And for some reason the shadows on the model are rendering vertex style. All chunky.

edit: Scratch that. I set the default normal map material to the model and ran its event to check for none camera view and change. Instead of having a blank material and setting either above water or below water material.

Then you've made a mistake somewhere, I use this feature all the time. Did you for example write
var water_height_var = 123;
instead of
var water_height = 123;
?

in my script i have:
var water_height = 3;

in my fx file i have:
float water_height;

Not sure why its not working. Also not sure why the water isn't reflecting on larger planes in other maps. It's being rendered all "kaleidoscope" style.. Fix one problem and another pops up. Coding whack-a-mole.

Edit: I really should have backed up my mtlFX file lol

Top right of the water plane seems to be normal. Theres like a split halfway through the screen with the inverted reflection it looks like. To the right, its splitting into a star shape. Blah.


EDIT:

I just took off NOCULL and it works fine now. Durp.

See manual (I think "...flt" or similar) for more info.

I don't know what the hell happened now. The mirrors gone all screwed up. The skys rendering transparent. And my esc key doesn't work anymore. This is so depressing.

Seriously. Everythings gone to hell. It's like the engine is shorting out or something.

Hm try setting FLAG1 on the water surface entity, then NOFLAG1 on the reflection view.
Somehow the reflection view looks wrong, too, like its tilt has the wrong sign.

At certain angles viewing the water plane in the large indoor map, it branches out into like a kaleidoscope. In certain "portals" in the artifacts, I can see the proper reflection. In the other level, the camera stays close to the water surface the entire level. I decided to fly the camera around and after getting a little ways away the reflection disappears.

I set the water plane entity flag1 and noflag1 on the view mirror. No effect.