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Originally Posted by Newinger
At the moment I have installed TMO and on top Improved Stock Environment v2 (because v3 does not work and gives lots of fog) + the 2 submods for color and clouds. It LOOKS very beautiful and to be honest I dislike TMO's default look, too.
Now when I look into the ISE folder, I see that it alters shaders for clouds and filters, EnvColors*.dat and SkyColors*.dat, and the scene.dat.
I suspect that scene.dat is very central also for TMO's changes, isn't it? So if I use ISE, do I contradict TMO's settings for sensors and AI (or any other important settings balanced in TMO)? Or are these imortant gameplays aspects part of other files (which then would not be affected by ISE)?
Edit: Answer to myself: Read the whole ISE release thread, and it seems ISE 3 is compatible with TMO (because it uses TMO's scene.dat as starting point), and his colors submod, too, but not the clouds & wakes submod, because that submod uses the default scene.dat as starting point. What a pity  And to make it worse, even though ISE 3 is said to be compatible in the TMO version, it has fog issues. So... I guess I can only use the color submod of ISE, but nothing more. |
I don't use ISE, but yes, changing the env can effect sensors, but for the most part if colors are in the same tone during the day, it doesn't, most impact is night. I did the night files different, darker colors, but more light values for the moon, so the moon controls how bright nights appear. The one thing I hated about TMO env is being able to clearly see ships my crew couldn't see, imo, the visuals don't match to the env. plus the enemy seemed to have way better visuals spotting before your crew spotted it. The light values are very sensitive in the env file related to the AI { sun values are moon values for night angles in the files} so I found that a much better approach. Just keep in mind, some env mods only adjust env files, some touch a lot of files, but even changes to the env weather files has impact on sensor visuals, however, you probably won't notice it,unless people go drastic in some way, except at night.