at least for XWA.

OK, here's my first go on a under/over-water surface for XWA. The textures still need tweaking, some meshes must be splitted and I need to rework and improve the engine glow used for the various fog effects.

How good the final surface will look, heavily depends on the actual lighting in the mission - pic 5 shows the effect of bad lighting in skirmish.

Apart from scaling them down, those pics are not edited.



Although actually intended for below the water surface, the fog does its job well.

surface with underwater terrain

surface with underwater terrain

surface with underwater terrain

bad lighting.

[ 18 January 2005: Message edited by: General_Trageton ]

awesome!

shouldn't you crash if you flew into the water, or are you just showing what it looks like underwater? the concept seems cool, though.

That's the only problem that I'm not really able to solve due to the engine's limitations. It's either over or underwater, depending on where the units are placed in the mission.

Now now, that's more like it....






And on the surface:




On my to-do list:
- tweak/improve some textures
- add more fog underwater
- add some fog on the surface
- split meshes
- release =)

Ah, much better indeed!

Holy **** dude! That looks fricking fantastic, and nice idea on EG for fog effects.

As for crashing into the water, can't you set up the collide boxes so that there's no collision on the water face? OPT Explorer might be able to help ya with that one.

Hmmm, damn, that's an interesting idea! I'll look into that!

WOHOO! it worked! Thanks for the great hint Hell Raiser! No more crashing on the water! =)

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I'm glad it worked! (I knew it would. )

almost 4 years and he cals me a Newb! N'argh!

Compared to moi, but then my experiance has been zilch for about 4 years.

Now finally put into use:

Scenes from a mission for the Project slowly takign shape: The Evactuation of Traquia City:





A Patriot Frigate(underwater, yes) transporting evacuated civilians away from the city.

WOW!!!!!!!!


wish I had XWA:(

I should really re-install XWA

This will make me reinstall XWA.

Wow.