Alternative Ships Reflections

[Miszak]

Hi, after all these years of taking I've decided to give something back to community . My modding skills are very limited but I think I've managed to make ships reflections on water a little bit more realistic. I also fixed reflections for some vessels that were either lacking them or showing only half of the hull reflected on water like tugs, trawlers, sampans etc.:

old yamato:



new:



old mogami:



new:



old armed trawler:



new:



This mod was created based on TMO 1.9 with RSRDC v502 so I guess it might not be compatible with stock/RFB. The only modified files are the ships' *.dat files. Oh, and it's JSGME compatible :]

Download link:
http://www.filefront.com/16077223/Al...RSRDC-v502.7z/

Let me know if you'll find it useful and if you think that I mucked something up, let me know as well

Miszak

EDIT: Oops, i forgot to add [REL] in thread's title

[Zero Niner]

Looks neat! I'll give it a try.
Thanks for making it & sharing.

[Miszak]

I hope you'll enjoy it mate! To tell you the truth you'll kinda be betatesting it coz I'm not even sure if this will work on other hardware setups. I've got an ATI 4890 so i don't know about nvidia graphics, if they handle the game's engine differently or not...I remember that long time ago there were some issues with sun and ATI cards, so who knows? All you Geforcers let me know if you can see any improvement, OK? If this mod will work for you guys and gals and there'll be some interest among the crowd, RFB+RSRDC, GFO+RSRDC versions might follow .

[McHibbins]

Very, very, very nice work mate
Would you do that for RFB+RSRDC and/or OM+OMEGU please ?

[Miszak]

Glad you like it! All it took was some hours spent editing dat files for EVERY ship (150 or so ) and changing the minvisdim and maxvisdim parameters in waterreflection nodes. Couldn't have done it without Skwas' excellent Silent 3ditor! Actually I think that i'll try to tweak "detailed' reflection further to make them stick for longer distances when viewed before falling back to 'lower lod' (currently they only show up when the camera/viewer are quite close to a ship), then I'll make a version for RFB+RSRDC as well . Not sure about OM+OMEGU since these add hell of a lot new ships and it crashes the museum which is my primary 'viewer' I use to check the changes I make .

Now I don't want to make any promises but I SHOULD have a RFB version ready by next weekend. Question is whether I'll have to reedit ALL dat files for RFB+RSRDC from scratch or not (as compared to TMO+RSRDC), anyone?

[vickers03]

thanks man, great work

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by Miszak

Now I don't want to make any promises but I SHOULD have a RFB version ready by next weekend. Question is whether I'll have to reedit ALL dat files for RFB+RSRDC from scratch or not (as compared to TMO+RSRDC), anyone?

You would need to use the DAT files from RFB, which you are free to use. I'd definitely like to have a version of this mod to integrate into RFB.