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Just installed Bill Lyons' water effects and I've got to say I think they're a difference like night and day.  :o  I agree with everyone with negative posts about FS9's default water.  I can now actually look down and believe I'm over water.  :)  A few shots of Lake Michigan.....

Nice shots MC
I have to agree that the add-on water effects make the world of difference. Pop down to the Caribbean in a float plane, and just drool

Thanks Oz, will do.  Gotta check it out.

nice shots mc...

Nice shots.  Personally, I prefer the Lemoncat effects as they look better close-up (especially in a floatplane).

But it's all subjective...

Glad you found out about that!

You know, i'm not convinced by it. It looks like smooth water photographed from a couple of metres away. So when it's blanketed over oceans and scaled up its not going to look all that good.

Makes me kinda thirsty. I think I'll go have a glass of water.

I think i tried that water addon and it didnt work. maybe i need a better graphics card. I tried another water Addon and it just looked like i had a sheet of glass over the default  ??? or maybe its cuz im stuck with Fs 2002 lol. Im drooling over that water you have by the way

Nice water texture, I like it.

Yeeha!  Now if only someone could make the terrain that realistic . . .

I've spent almost 18 years on the ocean and I have to say, that water looks pretty, but in my humble opinion, unrealistic. The waves are too big and far apart.

Now, there are times, when the water is so calm it looks like glass.

I'll try it anyway.

Thanks

Added: For some reason, the textures look better in the sim. I wonder if it's possible to get a more random appearence out of the waves, kinda like the async. AI strobe lights. All the reflections move in unison and that's unrealistic. But it sure does look beautiful.

I've had that add on for so long I forget what the orginal looks like, could some one please post a picture fo the defult one!

Skittles is correct about his assesment regarding Bill Lyons water effects, that's why I use modified OceanFX2

Nexus, I guess it's all personal preference, and yours looks pretty good, but.........I've flown many tens of thousands of miles over oceans and I can't ever recall, from any altitude, that dimpled/stippled look of the water surface.

Im using water zone, by: Pete Drazzof, Lynn & Bill Lyons, Daniel Buechter, Ed Truthan

Its good looking and good on fps.