[REL] Dynamic Environment SH5

[Fifi]

Gap,

Running your mod this way:
DynEnv v2.9 - 1. Main Mod
DynEnv v2.9 - 3.b Enhanced Visibility (high)
DynEnv v2.9 - No Underwater Impurity Patch
DynEnv v2.9 - 5.c Ambient Settings - Darker Nights-No Murky Waters
DynEnv v2.9 - 8.b Wave Mechanics - Gale
DynEnv v2.9 - 12. Sounds

...because of No Underwater Impurity Patch needed to solve the square underwater glitch, obviously i lost all kind of underwater environment light and impurities. Is there a way to get it back without loosing enhanced visibily high, and not braking your fix for the square glitch?
Hope you understand what i mean, and don't sound too stupid

[Delta Wolf]

Hey Guys,

Just looking for a little bit of advice please, so im new to Silent Hunter and want to install a few mods.

My question is does the download of "Dynamic Environment" include "
Stoianm Atlantic Blue water color" in with that mod?
Or do i have to download it separate?

I really like the look of both of these mods but do not want to mess up the game on my first try

Thanks

[gap]

Originally Posted by Fifi

...because of No Underwater Impurity Patch needed to solve the square underwater glitch, obviously i lost all kind of underwater environment light and impurities.
Is there a way to get it back without loosing enhanced visibily high, and not braking your fix for the square glitch?

You can either:

- replace Enhanced Visibility (high)
+ No Underwater Impurity Patch with Enhanced Visibility (medium) or...
- remove data/Misc/impurity.dds from Enhanced Visibility (high) and re-enable it without No Underwater Impurity Patch.

Let me know if you are satisfied with one of the above configurations. If not, tell me more in detail what is the effect you want to obtain, and I will suggest you the needed tweaks

Originally Posted by TiberiusXIV

My question is does the download of "Dynamic Environment" include "
Stoianm Atlantic Blue water color" in with that mod?

Yes and no.

DynEnv features a mix of water color settings which ranges from the greyish-murky green waters of Baltic and North Sea waters, to the cobalt blue of Atlantic open waters, to the emerald green of Mediterranean and tropical seas. In total, there are 12 different color zones, and at leat 6 of them feature a distinctive water colour pattern. Having been set up by stoianm himself, it is likely that one of the above zones got the same settings as "Stoianm Atlantic Blue water color", though I cannot be sure about it.

Originally Posted by TiberiusXIV

Or do i have to download it separate?

I really like the look of both of these mods but do not want to mess up the game on my first try

In theory, "Stoianm Atlantic Blue water color" should still be compatible with DynEnv, anyway I wouldn't recommend using it together with DynEnv

[Delta Wolf]

Originally Posted by gap

Yes and no.

DynEnv features a mix of water color settings which ranges from the greyish-murky green waters of Baltic and North Sea waters, to the cobalt blue of Atlantic open waters, to the emerald green of Mediterranean and tropical seas. In total, there are 12 different color zones, and at leat 6 of them feature a distinctive water colour pattern. Having been set up by stoianm himself, it is likely that one of the above zones got the same settings as "Stoianm Atlantic Blue water color", though I cannot be sure about it.




In theory, "Stoianm Atlantic Blue water color" should still be compatible with DynEnv, anyway I wouldn't recommend using it together with DynEnv

Thanks for the reply Gap, Dynamic Environment sounds like it has everything in that mod so i'll just stick to that one.

Thanks again

[Silent Steel]

Originally Posted by TiberiusXIV

Thanks for the reply Gap, Dynamic Environment sounds like it has everything in that mod so i'll just stick to that one.

Thanks again

Welcome to the best forum on the internet Tiberius
Your choice above is a wise one

[gap]

Hi guys,

I have just received a PM by our tonschk:

Hello, thank you for the very good job you have done with SH5, please can you tell me how can I change the two different colors of the water on the sea surface to become just one colour, I want to get rid of the phosphorescent color (see postimage below) , thank you very much for your help Gap

Thought I would share it with the community, as someone else might dislike this effect (I just hope tonschk is okay with me doing it ).

To my understanding, te above might come from WaterFoamFilmColorMulti parameters in dat/Env/EnvColors_*.cfg files. For getting rid of it, you should replace their settings (the part after the = sign) with the setting of the corresponding WaterTintColorMulti parameters.

E.g, change this:

WaterTintColorMulti=C0C9D100
WaterFoamFilmColorMulti=7EAB9700

with this:

WaterTintColorMulti=C0C9D100
WaterFoamFilmColorMulti=C0C9D100

Note that the above parameters are present in many copies, one for each sun angle/weather type of the featured environment color zones, so make sure you are editing the appropriate entries.

In addition, talking more speifically about the banner of DynEn v 2.9 used as example by tonschk, I think that the usage of the "Clear Water Surface" submod might have enhanced the effect.

[tonschk]

.. Gap, you are my HERO Thank you




To be exact, there are three colors there, the color of the foam, and two colors of the water surface, do you think is possible to edit only two of this three colors?

[gap]

Originally Posted by tonschk

.. Gap, you are my HERO Thank you

Also note that Ambient Settings submods overwrite Main Mod's EnvColors_*.cfg settings. If you plan to use any of them, you should apply the suggested changes to the appropriate set of cfg files.

Originally Posted by tonschk

To be exact, there are three colors there, the color of the foam, and two colors of the water surface, do you think is possible to edit only two of this three colors?

IIRC, parameters affecting water surface color are 5 in total:

WaterLightColor
WaterDarkColor
WaterTintColorMulti
WaterFoamFilmColorMulti
ExtraSpecColor

As I wrote before, I am pretty sure that the parameter affecting the "phosphorescent" color you dislike, is WaterFoamFilmColorMulti which by the way is only used in conjunction with foam. If you want to make it sure, you can replace its current settings with an highly contrasting color, FF000000 (red) for instance, in order to locate it exactly in game.

[tonschk]

[Fifi]

Originally Posted by gap

You can either:

- replace Enhanced Visibility (high)
+ No Underwater Impurity Patch with Enhanced Visibility (medium) or...
- remove data/Misc/impurity.dds from Enhanced Visibility (high) and re-enable it without No Underwater Impurity Patch.

Let me know if you are satisfied with one of the above configurations. If not, tell me more in detail what is the effect you want to obtain, and I will suggest you the needed tweaks

Thanks a lot for your suggestion
I think i'll go for your second soluce, as i want to keep Enhanced Visibility high...and keep some underwater impurities/light as before, without this square glitch!

[gap]

Originally Posted by Fifi

Thanks a lot for your suggestion
I think i'll go for your second soluce, as i want to keep Enhanced Visibility high...and keep some underwater impurities/light as before, without this square glitch!

If by using the second solution impurities will be excessive, you can also overwrite Enhanced Visibility (high)'s impurity.dds with the one found in the medium version

P.S: note that the Enhanced Visibility version used will affect fog visibility. In general the high version was conceived for arcadey gameplay, for testing, and for taking crystal clear screenshots, the most realistic game experience being offered by the Main Mod without Enhanced Visibility submods or with sobers best ever fog V22 SH5 (also contained in DynEnv - Sobers Best Ever Tweaks) enabled on top.

For more realistic gameplay, delete data/Env/FogDistances.cfg fro the Enhanced Visibility submod used, or install on top of it one of the aforementioned mods by sober.

[Fifi]

Good idea! I'll try later on, and report back
Thanks again!

[gap]

Originally Posted by Fifi

Good idea! I'll try later on, and report back
Thanks again!

Please note the P.S. added at the end of my previous post

[Fifi]

Originally Posted by gap

Please note the P.S. added at the end of my previous post

Yes...agree fog is very lowered with EV high...
You call it "arcadish", and you may be right, but i still don't like the way fog happens in SH5.
Don't get me wrong, i like the way it is modeled (even with Sober mod), but it can't be for so long time each time!
As you know it, sea fog in RL is a lot more very punctual and short life. That's why i prefer playing with EV high, because fog can't be adjusted on time line.
Furtermore, high open sea fog was kind of rare imo.

Same problem in SH4 BTW...and the problem is even more pronounced.
Because open sea fog in Pacific is even more rare!
In 7 years living in Pacific area, i only saw 1 day of fog with my boat, and it was in a very limited area!

[gap]

Originally Posted by Fifi

Yes...agree fog is very lowered with EV high...
You call it "arcadish", and you may be right, but i still don't like the way fog happens in SH5.
Don't get me wrong, i like the way it is modeled (even with Sober mod), but it can't be for so long time each time!
As you know it, sea fog in RL is a lot more very punctual and short life. That's why i prefer playing with EV high, because fog can't be adjusted on time line.
Furtermore, high open sea fog was kind of rare imo.

Same problem in SH4 BTW...and the problem is even more pronounced.
Because open sea fog in Pacific is even more rare!
In 7 years living in Pacific area, i only saw 1 day of fog with my boat, and it was in a very limited area!

you don't need to say more