Making a good picture for flowing water?

[Apom]

Unfortunately, the water particles are from Half-Life (not in a common/shared .gcf). Since you can't presently add particle systems to a .bsp, it's not even possible to extract them for hand-made inclusion.

 

[Kengon]

Here's the final .vmt (I edited it a little bit so you can use it on brushes and it's aligned vertically to the texture movement.

"Refract"
{

"$scale" "[1 1]"
"$refractamount" "0.5"
// "$refractamount" "0.0"
"$refracttint" "{181 236 250}"
"$reflecttexture" "_rt_WaterReflection"
"$reflecttint" "[1 .95 .85]"
"$reflectamount" "0.75"
"$envmap" "env_cubemap"
"$envmaptint" "{181 236 250}"
"$bluramount" "0.2"
"$dudvmap" "dev/water_dudv"
"$normalmap" "dev/water_normal"

"$surfaceprop" "water"
"$bumpframe" "1"
"$nocull" "1"

"Proxies"
{
"AnimatedTexture"
{
"animatedtexturevar" "$normalmap"
"animatedtextureframenumvar" "$bumpframe"
"animatedtextureframerate" "25.00"
}

"TextureScroll"
{
"texturescrollvar" "$bumptransform"
"texturescrollrate" .8
"texturescrollangle" 270
}
}
}


Remember to buildcubemaps or the texture would look weird (strange blue colours).

For the foam, I could put a foam material inside (there's one made by mapper shirokko which I used on cp_pirate_island) , so It would look like refracted foam. And maybe some particle waterfall effects (which are already made by Valve but I never get it working )

Sorry to bump this, but it's definitely related, and I've searched far and wide for other threads that answer the same question, just to end up here.

When I copy-paste this into a .vmt and put it in my map, nothing shows up.

What am I doing wrong? Do I need to download a texture? Compile something additional?

Thanks so much for reading this so far! And sorry again for the bump.

 

[Seba]

What exactly do you mean by "nothing shows up"? Is it pink and black, is it totally transparent, or what?

 

[The Asylum]

Probably a dumb question, but you do have a .vtf for the .vmt right?

.vtf is the actual texture itself, .vmt tells the game how that texture behaves

 

[Kengon]

It's literally nothing, as in completely transparent. No refract all.

And no, I don't have a Vtf for the Vmt, but the Vmt doesn't point to a local Vtf file, so should I really need one?

In hammer, the refract Vmt shows up as a nice blue tint and with refraction on the surface too (like a water shader). I also loaded the map in Garry's Mod, to no change at all.

Any help? :O

 

[Kengon]

Update: I've tried a different defract package (by TopHattWaffle) in the same place, to no avail. I've tested the map in Garry's Mod too, and nothing. I did the whole thing as per instruction from the TopHattWaffle tutorial.

 

[Kengon]

Herp derp.

All I needed to do was bind it to a func_brush.

My bad!