Sea surface

[Mark1616]

It is a real miss that the waves (the state of the sea surface) do not reflect the wind speed even in this release of the MSFS. It wouldn't necessarily need to be a huge work, just a few more sets of textures. Otherwise the weather effects seem to be OK, especially I liked the turbulence, there is something new to it.

Mark

[inca]

Of course, why not ???

But do you want to see the framerate fall at 2 fps ?

JP

[n4gix]

>It is a real miss that the waves (the state of the sea
>surface) do not reflect the wind speed even in this release of
>the MSFS. It wouldn't necessarily need to be a huge work, just
>a few more sets of textures. Otherwise the weather effects
>seem to be OK, especially I liked the turbulence, there is
>something new to it.

LOL! If it truly were as simple as you think, they would have done it!

People who have no knowledge of programming really crack me up...
:(

[Mark1616]

>
>LOL! If it truly were as simple as you think, they would have
>done it!
>
>People who have no knowledge of programming really crack me
>up...
>:(

I hope you remain cracked forever.
I have reasonable knowledge of programming, particularly in atmospheric modeling, therefore ...
Time of day triggers texture changes, doesn´t it? Why not weather too?
Cheers,
Mark

[Karl]

>People who have no knowledge of programming really crack me up...

That was somewhat rude. Did you intend it to be?




Karl,

AMD 3400+ (w/ ASUS K8N-E MB),1024 MB RAM, Radeon 9800 Pro

[STUART_H]

Lets keep it civil guys !

I personally think Mark had a valid request. I was finding that I was getting a horrific effect of the waves (like 'crushed ice') when water set to Low x2-Max x2. However if one substitutes the OceanHeight.bmp with an alternative (from the many done for FS9), the 'crushed ice' effect of the waves is gone, although the reflections remain.

I suspect that it might be feasible to have different OceanHeight.bmp for the differing wind levels - say for calm, breezy, windy and stormy - and for FSX to dynamically load the OceanHeight.bmp depending on the wind speed?

What say the developers on this subject?

Regards,
Stuart

[mgh]

And separate .bmp files for different wind directions?

[Buckster13]

I would assume (and I really mean assume) that it will this will be done up just fine when DX10 is incorporated. In a video on www.gamespot.com a dev was talking about how DX10 shaders could add wave height to water with whitecaps, spray and all in 3d. It would seem to me that if this is truely a feature MS is using as a selling point coupled with FSX being the "benchmark" for vista, they would get the sea states/waves as accurate as possible. Just my opinion, but only time will tell.