Author Topic: animated water (Read 2335 times)

Manedew · « **on:** November 01, 2004, 10:59:18 AM »

I like it for the most part .. it's nice looking .. .just seems to much of a 'static' feel around the edges ..it feels like refelctions should be more angled to sun and be less of flickers alltogether ....

it just seems like overkill on my FE with the flickers ... but other parts are great.

anyone else feel flickers could be toned down a bit? they are nice .. but too much now IMHO

streetstang · « **Reply #1 on:** November 01, 2004, 11:03:31 AM »

The water looks real sweet. Not to much feed back on what I think should be diff about it.

But I will say that when its on, and I'm in a plane, it looks like a slide show. Its not "smooth" in any way for me.

moot · « **Reply #2 on:** November 01, 2004, 11:04:35 AM »

Looks too much like video snow from afar.

Swoop · « **Reply #3 on:** November 01, 2004, 11:07:14 AM »

From altitude, the sun reflection on the water looks like.........white noise. On my system it's a pixelated mess that looks......well......horrible .

Is my card too old for this? GF4 4600Ti 128Mb.

oboe · « **Reply #4 on:** November 01, 2004, 11:19:38 AM »

Odd, I don't see any difference whatever with the water. I double checked my video setup, and the new Hardware Texture checkbox IS enabled.

I have a Radeon 9800 Pro, 128 Mb. Seems like I shoudl see something close to that film of the new water Hitech posted a few weeks ago.

Swoop · « **Reply #5 on:** November 01, 2004, 11:21:36 AM »

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Originally posted by oboe
Odd, I don't see any difference whatever with the water. I double checked my video setup, and the new Hardware Texture checkbox IS enabled.

in game go to video setup, the one with the slider bars for graphical detail. On that screen is a checkbox for animated water. Click it.

Manedew · « **Reply #6 on:** November 01, 2004, 11:56:43 AM »

looks better for me now .. updated vid driver ... but also suns not setting

maybe setting sun makes it look worse.....or vid driver makes it look better ..... ?

Captain Virgil Hilts · « **Reply #7 on:** November 01, 2004, 12:29:36 PM »

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Originally posted by Swoop
in game go to video setup, the one with the slider bars for graphical detail. On that screen is a checkbox for animated water. Click it.

I don't have that checkbox. I downloaded the patch a couple hours ago.

hitech · « **Reply #8 on:** November 01, 2004, 12:30:28 PM »

If you don't have the check box, your card dosn't support it.

Captain Virgil Hilts · « **Reply #9 on:** November 01, 2004, 12:36:03 PM »

Thanks, I thought that was the case.

As an after thought, I suppose the dark water is part of the new water effect? Makes it real hard to see on the deck, and forces those with lesser video cards to pay a price for a feature they don't get if it is.

soda72 · « **Reply #10 on:** November 01, 2004, 01:07:37 PM »

Its a lot easier to see ships now with it enabled...

AKIron · « **Reply #11 on:** November 01, 2004, 01:13:20 PM »

Pretty big frame rate hit for me. Running full AA on my 9800pro, water off: 92fps, water on: 12fps

Does look very nice though.

oboe · « **Reply #12 on:** November 01, 2004, 01:17:31 PM »

OK I found the "Animated water" check box and enabled it. From certain distances and angles, it does look amazingly like real water.

Up real close, or from quite a distance it sortof loses its realism though. Not sure what it is - may the highlight color is a little too yellow? Maybe the speed of the sparkle animation a little too fast? Not sure. Its a cool effect for little frame rate hit though.

United · « **Reply #13 on:** November 01, 2004, 03:51:00 PM »

Had the same problem Akiron. I usually run around 80-90 OTD, but with new water im lucky to get double digits.

Im gonna screw around with texture settings though, I had mine all the way to 1024.

I must admit though, it looks great.

Raider179 · « **Reply #14 on:** November 01, 2004, 04:56:46 PM »

Tried the animated water. Not sure what is going on with it but I dont like it. Cuts 20fps off my frame rate and it looks like static. More of a distraction than anything.