Water

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Cameron:D

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Sep 28, 2008
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Yeah, I know how to create water... But I'm wondering why the water looks like the attached pic, with the ugly blue reflection. I've used the same type of water on another map with normal results. (water/water_well).

Any suggestions?
 

toutfou

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Sep 8, 2008
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Where is your env_cubemap placed? Make sure one is placed just above the surface to get the best reflection results.
 

Spike

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The rest of faces are nodraw?
 

Username

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Aug 26, 2008
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Could the lod controller be borked? Looks like cheap water to me.
 

Cameron:D

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Yes the rest of the faces are nodraw.

It is cheap water, I only have DX 8. I'll check what it looks like with a higher version when I can get my dads lappy ;)

I've used this water texture before with no problems.

I'll change the scale and recompile later, the water_lod_control's settings are all default. The cubemap's face has been set to the water, I was just thinking earlier on that it could be the sun doing it - the sun's ambient colour is set to a blue shade.

Nope, no leak as VVIS and VRAD ran, and nothing about one in the compile log.
 
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you wouldn´t even see the water if you had a leak... wondered why i couldn´t see mine, until i fixed a leak :)

it could be indeed the shadows, they react pretty hefty, i only change them by minimum if neccessary
 

Cameron:D

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OK, I've managed to get on my dads lappy and test the map, and the water was making all those silly purple/black checks reflections.
I'm getting those reflections ONLY on my brushes. Entities and weapons reflect fine, so what do I need to do to fix that? (I've got all my env_cubemaps, and I built all my cubemaps, with no fix).
 

Cameron:D

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If I had a leak, then VVIS and VRAD would not run, and they do - and I've run the compile log through the log checker with the only thing being that one about the sky not being compiled with the same flags.
 

Psyphil

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after u have buildcubemaps u have to restart the server or atleast changelevel for it to take effect, sometimes restarting the game is required too