A Grey Wolves Question:

[Dead Meat]

Hello, I'm running SHIII 1.4b and GW1.1a.

Is there a way to disable the murky water feature in GW? I love everything else about the mod, and I know it is much more realistic, but I still hate the murky water...

[kylania]

You can, and probably should, use SH3 Commander (http://www.users.on.net/~jscones/software/) to launch your GW game. It's a seperate program that has lots of neat features the most imporatant of which to you right now is the ability to set the water visibility to whatever you'd like.

[3Jane]

Yes SH3 Commander is what you need. The water density can be set up to '20', which on my machine gives great underwater views.

[Kiwi Commandant]

There's been quite a lot of discussion on this - you may find it if you search re 'water clarity'.

The way to change it is to open SH3 Commander then go to SH3 Options/Gameplay Settings and set Water Clarity to 18 or 19. I haven't tried a 20 setting but I believe that gives unlimited visibility (in diving terms).

[stabiz]

18 is perfect for me. No vids without water opacity. :up:

[Dead Meat]

Thank you for the assistance!
I have heard of SH3 Commander, but I'm not sure what it does... I'm going to go take a look.

[melnibonian]

Thank you for the assistance!
I have heard of SH3 Commander, but I'm not sure what it does... I'm going to go take a look.

SH3 COmmander is a MUST. Try it and you will not be able to play SH without it:up:

[Respenus]

Thank you for the assistance!
I have heard of SH3 Commander, but I'm not sure what it does... I'm going to go take a look.
SH3 COmmander is a MUST. Try it and you will not be able to play SH without it:up:

:yep::yep::yep:

[SuperSoaker2000]

I too use SH3 Commander and like the features. I also reccommend getting SH Weather :rock:

[Shikkapow]

:cry:
I can't use it. It will let me run SH3 one time, and the next time I run it starforce tells me that I have an invalid CD key.
Had to delete commander and SH3 runs fine.

[con20or]

I used to use Sh Commander, but once I installed GW i stopped using it, because I read something about them not being compatible??

Are they or arent they?

[Darkbluesky]

Dead_Meat if you are looking for the stock underwater feeling, SH3 Commander will not give you the stock water. But it will clear it a bit. The subject is that GW makes water not only less clear, it changes also the color, to a darker one.

I asked the same as you a month ago, but I can't find an answer to get back the stock water, so I look myself on this and I found that to have the stock water you need:

1. SH3Commander and set, as already said here, the water clarity to 18, 19 or even 20, as you wish.

2. Replace the files EnvColors_Arct.dat, EnvColors_Atl.dat and EnvColors_Med.dat that you can find in \SilentHunterIII\data\Env after GW installation, with the stock ones that you should find in \SilentHunterIII\MODS\!BACKUP\data\Env if you installed the GW for the Jonesoft Generic Mod Enabler.

That's all, the stock water is back again.

Hope it helps

[fredbass]

I used to use Sh Commander, but once I installed GW i stopped using it, because I read something about them not being compatible??

Are they or arent they?

They are completely compatible. I don't know where you read that.

The author (JScones) is also on the GW team, FYI.

[Albrecht Von Hesse]

There's been quite a lot of discussion on this - you may find it if you search re 'water clarity'.

Now see? Here's a perfect example of why this forum is so great. A nice, polite (and useful) reply, and a gentle 'nudge' that it's been answered a lot already and that searching beforehand might have dug up the answer.

Not a 'hey idjit! look before you post!'

Not a 'jeez, what a noob! You too stupid to figger it out on your own?'

Although Neal deserves :up: :up: for the site itself, and the mods deserve kudos too, it's actually the members that make this such a wonderful place to visit and belong!

[P_Funk]

This is the most noob friendly forum out there.

As for Shikkapow's issue I've never heard of that one again. Maybe JSCones can handle that one.

[Konovalov]

I used to use Sh Commander, but once I installed GW i stopped using it, because I read something about them not being compatible??

Are they or arent they?

Not true. Both work together like a charm. SH Commander compliments GWX perfectly and I wouldn't have one without the other. :yep:

[melnibonian]

I used to use Sh Commander, but once I installed GW i stopped using it, because I read something about them not being compatible??

Are they or arent they?

There is no problem at all to use them together. They are fully compatible and as it was mentioned before using one without the other ruins the experience :yep: :yep:

[Faamecanic]

I too use SH3 Commander and like the features. I also reccommend getting SH Weather :rock:

Ok I have heard about this SH Weather...

Where can I get it and what exactly does it do?!?! I HATE the stock SH3 weather.

[Faamecanic]

You can, and probably should, use SH3 Commander (http://www.users.on.net/~jscones/software/)to launch your GW game. It's a seperate program that has lots of neat features the most imporatant of which to you right now is the ability to set the water visibility to whatever you'd like.

Can you disable the "sabatoge" element of SH3 Commander? I just started playing with GW 1.1a and LOVE it so far... but the water opacity and the DAMN dark night are a bit annoying. And I loaded the 16k vis LIGHT mod. I litterally can barely see my Watch Officer on the bridge at night! Of course having a 20" Dell LCD doesnt help... its not a ultra bright monitor.

[Jimbuna]

I used to use Sh Commander, but once I installed GW i stopped using it, because I read something about them not being compatible??

Are they or arent they?

Not true. Both work together like a charm. SH Commander compliments GWX perfectly and I wouldn't have one without the other. :yep:

:yep: :up:

[fredbass]

Can you disable the "sabatoge" element of SH3 Commander? I just started playing with GW 1.1a and LOVE it so far... but the water opacity and the DAMN dark night are a bit annoying. And I loaded the 16k vis LIGHT mod. I litterally can barely see my Watch Officer on the bridge at night! Of course having a 20" Dell LCD doesnt help... its not a ultra bright monitor.

Sabotoge is not enabled by default. Try the 16k dark if the light version doesn't work. The weather mod and the rest you can find in this thread.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=96026

[Faamecanic]

Thanks Fredbass....