The Titanic Mod brings people at one of the most detailed and accurate free 3D recreations of the Titanic ever made. It puts the player in a whole new storyline for the game Mafia.
Water shader mod
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Some cool mod someone told me about on Mafiascene, the water shader mod.
This is exactly the kind of mod I hoped to see ingame. It's created by
Mr F. This image just shows one model of the exterior ship being placed in the city waters to show the contrast.
With a bit of animated movement, I think this will look incredible with Titanic sailing.
I'll try to get into contact with Mr F, to ask him if/how I can get this mod working for the Titanic mod.
This mod can be downloaded at www.mafiascene.net
Btw, this also means that Mafia supports normal mapping... *big grin*
Little update:
Mr F has given me permission to combine his mod into the MTM!
Ofcourse with proper credit given to his work.
He will try to see if it can be animated in a way that the ship looks like it's sailing, fingers crossed!
Normal mapping... hm... I wonder since then no reply from the 2K czech? I mean They answered, but with the second letter, what happened?
I badly never received any response to my second mail.
I hoped that they understand my question wrong and that I could receive an bit more indepth response of why not. But I guess they just got their hands full.
So yes that's too bad. 2K czech could have some great profit of this mod when fully developed, I already heard many people say they bought the game just to play this mod.
Bought the game just to play this? And even more people downloaded the game just to play the mod. :)
I think 2K czech is working hard on GTA 5, and on other projects, nobody feels responsible to answer because they think somebody else should decide to release that kit, and maybe this is a high-level question, because the developer's kit is non-official. So you should talk to the right owners. Maybe start it from top to bottom like 2K Games or Take-Two Interactive? Hell, in this big system a lot of time needs to process something. And your letter is not a high-priority issue. Maybe you will have an answer someday. Or start bombing them with letters every day! :)
But isn't 2k czech is just a bunch of game enginers? Rights of a game maybe lurks in the pocket of other company, like 2K Games. And you wrote a paper letter, it can be buried...
All seems very plausible, though my response to them was written as an email. Perhaps other attempts could give reactions from diffrent people. Or other attempts could make 2K very annoyed :P
I think this question lies more to the game developers rather than the game distributers, because after all, it's them who made the tool and them who decide what happens to the game content.
Then don't **** them up, otherwise they won't release the next Mafia. :)
But I still thinks those responsible who have the rights. But logic dictates they should give you that developer's kit, they won't release new games in the future using the LS3D engine. It is the past.
But it makes me smile. Just imagine, One day a fellow step in and insist to give him the developer's kit. "you don't need that anymore!" LOL.
It looks awesome, the shader mod adds new depth to the game and will give the Titanic some depth as well.
This water is from Half-life 2 engine , or not ?
The shader indeed looks very similar. I did not made this mod, but there's a chance Mr F used it from the source engine yes.
but this is far better than original water texture from mafia. Very good choose!