Distant water is ewwwww!

[DJMagoy]

Hello, I don't know if anyone else is annoyed by this but I think it should be easy (relatively) for a modder to resolve. The distant water is awful. There is a lot of water appearance mods, which offer better reflections, colors, real-looking depth, etc. BUT, there is always, in the distance, a line where all beauty stops, and an endless plastic-slick-looking-ocean appears, reflection-less, and in one plain color. With a process similar to the LOD generation, (with tons of nice mods enhancing it), could there be a way to make water beautiful even in the distance ? Like in Anvil, when you look to the ocean, that's where it annoys me the most. Thanks for answering!

[MrCooper2006]

Yeah i also posted this a while back, in fact the thread is here

 

 

But the bottom line its basically unfixable, or people just arent that bothered by it.

 

For me its a major graphical glitch, when the terrain looks near perfect only to be completely let down the plasticy water below it.

 

Shame really, maybe they would to redo the whole way the water is rendered tho.

 

 

But can they not just raise the size of water grids to cover a bigger area? Like the uGridstoLoad for the terrain????

[DJMagoy]

Yeah something like that, or some mechanic that really ADDS LOD generation for the water, like WOD (I believe L stands for "Land" in LOD?)... I am using the LOD enhancement 4096x4096 compilation which really delivers amazing distant land, like a 3D geographical map of high quality you see in books, almost like satellite photo. If such is possible, why not for the water? Basically, there's a water level that goes through the entire map, even below the land (See for yourself with TCL in the console) so applying some good image quality to a wider visible area or just the whole map using "W"OD, compressed textures... That shouldn't be impossible ?! I've downloaded a LOD generator from TESNexus which automatically updates your LOD data and generates some new for mod-added islands and such. Maybe this program could be used as a platform for generating nice distant water....