(experiment) New Water Visuals

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  1. londonmidland

    londonmidland Well-Known Member

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    Hey guys,

    I've been experimenting with some new water textures and their associated texture materials and I'm quite pleased with the results.

    I did a quick test on ECW to see how it looks. As you can see, there is a brand new clear, blue water colour and reflections effect. The tiling is a lot less obvious, too.

    Below shows images of the before and after comparisons. Let me know what you think :)
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  2. redrev1917

    redrev1917 Well-Known Member

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    wow what a difference it makes, although (and Im playing devils advocate here) it would look odd in anything but the clearest days perhaps, doubt the sea would look that still in a rain storm for example
     
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  3. DukeSD

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    Wow, looks really good
     
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  4. robski

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    WOW my mouth dropped :D
    It completely changes the whole feel of the environment, good find!
     
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  5. antony.henley

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    Crikey. Looks lovely.
     
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  6. rennekton#1349

    rennekton#1349 Well-Known Member

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    I don't really look at the water but this looks amazing
     
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  7. nhilsubsolenovum

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    Fantastic
     
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  8. CrAzZyKiLLa

    CrAzZyKiLLa Well-Known Member

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    Looks amazing, ECW has some of the worst looking water in the game, so would love to see a mod to improve it!
     
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  9. brfan#9132

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    Think that is amazing work
     
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    Awesome work takes the realism to the next level.
     
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  11. IsambardKingdomBrunel

    IsambardKingdomBrunel Well-Known Member

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    Very smoooooove
     
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  12. tsw2

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    Great.

    Similar to the Skybox, it should not have been this ugly and im glad modders fix the game
     
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  13. londonmidland

    londonmidland Well-Known Member

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    Rochester before and after. It seems not every route is equipped with a water texture, so I cannot apply this change to routes without one.

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  14. londonmidland

    londonmidland Well-Known Member

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  15. SprattyHeath

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    I've also been experimenting with this on SOS, it hasn't been as simple as I wanted it to be though.

    A lot of faffing around with textures with some free Water Materials on the Unreal Asset Store (which all suck), finally managed to get somewhere by installing a Normal Map plugin for Paint.Net, now I can properly experiment around with different textures to see what results I'll get[​IMG]
     
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    londonmidland

    Would it be possible to fix the strange lighting in TSW2 with a mod?
     
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    londonmidland Well-Known Member

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    Not really. Only changing ini values really does anything.
     
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    The reflection of boats, trees, objects, give new perspectives. Great work, thanks.
     
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    What values do you suggest?
     
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    A full list of my ini commands are available to download from here
     
  21. Perfect.
     
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    You, Sir londonmidland ,are a genius!
    Like the skybox mod, the difference is like day and night

    Respect!
     
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  23. Why don't we get stuff like this originally?
     
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  24. Teflon490

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    Because DTG :)
     
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    Great stuff, is there any penalty eg processor/s, memory usage, FPS ?
     
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    Wonderful still, placid water; but the ocean is almost never still or placid. Can you do anything with waves?
     
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  27. CrazyDash

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    The water looks absolutely amazing!!! Just like with the skybox, hopefully, we can see these changes get added to TSW2 at some point.
     
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    It baffles me that modders with less resources can do things that dtg don't do.

    The water is a massive improvement
     
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    londonmidland Well-Known Member

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    I haven’t noticed any performance issues with it, personally. If there are any, it would be extremely minimal I would’ve thought.
     
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  30. londonmidland

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    I can change it on a route by route basis (the routes which actually allow me to) but this of course applies to ALL water within the route, so I have to make a balance.
     
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    Just out of curiosity, do TSW2 water textures change with wind strength (or are they capable of it)?
     
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    Amazing improvement. DTG need this.
     
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  33. londonmidland

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    I believe it’s just a standard animation, irrelevant of wind strength.
     
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    It looks good for a still day londonmidland

    What would happen if the water had animated waves like WCL - will this still work?
     
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    Thanks. I haven’t seen what/how WCL water works, if I replace that too.
     
  36. Rudolf

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    It looks nice, but it we would loose the feel of a bit wild water, which can be more natural, depending on circumstances. Also, what happens if there is more wind? I like the idea, water is difficult but maybe it requires more logic than just a texture change.
     
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    I think DTG should employ your tactics or at least be part of Adam’s team (Adam’s team need to be the main builder for routes inmho, a corker they did for GWE)
     
  38. matinakbary

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    londonmidland would love to see how it works for DRA and DCZ! But I guess, you don't own the routes, right?
     
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    Unfortunately I don’t. Sorry.
     
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    This is amazing. DTG might as well have a red phone to your house* because these are some spectacular updates. Finally TSW can have better water than TS, which was one of the most embarrassing shortcomings.

    *Reference to the direct phone line between Russia and the USA during the cold war; I only explain this because it's a bit of an obscure reference. No offence if you already got it. :)
     
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