Man, I've got to say, it looks amazing.

Now I think I found the problem to silk like water. Take a look on your video. Observe that when you start spinning the binoculars away from the sun, the water over there have no reflection at all, so it REALLY looks like a freakin ocean. I've got all wet here. Now when you look towards the sun, theres much reflection on the water, almost 100% of it is covered with this silky reflection, looks wrong. Perhaps tunning down the reflection could get you closer to perfection. :up:

Yes, that could work... it would be a lot of work, though... I'd have to draw new reflection maps (currently, OLCE has reflection maps derived from stock SH3 images). That in itself wouldn't take that long, the first time. It's the second, third, fourth, fifth... times (getting it right) that concern me. Deniftely doable, though... :hmm: ...we'll see.

Are you willing to push out what you have now and then add the reflection tweaks later if you decide to go down that route?

Yep. :up:

:yep:
but i put it on WaW for the one's that do use it ;)
good luck on your project

If you want any help with that, I've got a lot of free time, a lot of creativity, a big and fast will of learning and a lot of lack of skill too! :lol:

gday all,

im convinced we all have a new fairdinkum modding guru in OLC....:rock:

i recall someone asking about flatness in the scope view a long while ago and the general reply to that observation was "its undo-able without the SDK"....
i wonder how much more "undo-able" stuff can be "done":hmm:
once again sir i commend ur fantastic mods:|\\

mick

@OLC

Very impressive mate. I play over at WaW and will definately be picking this baby up when its available. :up:

Still april's fool?

Ok... Guys, there's two huge mods that will make SH4 looks like SH!T, and it's coming on this weekend!

:lol:

^^^
Free hookers and cocaine?

Hey, OLC, how is this project of yours coming along?

Very well, thanks... very well indeed! Suffice it to say, OLCE2 definitely lives up to the "2" :rock:
Should be ready soon... a couple more days... :up:

Way cool. So are you going to bundle OLCE2 and the new OLC GUI into one package?

I'll release them at the same time but there will be two downloadable mods; one combining OLCE2 and the special version of OLC GUI, and another which is a standalone version of OLCE2 without the GUI.
:up:

*rubs hands*

Any chance we'll see your latest masterpiece this weekend? :|\\

*knock knock*

Still around, OLC?

OLCE2 is predicted to August 2009. :up:

What do you mean:hmm: August 2009. Is it a joke?

Mikael

Yes its a joke.

It will be ready soon, hopefully. There's a lot of stuff in it. The combimod will be my "masterpiece" for SH3 :roll: (in my own eyes at least :lol:) so I want to get it right.

If you thought OLCE1 was an improvement, then OLCE2 will blow you away. :D :rock:

Not much longer...

OLCE2 Preview - Clear Weather
 

Clear weather is finished, so I'm showing a preview.

This preview video shows 48 hours of clear weather in a sea states varying from 0m/s to 15m/s. The view is a "fish eye" view, in order to show as much of the sky as possible. The video was captured on the Naval Artillery training mission, which takes place about 55 degrees north of the equator in summer, which means the night never quite reaches full darkness and the day never quite reaches full brightness, but in both cases they come pretty close, so you see almost the full day/night cycle here.

You'll also see a glimpse of the new wave textures, though they don't look so great at 1024TC through a fish eye lens, so I'll post a seperate preview of those using normal TC and a normal camera.

Note that the U-boat reflection is only absent because SH3 doesn't display it at 1024TC.

OLCE2 Preview - Clear Weather