[REL] Dynamic Environment SH5

[gap]

Originally Posted by Choum

Is there's a way to have brighter night.
My wo can see some ship I can't due to the dark night.

yes and no: the previous version of DynEnv included a sub-mod called "brighter nights" which was doing exactly what you are looking for. If you want, you can still enable it on top of DynEnv v2.9 basemod, but you will loose the benefits of the skycolor hotfix which was merged with it. The better solution is creating a merge of the two mods, thus retaining the benefits of both. If you are interested into the latter option, I will give you directions on how to do it

Originally Posted by bandongogogo

Oh! gee thanks i'll set sail to those waters to take like 93847593845 screenshots, i dont like the no murky waters, i think that whoever uses this mod should get all the enviromental areas, but hey, there's no accounting for taste xD thanks again i'm enjoying this mod with the sobers waves + gales improved wave mechanics and looks amazing! -maybe the naighs underwater mod screws a little the brighty effect but looks awesomely realistic underwater!- danke danke her kaleun gap!

Thanks for the nice words, bandongogogo.

I am glad you are enjoying the mod, but don't forget that this is a community mod, and that it wouldn't hab been be possible without the contributions of modders and beta testers mentioned in the first page.

Originally Posted by Captain73

My color of water in the coastal waters.

Originally Posted by Captain73

Pd: My water -shallow waters and murky waters (i think) look exactly like the posted by Captain73 on the post #449, is that the intended color or is my underwater mod causing that?

Three main factors are affecting water colour in SH5: location, sun angle, weather. Moreover other "accessory" factors as lights.cfg, colour filters, wave settings and current wind, etc. may affect the final result. Given the complexity ot this system it is difficult for me, if possible at all, to judge at first sight which mod combination fits a given screenshot.

I suspect that the ones posted by Captain73 were taken with 'Clear Water Surface' enabled. This submod would make underwater colour to shine through the water surface, thus modifying slightly surface's tint, but it is also possible that the screenshots were taken at a particular hour of the day. Anyway, I am almost sure the kind of blue/green colour visible in them, is coming from DynEnv's murky water settings, as I don't know of any other mod that got it. The only way to be 100% sure, would be asking the original poster of the aforementioned screenies though

Originally Posted by robbierob2005

Thanks!!

I changed the values acscording posts 399 to 401 and the effect was not very improving.
I then replaced the hdr_exterior.cfg with the stock one. Looks better now. No white sun and curves is the upper corners.
I'll try to tweak some more see if I get any improvement also to see which values are causing this.

Originally Posted by Fifi

I see you're using Sober DOF V6, and it has great impact on sun lightning, giving sometimes white reflection on crew faces for instance, and sun glare very white.
Have you tried without?

Sorry robbie, I had overlooked DOF in your mod loadout
As suggested by Fifi, try removing it from your JSGME list and let us know

[Fifi]

I really don't know why in scene.dat, the fog change speed isn't working
I tried many settings, and so far no result...but still trying...

The day TDW will brake this code will be blessed by god
Fed up with so many days of medium fog.

[robbierob2005]

I tried the mod list without the Sobers DOF.
Now colours are faint. Like there aint enough contrast.

[Fifi]

Originally Posted by robbierob2005

I tried the mod list without the Sobers DOF.
Now colours are faint. Like there aint enough contrast.

I agree
You can open it, and try to adjust values to your liking too...well, just the hdr exterior if your issue is external view...

[robbierob2005]

Also, the sky looks 16bit. It's sometimes in layers. Like you have 16 bit colours.

[Fifi]

Gap, a little question:

- i'm quite sure you have cirrostratus or altostratus cloud layer in your mod, but i never see them...is it normal?
Always cumulus, mainly black/grey and almost never white

[gap]

Originally Posted by Fifi

- i'm quite sure you have cirrostratus or altostratus cloud layer in your mod, but i never see them...is it normal?

I am glad you are so sure about it , because I am not.

Originally Posted by Fifi

Always cumulus, mainly black/grey and almost never white

To be honest I have never paid too much attenction to cloud settings in SH5, but judging from stock and DynEnv textures I have seen, all clouds in game are of the cumulus type. Seeing other cloud types would be nice though. I will investigate further and see if adding them is going to be feasible.

[Fifi]

Originally Posted by gap

I am glad you are so sure about it , because I am not.

Seeing other cloud types would be nice though.

So i won't be sure of things anymore but i remember seeing stratus layer on top of cumulus layer in stock game environment (desabling DE is fast to check).
The effect was quite nice.
Am i dreaming again?

[gap]

Originally Posted by Fifi

:
So i won't be sure of things anymore but i remember seeing stratus layer on top of cumulus layer in stock game environment (desabling DE is fast to check).
The effect was quite nice.
Am i dreaming again?

Just for reference:

Cirrostratus:


Altostratus:


Cumulus:


Stock CloudsPack.dds:


DynEnv's (= RealEnv = AilClouds) CloudsPack.dds:


Some of DynEnv's cloud textures might remember stratus clouds, but the game might combine various textures in a way that is out of our control.

As for cloud colours, we can very them throug EnvColor settings, making them to depend on climate zone, weather type and sun angle.

[vanjast]

Hi, which 7zip version compression method is used for this mod.

I've twice got a compression errors from 2 separate downloads using 7-Zip V4.57 ?

Thanks
van

[gap]

Originally Posted by vanjast

Hi, which 7zip version compression method is used for this mod.

I've twice got a compression errors from 2 separate downloads using 7-Zip V4.57 ?

Thanks
van

Hi van,

answering your question after about 5 months from the release date is a bit difficult. I used 7-Zip's archiving functions for the first time with DynEnv 1.9 (previous versions were packed by stoianm), and I didn't take note of my compression settings. Anyway you are the first user reporting such an error.

[volodya61]

Originally Posted by vanjast

..I've twice got a compression errors from 2 separate downloads using 7-Zip V4.57 ?..

Where you dig up this version?.

The actual version at the moment is 9.20.. for about three years..
7zip

[vanjast]

Funny... I'll have to check what I downloaded !! Thanks

[gap]

Originally Posted by volodya61

Where you dig up this version?.

The actual version at the moment is 9.20.. for about three years..
7zip

well spotted

[Silent Steel]

Originally Posted by vanjast

Hi, which 7zip version compression method is used for this mod.

I've twice got a compression errors from 2 separate downloads using 7-Zip V4.57 ?

Thanks
van

The 7-ZIP version 9.20 works fine for me