Creating Water Planes

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Creating Water Planes

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First, PMI into your map the log scenery, or anything else thats easy to remodel and has a flat surface. If you want I'll upload a 8 vert box andrew_b made for me.

Next, rebuild the shader "river_a" from the map a30 (Halo)

Now, open your map in Eschaton, or HHT, and under the mod2 branch, go to the dependency/reference swapper, and look for the shader the model uses.

Swap it for the river a shader.

Remodel your model to a large size, and place it in sparkedit.

In the dependency/reference swapper of the scenery tag, null out the collision reference, or swap it for the healthpack's.

Skin the river a bitmap to whatever color you want.


You've now made a "river", and placed it in your map.
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Yay you posted it! Good job on the tut. Glad you figured something out for the river. :D
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I tried this a few days back as you know. Can you post a pic of your results so I can compare it to what I was getting?

Nice tut btw.

Fun Fact: If you need a big huge plane to use try a10 "halo_closeup". Its a completely flat surface, square and about as big as the inside of damnation.
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Pepsi wrote:I tried this a few days back as you know. Can you post a pic of your results so I can compare it to what I was getting?

Nice tut btw.

Fun Fact: If you need a big huge plane to use try a10 "halo_closeup". Its a completely flat surface, square and about as big as the inside of damnation.
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Pepsi, stop being so lazy and get on Xfire, and I'll send you a movie of it. Or I'll upload it somewhere as a .swf, whichever happens first
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DeadHamster wrote:Pepsi, stop being so lazy and get on Xfire, and I'll send you a movie of it. Or I'll upload it somewhere as a .swf, whichever happens first
Upload it to the tube of you for some great quality. :wink:
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Would you be able to get a separate collision model using this method?
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Elaborate on what you're asking a bit?

You can have a collision for the water, although IDK why you'd want to.

Also, people should try experimenting with other shaders to see what effects they could get.
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Post by hiheyhello »

I just tried this and the shader doesnt show up, i have a shader water tag its just it doesnt show up in the list when i go to swap it.

Edit is this what it's suppose to look like? click

btw its moving
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Post by Philly »

Use the lightbridge from a30. It has collision. And use the water shader from b30. Works a treat.
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Why would you want collision, on water? I'm assuming you want to be able to go through the water.
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DeadHamster wrote:Why would you want collision, on water? I'm assuming you want to be able to go through the water.
Ice maybe? Or maybe MC can walk on water.
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Or maybe clever collision where you can shoot it and it looks like water, but you can still walk 'through' it.
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