GWX 3.0 underwater darkness scene.dat
 

Hi Guys

In GWX 3 when you dive below 100m, the sea is completely black.
I think this has somethinh to do with the scene.dat file where also the underwater-fop settings are.

Is there a way to change this so I can see my ship al 200m depth?

If you use SH3 commander you can adjust the water density settings (Or somesuch setting), that might brighten things up. Or maybe not, I don't usually take my boat down to 200 meters for sightseeing.

lol!:p

In real life, 100meters depth, you could berelly see the uboat if it was noon and very bright. The visibility diminishes rapidly the deeper you go.

I real life, you also couldn't go outside and look at your boat.:rotfl:

I know all that stuff ;-)
but
How can I change this back?

You don't find it cool dont ya ? :)

You'll get use to it. You can't fight the nature kid :lol:

Hi Sorry,
I am using NYGM 2.5 and I would like to change my scene.data TO be totally dark at 100m!
How can I tweak my scene.dat file to achieve this?
My water transparancy is at 6 in SHCom but I can still see the boat.
Thanks if you can help.
KUrtz

Aye 300 feet down in the North Atlantic is pretty gloomy without some major spotlights...:lol:

Found out it has nothing to do with the scene.dat file. I copied the gwx 3.0 version to a gwx2 installation and I can see my ship below 100m.
So It must be an other file.

Has something to do with these files.

Program Files\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\data\Env

A look from outside. . .
 

Hello robbierob2005

In fact, is the scene.dat file. My taste is like yours, and I tweak myself this file.

You need the S3D (Silent Editor) program, freeware from skwas. He did it for tweaking SH3. You can find that here:

skwas@skwas.net

and you need to go to: 6:Node Sky > 8:EnvData, click there, go to 9:EnvData open the Underwater and tweak the Zmax to the 32.

After, you should go to No 13 EnvSim, clik there, go to No 14 and open the

FogDistances, 4 of them, and change the

UnderwaterObjectsRelativeZMax to 0,032 (4 times)

In the No 9 you can change (I do that) the Underwater fog color for something more bright.

Finally, I agree with SailorSteve about real life and looking outside the U-boot, so the other comments here are unnecessary.:shifty:

Have a happy new year and enjoy the game like you wish.:up:

For further explanations, you can PM me, and like that we not disturb the realism fans. . .

Thanks mate!
I'll try that! Also a very happy new year:up:

Rob

Thanks!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
I how can change the Underwater fog color for something more bright ?
I had already changed an underwater color, but seemed and isn't effective:damn:

Always with S3D, scene.dat file:

Go to 6:Node Sky > 8:EnvData > open the 9:EnvData
Go to right panel: “Underwater” > “Fog” > “Color”:
Click on it and after, down in the page, click the 3 points “. . .”: in the side of “Description”:
a “Color” panel open. Move the cursor in the right up, to take brighter underwater environment.

Perhaps you should make the same with “DownLight” >“Color”, but carefully.
Do not exaggerate, because this type of parameters interacts with strange results.