The best crew graphics mod

jaxa · 01-15-12, 10:38 AM

I've checked some graphics mods available at this forum or founded somewhere on my HDD and surprisingly stock GWX crew looks imho the best

Could you give a proposal of crew graphics mod used by you for tests?

01-15-12, 10:42 AM

All I can say is that I'm using OLCG2 environment. One of the main things I like init is that the watch crew on the bridge do not glow in complete darkness. IIRC GWX watch crew still had that weird glow.

Victor Schutze · 01-15-12, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by PapaKilo

All I can say is that I'm using OLCG2 environment. One of the main things I like init is that the watch crew on the bridge do not glow in complete darkness. IIRC GWX watch crew still had that weird glow.

I noticed yesterday that if their faces don't glow, their hands still do. Hands have a "serious" pink color in the dark instead of that darkened color the faces have.

I guess there is room for improvement there.

01-15-12, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Victor Schutze

I noticed yesterday that if their faces don't glow, their hands still do. Hands have a "serious" pink color in the dark instead of that darkened color the faces have.

I guess there is room for improvement there.

Yeah this is truth, somehow hands still has this glow a bit.
I wonder if OLC knows about it ?

Anvart · 01-17-12, 02:03 AM

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Originally Posted by PapaKilo

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IIRC GWX watch crew still had that weird glow.

Maybe the material of the body (in Body01.dat) has Emissive parameter more than 6...8?

01-17-12, 03:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Anvart

Maybe the material of the body (in Body01.dat) has Emissive parameter more than 6...8?

You should know better, I'm really a noob in tech parameters

IIRC GWX completly removed stock ocean glow at night, but the crew on bridge were still glowing ?

OLCG2 almost removes the crew glow, only the hands still has that slight pink brightness left.

Anvart · 01-18-12, 05:25 AM

"ocean glow at night", as you said, is determined by the parameters of the environment in EnvColors_ *. dat and scene.dat.
"body/hands glow", as you said, is determined by the parameters of the controller ConfigureBumpMap in Turm*_hd.dat and Emissive parameter in material of the body in body01.dat/body2.dat (look pic.):

Use S3D program for looking and editing Emissive parameter...

Kafka BC · 01-18-12, 08:45 AM

Hmmmm.

In the environment I am doing for my modified stock game, I seem to have the opposite problem. The hands are too dark, almost like they are wearing gloves.

This is a midnight shot and looks a tad brighter in the game.

Just checked, I think it is because of different diffuse color settings for the head and body. Will have to test some other day.

Head Diffuse color: 255; 255; 255
Head Glossiness: 63

Body Diffuse color: 149; 149; 149
Body Glossiness: 25

Emissive for both are 0.

Kafka BC · 01-18-12, 11:42 AM

Oh heck, just had to test it. Yep, that was it.

Victor Schutze · 01-18-12, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Kafka BC

Hmmmm.

In the environment I am doing for my modified stock game, I seem to have the opposite problem. The hands are too dark, almost like they are wearing gloves.

This is a midnight shot and looks a tad brighter in the game.

Just checked, I think it is because of different diffuse color settings for the head and body. Will have to test some other day.

Head Diffuse color: 255; 255; 255
Head Glossiness: 63

Body Diffuse color: 149; 149; 149
Body Glossiness: 25

Emissive for both are 0.

Yes, this is the opposite problem for me: heads are darken, hands are shining.

What software/files combination do you use to modify these values again?

01-15-12, 10:38 AM	#1
jaxa The Old Man Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Poland Posts: 1,501 Downloads: 418 Uploads: 0	I've checked some graphics mods available at this forum or founded somewhere on my HDD and surprisingly stock GWX crew looks imho the best Could you give a proposal of crew graphics mod used by you for tests? __________________ SHIII + GWX 3 Gold + V16B1 hardcode fixes + SH3Commander SHIV + OM + OMEGU SHV + WoS

01-18-12, 05:25 AM	#7
Anvart Admiral Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Russia ® Posts: 2,492 Downloads: 122 Uploads: 1	"ocean glow at night", as you said, is determined by the parameters of the environment in *EnvColors_ . dat and scene.dat. "body/hands glow", as you said, is determined by the parameters of the controller ConfigureBumpMap** in Turm_hd.dat and Emissive* parameter in material of the body in body01.dat/body2.dat (look pic.): Use S3D program for looking and editing Emissive parameter... __________________ Alex ® Moses said: "Don't create yourself an idol"...

01-18-12, 08:45 AM	#8
Kafka BC Planesman Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia Posts: 197 Downloads: 163 Uploads: 0	Hmmmm. In the environment I am doing for my modified stock game, I seem to have the opposite problem. The hands are too dark, almost like they are wearing gloves. This is a midnight shot and looks a tad brighter in the game. Just checked, I think it is because of different diffuse color settings for the head and body. Will have to test some other day. Head Diffuse color: 255; 255; 255 Head Glossiness: 63 Body Diffuse color: 149; 149; 149 Body Glossiness: 25 Emissive for both are 0. __________________ Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea Tracing one warm line through a land so wide and savage And make a Northwest Passage to the sea. - Stan Rogers (1949-1983) Last edited by Kafka BC; 01-18-12 at 11:51 AM.

01-18-12, 11:42 AM	#9
Kafka BC Planesman Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia Posts: 197 Downloads: 163 Uploads: 0	Oh heck, just had to test it. Yep, that was it. __________________ Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea Tracing one warm line through a land so wide and savage And make a Northwest Passage to the sea. - Stan Rogers (1949-1983)

01-15-12, 10:42 AM	#2
PapaKilo Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	All I can say is that I'm using OLCG2 environment. One of the main things I like init is that the watch crew on the bridge do not glow in complete darkness. IIRC GWX watch crew still had that weird glow.