tn_prvteye Posted September 30, 2008 Posted September 30, 2008 (edited) I've installed Wide Sky and the new Sept patch to WOE. This is what I get when it's overcast: The pics are with the new Black Sea Terrain, but it does it on all terrains. Any ideas? Anyone else seeing this, or did I screw something up somewhere along the way? I re-read the read-me (say that 3 times fast), and it did mention clipping issues, but I don't remember them being this bad pre-patch. Edited September 30, 2008 by tn_prvteye Quote
malibu43 Posted September 30, 2008 Posted September 30, 2008 I see similar issues using an Intel X3100 graphics chip. It's usually not bad unless I'm close to the cloud layer. And if I ever update the driver, all hell breaks loose with the canopy reflections. Quote
tn_prvteye Posted September 30, 2008 Author Posted September 30, 2008 Using two 8800GTXs (SLI, but disabled for WOE). I forgot to do the flightengine.ini trick (the one where you change the [GraphicsSettings] parameters). I changed that, and it seemed to help a bit...the clipping didn't start till I got closer to the layer anyway. Quote
tn_prvteye Posted October 1, 2008 Author Posted October 1, 2008 Well, Cellinsky did say there was some clipping in the readme. So, he's aware of it. I can put up with it since the rest of the "Wide Sky" mod is so fantastic. Quote
+Fubar512 Posted October 1, 2008 Posted October 1, 2008 That issue exits because that mod is attempting to use one cloud layer tile, whereas by default, the game uses multiple tiles. Stick will attest to that, right, Stick? Quote
Stick Posted October 1, 2008 Posted October 1, 2008 (edited) Thats true compare stock environment file and the one that comes with the mod. The specific entry of interest is [CloudLayer] TopTexture=CloudLayerTop%d.bmp BottomTexture=CloudLayerBottom%d.bmp Material=CloudLayerMaterial TileCount=21 NearTileCount=5 TileSize=4000.0 In the mod its [CloudLayer] TopTexture=overcast_top.tga BottomTexture=overcast_bottom.tga Material=CloudLayerMaterial TileCount=8 NearTileCount=2 TileSize=8000.0 I know it looks far better than stock but the last time I was listening clipping was the issue! Edited October 1, 2008 by Stick Quote
tn_prvteye Posted October 1, 2008 Author Posted October 1, 2008 Yeah, I fiddled around with those entries with no luck. Eh, no biggie. Quote
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