i have a card that supports shader model 2.0, and i am using A6 commercial (6.60). i am not sure what you mean by graphics options. i am a total noob when it comes to shaders. i think my problem is, when i build a hmp. i size it too big on the level and the shader doesnt compensate for its size, and i lose the texture size too. my level has a large body of water around a land mass, kinda like a floating island. the water itself is a map entity with the water action so my model can swim underwater, but the surface looks terrible, thats why i wanted to use a water shader for the right surface effect. my card is an nvidia geforce 6200 A-LE.

Slin's water shader is ok but it would be even better with an alpha channel implemented, so you could see through the water...

Best water effect you can get with GameStudio is with Sphere2 engine, but it not easy to implement in custom projects.

i cannot find sphere2 anywhere. have a link?

so, let me ask, how do you make a really big water hmp? i have a large body of water as a map entity, and my model swims in it, but the surface looks terrible, i want to cover it with a hmp and water shader for effect. i keep having problems.

Just checking if someone needed an answer here,
Blink, what you could do is create a "second" layer hmp, make it passable and lay it on top over the real water "the one you are going swim in" so you will have the look of slins shader, and you can still swim.

Try that

i actually did that, it works fine, but i need to make the water underwater look like underwater. the fog, the caustics, color, etc. thats what i am looking for. chrisb did exactly what i am looking foe, i dont think he is letting out his secret, lol.