Reinstall - transparant water vanished..
 

Hi guys,

Could we get an amendment in either TM/LBO or Krillers threads, to show the order of install for these mods? Some reason I dont seem to be able to see below the sea a distance like you could in stock sh4, i dont see the subs props etc when looking from above anymore..

Not sure whats happened but i might reinstal the lot incase to clear my mind..

Info appreciated on correct order for the upto date mods regarding lbo/tm/krillers etc... hard to follow sometimes..

Cheers

James.

Hmm i reinstalled the sim, patched to 1.3 run the game to establish files, thought id take a look at the water.. No transparency :( hmm wonder whats up..

Are the Environment Effects enabled in the graphics menu ?

yes will they are :( this is not much fun.. baffling me silly..

until this new mod is released
 

no one has touched the water transparency at all only I have done this work reciently and it is not released yet as a mod.

In calm sea's you should be able to see the props just fine but as soon as the waves start to pick up that ability starts to drop as it should do like in real life.

then i dont have a clue then.. ive tried diff locations, for diff water areas etc. Im wondering if its my drivers now.. 162.22 series. Anyone using them and sees transparency etc be interested to know, thanks..

James.

what kind of video card are you running?
 

Have you reciently changed any of the settings for your video card as far as performance setting's?

Have you gone to the video card's site and see if there are new drivers that can be installed?

If you look at the scene.dat file with the mini tweeker original water opacity setting was 255 I beleve.

In the first drop down General Environmental.

ill take a look at that..

Ive noticed just now i can see the transparency only if i go to outside view and move camera close to the water surface, then i see like a split in the sea state and see the transparency effect. if i come back a bit with camera it goes and the sea imagery is solid water again. if i move camera forward more it goes to the underwarer vis style. very strange.. will check the scene.dat its a fresh install so should be set as you said..

james.

did you reciently install a camera mod?
 

Sounds like that may be a camera mod issue from what your describing if it is sudenly differn't check your most recient mod's

heheh im not sure what bit ur missing mr super mod maker that you are but lol...

Its a fresh install to 1.3 :P

And if i got some odd behaviour with the sea im doomed to use all ur great work ..

cheers,

James..

p.s i take it the minitweaker is meant to be sh3 minitweaker ? cause if i run that it says obviously if cant find sh3 reg files.. which is true cause i dont have it installed i have sh4 lol.. ?

You must to use the top right button to gives the program the path to your SH IV installation folder...

About your problem...

Not sure if you are talking about the water opacity... if you are refering to the capability to see in example as Leo wrote, the propellers of the ship from over the sea surface....

Just open the file with minitweaker, go to the tab General Enviromental Data.... and reduce WaterOpacity... if you use LeoVampire files, it is reduced yet... he uses a value of 5, i am using a value of 10, because i had underwater visibility increased.

you have to tell the mini tweeker where to find the file
 

So just hit the button and find the main SHIV directory and then use the tweeker file for the scene controls.

But anyways I just checked the files from Seeadler's work and Krillers work and my work and none of those scene files have a single change to the water opacity from what you can download. And seeadler's work isn't even downloadable unless you already had it or someone gave it to you because he pulled all his mod work.

I am just trying to help you figure out what is going on there James.

And Redwine none of that work has ever even been released yet to the public yet he is having problems with OLD mod's suposedly.

well i remember by default i can see the propellers etc not a problem. now i cant even with fresh install of sh4 patched to 1.3..

regarding the minitweaker i used the game path locator which works fine but the application does not allow .dat files to show, in the file type dropdown you only get text files enabled to search for.. Im fine with understanding how stuff works app wise, but i can tell you its not working..

Now onto the next part, regarding all this. Minitweaker works or doesnt in vista?

that is the os im using.. If it does im totaly at a loss then cause nothing seems to be behaving lol... *shrug*

James.


P.s thanks for taking the time everyone for throwing in ideas...

leo "yet he is having problems with OLD mod's suposedly" im not using any mods right now just fresh install of sh4 with patch 1.3.. Hope you see what state the install is at now. Im down to driver problems now i think. i did notice they removed the sh4 file from the latest 162.22 drivers,, i think it was there on the previous build.. even adding my own didnt fix it so who knows lol.

The latest NVidia beta driver with improved compatibility for Bioshock for example,
produce much anomalies if one use TM1.6/LBO with it. Stock SHIV or TM 1.4 has no problems but any other mod with the new modifications in the scene and camera files, like the pre-released Environment Mod or latest LBO, produce visual errors like textures are not correctly mapped on water surface and sky, clouds changing colors to psychedelic ones etc.

Ah interesting, ive seen such things again with stock sh4 and 1.3 patch. its like since i uninstalled and reinstalled everything has gone belly up!

yet there is no remaining files regarding sh4 in directories no mods lurking no reg stuff as ive cleared it all out.. crazy this.. still one day im sure ill sort it out..

James.

p.s btw shiplord the drivers for bioshock were 163.44 beta.. im back on 162.22 cleaned with driver cleaner pro etc..its prob a complete mess with the drivers somewhere id gather. nvidia really need to get something right for once lol

<<<< noticed the avatar.. what the heck is an A-Ganger,, as a british guy that sounds a bit like well lol rude