Great Work! Ran fine on my graphics card(9800). Thanks, i'll be sure to use it.

What version of ps is required for the first technique? Ps 1.1? Thanks.

Should not need any pixelshaders. Fixed-function. I cannot test this on anything other than my ATI 9200 tho and I do not know what the minimum requirements might be.

I updated the website with the code to do 3 textures as well as some changes to the effect file, better comments, and a little instructions.

Theres a screen with 4 textures and an EBM water effect start.

web page

I want to get this thing tested out good, then posted on the wiki.

what is the EBM water? looks cool...

Sorry, typo.... it's (EMBM) Environment-Mapped Bump Mapping. I am just gathering info about that stuff, so I do not have much light to shed on it.

That water looks great. Thanks for all your work!

Looks very nice Steampipe. Are you going to release thet EMBM effect code? Looks great!

Btw.. That transparency problem in an engine issue on lower cards. Try giving a model or terrain a targa map, and you'll get the same same problem.

I am supposing that at some time in the very near future I'll post what I learn about water code. That will be a new thread when it happens so it should be easy to spot.

Thanx for the bit about the TGA transparency. Wish I would have known that a few days back as I started out with the TGA as an entSkin. Needless to say, I spent probably the whole evening going in circles and out of my mind because of that.

Geforce 3 works.
cullmode should be set to CCW or CW but not to none. Otherwise hidden triangles will be calculated. I am also concerned about the _zenable=false_ statement which means that the alpha blend will take place no matter whether the terrain is hidden behind another object. Not sure where that might cause errors, but it looks suspicious.

Thanks Marco, that is the kind of information that I need, and find very useful. I appreciate your technical input.

Eric