morewatr.zip reflections problem...

[edzmen]

hello again!  ::)

Ive downloaded and installed the great morewatr.zip water textures package but I have one problem:

I can't seem to get any sun glare reflections off the surface of the water as shown in the preview shots.

Do I need to alter any reflections or effects settings to make it work?

What times of day are best for surface shimmer and reflection?

Thanks!

[eno]

Make sure that you have special effects set to high ...... and water effects also in the FS9 graphics settings.

Best times of day are dawn and dusk.

[Mr.Mugel]

Try using the clear sky preset, and then mod it, so that there are just a few clouds, otherwise the sim will load the "overcast" reflection file, and won

[AF777-300ER]

what's your system specs?you must have a DX9 compliant card to see awesome water reflection.e.g.128 or 256mb video card.reccomend either ATI or NVIDIA

[FrodoFraggins]

You can make a DX8 card have the reflective water, you need Software enabled shaders. These tax your system badly so only get them if your desperate

[edzmen]

what's your system specs?you must have a DX9 compliant card to see awesome water reflection.e.g.128 or 256mb video card.reccomend either ATI or NVIDIA

Look at my sig, its got it all there...  ::)

I must have one of the most powerfull PC's on this forum currently - so I cant understand why the refelctions dont show?  :P

I'll have a mess around and see what's cookin' - thanks for all the advice guys!  :)

[Delta_]

Set weather to user-defined, then set your clouds in the advanced settings.  Make sure they are no greater than 5/8 for the amount of clouds. This prevents FS loading the overcast water.

[Mr.Mugel]

Have you set weather as I did say above ? I had that problem, too. It only works with certain weather settings, because if there are some clouds, a different reflection map is used, which doesn