how do you create the block of water itself? i just need water surrounding an island on a map. I wasn't sure if there were shaders or something that create a water effect (i dont know how to use shaders either )


EDIT: Also, just wondering what the difference between
"Add model"
and
"Load entity"
in WED

Look at the wiki and you'll find a water shader and tutorial for using a shader.

Gamestudio has a water terrain and water shader, you just need to place and scale the water.hmp around your island, and then include mtlFX.c in your script and assign the "mtl_waterEnv" material.

Add model adds a model from the path of the project and Load entity loads a model from outside and copies it into your work folder. I thin "Load entity" is not very useful as you can do that yourself.

cool. thanks.
ill check out the water terrain and shader.

also, for some reason i cant seem to have more than 1 terrain in a level? is this normal?

i insert a terrain, and because i want the texture to look good, i've scaled it down, and duplicated the object. Then tiled it. but for some reason, when i run game studio, only the first copy of the terrain appears??? i have no idea wat is going on

use terrain_chunk = 0;

look for info in the manaul: terrain_chunk

terrain_chunk
it worked straight away. thanks.
these forums are awesome

hey the terrain works fine.
but for some reason, my vehicle just passes straight through the objects on the map? (ie the ramp/entrance thing below)
is there a flag you have to set somewhere?