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kriller2 · 09-22-08, 09:00 AM

To all of you who keep posting about purple water, lines in the water etc.
I will look into it sometime, but at the moment im taking a break after some very intense months trying to squeeze as much as possible out of the SH4-engine. It's been a fight against the way the engine works, because the SH4-engine has alot of bugs/issues from scratch...

One of them being that you can only define one light source which is the sun so when the sun goes behind the horizon the sea would go black unless you had:

1. very calm sea, because then the reflections from the sky could make the water ligter.
2. No dark clouds, because then the shadows of the clouds would make the ocean black.

To archive a more natural colour of the water instead of the black silver like ocean which could be seen i modified the shaders so that the clouds shadows lightens up the ocean instead of darken it and had to increase the reflection-power in the scene.dat and the way the different files works.

So enjoy PE4 and know that I am aware of the problems

BTW and thanks for the nice comments about this mod it makes both me and Nisgeis happier so that we can try not to concentrate about all the things we wanted to do at the begining of PE4 and the things we had to scrap due to problems with the way the "old" SH4-engine works.

09-22-08, 09:00 AM	#577
kriller2 Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,227 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	taking a break... To all of you who keep posting about purple water, lines in the water etc. I will look into it sometime, but at the moment im taking a break after some very intense months trying to squeeze as much as possible out of the SH4-engine. It's been a fight against the way the engine works, because the SH4-engine has alot of bugs/issues from scratch... One of them being that you can only define one light source which is the sun so when the sun goes behind the horizon the sea would go black unless you had: 1. very calm sea, because then the reflections from the sky could make the water ligter. 2. No dark clouds, because then the shadows of the clouds would make the ocean black. To archive a more natural colour of the water instead of the black silver like ocean which could be seen i modified the shaders so that the clouds shadows lightens up the ocean instead of darken it and had to increase the reflection-power in the scene.dat and the way the different files works. So enjoy PE4 and know that I am aware of the problems BTW and thanks for the nice comments about this mod it makes both me and Nisgeis happier so that we can try not to concentrate about all the things we wanted to do at the begining of PE4 and the things we had to scrap due to problems with the way the "old" SH4-engine works. __________________ *Kriller2.* [MODs] Real Environment mod and Pacific Enviroments 4 mod Last edited by kriller2; 09-22-08 at 09:14 AM.