how to check water textures....

[flyforever]

I use rex and had animated waves in dx9. In dx 10, no matter what I do, I keep getting animated waves without reflections. I am using the shader fixer 3.2.

 

Is there a way to start fresh with water textures in order to bring back the nice looking water with reflections?

 

thanks

tc

[Paul J]

Reflections need the water to be set to 5 (giving cloud reflections) or 6 (giving land and cloud) in the [Terrain] folder.

Both REX and Active Sky water (I used REX "Sparkling") is very nice in DX10, but I think1 to 4 have no reflections.

[flyforever]

I've been with FSX for many years, but this is a stumper...

Where's this file/folder located?

tc

[Paul J]

Sorry, TC - I should have said [Terrain] section of the fsx.cfg! Duh! :unsure:

[flyforever]

I found it, but despite the changes, the water is white capped and reflections. I would like the glass look, but so far it's been elusive....

tc

[Paul J]

I use rex and had animated waves in dx9. In dx 10, no matter what I do, I keep getting animated waves without reflections. I am using the shader fixer 3.2.

 

But here you say:-

 

I found it, but despite the changes, the water is white capped and reflections. I would like the glass look, but so far it's been elusive....

 

 

Well I don't quite know what to say, tc - I don't quite undestand whether you want waves like FS9, or not, or whether you want glass water - all of these are available when using REX, and are nothing to do with the DX10 Shader patches - all the shader patches do is to darken the water somewhat, to be more like the colour of DX9 water.

DX 10 will provide whitecaps according to windspeed and direction, which DX9 doesn't do, so to get "glass" you need to have no wind - plus, because of REX's possible impact - you might well see waves..

 

I hope this helps, short of some greater clarification.

 

pj

[flyforever]

This clarifies things for me. I had not thought of wind as a factor. I'll try to see how with no wind the water changes, and also play with REX.

 

Thanks for all of your great help, Paul.

tc

[Paul J]

No prob, tc. I want to know what problems exist, so that we can find a cause - and fix if possible. It's not possible to test every airport that exists, for example, and so devs have to rely on as much feedback as possible. 

 

So - thanks for sharing your problems!  (thinks.. must read psychiatry 101...)  :biggrin:

[DylanM]

I had a similar issue but with the opposite symptoms (reflections but no animation) after changing my water texture settings in REX. I was able to fix it by disabling the water shader checkbox in the fixer, hopping in and out of FSX, then re-enabling the shader...