Better Water

[Iron Budokan]

In the vein that subsimmers are never happy unless we have more minute detail for immersion, I would like to put in a call for better water.

Now don't get me wrong. I think the water in SH3 looks fantastic: great reflective qualities, moves well, looks wet, decent physics...up to a point. But, being a subsimmer, and therefore incredibly picky, I want more. If you've noticed, the water splashing against the hull of the sub comes in rather straight lines instead of the lots of little wavelets we should be seeing. Also, while the water splashes nicely from the bow, it doesn't roil and foam along the top as the deck plunges and rises through the sea. It also doesn't sheet off the deck and the sides and from the limber holes (is that what they're called?) like it should. I don't know if anyone has ever really worked to solve this problem; maybe it's hardcoded. Those are mysteries way beyond my ken.

Okay, okay, I said this was picky. I admit that. And while I know the water in SH4 is transparent I also wonder if the actual physics of the water has been coded and tweaked to react and behave more realistically.

Anyway, jus' wonderin'....