rottenscotty

Is there any way, via mod or otherwise, to increase smoke stack/engine smoke draw distance beyond what it currently is? As things stand now, if you aren't zoomed in through binoculars, the smoke coming out of a ship's funnels/stacks stops rendering if it is more than 6-ish(?) kms away from your camera. Some times even through binoculars the smoke doesn't render unless you're 100% fully zoomed in. The same would be nice for shell splashes which are an even worse situation in terms of effects draw distance. They are basically invisible, if you aren't zoomed in, beyond 4 kms(?). PLEASE NOTE, I'm not talking about smoke screens generated by destroyers -- just the normal smoke coming out of a ship's stacks/funnels when the engines are running. Also, changing the parameters in res/effects.xml did nothing. I'm also, obviously, running everything totally maxed out in terms of graphics settings and no, this is not the infamous smoke stack bug of previous patches -- the smoke does render but only when you zoom in enough. The reason I'm asking is because it's obviously possible to make it work since explosions when a ship is destroyed are visible from very far away, unzoomed, well exceeding other effects' draw distance.

Am I missing something? The Orion-class in-game is also modeled with a fictitious configuration (it's noted as 1934 in the game files - none of the ships survived that long). The Orion that we have has its torpedo booms removed however it still retains the really tall topmast which were all removed in 1915. So yeah, both the German and British BB lines are plagued by make believe ships. Really, really sad. More so considering that there was ample amount of material to build them as they were in real life. Also, Iron Duke hurts the most. It was the World War 1 ship to have.

The Royal Australian Navy used the Royal Navy White Ensign during World War 2. Edit: They also used the Australian flag as a naval jack on the HMAS Perth. You can just edit one of the reward flags in WoWs to have it.

Whoa, you've been really busy lately with the skins. Can I ask for a Channel Dash skin for the Gneisenau in the near future? :>

ADMIN HE DOIN' IT SIDEWAYS!!!!!111111