ALERT! Major SHV Update, info screens & Video!!

[THE_MASK]

Originally Posted by WEBSTER

i never said not to have it at all, quite to the contrary im thrilled to have it and its great but i do not want to see it for the free cam view, thats all.

Your the main fixer , so i will be waiting for your SH5 fixers .

[SubV]

C'mon guys, don't you see that? The graphic engine is EXACTLY the same that was used in SH4, with an addition of god rays, bloom and HDR.

Same plankton as that we seen in Indian Ocean, same 'oily' water with quite unrealistic look. From my POV, nothing major was improved in 3D engine since SH4.

And I must say, these beautiful promo screenshots differ from real 3D engine video too much.

Originally Posted by sober

Your the main fixer , so i will be waiting for your SH5 fixers .

famous last words i know, but i dont think i will do much modding for sh5

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by karamazovnew

C'mon guys stop crying about the water drops. If the camera config file will resemble the cameras.dat file of SH4, you'll be able to delete the CamerEffects node and take all the screenies you want

I'm far from crying about it. Simply stating my likes or dislikes of what I've seen just like every other bugger here. I'd prefer not to have to mod the thing out if it was posible simply to drop it from the config screen. If not then it will get modded out for those that don't like it. I'm more than happy for the effect to be there in the right context, just not the FP or external cameras.

Originally Posted by John Channing

Clearly you don't wear glasses!

JCC

Correct, I never have; except sunglasses, but those, not very often in the rain.

[quad5]

Originally Posted by SubV

C'mon guys, don't you see that? The graphic engine is EXACTLY the same that was used in SH4, with an addition of god rays, bloom and HDR.

Same plankton as that we seen in Indian Ocean, same 'oily' water with quite unrealistic look. From my POV, nothing major was improved in 3D engine since SH4.

And I must say, these beautiful promo screenshots differ from real 3D engine video too much.

That's it!

[Adriatico]

It's not that bad to have SH4 improved engine... SH4 was not bad graphic engine - but sort of unpolished one, with lot of space for improvement

3D fire, smoke and clouds would be "main homework" for a sim to be played 2010 - 2014...

Still waiting to see storm waves video...

[JScones]

Originally Posted by JU_88

Dont matter, You wil get swastikas, as they can be modded in - in about 15 minutes (by virtually anyone)
Export DDS files to Photoshop, copy and paste, save, re-import back to SHV & Done!
IMHO there are much bigger things to worry about.

Not even that - if it's anything like SH3 then all one needs to do is delete the "censored" image files from the textures folder and voila...the uncensored images stored in the .dat files automatically display.

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

It is gorgeous, though. At first I was a tiny bit unhappy that the rain left drops on the screen. On the periscope and binoculars, sure, but not on my eyes. Now that I've looked at it a few times I notice that it doesn't stay there long, and it really is kind of cool.

It is kinda "glass screen in front of the eyes", but I guess it's hard to simulate rain in the eyes otherwise - so I don't mind it. Besides, I remember from my military days how annoying and distracting rain in the face could be. And now I wear glasses, it's even more annoying.

In any event, if it's not an option of some sort then it will take a modder about 10 minutes to remove.

[PL_Andrev]

The good news is that the graphics engine is already made. In such a case currently underway to work on improving game mechanics and (I hope) eliminating big bugs.



and - I hope - bugs known on SH3/ SH4...

[Decoman]

I thought the water drops on the screen was a nice touch. It seem obvious to me that this effect is not made for sake of realism, but for the gameplay.

[The General]

Originally Posted by Adriatico

It's not that bad to have SH4 improved engine... SH4 was not bad graphic engine.

Sh4's engine is very inefficient in terms of it's use of system resources and has lots of flaws. I am currently playing DCS's Blackshark (Russian helicopter sim, it's amazing!), it's much more advanced graphically (it should be, it came out this year!) than SH4 but runs much more smoothly. If they've simply tacked-on yet more graphic tweeks like; post-processing filters, bloom, volumetric fog, light-rays etc. without a major software rewrite, then it's gonna run really badly on all but a super-computer. There was talk some time back of te Devs dowing a major rewrite of the engine, so it could be ok

[Navarre]

Originally Posted by SubV

C'mon guys, don't you see that? The graphic engine is EXACTLY the same that was used in SH4, with an addition of god rays, bloom and HDR.

What did you expect, a complete new graphics engine?

The Ubisoft studio in Romania, uses for all their games, the game engine called 3D GDS System.

[Reece]

Originally Posted by TarJak

I'm with Webster and Steve. This is one of those minor things that will piss off some people but not others. For me it is about taking screenshots. I don't want water droplets all over my screenies so all I want is the ability to remove the sheening effect from free cam. I'm more than happy for it to be there on binoculars, UZO and periscope views because that is where these effects would exist in RL.

Agree 100%

[karamazovnew]

I don't get it... "It has water, it has ships, hey! it's the SH4 engine WTF?!!!". C'mon guys ofc it will look similar at some aspects. But the clouds, the terrain, those are new. You can't blame it all on HDR and light shafts. It looks damn good

[Kaleun_Endrass]

Did anyone found versions of the new screenshots in higher resolution then in this thread that aren't so heavy compressed like these http://www.pcgames.de/m,browser/Bild...tity_id=218712 ?

[Kaleun_Endrass]

Originally Posted by karamazovnew

I don't get it... "It has water, it has ships, hey! it's the SH4 engine WTF?!!!". C'mon guys ofc it will look similar at some aspects. But the clouds, the terrain, those are new. You can't blame it all on HDR and light shafts. It looks damn good

Agree 100%... The terrain looks very good. The volumetric clouds look stunning. Can't wait to get my hands on it. The water color and underwater view need to be tweaked but the basics are excellent.