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Any fix for that colorless water when looking straight down?

malibu43

malibu43

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Hi all,

I'm still on P3D v2.5 and am fairly happy with it (happy enough not to pay to upgrade at this point). However, I really don't like the fact that when you look straight down over a body of water, the water loses all color and appears black. This is one area that I think P3D is inferior to FSX, and I'd consider upgrading to V3 if this was fixed. I fly in coastal areas most of the time, so I notice this a lot.

Has this been addressed at all in v3?

PS - I know this problem can be eliminated by turning off tesselation, but then the water looks like something between FS9 and FSX (AKA - terrible).

Thanks!
 
It's still pretty bad in P3Dv3.3.5, I'm afraid - along with the "popcorn" clouds (ugh!!!).

I found that you could lessen the effect a little (but not entirely get rid of) by using PTA (Prepared Tweak Assistant):

http://www.avsim.com/forum/764-p3d-tweak-assistant-pta-and-realismshaderpack/

I posted some results of my preset here:
http://www.avsim.com/topic/490178-prepar3d-tweak-assistant-pta-screenshots-presets/

You may need to check if PTA works for P3Dv2.5 (I suspect not).

I ditched P3D2.5 a while back. P3Dv3 is better in may respects, so you may want to upgrade anyway.

Adam.
 
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