SH commander question
 

the water fog level, when i change that, i'm guessing it substitutes it's own looking water. using rub/beery water mod, if i decrease the murkiness will i get that default glowing water at night again?

I think the default value of the game is "4" - dont remeber the default value of RuB.
Just try: IMO RuB is realistic but I like to see more - external camera is just for eye candy and I like the underwater effect oft the moving light. SH3 is too bright. For me a value of "8" works fine...
For changing this value you dont have to stay in port - so go and tune!

The glowing water is a property of the skycolors file. When you adjust the underwater fog level it has no effect on the water glow. If I recall correctly, the standard game's fog setting is 18.

cool thanks beery

From memory, I decreased the water fog level (using SH3 Commander) to 12 or 13. One question though: does this have any impact on making the night sky darker? In my current patrol, even with the lights out in my home office, I have a tough time making out targets at night... the sky just seems a lot darker than in previous patrols. But then maybe it's old age...... :o

The sky colours were changed in RUb 1.43 to be lighter, but also the water was changed to be darker for an overall darker night.