Crysis experimentings

TheCenturion · 18 May 2011 at 20:25

Linwig said:
Not sure if anyone has had similar problems, but if I put the two texture PAK files from Rygels and HD foilage pack in my crysis/game folder, they don't appear to update in the game itself and it uses stock textures. Must be doing something wrong somewhere, perhaps a reinstall will fix it. Reallifesis working fine though, be nice to find an updated version of the depth of field though, set to 2 it's too much, and set to 1 only seems to work in iron sight view.

PS thanks to Centurion for linking the HD foilage mod

Jazzerman said:
I have the same problem, not sure why, and thanks Centurion!
Now I just need to get it working.

Here's the solution to get foliage and rygels working together:

1. Open rygel's textureupdate1 using winrar, also open the hi res foliage pak in winrar.

2. In the Hi res foliage pack, navigate the folders, until you get to the folder which contains folders like bush, trees etc

3. Navigate through these on rygel's texture update 1 too. (it's the same folders you navigate through.

4. Now, look at the folders that the two paks have in common. Delete the common folders from Rygel's pak.

Problem solved. The problem is created because both texture paks contain new foliage textures

Linwig · 19 May 2011 at 00:58

Ah yes, that did it. Thank you, again :cool:

Ferax · 19 May 2011 at 10:24

Great job Centurion, great thread for those of us coming back to this with new rigs.

MeMeMeMe, thanks for the reallifesis installer, but when I tried it last night, AVG picked up a couple of trojans in it. Does anyone know of an alternate source for this? Very keen to try it out.

MeMeMeMe · 19 May 2011 at 11:04

I'm pretty sure it's okay. Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebites Anti-Malware found no threats. I stopped using AVG and Avast for the vast number of false positives they reported.

Edit: in fact, I can open the exe file with 7zip, and there is nothing suspicious in it.

TheCenturion · 19 May 2011 at 11:20

http://www.2shared.com/file/zLI_DwnN/Real_Lifesis.html

Here's reallifesis, the tod file itself.

For some reason people have trouble installing it via the tod file. If you need help, just ask me

Ferax · 19 May 2011 at 19:01

Thanks for the help guys, didn't, reassuring that the AVG scan is probably a false positive.

Rezident · 20 May 2011 at 17:24

Sorry, did you say the Extreme Quality Mod disables the nanosuit? that would kind of ruin the gameplay for me :confused:

Rezident · 20 May 2011 at 17:37

Does anyone have any links for lifesis or ccc oncfig or hi res foliage that work? I cannot d/l anything form Guru3d and no other links form google are working!

TheCenturion · 20 May 2011 at 18:53

Rezident said:
Sorry, did you say the Extreme Quality Mod disables the nanosuit? that would kind of ruin the gameplay for me

It does, or at least it did. But instead of the nanosuit, you get slow motion.

The guy who made it has now renamed it to Extreme Immersion Mod and I think that in the new versions, the nanosuit still works

Rezident said:
Does anyone have any links for lifesis or ccc oncfig or hi res foliage that work? I cannot d/l anything form Guru3d and no other links form google are working!

http://www.2shared.com/file/zLI_DwnN/Real_Lifesis.html

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCMQrAIoAjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.incrysis.com%2Fforums%2Fviewtopic.php%3Fid%3D23117&ei=VKrWTZjgPIKzhAeS2Ki2Bg&usg=AFQjCNHHdoHj72rYYZyqzHgFgSbnKhVUlA

And the hi res foliage link has been posted in this thread, just up the page ^^^

Vegeta · 21 May 2011 at 01:01

Anyone else get the issues nights seens are ridiculously dark with real lifesis installed? Like I can't see a thing! Except the odd bit of light and gun lasers.

Rezident · 21 May 2011 at 12:01

TheCenturion said:
It does, or at least it did. But instead of the nanosuit, you get slow motion.

The guy who made it has now renamed it to Extreme Immersion Mod and I think that in the new versions, the nanosuit still works

http://www.2shared.com/file/zLI_DwnN/Real_Lifesis.html

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCMQrAIoAjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.incrysis.com%2Fforums%2Fviewtopic.php%3Fid%3D23117&ei=VKrWTZjgPIKzhAeS2Ki2Bg&usg=AFQjCNHHdoHj72rYYZyqzHgFgSbnKhVUlA

And the hi res foliage link has been posted in this thread, just up the page ^^^

Thanks for that, testing now.

Rezident · 21 May 2011 at 12:19

Vegeta said:
Anyone else get the issues nights seens are ridiculously dark with real lifesis installed? Like I can't see a thing! Except the odd bit of light and gun lasers.

No but I am getting significantly lower FPS with lifesis

46 down to 41
45 to 40
and action scenes down from 44 FPS to 33!

Rezident · 21 May 2011 at 12:36

Also how do you know if the real lifesis TOD is working? The instructions are unclear:

The ToD:

either place it somewhere in your \levels foders or open up the SB2 editor and go to the terrain\Time of Day editor then import the ToD and add your prefered play speed

for playing it ingame and not in the editor (in the words of Insanto )

" you ave to "file/export to engine" first.
also if that doesn't work press record in the TOD tab and slide around once, then export again, then it should be in the gameFiles indefinately "

To use the flowgraphs:

open them in the flowgraph editor and save then export to engine as well

RECOMMENDED PLAY SPEED FOR TOD
0.0025

I put it in the 'levels' folder but cannot see any changes in game other than the critically reduced FPS. I will try the high-res foliage MOD but honestly I think I'm going to go back to vanilla Very High Crysis as it runs smooth (40 - 46 FPS) and is still the best looking game I've ever seen.

TheCenturion · 21 May 2011 at 13:05

Vegeta said:
Anyone else get the issues nights seens are ridiculously dark with real lifesis installed? Like I can't see a thing! Except the odd bit of light and gun lasers.

Dunno if it should be like that. But that's realistic! In the pitch black of night, you can't see a thing! The mod actually makes you make use of the night vision feature

Rezident said:
Also how do you know if the real lifesis TOD is working? The instructions are unclear:

I put it in the 'levels' folder but cannot see any changes in game other than the critically reduced FPS. I will try the high-res foliage MOD but honestly I think I'm going to go back to vanilla Very High Crysis as it runs smooth (40 - 46 FPS) and is still the best looking game I've ever seen.

I think the instructions are wrong on reallifesis. You need to install it via the sandbox editor, as it says in the instructions. All you've done is a move a .tod file into your levels folder, that doesn't actually install it. So your drop in fps cannot be down to reallifesis

Also, use the config that came with it

Rezident · 21 May 2011 at 13:07

Wow I really see what you mean about the 'high resolution foliage' pack. That looks absolutely beautiful - that's exactly what I was looking for. I don't want mods that change the gameplay or are too fiddly and messy to set up, I just wanted some bonus eye candy - that foliage looks really sweet. I think I'll email the guy who made that and tell him how great his work is.

TheCenturion · 21 May 2011 at 16:25

Rezident said:
Wow I really see what you mean about the 'high resolution foliage' pack. That looks absolutely beautiful - that's exactly what I was looking for. I don't want mods that change the gameplay or are too fiddly and messy to set up, I just wanted some bonus eye candy - that foliage looks really sweet. I think I'll email the guy who made that and tell him how great his work is.

The foliage looks so much better now. No performance drop either

Vegeta · 22 May 2011 at 11:43

TheCenturion said:
Dunno if it should be like that. But that's realistic! In the pitch black of night, you can't see a thing! The mod actually makes you make use of the night vision feature

Mate its too much! Takes the enjoyment away as the enemy see you easily. I'll show you a pic later.

rippling · 22 May 2011 at 11:49

maybe you should adjust the gamma on the monitor to lighten things up alittle?

Vegeta · 22 May 2011 at 11:58

rippling said:
maybe you should adjust the gamma on the monitor to lighten things up alittle?

I'm not going to change the gamma on my monitor everytime theres a dark spot in the game i'd rather fix the mod.

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These are actually light pics. As you can see you see the light from the fires etc clearly but if you look away theres nothings. No fun really. I take the MOD off for these parts but prefer to fix it if it is a issue or is the MOD just meant this way?

TheCenturion · 22 May 2011 at 12:38

Vegeta said:
I'm not going to change the gamma on my monitor everytime theres a dark spot in the game i'd rather fix the mod.

These are actually light pics. As you can see you see the light from the fires etc clearly but if you look away theres nothings. No fun really. I take the MOD off for these parts but prefer to fix it if it is a issue or is the MOD just meant this way?

Hiya mate, sorry I can't see your pictures atm, I will endeavour to take a look at some point though.

first question, are you completely sure that the mod has installed properly? Do you get a 'depth of field' blur effect when playing?

Also a lot of the time, you need to be stealthy. Use cloak mode, and night vision. Remember that in real life, in the pitch black, when there's no artificial lights around, it's very dark with only the light of the moon to guide you at all.