Question Regarding EnvColors_Med.dat

[sabretwo]

Regretfully, my new Sony Vaio under Win7 is displaying everything in SH3 with a bit too much green. Since Sony has opted to not give any real options for adjusting display colors with their version of ATI Catalyst, I decided to create my own Environment Mod based on the Sh-5 Water Mod and adjust the colors in everything so they look good on my Vaio display.

After a few evenings of experimentation, I've got everything looking pretty good now except the surface of water at night...it looks too violet/purplish. I am trying to get my water at night looking very dark blue-aqua blue. I have adjusted the values for EnvColors[1][5] as follows:

SunLightColor= R:5, G:11, B:25
SunReflectColor= R:0, G:0, B:3 ------No Red value at all!
AmbientLightColor= R:0, G:1, B:5 -----No Red value at all!
WaterDarkColor= R:0, G:2, B:10 -----No Red value at all!
WaterLightColor= R:0, G:2, B:10 ------No Red value at all!

I also adjustd the reflex_atlantic.tga overall to be more blue and less green. As I have everything now, it solves almost all of the ungliness I had before, with the exception of my purple sea. :damn:

Any experienced environment modders with an idea of how I can fix this? How is the color on the water surface created (I'm assuming its influenced by a number of factors)?

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

[sabretwo]

Anyone?

[makman94]

hi Sabretwo,

are you editing the envcolors_atl , skycolors_atl or envcolors_med , skycolors_med ?

becuase the game 'reads' only the ''_atl'' dats so just rename ''_med'' to ''_atl'' to see if it makes any difference

bye

[sabretwo]

Thanks. I'll give that a try.

[sabretwo]

hi Sabretwo,

are you editing the envcolors_atl , skycolors_atl or envcolors_med , skycolors_med ?

becuase the game 'reads' only the ''_atl'' dats so just rename ''_med'' to ''_atl'' to see if it makes any difference

bye

It's showing my changes for sure. (I'm testing it in the Med.)

I'm going to try backing the green up incrementally and see if that neutralizes some of the red a bit.

This is very frustrating. MEP V3 and OLCE looked great on my old system. After I upgrade to the new Vaio and Win7, my game runs like a screamer (very fast frame rates even with some very heavy mods on top), but does so at the price of looking like complete ass at night! :cry: