fy_poolday reunion water?

Ive been trying to get my water looking good, but all the water
textures seem to be really basic and crappy, could somebody help me get
the same water effect as in fy_poolday_reunion?

-Treeman

Have you got a env_cubemap in the area and a water_lod_control entity with the water? Look in the sdk examples for water.

What would be the best texture to use? I'd like a semi-clear water texture.

The one used in poolday reunion was dev/dev_water2.
Could you plz mark my answer aswell :heee:

Well...this is a screenshot taken after i added cubemaps, nodraw, and a
new water texture (as the tutorial in the Source SDK Documentary
described) and this is how my water turned out. It was like this before
and after using 'buildcubemaps'.

Wheres the pic?

lmao sorry about that

http://img233.exs.cx/img233/103/g2treemanbeta600002qq.jpg

hm...all that I can say is to use a different water texture like the one that I mentioned.

Are you making the water brushes as an entity? That can give the noise
effect in that screenshot. You should always have water as world
brushes, except when you want it to move (rise or fall).

(And if you want it to move, the water must be tied to a func_water_analog and use the water_movingplane texture).

The water is simple there for decoration. Physically for the player it
does nothing. Im working on elusinising a "water, fall" effect.

It also looks like the water in that pic is going down on a slant. The
source engine requires that all water is on a flat plane as far as I
know. Plz Correct me if im wrong.

When the water WAS slanted, everything worked just fine.

But what I did was make the "slant" (ie. the vertical water), was made about 15 standard brushes covered with the water texture.

Ohh great idea!!!

You compiling with full RAD right?

100% compiled.

I just remade the water, so ill recompile in a few minutes.

WOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO

...

workie!

Let me see a pic of your water fall.

Its all basically in that screenshot, however what I did was...

-firstly, where the water falls through the cieling, as a func_precipitation (ie. rain).

-env_steam's at the bottum of the water, facing in the direction of water movement.

-clipped water for the smaller drifting into the tiny pool area, and env_steam'D

Ill be using other things like the func_shooter (or whatever its
called), and a few other entities that can be used to exagerating a
brush to appear "water, fallling" alike.