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Water Optimizer
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10 May, 2023 @ 8:34am
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Water Optimizer

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Description
Mod improve performance of water and water effects in the game of kenshi, mod use technology of PSO and adapt it for Water :)
Mod also adapt the references
its important to note that results of the mod are humble due to majority of files involving water ware already DDS
So what was changed:
- All textures looks as before
- Static Water in most places have easier to render texture format
- Rain drops on water
- Water collapses and waves when people walk in it
MOD IMPROVE SWAMP AND WETLANDS PERFORMANCE! (duh)
Gain comes from pairing references with the converted files

Quick explaination, why and how mod works
my mod don't care about compressed texture project, you can keep it or remove it
this mod does not relate to compressed texture project in any way

Quite reverse, mod decompress textures if this sounds easy xDD
So your Graphics card take the textures and calculate them into display ready format
if by some magical reasons your textures would already be in perfect Display ready format
your graphics card could spend less time calculating and more on keeping up with demands

My new texture universally fit to the mesh regardless of how big or small pool of water is, Camera angle and distance from the player is adapted instantly which normally you had your GPU having to do all of this
Mod is quite revolutionary for the game (we call it industry standard in modern age) and honestly at this point good looking performance is a choice, this mod is just one more step towards getting it

Installation and credits:
Mod does not require any post-subscribe work, mod include files intended to be included in more drastic release
but said release was transformed into PerformanceFix on nexus...file remain for sake of open format of the project
in case if someone would like to take inspiration in my work or trials

PSO link (sources and science for PSO are the same as for WaterOptimizer):
https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/950
Image and tests provided by Iblis

Revolutionary optimization mods are avaible on nexus and require specific installers/instructions
https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/804
https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/1216
https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/1212
57 Comments
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The Messenger 9 Sep @ 9:05pm 
I looked for it but didn't find it before posting my comment. In any case, I went back to the workshop and found the last updated date (May 10, 2023). I'll try reinstalling, thanks.
SCARaw  [author] 9 Sep @ 9:02pm 
you know informations about updates are PUBLIC
aka you can CHECK THE DATE in CHANGE NOTES
its steam feature and i can not make invisible update
if mod broke for you, make sure you don't have conflicting mods and reinstall it
The Messenger 9 Sep @ 8:54pm 
Hi, was there a recent update to this mod? Water animations look weird all of a sudden. Almost like it's boiling, but without bubbles. Ripples spread out from the center of lakes or bodies of water making it look like it's boiling, or something is disturbing the water. A couple of days ago the water was not like this. Was there a recent update?
SCARaw  [author] 3 Apr @ 9:40pm 
this should be loaded as one of the 1st, depends if you have other texture mods or not
it should be last texture mod to load, but one of the 1st mods to load
you can use my nexus mods instead as they don't have load order
Nemús 3 Apr @ 1:47pm 
i say about the order of the mods in the game launcher, before the game start
SCARaw  [author] 2 Apr @ 9:17pm 
i have no idea what is charge order mod, i m sorry xD
Nemús 2 Apr @ 11:27am 
this mod goes upper or under the charge order? tx
能量牛 29 Nov, 2024 @ 12:53am 
好！推荐！下载！
SCARaw  [author] 3 Oct, 2024 @ 7:50am 
i had never seen such things and never had them in my game
i would advice to Verify integrity of your files
as for this mod it use Hand-made conversions, not done with robot, but it does not change static water only moving one
Asahi_Genki 3 Oct, 2024 @ 6:22am 
I'm sorry if the question is off-topic, but I noticed that there are water bugs in kenshi (it looks like large squares or straight lines contrasting with the surrounding textures). I noticed them near the coast of Leviathans and near the islands of None. Does this mod fix these bugs with water? And if not, what advice would you give me?