Water effects

[jiri01]

The water effects (waves) has been always very good in DCS. Recently I noticed that there are new offshore effects. You can see now the depth of water and it is realy convincing. I like to just take a helicopter and fly along a coast.

 

To me it is clear that the people behind DCS are dedicated to the product and care about their customers. Otherwise there would not be such free improvements.

 

That is all I wanted to express,

 

Jiri

[Bobik2002]

Yeah I really love Ed.

[DW2020]

Iam very impressed and hadbt noticed it until recently but now I quite often fly down the coast at low level just to enjoy the wave effect

[Wizard_03]

It’s beautiful now, makes me excited for the Marianas map

[ebabil]

some river actions would be good too

[Nightstalker]

Yes, the water looks absolutely amazing!

[Bloodhound57]

No doubt the art team is world-class.

[LuckyFromArma]

It's not just the water, fields look much more realistic than they used to.

[toni]

Will we have a long white stern wake with Supercarrier when setting speed ahead full or flank ?

[Bob1943]

Are you talking about "water effects" in the new Open Beta version or the old Stable version?

[Northstar98]

Probably 2.5.6

 

And for the people on stable, anyone want to share some screenshots? Pretty please? :worthy:

[Bob1943]

I only use the stable version. Here is a water sunset shot, plus 2 more along the coast of Dubai. That is pretty tame looking water.

 

I would like to see some breaking surf along the beaches. Maybe the wind setting would impact the water to cause a little more "white water effects" to be visible?

Edited April 30, 2020 by Bob1943

[Bob1943]

Well, I answered my own question. Yes, cranking up the wind setting makes a big difference.

 

Here is the same location with 25 knots of wind blowing into the beach. That kicked up the surf. However, there is still no 'Foaming water" right at the water-beach interface to break up that "sharp" line where water meets land.

 

I also noticed that you can see the "mesh" lines in the white surf in the lower right quadrant of the picture.

Edited April 30, 2020 by Bob1943

[jiri01]

There are couple of pictures of the new water effects.

[jiri01]

It’s beautiful now, makes me excited for the Marianas map

 

 

 

Exactly

[Jafergon]

I really like water. Personally I like oceans a bit less reflecive, mostly with some wind, so I teaked those two lines in waterCommon.hlsl Basically my tweak decreases reflectivity on the oceans depending with stronger winds. It's just a small tweak to fit my personal taste.

 

 

float windFactor = exp(min(0, 4 - g_WindForce)*0.327);

windFactor = lerp(windFactor, 1, exp(-viewDir.w * 0.006));

 

 

 

 

I also changed the sea colour in the Caucasus map (terrain.cfg.lua inside the caucasus map folder) to be a bit more saturated and blue, also to my personal taste (the Gulf map is encypted, so this is not possible)

 

 

seaDeepColor = {0.23,0.38,0.68},

seaScatterColor = {0.31,0.72,0.20},

seaOpacity = 3,

[Irishlad200000]

Have to agree that DCS has come on in leaps and bounds! I have tried all the sims, including civil ones! The closest one to the real thing is DCS!! I’m a real life light aircraft pilot in Northern Ireland and have an Ex RAF trainer, Thruster T-600N Sprint. It’s not a jet, but a rugged STOL prop! Handles a little like the A10 with no load!

 

 

 

 

YouTube WeePilot

 

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCKnkHsPp2MhuK-sSMEencCQ

[pimp]

I really like water. Personally I like oceans a bit less reflecive, mostly with some wind, so I teaked those two lines in waterCommon.hlsl Basically my tweak decreases reflectivity on the oceans depending with stronger winds. It's just a small tweak to fit my personal taste.

 

 

float windFactor = exp(min(0, 4 - g_WindForce)*0.327);

windFactor = lerp(windFactor, 1, exp(-viewDir.w * 0.006));

 

 

 

 

I also changed the sea colour in the Caucasus map (terrain.cfg.lua inside the caucasus map folder) to be a bit more saturated and blue, also to my personal taste (the Gulf map is encypted, so this is not possible)

 

 

seaDeepColor = {0.23,0.38,0.68},

seaScatterColor = {0.31,0.72,0.20},

seaOpacity = 3,

How do y'all figure this stuff out?:) I'll this a try.

[Jafergon]

How do y'all figure this stuff out?:) I'll this a try.

 

 

 

 

Just trial and error :)

[Northstar98]

Mmmm, some of those do look good, thanks for sharing :thumbup:

 

Is there much of a change from 2.5.5 stable to 2.5.6 or are they roughly equivalent?

[thasundancekid]

Hi! 

 

is there any way to edit waterCommon.hlsl so that it always shows some foam? even if the wind is "0"

[Mazit]

14.09.2021 в 20:33, thasundancekid сказал:

is there any way to edit waterCommon.hlsl so that it always shows some foam? even if the wind is "0"

Hi, guys!
I also join this issue. Tell me, is there a solution?