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 Re: purple water & black border
Posted by Haze on Mon Feb 21st at 10:22am 2005

Hi everyone,

I need some help with my water effects. Here is a screenshot:
http://www.encore-games.com/screenshots/helppurplewater.jpg

I have tried everything to fix this, I tried adding a water lod, making the water bigger than the block, adding and removing lights, but I still can not get rid of the purple glare and the black border around the edge.

Someone please help!





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 Re: purple water & black border
Posted by $loth on Mon Feb 21st at 10:58am 2005

What other enitity's are in the level?




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Posted by French Toast on Mon Feb 21st at 12:12pm 2005

Somewhere you have added a texture that you don't have. If you browse through all of the textures you'll see some of them are a pink and black checkerboard, and those will not appear right in game.

To fix this you need to go into the editor and find out where you applied the texture and swap it with something else. [addsig]



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 Re: purple water & black border
Posted by Haze on Mon Feb 21st at 12:18pm 2005

There are no other entitys in the level, its a blank level with a pool full of water, the only other textures accept the water and base is the skybox which is a normal standard sky texture.



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 Re: purple water & black border
Posted by French Toast on Mon Feb 21st at 12:20pm 2005

You should have to put other textures on the outside of the water, like nodraw everywhere I thought, but that's my only guess. Try switching all of your textures, because that's the only place that I have ever seen the checkerboard. [addsig]



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Posted by DrGlass on Mon Feb 21st at 12:58pm 2005

Looks to me like you need a cube map!

Place a env_cubemap above the water, then once you compile and run your map type "buildcubemaps" in console. Once that is done you will have a nice looking pool.

[edit] btw, the purple is from the texture the water is trying to reflect. The water wants to reflect the sky texture, but becuase it dosn't know what sky texture to use it fills in that blank with the purple & black checker board.
[addsig]



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 Re: purple water & black border
Posted by Haze on Mon Feb 21st at 5:03pm 2005

Thanks man, that fixed the purple, but what about the dark border?



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Posted by $loth on Mon Feb 21st at 5:30pm 2005

Try making the light_enviroment brighter or darker.
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Posted by DrGlass on Mon Feb 21st at 10:17pm 2005

Looks like the dark borders are a natural reflection of the dark texture around the pool.

Make this texture a brighter one, or place the cube map closer to the water.
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