Water with specular

ForceMaster · Post by **ForceMaster** » Mon Dec 28, 2015 2:41 pm

Hi! I need recreate a ocean like this:

I have a fully functional ocean ingame, but i need add these specular effect to the water texture. Some ideas? Thanks!

Post by **AceMastermind** » Mon Dec 28, 2015 8:29 pm

In your world's .fx file under the Water effect segment there should be something like this example from kas2.fx:

		SpecularMaskTextures("water_specularmask_",25, 4);
		SpecularMaskTile(2.0, 2.0);
		SpecularMaskScrollSpeed(0.0,0.0);

SpecularMaskTextures("[name of textures]",[total textures], [not sure])
SpecularMaskTile => the tiled amount for the specular textures (used on low quality)
SpecularMaskScrollSpeed => the scroll speed for the specular textures (used on low quality)　

The textures should be located here:
data_ABC\Worlds\ABC\effects
Have a look at the shipped specular textures to see how they were done if you want to make your own.

ForceMaster · Post by **ForceMaster** » Mon Dec 28, 2015 11:45 pm

Thanks Ace, but these settings not work with "OceanEnable(1)",

I can add water like dagobah, with all features but when i change these value to (1) the water lost specular and others effects. some reason why?

Post by **AceMastermind** » Tue Dec 29, 2015 3:51 pm

I've never needed to use OceanEnable for anything, but it looks like it changes the whole dynamic of how water is handled.
Kamino water uses it and the fx file looks like this for PC with no mention of specular textures:

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[code]Effect("Water")

{

	// general parameters

	Tile(4.0,4.0);

	MainTexture("kam1_water_2");

	FoamTexture("kam1_water");

	FoamTile(5.0,5.0);

	// ocean parameters

	OceanEnable(1);

	WindDirection(0.2,1.0);

	WindSpeed(25.0);

	// water event parameters

	WaterRingColor(148, 170, 192,255);

	WaterWakeColor(192, 192, 192,255);

	WaterSplashColor((192, 192, 192,255);

	PC()

	{

		Velocity(0.001,0.005);

		PhillipsConstant(0.00001);

		PatchDivisions(16,16);

		LODDecimation(2);

	}

}

[/code]

It's as if the OceanEnable switch builds geometry based water as opposed to layered texture based water. I don't know.

ForceMaster · Post by **ForceMaster** » Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:09 pm

AceMastermind wrote:It's as if the OceanEnable switch builds geometry based water as opposed to layered texture based water.

Well,

that is not good news...

The second choice to get this was a animatedprop with a loop animations like the kamino's water:

These model have an envmap and transparency flags.

Thanks again Ace.

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