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Waterzone Installation

Posted:
Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:22 pm
by Foxtrot Sport
I know you guys are sick of hearing about it, but I'm at dire straits here.
I've just downloaded it for what is about the 3rd time, and still have no clue as to what to do. Here's how the file is set up when you unzip the original file, it has two folders, one entitled scenery and one texture.
Inisde Texture is a lone file named "OceanHeightField"
Inside Scenery it goes through two more folders, so it looks like this:
Scenery>world>texture
inside that last folder at the end of the line is 13 mb worth of bmp's.
I haven't a clue as to what to do, my first instint was to put them in thier files in the scenery and texture folders of FS9, but that apparently didn't work, so....
Give me your input on this and I swear, i will never mention it again.
Thanx
-HF
Re: Waterzone Installation

Posted:
Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:59 pm
by alrot
What video card do you have instaled? ,If it isn't a Direct9 compatible won't work trust me i also did everything i could,and if you have a Geforce 4 MX i say again
Re: Waterzone Installation

Posted:
Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:42 pm
by Foxtrot Sport
Really? it doesn't work with a MX 440? Darn!! I wonder if any other water textures work as well, cuz now i'm sad
-HF
Re: Waterzone Installation

Posted:
Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:50 pm
by alrot
Nope you wont find it,anyway in a case of a miracle High_Flyer240000 please send me a IM believe me i did everything i could,i even bought an FX when i found out that this V.card is not compatible with my motherboard
fortualy i sold it for the same price i bought it.....
Re: Waterzone Installation

Posted:
Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:44 am
by commoner
...mmm....the readme looks pretty straightforward to me but obviously not to you ...I'll try to simplify what it says...... Open the FS9 main folder and then the TEXTURE folder and put the OceanHeightsField file in there.....Back in the Main FS9 folder open the SCENERY folder then the WORLD folder then the TEXURE folder and put all those bmps into there....overwrite when asked and that's it.
..........Be sure to make backups of your original files in case you don't like the effect.
It works best with water slider set to high.....commoner
Re: Waterzone Installation

Posted:
Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:42 am
by Foxtrot Sport
There's a readme that comes with it? My "fs9 downloads" folder is so jampacked it might of over written another one.
Are there any other good water effects packages that would work with my vid card (Geforce MX 440). If so thanx for the help.
-HF
Re: Waterzone Installation

Posted:
Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:53 am
by commoner
Give me your input on this and I swear, i will never mention it again.
Thanx
-HF
..........mmmm......lol......Promises, promises......well, I gave you my input.............commoner
Re: Waterzone Installation

Posted:
Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:19 pm
by GA_Pilot
I may be wrong, but I dont think any of the water textures will work with an MX card, because MX cards do not support DX9 ???
Re: Waterzone Installation

Posted:
Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:32 pm
by Rocket_Bird
What operating system are you running? Anything before Windows 2000 it wont work from what ive found out
Re: Waterzone Installation

Posted:
Thu Mar 17, 2005 10:39 pm
by Foxtrot Sport
I'm running windows xp home, and it is a bummer about the vid card, i installed another water effects, and unfortunately, didn't work, maybe none of them do work.
-HF
Re: Waterzone Installation

Posted:
Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:39 am
by stiz
WRONG i found a set of water textures that worked with a GeForce 4 MMX 440 over at avsim, there not as good as the DX9 ones but there good enough, i'll have a hunt see if i can find em again.
Stiz
Re: Waterzone Installation

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Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:51 am
by stiz
WRONG i found a set of water textures that worked with a GeForce 4 MMX 440 over at avsim, there not as good as the DX9 ones but there good enough, i'll have a hunt see if i can find em again.
Stiz
Proof

:http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=screen;action=display;num=1109629003
Edit: think it was these ones at Avsim:
Filename: fs9wat2a.zip
License: Freeware
Added: 31st October 2003
Downloads: 8425
Author: Lynn and Bill Lyons
Size: 827kb
Re: Waterzone Installation

Posted:
Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:29 pm
by alrot
Do you see any water reflexion on it? ::)
Re: Waterzone Installation

Posted:
Fri Mar 18, 2005 2:29 pm
by stiz
Yes actually, with a MMX 440, even with the water effects on high you just get old boring defult texture (the dark blue right benife the aircraft) but as you can see the water reflects and the "seaweed" as clipper calls it (:D) moves like waves and the sun is reflected in the water but it just wasn't in the shots

Stiz
Re: Waterzone Installation

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Sat Mar 19, 2005 8:48 am
by alrot
Truly truth Stiz i didn't relize the waves of the ocean now ....well after all that's all we can get,thanks buddy