View Full Version : Getting disillusioned again, just a wee whinge!
Well I'm annoyed that I can't get sun glare with my ATI X1950 card but still having problems with the following:
1) With environmental effects on can still see through men, I thought this was fixed!:dead:
2) If volumetric fog is off & environmental effects off water is not translucent, however if either is on then water is translucent - crazy!! :doh:
3) Boat cables sparkle, especially just below the surface.:x
4) Underwater view is much brighter than on surface, should be darker I'm sure!!:-?
I don't want to whinge but it would be great to have SHIII water texture only translucent rather than the SH4 water, looks sort of lumpy like porridge.:lol:
If there is a fix or mod for any of these things please let me know.:yep:
Also still having a lot of trouble converting tga files to dds.:cry:
Thanks.
I do agree that the water should be darker under the surface. I'm not going to lie I've used the scope underwater on occasion to see a destroyer's attack run to see if I'm safe. I'm sure thats not realistic but I have been known to wrong from time to time:lol:
2) If volumetric fog is off & environmental effects off water is not translucent, however if either is on then water is translucent - crazy!!
Didn't these used to be in one option? I guess the split wasn't a completely clean one.
ReallyDedPoet
12-06-07, 02:15 PM
I do agree that the water should be darker under the surface. I'm not going to lie I've used the scope underwater on occasion to see a destroyer's attack run to see if I'm safe. I'm sure thats not realistic but I have been known to wrong from time to time:lol:
Maybe its that people are used to the Atlantic as well, where water is darker and visability is not as good. I think this is something that can be modded in the future if need be.
@ Reece: As far as water texture, ROW water ( Stock 1.4 incorporates some of this ) is the best I have seen in the Silent Hunter series, the jellly effect is camera related, this I am sure will be fixed as well in the future.
SH4:
http://members.cox.net/doolittle80/Departing%20Pearl%20at%20Sunrise
SH3
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v415/koondawg/sub%20paints/sunset.jpg
SH3
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h254/RS42/SH3Img12-11-2007_2155.jpg
SH4
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h265/reno187/manoverboard.jpg
RDP
"... 1) With environmental effects on can still see through men, I thought this was fixed!:dead:..."
I have seen no documentation from UBI this issue has been addressed.
Give yourself a rest on ATI "sun glare" on the 1950. There is nothing you can do to change it with any predicability at this time.
Everyone has their own idea about how bright under water should be. Dive deep. You will see almost nothing. Used to be in SH3 it was as bright as the surface all the way down. You might have your monitor too bright or the game gamma too bright.
I think what he's getting at (or at least what bothers me) is that sometimes when it's too dark up top to see anything, I can dip under the surface and see better.
Shouldn't be.
JD
Precisely jdkbph, hopefully this can be fixed, I might do a bit of modding there myself once I can work out how to work with dds files!:yep:
As far as water texture, ROW water ( Stock 1.4 incorporates some of this ) is the best I have seen in the Silent Hunter series, the jellly effect is camera related, this I am sure will be fixed as well in the future.
Thats good news RDP, at the moment we can't use a lot of the ROW mods so just have to be patient!:D
I went off the deep end yesterday after fiddling around with ingame settings I got a CTD & launched again but when the mission started the screen was covered with a coloured mess of lines, except the menu bar! even after resetting the computer, launching again it was still stuffed, I was about to reinstall when I thought I'd go back and take a screen shot for a new thread, this time it worked fine, I wish I new what happened!!:doh: I'm not very happy with the devs, the've had a lot of time to fix issues, they seemed to fix some area's but stuff others, like the scope fix but stuff the conning tower dials!!:88) Oh well, it still an impressive game & I will persist, thanks to modders this will eventually be a very good game!:yep: You know what will happen though, we'll get everything just right then the new addon will come out and change everything again, Ducimus will throw a fit!!:lol::oops:
Cheers.
ReallyDedPoet
12-06-07, 08:06 PM
Precisely jdkbph, hopefully this can be fixed, I might do a bit of modding there myself once I can work out how to work with dds files!:yep:
As far as water texture, ROW water ( Stock 1.4 incorporates some of this ) is the best I have seen in the Silent Hunter series, the jellly effect is camera related, this I am sure will be fixed as well in the future. Thats good news RDP, at the moment we can't use a lot of the ROW mods so just have to be patient!:D
I went off the deep end yesterday after fiddling around with ingame settings I got a CTD & launched again but when the mission started the screen was covered with a coloured mess of lines, except the menu bar! even after resetting the computer, launching again it was still stuffed, I was about to reinstall when I thought I'd go back and take a screen shot for a new thread, this time it worked fine, I wish I new what happened!!:doh: I'm not very happy with the devs, the've had a lot of time to fix issues, they seemed to fix some area's but stuff others, like the scope fix but stuff the conning tower dials!!:88) Oh well, it still an impressive game & I will persist, thanks to modders this will eventually be a very good game!:yep: You know what will happen though, we'll get everything just right then the new addon will come out and change everything again, Ducimus will throw a fit!!:lol::oops:
Cheers.
I have made a decision to stick with it from the beginning, partly because I wanted to watch it evolve and see the reaction here, but mainly because I wanted a break from the Atlantic after SH2 & 3. Also, gameplay is quickly catching up with the eyecandy :yep::up:
Give it some time, it's gonna be a great one.
RDP
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