Beautiful Reflections and water by accident

[Stary Wuj]

:hmm:



Stary Wuj

[Paajtor]

Looks neat...allthought I get nice relections in SH3 GWX too.
Not sure, if I see that many changes.

How about legal issues?
Like, using SH4 files to mod SH3...does it mean, that we all need to have SH4, to be on the safe side?

I wasn't planning that, for now.

[Stager00]

GWX produces pretty reflections....just not nearly as "reflective"....nor does the sky reflect so accurately. Within the game....theres a quite noticable difference.


Not sure about legal issues...as I have no intention to offer any downloads. Just simply to present a cosmetic change to get people snooping on what else is compatable. The reflections from SH4 are truely superior. Give it a shot.

[Spytrx]

I looks great, no doubt about it - though didn't the game crash after a while? I tried something similar a while back (experimenting with various dds) and though the game would accept the changes at the begining it would CtD within the first 15 minuted of gameplay...

[Stager00]

Havent had any crashes yet...but havent had much playing time yet either. Gonna experiment alot more this evening.

[Spytrx]

hmm, maybe it is possible after all to get those graphics going :hmm:


thanks for sharing - I am going to try to follow my previous avenue of thought as well, this time on a brand new install of SH3 (maybe there was a conflict with some left-over code)

[Reece]

This is a great find, I might have to re-install SHIV just to get the files needed, there should be no probs with UBI if we are only telling people with SHIV what to do!
Thanks, & keep experimenting.

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by Avatar

You know, just thinking here...
I wonder if some, if not all, files can be interchanged between sh3 and sh4? Like the water reflections perhaps the environmental effects as well. The two sims are very similar in that respect. Someone posted a post in SH4 community that made the journey from the pacific to wilhelmshaven and the music was playing along side the pier, although by a ghost band.
Very interesting and thought provoking post.

yep i thought so to when i made that post...

but i got flamed for "poking fun at SH4" when in fact i was trying to point out exactly how similar the two sims are... interchangability of files is something to look into.

If anything will influence me to play SH4 it will be the day that someone mods sh4 into SH3PLUS bringing things back to the atlantic

[Reece]

My machine is just that bit too old for SHIV, but if some of the effects could be modded to SHIII, I'm sure there wouldn't be a huge difference in fraps, IMO it would be most excellent!!

[ReallyDedPoet]

Again, nice find here Will try some of this out tonight.

RDP

[Hitman]

Sometimes the most important findings are done out of pure luck Thanks for taking your time to share

I'm moving the topic to the SH3 mods forum as it will be more appropiate there and more modders might see it.

[Spytrx]

Tried it again on a clean install of vanilla with 1.04b patch and it works fine now - all that needs to be explored is which files will work and which won't and what side effects all this has...


on the matter of incorporating it into a mod - that's a no-no. You can make one for yourself of course if you have both versions of the game, but you can't publish them (for now anyway) because of the ToS and Copyright issues...

[Reece]

all that needs to be explored is which files will work and which won't and what side effects all this has...

Thats great Spytrx, I assume you will let us know the relevent files to use after you've finished testing?
Thanks!

[Spytrx]

well, I can tell you that the damage textures won't work with SH3 right now that is what I am concentrating on at the moment since I really don't like any of the damage mods out there (and the one in SH4 looks so good)

[Reece]

Haven't heard from you Stager, any news?