OK, so I have been playing New Horizons a bunch this week and am just loving it. I just completed the Hawk quest. I hadn't played that since like 2005. It's sooo much better than the stock game it's unbelieveable! With the ENB graphics the game is far improved and looks just as good as COAS.
I had forgotten just how nice the swells are in POTC. Pieter has often commented on how much better and more realistic the color is in POTC and I have to agree. Luke159, Craiggo and myself have played with the water and weather effects and lightening the color for a couple years. It is better than the vanilla, but we have still never been able to get the color right or achieve swells. COAS has a better effect for clear water I think in calm places, and the storms are better, but that's the only things with respect to water it does better. The foam effects are also better in POTC and the waves on the shorelines and ports are better also.
So here's what I'm wondering. Pirate KK reported that he just can't seem to get the newer engine to compile properly as well as other problems. If that's the impass and we are not going to overcome it, then lets keep the older POTC engine. I have been doing some experiments. I took the POTC/New Horizons engine file and replaced the one in GOF with it. Guess what? It runs fine with it. I was surprised.
So now, if I wanted to try to import POTC's water into my version of COAS using the POTC engine, which dll files, gm files, weather files, etc, do I need to snag to see if I can make it work? Any ideas?
Thanks!
MK
I had forgotten just how nice the swells are in POTC. Pieter has often commented on how much better and more realistic the color is in POTC and I have to agree. Luke159, Craiggo and myself have played with the water and weather effects and lightening the color for a couple years. It is better than the vanilla, but we have still never been able to get the color right or achieve swells. COAS has a better effect for clear water I think in calm places, and the storms are better, but that's the only things with respect to water it does better. The foam effects are also better in POTC and the waves on the shorelines and ports are better also.
So here's what I'm wondering. Pirate KK reported that he just can't seem to get the newer engine to compile properly as well as other problems. If that's the impass and we are not going to overcome it, then lets keep the older POTC engine. I have been doing some experiments. I took the POTC/New Horizons engine file and replaced the one in GOF with it. Guess what? It runs fine with it. I was surprised.
So now, if I wanted to try to import POTC's water into my version of COAS using the POTC engine, which dll files, gm files, weather files, etc, do I need to snag to see if I can make it work? Any ideas?
Thanks!
MK