Do you play with environmental effects enabled?

Syxx_Killer · 03-30-08, 08:29 AM

I'm just curious who plays with it enabled. I like the effects it gives except one - the ghost crew. Do you just work around the ghost crew? With it off I get about 10 FPS more, but even with it on it isn't slow. I just feel conflicted about it.

Meridian · 03-30-08, 10:08 AM

Well I'm using PE v2 and just turned environment effects off and the fog back on.

Colors and clouds seem to stand out more and somehow I gained a few FPS.

I did have the Environmet on and fog off but now I've reversed it.

Ducimus · 03-30-08, 12:12 PM

I always play with volumetric fog enabled and enviormental effects off.

I really do like the enviormental effects, but the ghost crew is more then i can tolerate.

TheBlobThing · 03-30-08, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

I always play with volumetric fog enabled and enviormental effects off.

I play with the exact opposite. I prefer the transparency effect of the water, so I just live with the ghost watch crew.

-Pv- · 03-30-08, 01:48 PM

I play with everything full up and the particle effects backed off a bit.
-Pv-

Ducimus · 03-30-08, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by TheBlobThing

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

I always play with volumetric fog enabled and enviormental effects off.

I play with the exact opposite. I prefer the transparency effect of the water, so I just live with the ghost watch crew.

Having JUST enviormental fog, allows water transparancy, without the ghost crew.

drjake · 03-30-08, 02:36 PM

Whats the ghost crew?

Seeadler · 03-30-08, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by TheBlobThing

I play with the exact opposite. I prefer the transparency effect of the water

Water transparency is not dependent on the environmental filter.

Environmental filter = on is only for cloudshadows on the water surface since the volumetric fog part has been separated from this filter in patch 1.??

The cons of the cloudshadows shader is the wrong rendering in front of the crew models which make them appear half-transparent in the area above the horizon.

Charlie901 · 03-30-08, 10:12 PM

I look at the "Ghost Crew" as a feature...!!!!

I figure they're meant to be transparent so that they don't block your view. That way you can spot that juicy tanker off the horizon, that would normally have been blocked by your watchman's "Huge" cranium!!!

TheBlobThing · 04-01-08, 07:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Seeadler

Water transparency is not dependent on the environmental filter.

I don't know what gpu you use, but with my Radeon X1600XT I get no underwater transparency with environmental effects turned off.

03-30-08, 08:29 AM	#1
Syxx_Killer Admiral Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Michigan, USA Posts: 2,387 Downloads: 21 Uploads: 0	Do you play with environmental effects enabled? I'm just curious who plays with it enabled. I like the effects it gives except one - the ghost crew. Do you just work around the ghost crew? With it off I get about 10 FPS more, but even with it on it isn't slow. I just feel conflicted about it.

03-30-08, 10:08 AM	#2
Meridian Frogman Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Kent, UK Posts: 292 Downloads: 625 Uploads: 0	Well I'm using PE v2 and just turned environment effects off and the fog back on. Colors and clouds seem to stand out more and somehow I gained a few FPS. I did have the Environmet on and fog off but now I've reversed it. __________________ SH3 Album SH4 Album AORUS Z390 Ultra, Intel Core i5 8600K, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4096mb, 64.0GB Dual-Channel DDR4, Soundblaster Z.

03-30-08, 12:12 PM	#3
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	I always play with volumetric fog enabled and enviormental effects off. I really do like the enviormental effects, but the ghost crew is more then i can tolerate.

03-30-08, 01:48 PM	#5
-Pv- The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,434 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	I play with everything full up and the particle effects backed off a bit. -Pv-

03-30-08, 02:36 PM	#7
drjake Bilge Rat Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	Whats the ghost crew?

03-30-08, 10:12 PM	#9
Charlie901 XO Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Ft. Lauderdale, FL Posts: 413 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 0	I look at the "Ghost Crew" as a feature...!!!! I figure they're meant to be transparent so that they don't block your view. That way you can spot that juicy tanker off the horizon, that would normally have been blocked by your watchman's "Huge" cranium!!!