mobidutch Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 I just watched the demo video of TrueEarth US Washington (gorgeous!), and I noticed that it contains very nice looking water textures and reflections. How did you guys achieve that? Is there some tool you used that I could use with other sceneries as well? Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david broome Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 12 minutes ago, mobidutch said: I just watched the demo video of TrueEarth US Washington (gorgeous!), and I noticed that it contains very nice looking water textures and reflections. How did you guys achieve that? Is there some tool you used that I could use with other sceneries as well? Thank you! Reflections can be turned on within Xplane graphic options but they are a quite high performance cost and there is a long standing bug that causes reflections to "bounce" at certain altitudes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobidutch Posted June 23, 2019 Author Share Posted June 23, 2019 Ah. I'll play with that a bit, thanks for the info! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orbx Flyer Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 On 6/22/2019 at 1:03 PM, david broome said: Reflections can be turned on within Xplane graphic options but they are a quite high performance cost and there is a long standing bug that causes reflections to "bounce" at certain altitudes. Better way, is through UWXP 2.5.1...within its water section. You can dial in a great living water scape...rolling waves by wind direction, sparkle...etc. My screen captures has that dialed in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobT Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 You can play around with the water with this excellent utility. It's THE tool for upping your frame rate as well. Go through JV's suggestion...it is well worth it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david broome Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 21 hours ago, BobT said: You can play around with the water with this excellent utility. It's THE tool for upping your frame rate as well. Go through JV's suggestion...it is well worth it! I use VMI twick VR and find it does little to offset the performance cost of reflections and the bouncing bug still remains whichever 3rd party free or paid you use. You can get better reflections by changing some values that control the water parameters certainly. It may be that reflections are more CPU intensive so where that is the bottleneck people who are most stretched there will note the greater performance degradation. I think the same applies with object shadows. Hopefully Xplane Vulkan can eventually pass some of this stuff onto other threads so that they have far less impact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulk Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 On 6/24/2019 at 5:55 PM, PNW User said: Better way, is through UWXP 2.5.1...within its water section. You can dial in a great living water scape...rolling waves by wind direction, sparkle...etc. My screen captures has that dialed in. I have UWXP 2.5.1 also. I've not had much time to play around with it. Any chance of a screenshot ref your water section - Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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