[WIP] Ground texture mod

howdy

i think Ekar has a project of sorts. i wont do more untill i have official help on modding, ie the SDK.

i do have a tree mod that recolours the trees to a more appropriate darker tone. see thread.

re shine, its all personal preference indeed !, personaly i just try not to confuse the eye candy that is a simple reflection with reality of materials. but there are " .mma " files that configure many of the shaders. so im sure it is possible. for this image i changed the shader effects. So it definetly is possible. suprised nobody is tinkering.

Originally Posted by CrisGer

I saw the threads about working AA last night, that is quite a development.

So is there any form of this landscape texture mod that we can try out?..i understand the decision to let the developers proceeed....so if not that is fine.

Re the shine, i have heard some crews (ground crews) tried wax to gain speed, perhaps that is what they were aiming for in the sim..... i have no idea if it helped back when.

is there any way we can adjust the ini or the settings to get back a bit of that shine? I kind of like it for at least some things.

[Ekar]

Ali says:

" for this image i changed the shader effects."


This is one of the nicest images I've seen from CloD. It's been the main pic to my custom homepage for months.

[philip.ed]

Ali, is that completely unedited?! That's that nicest CloD shot I have yet to see (I remember being equally gob-smacked when I first saw it)
The lighting looks perfect.

[adonys]

well ali, maybe you can share the modified shader with us, please?

[katdogfizzow]

Originally Posted by Ekar

I'm trying to work out what happened. They showed up when I first made the post, but now they don't.

If you right click the broken link icon and copy url, then you can see the images. I'll edit this post when I've fixed things.

Use tinypic.

whatever.org sucks balls

Originally Posted by philip.ed

Ali, is that completely unedited?! That's that nicest CloD shot I have yet to see (I remember being equally gob-smacked when I first saw it)
The lighting looks perfect.

prior to v v14550 i changed a few shader settings. the shaders have subsequently changed.. the result was the same image but i used colour balance on photoshop to simply balance the colours out as at that time i was discussing how il2 general colour balance seemed wrong. (to much red balance everywhere) the result was that image which blew me away too lol. the original image was exactly the same i just balanced the excessive red. when this sim is upto par with "MY" expectations i shall continue to do what i do.

i Found the original 1920 x1080 raw screenshot \o/ \o/ that was the shaders i re jigged/balanced a few months ago. another effect i added back then was surface reflection flash due to the heightened speculars. so..... you can see the red balance differences. it was approx 18:30 in that shot which was not representing a realistic light for that time of day in summer. hence the colour balance change. which was the only post processing of any sort. Try it for yourself !

[philip.ed]

That looks amazing. Would it be possible for you to play with the current version of the game, and see is this is possible to achieve? It would be interesting to see how this looks during daylight, too.

Awesome work mate!

thanks m8, i did write about 400 words about why i dont want mod this sim anymore ..... but really its agitating me just discussing it. If that little dream ive had about modding this to the best of my abbility re occurs ill be right on it. But for now they dont waste time on anyone here so im not wasting another 100 hrs of this sim untill its worth its weight in time. as far as im concerned 1C owe me 100 hours due to there lies and inability to converse as we currently do in the modern western world.

Not adapting to modernity in this fashion and the reluctance of change in general are traits i do not expect Luthier & co to have. But they do none the less. its practical ignorance now.

i feel disrespected as a customer presently but i'll wait patiently.

[philip.ed]

Fair enough mate, can't say I disagree either!