[WIP] Mystical Underwater Effects

» Fri May 27, 2011 4:25 pm

Just an update: Still alive and now I'm moving so it will be a little bit before I can get back to this or any other projects I've been working on. I may be able to squeeze a little time into modding, but I won't have internet and stuff 'til I get settled.

Also, peachy finally sent me the scalable Blur shader so I will finally be able to play around with that, hopefully in the next update I will be able to include both his scalable blur and scalable fade-to-black shader. ( In lieu of the Blindness effect. )

» Fri May 27, 2011 10:35 pm

Make sure to back up all your work! Don't want it getting lost or anything.

» Fri May 27, 2011 5:58 pm

Any news?

» Fri May 27, 2011 9:42 pm

I didn't get to sleep last night, and I just saw the title of this thread and thought it said
[WIP] Mystical Underwear Effects
and I was like woo woo!
but it's not

» Fri May 27, 2011 9:45 pm

I didn't get to sleep last night, and I just saw the title of this thread and thought it said
[WIP] Mystical Underwear Effects
and I was like woo woo!
but it's not

That is an idea... Hook the underwear textures to randomly become transparent!

On topic, how is this mod coming? I'd like to see the finished product!

» Fri May 27, 2011 5:32 pm

That is an idea... Hook the underwear textures to randomly become transparent!

On topic, how is this mod coming? I'd like to see the finished product!

Actually, something that could be possible is to detect when you enter/exit water by checking the level in ext/int that has water and then you apply a darker texture to any cloth the player is wearing to give off a wet look. perhaps even add some gloss to it, now that it's possible...

HEAPS of work, but it'd look cool.

» Fri May 27, 2011 9:52 am

» Fri May 27, 2011 7:33 pm

Ok, so I've got the itch to start modding again.

It's been a few months since I last worked on it, but I do plan to finish it and continue to mod afterward. Not sure when it will be complete, as I also have classes at college right now, that obviously are my first priority. As far as any bugs found since then, I am going to have to become familiar with whatever updates there have been since I last worked on it to really even have an indication as to the cause.

» Fri May 27, 2011 7:38 am

Ok, so I've got the itch to start modding again.

It's been a few months since I last worked on it, but I do plan to finish it and continue to mod afterward. Not sure when it will be complete, as I also have classes at college right now, that obviously are my first priority. As far as any bugs found since then, I am going to have to become familiar with whatever updates there have been since I last worked on it to really even have an indication as to the cause.

Heck yeah! I was thinking about where you had gone just the other day.
Nice to see you here =)

Good luck with the future of underwater effects =)

» Fri May 27, 2011 11:40 am

Ok, so I've got the itch to start modding again.

It's been a few months since I last worked on it, but I do plan to finish it and continue to mod afterward. Not sure when it will be complete, as I also have classes at college right now, that obviously are my first priority. As far as any bugs found since then, I am going to have to become familiar with whatever updates there have been since I last worked on it to really even have an indication as to the cause.

Ah, saves me from editing the script to take out the part that disables the blur when in menus myself.

Other than the crosshair, the current version doesn't blur the HUD for me probably thanks to some update in MGE.

» Fri May 27, 2011 9:08 pm

» Fri May 27, 2011 11:07 pm

Very good news indeed! I am expecting a lot of this mod and will not swim underwater until it is released...

Ah, saves me from editing the script to take out the part that disables the blur when in menus myself.

So this should be possible?

» Fri May 27, 2011 7:57 am

Very good news indeed! I am expecting a lot of this mod and will not swim underwater until it is released...


So this should be possible?

The thing that disables the blur in menus is just a few lines in the script added in the older release, when shaders still affected menus so this was neccesary to allow people to use their inventory while underwater. Now that MGE's shaders don't affect the menus anymore, those lines can simply be removed. There's probably some tweaking needed so that the crosshair isn't affected either, and who knows what else Linora comes up with, but it sounds very possible to me.

» Fri May 27, 2011 3:56 pm

Glad to hear people are still interested in this! (and also the bugs, that will give me a good place to start. ) I've still gotta move my Desktop to my dorm, since my school laptop is a mac. So it will likely be a few days til I can truly start working on this again. ( I fooled around with the scripts a bit just to get familiar with them again, but besides that I've gotten nothing done as of yet, besides add a new menu for a feature I want to add with darkening vision a bit as you get deeper in the water. :violin: )

» Fri May 27, 2011 2:47 pm

You is back! :hugs:

There are a load of MGE updates, so some/all of the shader code needs updated for this. Plus, there are quite a few more fancy things, and some of your script checks can be removed (we now have a shader flag for when the camera is underwater ). OThers mentioned the HUD update, and there's some depth stuff too that could make this real fancy, maybe.

» Fri May 27, 2011 10:28 pm

Nice to see back at work on this. :celebration:

Ok, maybe it's the right time to set up a little wishlish. :dance:
Don't want to urge you in any way. Just see it as an additional source of inspiration. So here's what I'd really like to see in the future:

* underwater caustics (maybe depending an current weather condition and/or daytime)
* underwater godrays (same as above)
* (subtle) underwater fullscreen wobbling/refraction effect (the old one never worked for me, sorry)
* floating plankton particles (maybe in different layers)

Don't even know if it's all possible, but on the other hand: looking at the recent developments on MGE shaders I think no one will ever even dare to speak the word 'impossible' within these forums.

» Fri May 27, 2011 2:52 pm

» Fri May 27, 2011 4:15 pm

The link in the original post is dead as far as I can tell. Oh noes!

Okay, I've fixed the issues krzymar mentioned, and tested it out a for a few minutes. ( By using the console to set the gamehour while underwater. ) This time let's hope it works correctly!

http://www.4shared.com/file/102710083/25b467c0/muwebeta2.html

There you go

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» Fri May 27, 2011 8:57 am

Okay! I FINALLY got my computer to my dorms, so hopefully I'll have some time after Halloween Weekend (Linora is going partying! xD) to start fixing this thing into workable condition and then look into all this MGE stuff. 'Tis all! ^.^

Woot! This is shaping up to really fix a lot of aspects of the underwater environment of Morrowind.

Consequently, enjoy the partying