Stock water transparancy
 

Is there any way of getting this back while playing Grey Wolves? I really like to watch the dc`s go by me using free view. (yeah, its cheating, etc)

Get yourself TimeTravellers mini tweaker programm and his tweak files.
Install programm, point it to your SH3 folder.
Open the scene_dat.txt file.
Go to the section called underwater.
Change the value "UnderwaterFogEnd" to a higher number.
Guess with "18" you´ll get max underwater visibility, personally i´m using 12 or 14.
Mini tweaker programm will create a backup file, which has to be moved out of the game folder or deleted.
This step is essential to make the change work!
Hope this was helpful, please excuse my english.

Thanks, mate!

But I have no scene_dat.txt, only scene_dat?

Hi stabiz,

launch MiniTweaker, press 'Load Tweak File', point to 'scene.dat.txt' and load it...

Greetz,
SSB

Should be the right one!
Maybe your OS is not displaying file extensions (.txt .exe. .zip .rar...)

edit:
confirmed :D if you select "don´t display file extensions for known file types"
or whatever it´s called in english windows version in your explorer options, the mini tweaker does not display the extension either. But you´ve chosen the right file, don´t worry!

Yeah, but I dont see that file in the tweaker, just in the normal windows-window. (lol, what a sentence)

Because of Grey Wolves?

do you have the tweak files installed? It´s a seperate download and then they have to copied/extracted to the tweakers programm directory (into the "tweak files" folder inside the programm folder).

In case you didnt get the tweaker to work, here is a gw scene.dat (with sergbutos moon reflections included) where i set the transparency to 16.

http://rapidshare.de/files/25048761/scene.rar.html

But it would be more satisfying to get the tweaker to work, you can do funny stuff with it...

It´s the 16KM version!!!

Wow, you guys are great ... Thanks, gammel, will try this tomorrow, too tired right now. (Just saw Collateral again, great flic, despite having Cruise in it)

Thanks again, just imagine customer support being as brilliant as this community.

Players using SH3Cmdr can ignore all of the above - SH3Cmdr provides a simple interface to adjust the water transparency setting.

Note that the setting can be between 0 (opaque) and 20 (transparent). 18 is the vanilla SH3 setting.

Strange stuff, this, cause wiyh the tweak files I get to access the scene_dat.txt, but there is nothing in it called "underwater", so I cant change underwaterfogend.

However, I changed the wateropacity to 18. I`ll hvae a go now to see if it worked.

Thanks againg, sombreros!


Edit: Nope, I propably need to change that fogend somehow. Starting to feel stupid here.:oops:

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/9011/tweaker8hx.jpg


You´ll make it! No need to feel stupid. :up:

:rotfl:Nevermind, I found the drop-down window now.

Thanks for all help!

:rotfl:There you go, thats just what I figured out. Thanks, mate!

Ok I have tried to find this scene_dat.txt but it my version (Clean US SH3 patched with GW 1.1a)
it doesn't exist so where can I manually go and find the file because none of you have mentioned the actual address of the file (ex: C:\Stuff\SH3\ etc..)
so where do I go?

Open SH3 minitweaker, click "Load Tweak File", scroll right until you see Scene.dat, click on that.

zz

Tried it but once again the file had evaded me.

It is there for sure :p
Silenthunter3/data/Scene.dat

don´t forget to point the tweaker to your games directory first and double check if you´ve installed the tweak files correctly (seperate download). The tweak files has to be copied / extracted in the "TweakFiles" folder of the tweaker programms install directory.

Yeah, the tweak files does not come with the tweaker. I feel like mentioning that once more, since that was where I srewed up. :cool:

Hi Hybris... i have not good english but i will try to be didactic.

The file you need to modify is Scene.dat, it is inside

C:\Archivos de programa\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\data

But it is an hexadecimal file, you need to edit it with an hexeditor, then, TimeTraveller made one of the most useful programs made for SH3, the Minitweaker, (together with SH3 Commander, Mod Enabler, SH3 Unpacker, SH3 Color Inspector and others)

With Minitweaker you can manage that file and otehr hexagesimal files to easy....

But to do it you need first to loadup a "template" for that determined file.... this template is wich one has the extension .txt ( scene_dat.txt, not the file you will modify.)

Then you need to have the minitweaker program installed, and you must to have in the correct folder all the templates needed to modify most f the game file.

So, when you want to modify one.... you open the Minitweaker, load up the template for the corresponding file, in this case, scene_dat.txt into the minitweaker program, make the changes and save, when you save, you modified the scene.dat file.

The program create a back up file, called "Copy of XXXX ", you must to remove it from the original folder.

You can use too the SH3 Commander too to modify the visibility underwater, its another great program.

But remember when you modify some file, may be you need to modify the SH3 Commander files too, i note some times this program take hands on its own stored files and make non sense of chnges, i cant explain it wll, may be JCones may help with this.

Another way is to use a Hexeditor program and make changes manually.....

I hope in my bad english it can clarify some things for you.....

:up: :up: