I guess this is the place to post this, as it relates to the FSX default water textures. Anyone think that in some cases the ripples look too big? I've seen several shots now and my first thought was that it would look more realistic if the size of the surface ripples were about one half, or in other words, at least twice as dense. It looks fine in some scenes, depending on the size of the body of water, and the shapes of rivers and lakes...but those ripples look large to me often and I swear they'd look better as smaller, denser ripple textures. If no-one's fixed this with some alternative textures by the time I get FSX and a decent PC, I'll just have to do it myself. (Hey, I wonder if that Freebie program 'Texturedesk' would tile these textures up a bit denser without too much trouble...as long as the texture is tileable - meaning the edges of those waves have to join up nice to each other as you tile the texture, otherwise you'll probably get a checkerboard effect in your water ripples.)
The lower you go, and the nearer the water you get, the less realistic it looks, in fact, if you take a flying boat, and place it on the water,,,,,,,, it looks more like a kids toy on a pond.
Gotcha....well, we'll have all sorts of fixes and enhancements....there's already lots of add-on stuff for FSX, I see. Eventually it does become a much different, greatly enhanced sim environment once you're done tweaking the default setup with alterations and add-ons. Well, you're never really done tweaking are you?
It looks great over the ocean, but when you see a little puddle looking lake with HUGE waves in it, it gets rather rediculous.
If you go from FS2002 to FSX, the water effect looks great (exept for small lakes) when you are close to it. You can even see you planes reflection instead of just a shadow that didn't even get distorted.
But I think if you made the waves smaller for lakes, it would also do it for oceans.
Hey, maybe you could make a copy of the file, put it in a safe place, edit it, then save it somewhere else and copy and paste it into FSX when you fly inland, and when you fly overseas, you could copy and paste the real one in. Kind of a lot of bother though if you ask me.
Cheers and I hope this was what you were looking for Harkonnen,
SU37Berkut
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