[WIP] Reflections on the water

[leovampire]

now as you can see they are more of a downward angle reflection rather than spread out all the time.

As time passes in the game the ocean appears to change colors from a dark blue to a light blue then deep dark blue and it will reverse as the sun starts it's downward angle again. No texture changes just lighting changes create the effect.



glad you think so DeepIron and a hell of a compliment as well. Didn't intend it to be an inspirational mod but did want to make the SHIV environment much better for everyone once outside of the sub camera's are used.

[leovampire]

I am testing out Kriller2's new horizon's for his up comming release and I have to say he did a really damm good job blending it all in to remove almost if not all the line coloring effect's you could make out before! Looks a lot smoother in blending so I know he worked really hard on it!

[leovampire]

That he showed me when I was first trying to figure out the sun's inner workings for the game. I hope this comes much closer to what he showed me.

[Ducimus]

This just keeps getting better and better.

[FooFighters]

Just one word.. awesome !

[leovampire]

Working on it hard trying to make it perfect for everyone including me LOL!!

So I will keep everyone properly updated daily on the work and progress. Hope to have it ready by the weekend at the latest. This is much easier to do seeing there is a sun set and sunrise everyday to adjust and work with! Not like waiting for bad weather to happen in the game!!!

And BTW this is the picture that Bill Nichols gave me for insperation and example of what I might want to try and acheave.

[WilhelmTell]

Another astonishing eye candy work from the vampire !
Really looking forward to it.
Is this scene.dat only tweaking and will be incorporated into some future LBO release ?

[sqk7744]

Originally Posted by leovampire

Working on it hard trying to make it perfect for everyone including me LOL!!

So I will keep everyone properly updated daily on the work and progress. Hope to have it ready by the weekend at the latest. This is much easier to do seeing there is a sun set and sunrise everyday to adjust and work with! Not like waiting for bad weather to happen in the game!!!

And BTW this is the picture that Bill Nichols gave me for insperation and example of what I might want to try and acheave.

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[kriller2]

Originally Posted by leovampire

now as you can see they are more of a downward angle reflection rather than spread out all the time.

As time passes in the game the ocean appears to change colors from a dark blue to a light blue then deep dark blue and it will reverse as the sun starts it's downward angle again. No texture changes just lighting changes create the effect.



glad you think so DeepIron and a hell of a compliment as well. Didn't intend it to be an inspirational mod but did want to make the SHIV environment much better for everyone once outside of the sub camera's are used.

Hi Leo. It's okay you are posting pictures taken with the mod I am working on, it's nice to hear I have found the right balance in the colours, it took me a long time, because the SH4 engine uses the sky's blue colour to make the oceans reflections... And I allso has to edit the colour of the sea and the sky to make sure there is no white line... Allso the ocean looks more dark blue when it's calm and more white-blue when it's windy.

Here the pacific is calm:

[Delusory]

god damn it, I need a new PC . It already is strugling with TM1.6, with this, it will blow up I guess. But that would be a good reason to buy a new one

I can't believe what you are doing with this game. This shows only one thing: devs really needed more time.

Keep it up

[MobyGrape]

I just realized why this obsession with the sun, Vampire_YOU haven't seen one for real

[Digital_Trucker]

Originally Posted by MobyGrape

I just realized why this obsession with the sun, Vampire_YOU haven't seen one for real

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[leovampire]

I was born a Vampire never saw the sun except in movie's LOL!!!!

kriller2 is there actualy a texture file for the ocean like there is for the sea foam?

But thanks to all for the compliments. Still work in progress but example's like Bill's help's to recreate conditions. That is why I had bought the physics program working on the LBO mod it game me examples to see the effect's then it was a matter of making the game recreate them.

[kriller2]

Originally Posted by leovampire

I was born a Vampire never saw the sun except in movie's LOL!!!!

kriller2 is there actualy a texture file for the ocean like there is for the sea foam?

But thanks to all for the compliments. Still work in progress but example's like Bill's help's to recreate conditions. That is why I had bought the physics program working on the LBO mod it game me examples to see the effect's then it was a matter of making the game recreate them.

Yes there is a reflectionmap for the ocean which pretty much handles all the colour of the ocean and then there is a skymap. I think the colour is right now and will send you the file for testing.
/Kriller2

[Limerick]

Since screenshots from this mod have been entered in screenshot competitions prior to the release of the mod to the general community I believe the modders (who I applaude for their hard work and skill) should establish some type of 'Ethical Guidelines'.

Sorta like entering an F-1 car in a horse race.