[REQ] Increased Underwater Visibility

[Zel]

Originally Posted by 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.

Yes, the dat files behave differently than the dds. The game will load them even if they are renamed. You can move them out of the sh4 folder.

In the scene.dat there is a value to modify visibility. Under Envdata -> underwater -> fog there is a value ZMax. Increasing ZMax will improve visibility.