No Sun Glare using ATI 5770 + Catalyst 10.2

[cherbert]

Is anyone else using an ATI card and not getting Sun Glare? This bug has been the bane of SH since SH3. Why can't they get it fixed for every video card!!

Anyway.. Tried with AA on and AA off. Still no glare.

[capthelm]

use my lighting mod check my sig

[cherbert]

Wow! Thank you.

[Navarre]

Is anyone else using an ATI card and not getting Sun Glare? This bug has been the bane of SH since SH3. Why can't they get it fixed for every video card!!

Anyway.. Tried with AA on and AA off. Still no glare.
You are not alone, even NVIDIA users don't have it, because the devs simply forgot to implement it. :har:

Only sun rays are developed but no sun halo or sun glare! Yes there are dds files for it but the game engine don't use them, you can delete them from the folder without any bogus impact ingame.:sunny:

[flakmonkey]

Enabling the sub rays does give a nice glow around the sun, which is probably why the devs didnt use a 2d glow like previous titles.
Only trouble being that sun/light rays have an impact on performance so if youre forced to turn them off youre left with a flat looking sun disc.

+ iirc sun glare worked fine in sh3/4 with ati cards.

[cherbert]

So what does Stabiz use in his video? The one in the thread 'Best SH5 Video in the World' !

The sun in that video looks awesome.

[flakmonkey]

So what does Stabiz use in his video? The one in the thread 'Best SH5 Video in the World' !

The sun in that video looks awesome.


Could be a posteffect, looks a little like adobe aftereffects default lens flare.

[SabreHawk]

My card is a Nvidia 9600GT 512mb, and I have glare on any light source, the sun, ships lights, all of it.
Yeah the sun rays are cool.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b370/SabreHawk1/SH5Img2010-03-11_174356.jpg

Sun rays even shing through the hatchway
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b370/SabreHawk1/SH5Img2010-03-12_183617.jpg

Yes I just love those rays through clouds
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b370/SabreHawk1/SH5Img2010-03-13_073942.jpg

Uhhmmm and through water
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b370/SabreHawk1/SH5Img2010-03-12_185220.jpg

[cherbert]

You have sun rays but not sun glare. They are two different things.

See how the brightness of your sun is flat and lifeless? It should be glowing and vibrant much like when you look at the real sun.

[Seeadler]

You have sun rays but not sun glare. They are two different things.

correct, with sun glare you can't see the round sun disk in the sky
http://www.schoepfung.eu/fileadmin/win/sc/dateien/4/sonne.jpg

SH3 has it
http://s7b.directupload.net/images/100308/ctfzub5r.png

SH4 also, but like Navarre said in SH5 it is not implemented

[SabreHawk]

Ok maybe I thought what he was talking about is "lens glare" which can be seen in my first pic looking to starboard.
And the lens glare that I get from all the ships lights that I didn't post a pic of, but I'll take a shot later on today.
But I can live without it, the realisim of all else makes up for that, especially the sea, and the boat itself.

Although lens glare shouldnt really be seen I suppose, as that doesnt really happen from looking with the naked eye.
But then I do notice that I do seem to be a camera, not a person. Something I am a little disapointed in cause pervious to release I thought we would be a full bodied person this time around instead of a ghost.:shifty:
And I thought maybe that a third person view would be availible so you see what you actually look like. I suppose what gave me that idea was the intro video, which has the captain walking through the ship, then past a mirror where he looks at it and sees himself.
Thats what I thought we would be able to do.

[capthelm]

sh5 and my lighting mod does have the hot flare around the sun.

check screen.
http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/1059/silenthunter5screenisj.jpg (http://img133.imageshack.us/i/silenthunter5screenisj.jpg/)

[capthelm]

You are not alone, even NVIDIA users don't have it, because the devs simply forgot to implement it. :har:

Only sun rays are developed but no sun halo or sun glare! Yes there are dds files for it but the game engine don't use them, you can delete them from the folder without any bogus impact ingame.:sunny:

there is sun glare only see it when you pan across looking at sun:cool:

[SabreHawk]

Ahh hah, I see said the blind man. Yeah Capt., I see what you mean now.
I might have to give that light mod a try, as that looks awesome.:up:

I do have to say I love the sunrays even stock game.
Im one of thos for whom it's the graphics that does more for realisim and immersion, not the manual targeting and such. That's my weapons officer's job not mine, im only to tell him what to target.:yep:
That shot coming up to the bridge hatch really pleased me when I was coming up through there, and even was still there coming over the side of the bridge once I was through the hatch.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b370/SabreHawk1/SH5Img2010-03-12_203135-1.jpg