May27th, 2005

Hi there

EAW's first 3D clouds drawn on a 2D surface and named 'Fractalus' because of the 100ds if not 1000ds of layers which finally made up these clouds. The culmination of a search for realism which started 5 years ago, resulted in over 3000 cloud templates of which only a few made it to the release stage. They are in fact true fractals allthough only the first templates were handdrawn but along the line, cutting, copying, pasting, shading, resizing, layering, blurring and lighting took over. As over time more and more calculations were applied, I can safely say that this is the chaos theory done manually, and I think those who are acquainted with the term 'fractal' know what I'm talking about.  Anyway, these clouds will heavily influence your battles as the enemy is a lot less visible as well as add to the immmersion of the game. To use them it is best to keep mission parameter settings to 'heavy clouds' which will randomly generate between 1 and 4 layers of clouds.  

to install in OAW:

extract the zip into your OAW rootfolder with OAW not running

To install in EAW:

extract to a temporary folder and cut/paste the files within the folder into EAW (don't leave it in a subfolder)

Have fun,

VonBeerhofne