hey bill... the shader seems to work inside a closed cube for me...

i added a hollow cube and set the player inside... i even commented out the skycube block in the script and the shader still worked.

--Mike

Hi Mike,
when i remove the skin2 part, the model is completly invisible and sometimes green,
depending on my view.angle .
From my understanding, that's correct, because there is now no bmap to use as mirrored bmap.
What i want is a function, that captures a bmap from the model position and use it as cube_map for the water.

But what was displayed on your level in case you removed the water_cube skin?

old_bill

i think that that is just what is happening... the shader is using montskysma+6.tga (the statement bmap water_cube=<montskysma+6.tga>;


and then the material is using water_cube as skin1 and the bumpmap texture as skin 2...

don't remove anything from the material code... just comment out the skycube block of code that starts with sky skycube{ ...}

(be right back gotta run to the train station )


--Mike

I just now did a copy and paste of the wiki code you referenced (the improved version) and it rendered the cubemap from my camera position when I pressed "c".

I did get an engine crash before I put a blank "render.tga" image in the project directory. Mine was a blank texture, 256x256.

Does water reflect only skycubes? Can it refelect geomatrical enviorment?
Cause, all I see in the examples is that only skycube are reflected.

in this shader it only relfects the skycube.. however if you own pro you can use render to texture to make it reflect everything.

the exe works fine..
when i use the code in my work folder i got a problem

"parameter unknown d3d_shaderversion"

i'm using 6.30 commercial

ps: the watershader.fx is already included!

??????????????????

Only the Com and Pro Editions have shader support.
Also you should update to version 6.31.4 to have the newest version.

Well I do own the Pro verstion but I don't really know HLSL language to change what I need.
Anyone got a complete version of it?

Hey,
thanks for the hint Steempipe, that did the trick also for me!

old_bill