CoD X Files

[Jaws2002]

Originally Posted by addman

I actually prefer the latest ones with the more greenish matte looking sea (reminds me very much of how the sea looked when going fishing with my dad on the Swedish west coast as a kid, very greenish kind of sea). So technically maybe they've toned it down for performance reasons (?) but artistically I actually prefer the current version. There are two sides to this, technical and artistic IMO.

I know very well how the seea looks. I worked at sea for five years on cruise ships.
The light and sky collor is part of how the sea water looks. The collor of the sky reflects in the water. Under cloudy sky the water looks greenish, under blue sunny sky the sea looks blue. This effect was very well captured by the last lighting engine. Now it looks the same, suny or not.

Here are two shots from the older version with clouds and without:

under cloudy sky:



Sunny sky: