[REQ] Tweak enviromental effects

[FooFighters]

I love the darker seas of this effect.. also I really like the transparant water.
But isn't it a bit to transparant ? I am from Holland near the Northsea, and it's definetly not clear here.
I have never been to the pacific but is the water really that clear ?

For the guys with less systems here.. It would also be cool to tweak this a bit
* less transparancy in water
* remove the transparancy for other boats
* all the others I forget

I love enviromental effect, but also kills my framerate from 45 to 22.

[akdavis]

US submarine skippers in the Pacific were warned that in some conditions their subs would still be visible to aircraft at 125 ft. ;)

[Hartmann]

Look here.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=110960

with this utility could be possible change some things.

In real life a submarine In shallow an sand bottom for sure could be vissible , but in deep waters could be more difficult.

some reduction can help people with low end cards, also probably IA could take a value from a file, independent from Graphics.
For external views is nice , but useless for people who don´t use external camera, the bad thing is if you disable transparent water you disable fog and other things too. :doh:

another game which have a nice transparent water is pirates of the caribbean.

[shmall]

http://www.navy.mil.nz/nr/rdonlyres/88f847bd-6e3c-4218-9980-8e941f8a5870/0/subhunting.jpg

Simon

[FooFighters]

I've downloaded the minitweaker, and opened it.. But all the numbers only made me dizzy :D

If someone can maybe help a bit to make Enviromental effects also usable for lower specs.

[Seeadler]

transparancy of water is rendered by the water shaders in .../data/shaders/water