[WIP] Reflections on the water

[ReallyDedPoet]

Looks good LV


RDP

[leovampire]

as you will see in these 2 pictures the sun's light rays will now angle through the water according to the sun's possitional angle in the sky instead of being a constant angle like it was before.

[leovampire]

As you can see the shadow's of the wake on the starboard side of the ship is greatly enhanced because the sun is hitting the port side of the DD. so those port side wakes are hard to see.

[DeepIron]

Simply incredible!

...and an inspiration to those (like myself) who are just getting into the SH4 modding scene...

[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.

[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

[chopped50ford]

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.

I love the clear water affect. Does this affect only work in certain areas of the map?

Man that looks good.