1x water and FS9-style reflections ?

[Daube]

Hi all,

After successfully testing FS Skyworld 2004 clouds in FSX, I began to investigate for the water.
In fact, the 1x water looks like the default FS9 water, same kind of color, same sun reflection, etc... For FS9, we had for example the famous morewatr.zip file that would bring some new water textures and colors, and some better reflections, we could get waves reflecting the sun.

I tried it in FSX and but it didn't work, the reflections in 1x mode still look like the default FS9 ones.
For info, I would like to get some waves/reflections like that:


What I have done is rename the OceanHeightField.bmp that can be found in this pack to OceanHeight20field.bmp, like the one that can be found in the FSX directory. The plot is getting at least some nice sun reflections without having to switch to 2x water (too much impact on my video card).
I suppose of course that nobody here cares about that, but I ask anyway: Is it possible at all ?

[UU]

Excuse me,
what Corsair dou you use?

[SubZer0]

Is 2x Low water too much on your GPU? What are your system specs?

[Daube]

Is 2x Low water too much on your GPU? What are your system specs?

I have a 6800 GT, this card is really not that powerfull anymore.
Most of the times, it can handle the 2x Low (and higher) water reflection, but when I get to a dense area, the addition of water+scenery+autogen becomes too heavy. Also 2x water reflections with heavy meteo (storms etc... I use random weather) has an impact that is frequently too high.

That's why I was trying to get something a little bit better in 1x mode. To me, the FS9 modified water reflections looked better than those animated waves in FSX 1x High water...

[ATI_7500]

And if you just got one of Tom Knudsen's modified and reduced 2.x textures and set the water to 2.x low?

[Daube]

Excuse me,
what Corsair dou you use?

Oh sorry I have missed your question  :-[
This Corsair can be found on Simv, it has a nice flight model, it looks really good extrnally and it even has a nice virtual cockpit !!
Look somewhere in the FS2004 military section, should be easy to find, there is one and ONLY ONE corsair with a VC in the whole FS freeware world

[Daube]

And if you just got one of Tom Knudsen's modified and reduced 2.x textures and set the water to 2.x low?

I didn't try it yet.
It's not the one that makes smaller waves for calmer ocean surface, is it ? The default waves are too big for me, I really dont like the effect they have in rivers and lakes.

[ATI_7500]

It's not the one that makes smaller waves for calmer ocean surface, is it ?

No.

Tom Knudsen's stuff is on Av-youknowwhere.

[Daube]

I will have a look to it then. Thanks for the advise