[WIP] Ground texture mod

mornin !, feedback is great thanks. still need some more though. its a must that we compare similar pics in terms of atmospherics and cloud cover with attention to distance from objective.


looking at my images today, yes its definetly not right still, but for me the "design" is better, just need those colour compromises etc. at dusk time im so very happy with it in general. as we all are with cod even with vanilla textures. so i reckon its about compromising.

water colour. im not going to mess with that. on a summer days from height water reflects as blue, because of the bounce of light from sky off the sea and also the mass concentration effect. i know the brown comes from the overcast sky and a mix of sand particles in the sea. i live in blackpool so i know the sea. and were in a game here that isnt quite doing enough sshader wise to satisfy me/us.

Big Pickle. id love to see that awesome image you posted without overcast sky, totally blue sky etc etc. just to compare the colours.

[GuillermoZS]

Hi! Great job so far. I find those last screenshots a bit oversaturated IMO, maybe reducing contrast would help... I know the absence of haze and atmosphere affects the high altitude looking of the ground though...

Agree that the water should be browner... Don´t know if it can be changed through textures though...

Looking forward to this

Originally Posted by GuillermoZS

Agree that the water should be browner... Don´t know if it can be changed through textures though...

damn you all to hell ! LMAO

ill be back with brown sea folks. but really what are you guys on ? i know what im on. but the sea is blue, its translucent with alot of crap in it. up close without blue sky, it is brown. but not so with a blue sky above. then depending on the concetration of sky cover mixed with further light bounce it becomes grey. and when the light it fully diffused and in direct with low bounce its then brown.

[philip.ed]

I disagree about the sea. It should be murkier around the coast-line, and more blue/black/dark as it gets deeper...

FAIL ! got the animations of the seascape but cant find anything else. and i like blue sea anyway, seriously it wouldnt look right any other colour other than more grey. it also exists everywhere (under terrain) so maybe its hard coded. not sure.

[philip.ed]

Hmm, I recall this picture:



But then again, the detail isn't really too visible.

Although....



I will add that, in CloD, the sea doesn't seem to flow towards the cost; in some cases it moves perpendicular to the coast...(wish the game would run on my rig so I could have a go at testing myself)

I totally see what you mean Ali, not brown like poop brown just not the blue it is at the moment, it almost looks a little tropical. You have the north sea, its a fresher and deeper than the channel, the channel is very sandy and that gives it that brownish hue, but as i said its only brownish a little.

I can grab some photo's for you if you want when the weather is better of the canals and water ways around the birmingham area, they give a real good green/brown waterway colour.

But hey mate, its your mod, the community will support how you want to make it buddy.

One should consider that the colour of the sea is depending very much on light condition, what is inside the sea (algae), how shallow or deep it is or if it is real clear water or if there is much plankton or dirt in it and water temperature and the ground composition. I guess also the air may alter the appearance of water.

I remember having visited an Island just short south of Brittany in France (Atlantic ocean) so quite north and nothing that should look too different from the Channel.

Well, it did. It looked on this particular day as if I had been in the Carribean with locally turquoise cristal clear waters. The same water may look completely different on a rainy day.

Some images of the Blautopf, a location in Southern Germany that translates roughly into Blue Pot called this way for some good reason as you immediately will see in the pictures. As I have seen it with my own eyes: it is definitely and really very blue:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blautopf

lovely pictures !.

[Buzpilot]

Maybe too many colors, from plants they didn't use back then?
And also seems a bit overwhelming, like colors from spring,summer,autumn mixed?