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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!

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.

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

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

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

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!  :)

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.

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