Game Environment

[Seb]

I was fed up with the "caribbean postcard" ambient of the game, with it's flashy blue water, i wanted to tried to make the game look like more cinematographic, so i decided to make some slight changes to the skies and the sea, tell me if you see something and if it pleases you, and if you would like me to release it,

do you see a difference with the stock game?


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[Nigel_of_Ires]

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I was fed up with the "caribbean postcard" ambient of the game, with it's flashy blue water, i wanted to tried to make the game look like more cinematographic, so i decided to make some slight changes to the skies and the sea, tell me if you see something and if it pleases you, and if you would like me to release it,

do you see a difference with the stock game?


<a href="http://img435.imageshack.us/img435/5364/engine2006080400305219xd2.jpg" target="_blank">http://img435.imageshack.us/img435/5364/en...00305219xd2.jpg</a>

<a href="http://img435.imageshack.us/img435/3365/engine2006080322372675ns7.jpg" target="_blank">http://img435.imageshack.us/img435/3365/en...22372675ns7.jpg</a>

<a href="http://img490.imageshack.us/img490/6871/engine2006080322373619mf7.jpg" target="_blank">http://img490.imageshack.us/img490/6871/en...22373619mf7.jpg</a>

<a href="http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/8662/engine2006080400111738bi3.jpg" target="_blank">http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/8662/en...00111738bi3.jpg</a>

<a href="http://img490.imageshack.us/img490/653/engine2006080400112264wk2.jpg" target="_blank">http://img490.imageshack.us/img490/653/eng...00112264wk2.jpg</a>

<a href="http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/8033/engine2006080400011441jl5.jpg" target="_blank">http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/8033/en...00011441jl5.jpg</a>

<a href="http://img490.imageshack.us/img490/1275/engine2006080400012042ct4.jpg" target="_blank">http://img490.imageshack.us/img490/1275/en...00012042ct4.jpg</a>

<a href="http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/4028/engine2006080400012805bm9.jpg" target="_blank">http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/4028/en...00012805bm9.jpg</a>
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I really like the skies but I'm unsure about the water..
I'll have to look at it in comparison to the game when I get home.
Either way good job.
The stormy water looks great though!

 

[Colosseum]

I can't really tell a difference... what have you changed? The one thing that always pissed me off with the weather was that it would be raining and sunshine at the same time. Whenever it does this (in real life) it's really gross and humid outside.

 

[Seb]

Thanks Nigel

On the skies, i've desatured it and i've made variations on the colors or the teints (if that word is correct) I'll probably have to rework water to get something more efficient

 

[Vengeance]

i like it espicually the stormy skies, good job <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/me.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="me.gif" />

 

[Pieter Boelen]

The storm skies look excellent. At the moment, I have put the AoP water textures into the Pre Build 13 modpack, but it doesn't really make much difference with the stock versions. If you get something done here, please say so and I'll add it to the modpack. Would be great to have better graphics. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />

 

[Seb]

Nice idea with the AOP textures i don't really know how to really change that water, i've darkened the textures, i'll try to darken it more, i don't really know if it has an influence on the color of the water


EDIT : I've upgraded my build with AOP sea texture and tested some changes and tweaks on it, i don't know if there's a real difference, do you think the water color could be function of the code or of the bumpmap?


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[Pieter Boelen]

I haven't got the slightest idea on how to change the water colour. Maybe it's coded into sea.dll? But we can hardly change that file. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />

 

[Seb]

Many of my tries don't do a thing, i think it's coded, maybe designed by numbers, i had an idea, we have AOP water texture, couldn't be adapt AOP sea code to POTC or replace it?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I tried adding the sea.dll from AoP into PotC, but the game crashed as soon as I tried to load Oxbay port. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />

 

[Seb]

arf <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />, the realistic waves mod uses that file or are there others? if there are other influent files, we could just trie with those, or try to make a little mix, i'm actually getting AOP to see what i can do with some files in it...

 

[Pieter Boelen]

The realistic waves mod only changes the shape of the waves, not the colour.

 

[Seb]

I also begin to think about the shape, on the AOP screens, i find that waves has a nice form, maybe a bit more realistic, we might could adapt the files commanding that in AOP in POTC, if it's not the sea.dll of course <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="sad.gif" /> and the tweak it a little again to obtain a realistic waves v2 <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" /> but for the color ...