Hello all,

 

This has been annoying me for years but have always forgot or not had time to raise the issue.

 

It is to do with the water animation and the way it repeats. You notice that you get a nice wave effect for a while then the animation "jumps" if you like back to the beginning of the sequence. This looks bloody awful and frankly distracts me.

 

Does anyone have any idea how to stop this happening?

 

Regards and thanks in advance

This may sound obvious, but you would have to find a wave animation where the last frame was "close" in pattern to the first frame of the animation / series of textures.

 

In the absence of better ideas, the only thing I can suggest is trying the different options in REX (or whatever you use for water) and watching them to see which is the least jarring.

In the absence of better ideas, the only thing I can suggest is trying the different options in REX (or whatever you use for water) and watching them to see which is the least jarring.

 

+1

 

A lot of wave animations are too obvious (and far from realistic). I have used REX's Sparkling for quite some time because it had that wow-factor, but it's a very obvious effect and unrealistic from most altitudes. I now use REX's FTX calm and have no problem at ALL with that 'jumping'. :wink:

I've used the REX Sparkling set for a few years now and used to have a problem with the jumping also, almost like it was resetting the animations. One day I was experimenting with the wave animation textures and for kicks backed them up and converted them from 32bit to DXT5 and now I have no jumping, smooth as silk and not as noticeable as before. Guessing that the 32bit wave animation textures just weren't playing well with my system. I've noticed that in REX Essentials it now gives the option to install the wave animations in DXT1 which would probably have the same result as what I did by converting them to DXT5 from 32bit.

Been using FSX for I think about 4-5 years now, never noticed it!

 

But as greengriffon said, just go through different setups and see which one you like the best.

I may be wrong, but I'm guessing what Jazz69 is referring to is not the general wave animation out in open water, but the waves breaking on the shoreline, which do exactly what he describes. They've been annoying me for years too ! But as far as I know they are not generated or affected by packages such as FEX (which I have) or REX, but come from base FSX ?

I may be wrong, but I'm guessing what Jazz69 is referring to is not the general wave animation out in open water, but the waves breaking on the shoreline, which do exactly what he describes. They've been annoying me for years too ! But as far as I know they are not generated or affected by packages such as FEX (which I have) or REX, but come from base FSX ?

 

Afraid I am talking about the general wave animation fella. I still see this no matter what set I choose.

Did you try the conversion option in REX that cmpbellsjc suggested?

Thanks for the heads-up, cmpbellsjc. I'll try that out tonight. That "reset" has bugged me since the beginning. I just assumed it was programmed that way.

Just delete the "fx-wave" in the Effects folder, end of problem.

I believe the OP is referring to the "ocean movement" (general waves) and not the little wave "lines" that appear on the coasts.

Just delete the "fx-wave" in the Effects folder, end of problem.

 

Never thought doing that, brilliant :Waiting:

Did you try the conversion option in REX that cmpbellsjc suggested?

 

Yes it is always set to DXT1

I believe the OP is referring to the "ocean movement" (general waves) and not the little wave "lines" that appear on the coasts.

 

He is. I'm back under my stone. Sorry for muddying the water chaps. I'd still like to fix those on shore waves tho. Maybe I'll open a new topic,

If you like the horrible shore waves, then you´ll really like "More Waves III"

 

http://www.simviation.com/fsxscenery10.htm

 

Enjoy!