[free]Water for all Editions (reflecting)

By accident rvL_eXile and I noticed, that 3DGS 6.60 Extra supports effects using the fixed function pipeline. After a lot of testing I got a ffp water effect wich was written by Steempipe to work (Link ) for everyone.
Just one or two days before, ChrisB released his great render to texture plugin for free. Because of that, I tried to get realtimereflections to work with the water. I had some more problems (Link ), but found a solution now.
The effect works fine now, with my A7 Comm, but with A6 and the Plugin it has the problem, that the Engine Skyobject clips objects away in the reflection.
I think that it would be a big help for everyone if someone could figure out, how to get this working properly. Until then you´ll have to use A big boxmodel around your level as sky (Sry, I haven´t done it in the testlevel). In the testlevel, you´ll notice that problem as well because I forgot to delete the engine sky... . I as well published a version with A7 Comm. This is in the folder, so that you can see, how it should look if everything is right.
You´ll may notice some other small problems, but it is up to you to fix them

ChrisB allowed me to upload his dll together with this small package, so a big thanks to him. But he told me that I should tell you, that there are still some problems with the dll. You can find some more infos about the dll in this thread: render2texture.dll by ChrisB

Another big thanks goes to rvL_eXile, who helped me with testing (and made me slower because of asking questions about some scripts he is working on...) and created the testlevel. He asked me to tell you that all the models and textures are free to use but the skycube texture, wich was generated with the free version of terragen and can´t be used for commercial projects because of that.

And now have fun with it!

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Btw, I´m actually updating my Blog with new information about Chopper-Zone, first infos about the postprocessingpackage I´m working on and with a short clip of dynamic shadowmapping in 3DGS (and some information about it ), but give me one or two more hours for this


Slin


Edit: If you have any questions or problems belonging to this, just post them

Really nice Contribution. Ive tested it many Times. It works perfect, not FPS Slow down !
Enjoy this really nice Water Effect with Lower Edition (Extra)!

As Slin said, all Models are Free but the Skycube is not 4 free

cYa Sebastian

klingt gut kann man dass auch bei A7 extra benutzen?
Mfg
Aztec

It should work with A7 Extra as well, but it is up to you to test it

I may not post a lot here, but I have an eye on the forum, and what I see is that your contributions are pretty amazing... you're making me feel guilty about not contributing .

wow, i'm gonna get this, just one question, what shader version does it support (lowest)

thanks, for your comments
It uses the fixed function pipeline, wich means that it isn´t a real shader -> your graphicshardware doesn´t need to support any shadermodel

Cool, first time I am able to intergrate a shader type water effect, thanks, again!

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UPDATE:
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Hi, with A660 Com, I just see a totally black water

thats your graphics card...
i have the same problem too

I got a 6800 GT, is not a bad card.

missing everything that doesnt have a alpha channel for some reason, the sky leaves and fence (not posts) show up.

The problem is (at the beginning it worked well for me), that 3DGS doesn´t use the render to texture plugin. I have no idea why it stopped to work-.- But I thought that it is just a problem I had. Try to download the dll from its thread and run the example to see if it works or not.

For everyone having just a black screen, try this changed Shader.wdl.
There won´t be any reflection now, but the effect it self should work fine:

Code:

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bmap waterbump = <waves2.tga>;
bmap envspec = <sky.tga>;

function mtl_ffpwater_event();

material mtl_ffpwater
 {
   skin1=waterbump;
   skin2=envspec;

   event = mtl_ffpwater_event;
   effect = "water.fx";
}

function mtl_ffpwater_event()
{
	while(1)
	{
		//Lets make it scroll in some direction
		mtl_ffpwater.skill1 += 0.1*time_step;	//Move the water along the x axis with the given speed
		mtl_ffpwater.skill2 += 0.1*time_step; //Move the water along the y axis with the given speed
		mtl_ffpwater.matrix31 = floatd(sin(mtl_ffpwater.skill1)*100000,40000);
		mtl_ffpwater.matrix32 = floatd(cos(mtl_ffpwater.skill2)*100000,40000);
		wait(1);
	}
}

action Water
{
	mtl_ffpwater.matrix11 = float(100); //Tilefactor of the Bumpmap in x direction
	mtl_ffpwater.matrix22 = float(100); //Tilefactor of the Bumpmap in y direction

	bmap_to_mipmap(mtl_ffpwater.skin1);
	bmap_to_mipmap(mtl_ffpwater.skin2);

	my.material = mtl_ffpwater;
}

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hello Slin, still doing amazing work i see. it's still a black surface. i exchanged scripts.

what causes those black areas?

I took this screen from your published game in the downlad

i got it to run... ^^

Sorry I noticed it so late Slin, this is again one super contribution

Cheers

Frazzle

Quote:

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what causes those black areas?

I took this screen from your published game in the downlad

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Sorry, I have no idea-.-
It looks alright here. Which graficscard do you have?
If anyone else has this problem, please tell me