Darker water?

[rdaniell]

I made a new folder and named it "Daube." I placed the Water20.fhx file in it. Then place the folder in the FSWC Lite preset main folder. Then I installed it using FSWC Lite. Worked great. And as I just wrote Daube, now as we say down here in South Georgia, "I'm as happy as a pig in slop."

RD

 

[orionll]

Thanks for the tip. I have sent this file to RDaniell some minutes ago, but I was fearing that perhaps this file was not enough, and that perhaps the FSWC program was also writting some stuff somewhere, or modifying some other files etc... Now it's clear that the water20.fxh is enough
... or is it ? He just needs to place this file directly in his \Microsoft Flight Simulator X\ShadersHLSL\Terrain\ folder, right ? Or is it mandatory to go through FSWC lite ?

If you do it manually, in addition to backing up the original and copying the file to Microsoft Flight Simulator X\ShadersHLSL\Terrain, you'll need to clear the shader cache. All FSWC Lite does is provide a convenient interface to do all the file IO for you.

 

[rdaniell]

Now that I've got a handle on FSWC Lite, I've discovered that if you are planning on flying someplace like down around the Gulf of Mexico, you can swap presets before you fire up FSX and have water more closely resembling what you would see in real life. Then you can just swap back to a different preset for flying around where there are rivers, etc. Just makes the whole simming experience that much more enjoyable.

Really a great tool. Thanks to the developer(s) (Orion ) for sharing your talents.

Romeo-Delta

 

[orionll]

Now that I've got a handle on FSWC Lite, I've discovered that if you are planning on flying someplace like down around the Gulf of Mexico, you can swap presets before you fire up FSX and have water more closely resembling what you would see in real life. Then you can just swap back to a different preset for flying around where there are rivers, etc. Just makes the whole simming experience that much more enjoyable.

Really a great tool. Thanks to the developer(s) (Orion ) for sharing your talents.

Romeo-Delta

Yep! If you're running DX9, you can even change presets while in flight (DX10 Preview requires the simulator to be restarted). Just press Alt+Enter to toggle fullscreen, swap your shader, then Alt+Enter to get back to fullscreen. If you're in windowed mode, just resize the window. Both toggling fullscreen and resizing the window will cause FSX to rebuild the shader cache, thus reflecting your new settings.

Really the thanks go out to Paul for writing all the shader mods, and Ashton, the programmer of the original FSWC.