ships float above water

[colmack]

I'm having a little issue on a few of the terrains the ships seem to hover over the water so far I'm seeing this in the Libya map and the DBS map any ideas? the stocks and Iceland seems to be fine.

[Wrench]

which versions of DBS and Libya? (they've gone through a couple of changes)

 

Look in the terrain data inis, you should see this for ALL sea and sea/land transitions tiles:

 

HeightMapScale=2.000000

 

both terrains should have full black painted _HM.bmps for the sea, sea/land transition tiles

[colmack]

Libya-ver375 and and i think its the latest DBS from SF2 download section It has the HeightMapScale=2.000000 fix I think.

[Fubar512]

It's the water texture material entry in the terrainXXX_data.ini that's causing that. Make sure that it looks exactly like so:

 

[WaterTextureMaterial]

EffectShaderName=terWaterEffect.fx

DepthBufferCheck=TRUE

DepthBufferWrite=TRUE

RenderedInOrder=FALSE

AlphaTestEnabled=FALSE

CullMode=CLOCKWISE

LightEnabled=TRUE

SpecularEnabled=TRUE

EmissiveEnabled=FALSE

FogEnabled=TRUE

AmbientColor=1.000000,1.000000,1.000000,1.000000

DiffuseColor=1.000000,1.000000,1.000000,1.000000

SpecularColor=1.000000,1.000000,1.000000,1.000000

SpecularPower=10.000000

Reflectivity=0.00000

ZBufferOffset=0.000000

BlendOp=ONE

NumTextureStages=1

TextureStage[01].TextureName=

TextureStage[01].MipMap=TRUE

TextureStage[01].FilterEnabled=TRUE

TextureStage[01].StageColorOp=TEXTURE_MODULATE_DIFFUSE

TextureStage[01].StageAlphaOp=NO_OP

[colmack]

Thanks for the help!! that fixed it hee hee the only time i want to see the screws is when the ship(s) are turning turtle

[+Stary]

ALL older terrains (pre May11 I think) have to be adjusted this way from my observations

[Wrench]

looks like some data ini checking is ahead, and a post in the KB for a fix!!

 

thanks guys! (gonna double check and make sure)

[+Stary]

had the same issue with my repaint of GermanyCE when using data from late 2009, so it's as Fubar pointed out, water section that needs update, these are the key entries:

 

EffectShaderName=terWaterEffect.fx

DepthBufferCheck=TRUE

DepthBufferWrite=TRUE

RenderedInOrder=FALSE

AlphaTestEnabled=FALSE

CullMode=CLOCKWISE

[Wrench]

looks like an update is in order; this is from the wate section in DBS:

 

[WaterTextureMaterial]

//UseEffectShader=TRUE

//EffectShaderName=WaterEffect.fx

EffectShaderName=terWaterEffect.fx

DepthBufferCheck=TRUE

DepthBufferWrite=FALSE

RenderedInOrder=TRUE

AlphaTestEnabled=TRUE

CullMode=CLOCKWISE

LightEnabled=TRUE

SpecularEnabled=TRUE

EmissiveEnabled=FALSE

 

Note the 'FALSE" have to fix that

[Fubar512]

The ships aren't floating above the water due to any changes made by Third Wire. The answer is, however, quite disturbing.....

 

You see, it's the eels. They are converting all ships into hovercraft, for their own diabolical purposes

[+Stary]

(whispers in shock)

 

they... are... back...

 

(it's full Moon night... outside, in the distance one can hear wolfs howling. Fade to black. End titles)

[+Major Lee]

In an early version of DBS, I had made hm files with random bumps.. Ships rose and fell as if riding waves, and even the wake would vary with the ships movement... Don't know if "modern" SF will do that..

[TheWarrior]

Hey guys. I just found this and tried redoing the above entries for the central Pacific terrain and I still get floating ships. Any one else have this issue with this terrain?

[TheWarrior]

Never mind. I figured it out. Some of the HeightMapScales were set at 25.000000. Change them to 2.000000 and all is good now.

[KJakker]

I just noticed the issue with Central Pacific today as well.

 

The following entry's in the "CentralPacific_DATA" file appear to be the issue. 

 

[WaterTextureMaterial]

UseEffectShader=TRUE

EffectShaderName=WaterEffect.fx

DepthBufferCheck=TRUE

DepthBufferWrite=FALSE

RenderedInOrder=TRUE

AlphaTestEnabled=TRUE

CullMode=CLOCKWISE

LightEnabled=TRUE

SpecularEnabled=TRUE

EmissiveEnabled=FALSE

FogEnabled=TRUE

AmbientColor=1.000000,1.000000,1.000000,1.000000

DiffuseColor=1.000000,1.000000,1.000000,1.000000

SpecularColor=0.500000,0.500000,0.500000,1.000000

SpecularPower=5.000000

Reflectivity=1.00000

ZBufferOffset=4.000000

BlendOp=BLEND_SRC_ALPHA

NumTextureStages=2

TextureStage[01].TextureName=

TextureStage[01].MipMap=TRUE

TextureStage[01].FilterEnabled=TRUE

TextureStage[01].StageColorOp=TEXTURE_MODULATE_DIFFUSE

TextureStage[01].StageAlphaOp=TEXTURE

TextureStage[02].TextureName=

TextureStage[02].MipMap=TRUE

TextureStage[02].FilterEnabled=TRUE

TextureStage[02].ReflectionMapping=TRUE

TextureStage[02].StageColorOp=TEXTURE_BLEND_TEXTURE_ALPHA

TextureStage[02].StageAlphaOp=DIFFUSE

 

[Texture001]

Filename=vietnamS1.TGA

HasWater=2

HeightMap=vietnamS1_hm.BMP

HeightMapScale=25.000000

Color=0.114571,0.204605,0.305404

SolidObjectTexture=

AlphaObjectTexture=

 

[Texture002]

Filename=vietnamS2.TGA

HasWater=2

HeightMap=vietnamS2_hm.BMP

HeightMapScale=25.000000

Color=0.109990,0.196346,0.292984

SolidObjectTexture=

AlphaObjectTexture=

 

[Texture071]

Filename=vietnamS-GJ.TGA

HasWater=1

HeightMap=vietnamS-GJ_hm.BMP

HeightMapScale=25.000000

Color=0.235268,0.319207,0.282990

SolidObjectTexture=terobject_buildings1.BMP

AlphaObjectTexture=jungle.tga

[Wrench]

simple text edit, find/ replace with...

 

good catch!!

[TheWarrior]

I also made the same sort of correction for Morocco, Philippines1941 and Darwin.