In light (hehe) of the latest DirectX 8 to 9 renderer released by AnKor with better lighting, self shadows, sun glint and bump mapping effects I have made up another batch of comparison pics.

First off, WOFF in all her stock beauty:




Now WOFF with just SweetFX coloration and effects (using my custom settings)





WOFF with AnKors new beta d3d8.dll with better lighting, bump mapping and self-shadows





WOFF with AnKors new beta d3d8.dll+SweetFX (using my custom settings)





Madmatt

Without all new effects:


With new effects:




Madmatt

Matt;

Please explain how you turn the effect on and off like that while in game?

I think scroll lock turns sweet fx on and off. Can't remember what turns off the shadowing stuff

it used to be Num0, though it's not working now

There is a VERY promising process going on, congrats Ankor!

One thing I noted is that Lozenge cover gets an unreal 3d effect too. Don´t know if can be avoided,...

It would be nice to see such improvements added to WOFF by the devs too. Even the old CFS3 engine can be made to look quite modern, it seems.

However, I don't wish to jump through all the hoops to get these modifications working, so I'd only try them if they were officially added to the sim.

Maybe it's not even possible, I don't know, but it would be cool. Obviously the devs would need to consider how much they impact the system requirements. WOFF's Western Front environment is already quite demanding for many PCs, and most people don't have access to the super computers that some people here have.

Yes, sadly, even with and Intel I7 an lots of RAM, WOFF makes my system sweat,...(BUT even my rig loves working out ).

Hasse we already said we will add it officially when AnKor is done.
We can't do it "another way" this is the way you'd have to do it.

You can get rid of the 3D effect (embross effect I think). It is a simple setting change.

"There is a line a few pages below that "sunStrength" formula which controls the strength of bump-mapping:
Code:
float3 tsBump = normalize(float3(xC-xA,xD-xB, 0.15f)).xyz;

You can try to replace that 0.15 with other values, however it works counterintuitive - a higher value means weaker bump mapping. So with 0.05 the effect will be 3 times stronger, and with 0.45 it will be 3 times weaker."

I used 75 and it almost eliminated the effect.

Crimson Tide