Realistic Brutal Graphics And Weather V9.6 - Updated [8-Mar-2024]

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Re: Realistic Brutal Graphics And Weather V8.0 - Updated [28-July-2022]

#1441 Post by Omisake » 01 Aug 2022 03:09

The latest version should work perfectly on 1.44 @GreenShadow1. I'm actually still on 1.43 and V8.0 even works on that. So just download the newest one and you should be good to go.
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Re: Realistic Brutal Graphics And Weather V8.0 - Updated [28-July-2022]

#1442 Post by cchrismat » 01 Aug 2022 09:23

Hi guys,
I have downloaded the 2 rar files RBW 8.0. When I extract one of them, i got a .scs file about 3GB. But when i put this file in Mod folder, the RBW mod does'nt appear in my mods on ETS2. Can you help me please ? I got 1.45 version of ETS2.
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Re: Realistic Brutal Graphics And Weather V8.0 - Updated [28-July-2022]

#1443 Post by Kass » 02 Aug 2022 11:57

@cchrismat You need to have both archives in same folder to extract it properly, otherwise will not work
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Re: Realistic Brutal Graphics And Weather V8.0 - Updated [28-July-2022]

#1444 Post by VirtualTruckTravels » 07 Aug 2022 00:11

there appears to be an error on part 2, when unpacking it tells me there are two errors.
edit: sorry i re-read 1st post again, it appears to melt the two files togehter when extracting one of them.
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Re: Realistic Brutal Graphics And Weather V8.0 - Updated [28-July-2022]

#1445 Post by Kass » 07 Aug 2022 14:37

@VirtualTruckTravels No worries, glad is sorted now :)

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Re: Realistic Brutal Graphics And Weather V8.0 - Updated [28-July-2022]

#1446 Post by sjain » 08 Aug 2022 18:56

For some reason whenever I use this mod I can never ever hear thunder sounds, see lightning or see any wetness at all on the road (its always bone dry, not even the slightest wetness or reflection). Although the rain sounds work fine. Removing the mod fixes this, its an instant night and day change. I have this issue with v7.7 and v8.0 of the mod, both used on ETS2 v1.44.x. I tried:

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g_set_weather 5 f
g_bad_weather_factor 1.0
To set the heaviest rain. I also tried g_set_climate, but nothing ever worked.
Question for the mod author - is it that this mod makes it much rarer than default?
I even tried setting wetting_factor and drying_factor to 1.0 (viewtopic.php?p=307147#p307147) in a mod of my own and loading that above all mods but it didn't work.

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After some digging, I found that the culprit for missing rain reflections is /def/game_data/sii. I deleted it from the .scs and it fixed it.
Just to save others time since I diff'd this myself anyway - the mod it adjusts these lines:

Stock SCS:

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	interior_sound_volume:	0.05	// Interior sound attenuation value (the outside sounds will have 5% of original volume)
	interior_sound_pitch:	0.6	// Sound pitch for outside sound group when camera is in interior

	rain_cube_strength: 0.5
	rain_planar_strength: 0.5
	rain_specular_strength: 0.5
	rain_fake_shadow_scale: 1.25
to:

Modded:

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	interior_sound_volume:	0.31	// Interior sound attenuation value (the outside sounds will have 5% of original volume)
	interior_sound_pitch:	0.99	// Sound pitch for outside sound group when camera is in interior

	rain_cube_strength: 0.16
	rain_planar_strength: 0.16
	rain_specular_strength: 0.16
	rain_fake_shadow_scale: 1.25
This is the only part of the mod that adjusts sound volumes by the way.

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Unfortunately, I still don't have any lightning or thunder at all.

Question for the mod author - is this controlled in the climate files? If so, can I delete these from the mod without messing up the new game colours and new skyboxes? I really just want to use this mod for the new colours and the skyboxes, thats it.

I tried removing bad.sii files for every climate in this mod, since I didn't like how incredibly foggy it got every time it rained, and it fixed that, but I still never had lightning before or after this change (with the normal unmodified mod). I have no other def files left in the mod that could affect this.

EDIT: Even removing climate files hasn't restored the lightning :/ Removing the entire mod does though. Would love to know which file in the mod is responsible, thanks :)
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Re: Realistic Brutal Graphics And Weather V8.0 - Updated [28-July-2022]

#1447 Post by Astropilot » 09 Aug 2022 16:13

The download links are broken on this post, could you please help me out with fresh links for RBW 8.0 for ETS2?
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Re: Realistic Brutal Graphics And Weather V8.0 - Updated [28-July-2022]

#1448 Post by Kass » 09 Aug 2022 16:15

@sjain RBGW has around 10 - 12 types of rain intensity vs. SCS default is just 2-3.
Second the thunders and lightning only happen when the rain intensity reach a certain "threshold", i have even managed to make heavy rain without thunder just about the limit before the game "triggered" the thunders and lightning. The same goes for the wet roads and AI and your truck wheels water particles / spray, if the rain is not enough to wet the roads and of course won't be wet and no water particle from tires either. Again, only depends on Rain intensity.

You want to see lightning and hear thunders example:

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g_set_time 11 
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g_set_skybox 0
The game chooses whatever options RBGW have in this case.

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Re: Realistic Brutal Graphics And Weather V8.0 - Updated [28-July-2022]

#1449 Post by sjain » 10 Aug 2022 21:55

Kass wrote: 09 Aug 2022 16:15 @sjain RBGW has around 10 - 12 types of rain intensity vs. SCS default is just 2-3.
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Thanks so much for the explanation. One more question. Is it easily possible to reduce the fog amount when its rainy? Often with this mod I find whenever it rains, 90% of the time it applies max fog. I am willing to edit files (bad.sii?) and have some programming/game development experience so a quick pointer is fine. Same thing for increasing probability of thunder and making roads more wet would be awesome. Otherwise amazing work on the mod, thanks!
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Re: Realistic Brutal Graphics And Weather V8.0 - Updated [28-July-2022]

#1450 Post by TruckinTitan27 » 10 Aug 2022 22:28

awesome mod man, One of my favorites! And it goes great with EuRoadNet as well. Makes it pretty realistic
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