Template Water Shader Problem

Hi,

I'm just got my new A7 comm and startet trying around a bit.
I tried the shader from the mtlFX.wdl and it works nice but I have a small problem.
Everything is rendered the wrong way around, means areas that are far away are rendered first.



As you can see the flames (it's not only happening with particles but with every object) are rendered infront of the spheres, but actually they are behind them.
What I don't understand is that when I have a look at the view used to render the mirror then I can't see the flames in it. What's wrong. Why is the stuff seen in the view different from the stuff the view renders to the image?

Thanks

Did you use the fx_water_mirror? If yes, this shader only works with the Pro versoin of GS.

Yes I used the fx_water_mirror but I have A7 comm and this supports render to textur. So imho it kind of works already but the result has some little error.
Maybe it's not totally clear what you see on this picture so what you see are two spheres, behind each sphere is a flame and the sphere are penetrated by the water plane in their middles (it also happens if there is no intersection between water and objects). The flames are behind the spheres and thats correct in the view but in the effect on the water it's then wrong. Is that normal?

i can confirm that fx_water_mirror will work fine with A7 comm. a couple of things to double check maybe..

• Use a flat terrain .hmp file with at least 32 verticies in x and y directions
  
• Assign a bump map texture to skin 1 of the terrain. There is a good bump located in your 3dgs install at "template_6\images\waves.dds"
  

That should be all you need to get things going. I always add a skybox in the level just to give me some bearings to the world, plus it keeps the background from smearing when moving making it harder to tell what is really going on. hope that helps!

I think the shader itself is working but I have these sorting errors...

Here everything is correct:


But when the reflections intersect I get the error:


PS: I'm sorry for the big images but on the pc I'm working on at the moment only A7 and Firefox works, every other programm is crashing it (even mspaint)
To much viruses... Luckily it's not my pc

Oh, now i understand. i never noticed that issue before. is that the same terrain, the island and the shore? If i can duplicate it i can try my hand at fixing it. Probably needs a different reflection view to make it work right.

It happens with the same terrain, but also with different objects. All visible triangles in the view are rendered from the back to the front.

I´m not sure but it is possible that the view used for the reflections is placed under the terrain. Try to make the water deeper.

Ok, I tried around a bit and I found out that it's only happening when the camera.pan is more then 180. But it doesn't matter wheather the objects are under the water plane or not it happens in every case. But as mentioned before everything is correct when you have a look at the view directly...

pan < 180 = correct

pan > 180 = error

Ich finde es ja schön, dass bei euch der Shader geht

Aber bei mir geht gar nichts....ich habe die Mtlfx.c included, aber, wie in einem anderem Post (wie ich schon geschrieben hab), funktioniert bei mir gar nichts.

Wie habt ihr das eingebunden, bzw. zum laufen gebracht?

Bei mir kommt immer dieser Fehler

Malfunction W1550
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Error in effect:
(23): error X3003: redifinition of 'matWorldView'

>float 4x4 matWorldView;<

Ich habe, wie in diesem Post http://www.coniserver.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/775919/an//page/0/vc/1
die Zeilen schon abgeändert, aber es geht nicht.

Könnte mir, falls es möglich ist, die mtlfx.c und die default.fx vielleicht schicken? Wäre super. Ich will auch das Wasser, in Verbindung mit dem Terrainshader.

Um jede Hilfe wär ich mehr als dankbar.

Grüße
Schmerzmittel

Das hier ist der entscheidende Post von JCL, das muss abgeändert werden:

Quote:

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Yes, this is a bug in default.fx. It happens when you use <fog> and <view> at the same time in a shader.

Solution: Edit default.fx and replace

float4x4 matWorldView;

by:

#ifndef MATWORLDVIEW
float4x4 matWorldView;
#define MATWORLDVIEW
#endif

This ensures that matWorldView is only defined once.

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