutumn

2. Changed the fog amount in Light Rain preset for something between Rainy and Overcast https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/61FAC6B20078EF65-SimpleAutumnWeatherAddon

3. Made a mod that adapts Simple Autumn to Wolf's ChernarusReforgerd (changed custom chernarus grass clutter and ground textures) https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/6202878C38712BFB-SimpleAutumnChernarusAdapt

[blissful drift]

awesome bro great work

[blissful drift]

autumn mod makes me wish i lived in europe or north america...or at least anywhere where the trees go orange

[grave rivet]

I live in Poland so I have luck that every year everything around turns orange 😀

[blissful drift]

lucky

[river mica]

Nice work OP.

[rotund meadow]

love your PMC mod, is it possible to change the unit colors to something more visible, the grey kind of blends in

[grave rivet]

What color do you propose? Kinda felt that grey with hit the ION vibe

[rotund meadow]

yeah I feel that, they are still BLUFOR so maybe the normal blue or a slightly different shade if maybe?

[grave rivet]

Okay, changed their color to slightly blueish grey. Maybe it will be better now

[foggy vault]

@grave rivet any ideas how to make Crop_Field_01 look more autumny?

trying to switch to autumn for all of our maps and one of them has a ton of crop fields, was just curious if you had any suggestions

[tired topaz]

oh no, you want to crop the crop???

[foggy vault]

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