[REQ] Increased Underwater Visibility

[Crimsonghost99]

Hello all. I was wondering if there were a mod available that would allow for greater underwater visibility. Between the plankton ( at least I assume that is what all the floating green stuff is ) and the soup like consistency of the water its pretty hard to see anything. If anyone has one I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

[U-Bones]

Redwine had one, Improved Underwater Visibility Stage 1, which I downloaded and use.
I can not find this thread ??

It is also mentioned in the MODS stickie, but the link goes to an unrelated damage control thread ?

Redwine, did you pull this MOD ?

[CaptainCox]

I guess this can also easily be done with the "MiniTweaker"
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=109854
Takes about 2 min to get in to it and just find "Water Transparency" or something like that. You also have "Underwater Fog" and stuff to play with. Its all in the "scene_dat.txt" file made by "nvdrifter"

Good explanation as to how by "MP" here
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...424#post495424

[Hartmann]

See this

remove or move to another folder :

placton: misc/impurity.dds
Water distortion: misc/turbulence.dds and underwater_disp_map.dds
Plants and rocks: library\undersea.dat and vegetation_kit.dat

it helps to have a nice and clear screenshots of underwater views, here is one but with underwater rocks

[CaptainKobuk]

I removed misc/impurity.dds to get rid of the seaweeds/plankton and the result was that the underwater view was then made totally dense and like pea soup. Like a game file was missing.

Can you just make a MOD that duplicates the cystal clear picture above, with exact instructions on how to move files. I'd also like to keep the rocks and vegetation on the seafloor. And just get rid of the floating green plankton. Exactly like the picture.

About the realism with this game's idea of what the water looks like. I've been to the Pacific in the game area. Unless there is some unusual plant or plankton bloom, the water is actually very clear. The average clarity all over the southwestern pacific is very clear. Exceptions are the coasts like around the York Peninsula of Australia where it's a saltwater swamp even in the ocean near shore. Tides create very murky waters there.

If i remember correctly, SH3 had different water clarity for different regions. Just an idea. Maybe the green floating plankton can be only associated with very shallow waters. Though i doubt that's achievable.'

thanks

[peewee]

I'm using xp and by moving the impurity.dds to a seperate folder and adding 888 to the file name I've got rid of the plankton, but doing the same with the undersea and vegetation dats makes no difference at all, the rocks and seaweed are still there, I wonder if thats because dat files behave differently? I've not noticed any difference in the water clarity since removing the plankton, its exactly the same as before but without the green stuff floating around.

[sergei]

Begone foul Spam.

Reported.