Question: How to change water transparency

[Bill Nichols]

Can anyone tell me where to go, using S3D Editor, to adjust underwater visibility?

Thanks!

:hmm:

as far as i know, you cant do it the way it was done in sh3.

for sh4 you can only eliminate some things like floating plankton and blurr effects as well as distortion effects so if thats what you have in mind then:

to remove:

Plankton - open data/ misc folder then delete the "impurity.dds" file

Underwater distortion - open data/ misc folder then delete the "turbulence.dds" file

Plants and rocks - open data/ library and delete the "undersea.dat" and "vegetation_kit.dat" files

[jdkbph]

I haven't figured out how to do it with S3D (ie, the easy way), but here are the hex editing instructions I found a while back. It still works as advertised with SH4 1.4, TM and other goodies installed.

JD

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Open the Scene.dat file using a hexadecimal editor and modify the following :

1]
Original Value : (-4)
0003da 6F 67 00 00 00 80 C0 00 @@....Fog....A.

Improved Underwater Visibility : (-3)
0003da 6F 67 00 00 00 40 C0 00 @@....Fog...@A.

2]
Original value : (18)
0003da 6F 67 00 00 00 80 C0 00 00 90 41 00 ..A.PF<....UpLight

Improved Underwater Visibility : (30 m)
0003da 6F 67 00 00 00 40 C0 00 00 f0 41 00

Improved Underwater Visibility : (60 m)
0003da 6F 67 00 00 00 40 C0 00 00 70 42

Improved Underwater Visibility : (70 m)
0003da 6F 67 00 00 00 40 C0 00 00 8c 42

Improved Underwater Visibility : (100 m)
0003da 6F 67 00 00 00 40 C0 00 00 c8 42


3]
Original Value : (120 m)
001b6a 73 74 61 6e 63 65 00 00 00 f0 42 ..öB

Improved Underwater : (180 m)
001b6a 73 74 61 6e 63 65 00 00 00 34 43 MaxDistance…4C

Improved Underwater : (300 m)
001b6a 73 74 61 6e 63 65 00 00 00 96 43 MaxDistance….C

[skwasjer]

In S3D the values are a bit masked, but you can edit them as follows:

First, switch to List-view by clicking the 'Tree' button.

- Node 9: Properties
- Open 'Underwater' node
- Select 'Fog':

X = ZMin = -4
Y = ZMax = 18

(In upcoming S3D release these values have correct labels!)

However, the last value jdkbph mentions is part of the Flash controller, so I doubt this one is useful in any way, but I may be wrong.

[Lt commander lare]

thanks for the help on removing the plankton i was wondering how to do that

lt commander lare