All vonMods are updated for your Mechwarrior 5 DLC8 - but not only made compatible but also extended! vonHUD now includes pilot portraits at the lancemates and overhauls the portraits in-game with a little animation, while vonBiomes brings back volumetric fog and extends the Dropship convoy. And a vonMissions update is also there, so you can enjoy the industrial hub Arenas with the new DLC8.
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New Core Stuff in the Mods:
vonHUD - Portrait Edition
One long-time plan was to give the people - your pilots - more visibility and presence. With the latest vonHUD, lance mate paperdolls now feature the pilot with their name and a small portrait.
Also I made a portrait animation so the faces of your friends and enemies are not static anymore. Additionally, the comm interface when getting a message now has a portrait in the new, animated style.
vonHUD - Game Speed Option
Sometimes for me personally, Mechwarrior fights can get a liiittle too hectic. Perhaps I am getting old ;)
So I made a new Mod Option that allows you to scale down (or up) the game speed in missions. For my personal taste, I set it to 0.9 and really enjoy the pace.
vonBiomes - Volumetric Fog is back
In DLC7, PGI cut the support for volumetric fog completely from the game. Now it's back! I had to rebuild those parts in the vonBiomes lighting and weather model, and this is just a first version. I will work on it further, since this whole thing is a tricky beast with the dynamic setup, that makes every mission look different due to many variables and randomizers.
So far tests have gone well, but adjustments - especially for fog density and coloring when volumetric fog is enabled in Mod Options - are for sure still necessary. So more work will pour into that in the future.
vonBiomes - Dropship Convey extension
I have extended the cockpit view's Dropship Convey with more ships and also adjusted the numbers of Mechs in storage that make new dropships being added. The first DropShip is appearing now with 16 Mechs in storage, so a new career does not already have one present. Consequently, steps are 12 Mechs up, as 12 Mechs fit inside a Union-class ship.
Mod Changelogs:
vonHUD - Portrait Edition:
* DLC8 Fixes and Update
* Comm Portraits animated
* Pilot Portaits included at Mech Paperdolls
* Comm Interface Portrait Overhaul
* New Mod Option: Adjust Game Speed - e.g. put on 0.9 so everything is a liiitle bit slower and less stressy;)
* vonHUD Zoom: Changed Std Speed to 2 in Mod Options
vonBiomes:
* DLC8 Fixes and Update
* Dropship Convoy: increased steps (1st Union now appears on 16 Mechs in storage) and extended convoy size for more progression
* XenoFungi Texture overhaul
* Volumetric Fog is back. Remade the thing. In Beta currently, since it behaves differently, but a step forward
* Global Illumination (GI) Extensions
* Instant Action Screen: remade fixes to support more than the vanilla amount of biomes; known side issue: detail selection in the mission sub-variants interface seems currently not registering
vonMissions:
* DLC8 Fixes and Update
Thanks for your support and contributions on https://www.patreon.com/vonSeiten! Your help fuels the mod development, and makes the work possible. I hope you enjoy the new features, and I keep my fingers crossed that things run without major issues. As usual after a DLC8 game update, mods, especially larger ones, are breaking - and now more in-depth testing and playing missions is the next thing on my list.
Cheers and all the best!
-Jonathan