PES 2021 Fog Addon For Any Stadium by Twiggy

Hi people.

A long and bit useless context first:
I love fog. Fog adds a lot of depth in the scene and integrates everything. I also love having variety. I don’t want to play all my games in the same conditions, with more or less the same (saturated) colors, and some added raindrops here and there.

So naturally, ever since I started using mods from this amazing forum, I’ve searched for a quick method to add fog to my stadiums. I started out by downloading the Stamford Bridge stadium (which already had fog in it), and copying the fog to any other stadium I was using. That actually worked for some stadiums, but without any sort of knowledge of how the system works, I wasn’t able to reproduce the same results for all of them. I also wanted to see bigger differences between the weathers (to recognize a winter day compared to a summer day for example, or to experience heavy fog in some cases).

Few months later I started breaking down that one stadium I had with cool fog, to try and understand how it all works. Fast forward a couple of days, and now I have something which works nicely for me. I don’t have all the answers, but I feel that it’s something that I can share with you guys, and if you like it maybe I can try improving it in the future.

Features:
Fog addon which adds fog of different densities and colors for all weather types (summer/winter day/night fine/rainy/snowy).
– Very dense fog on the winter rainy/snowy
– Lighter fog on the summer rainy weathers
– Haze-like fog for the winter fine day condition

First version was designed for EPL (though you can use it anywhere ofc), as it uses real longitude and latitude values and appropriate months and hours for the matches. If anyone appreciates this and wants a different specific league, send a message and I’ll see if I can work something out.

Disclaimers:
– This addon works well (and fast) with ‘009’ stadiums. You can use it for ANY stadium ID’s, but you’ll need to do some manual renaming for those cases (details below).
– Also, if your stadium already has some lighting, this will be overridden with my lighting setup (sorry, that’s how the AddOn system works, I’m not sure if I’ll be able to change this to something less destructive in the future). So you’ll need to decide whether you want to keep the nice lighting you have (from Ultimate Atmosphere for example), or go with this lighting setup + fog. Keep in mind that some other mods already have some cool fog added in some stadiums, so compare and make a choice!
– I don’t claim any credit for the lighting inside the add-on, that comes almost exclusively from the Stamford Bridge stadium I used to reverse-engineer (so thanks a million to whoever created it in the first place!). What I did was to alter the fog values, and create a different setup for all the weather types.

What’s next?
– Get feedback from you (I haven’t been able to test many stadiums, or any game-modes except for local match with forced weather conditions in sider)
– Create different setups for other major leagues (different fog density and color, accurate world location and starting match hours for that league)
– Try to understand if I can simplify the setup and make it less destructive to existing stadium lighting
– Try to better understand the lighting system so I can create more complex stuff

Pretty pictures:

How to install?

– Download the zip file, extract it somewhere.

For any stadiums with 009 ID:
– Go to your stadium folder and copy the ‘fog’ folder you extracted into the ‘AddOn’ sub-folder.
– If there’s no ‘AddOn’ folder in your Stadium, create it (case sensitive)
– Edit the ‘addon_config.ini’ file using Notepad. Add a line with the ‘xxxxnumber = fog’ inside the file (case sensitive) as shown below. You can use any number you want, as long as it doesn’t conflict with your other addons.
– If the file doesn’t exist, create it (check correct name), and add ‘1 = fog’ inside it and save.

For stadiums with ID different than 009:
– Find out the stadium ID (from the map_teams.txt in your stadium server)
– Rename all the 009 folders with your correct stadium ID. There should be 5 folders to be renamed (1 global and 4 sub-folders – one for each weather)
– Rename all the files which contain 009 in their name, with the correct stadium ID. There should be 16 files in total to be renamed (4 for each weather)
Example for Summer_Day below (repeat this 3 more times for the other weathers).

Enjoy!