Realistic canal water

written by bikerdude

Summary

I created this water for Seeking Lady Leicester because up until then, The Darkmod didn’t water that look like it should at night. So what have is as close as I could to faking moving water reflections that reacted to nearby light sources.

Pretty Canal Water

Coloured, Murky, Reflective Canal Water

In a nutshell all the water is comprised of is a standard guis\underwater\underwater_blue_thinmurk.gui for underwater and a custom shader for the surface. I choose the custom shader, because every other method of using patches on the surface of the water never got close enough to the result I was after.

Custom water texture

What we have is 3 stages -

• Bumpmap - this provides sudo micro-waves to the surface of the water.
• Specularmap - this provides the reflections on the waves from nearby sources of light.
• Deform/heathaze - this copied from the stock water texture(water_coloured) to provide the darkness to the surface of the water at night time.

textures/water_source/water_dark_murk
{
	qer_editorimage textures/water_source/water_dark_ed
	discrete
	nonsolid
	water
	twosided
	translucent
	description "dark, semi-transparent clear water with normalmap"

	{
		blend    bumpmap
		map			textures/water_source/water_green_local
		translate	 0.025 * sintable[time * ((( parm5 + 0.1) - (( parm5 || 0) * 0.1)) * 2)], 0.01 * sintable[time * ((( parm5 + 0.1) - (( parm5 || 0) * 0.1)) * 2.2)]
		scale 1,1
	}
	{
        blend    specularmap
        map _white
		translate	 0.025 * sintable[time * ((( parm5 + 0.1) - (( parm5 || 0) * 0.1)) * 2)], 0.01 * sintable[time * ((( parm5 + 0.1) - (( parm5 || 0) * 0.1)) * 2.2)]
		scale 1,1
        rgb 1.0
	}

	deform turbulent sinTable 0.0175 (time * ((( parm5 + 0.1) - (( parm5 || 0) * 0.1)) * 1.5)) 10
	{
		vertexProgram HeatHazeWithMaskAndDepth.vfp
		vertexParm 0 time * (( parm5 + 0.1) - (( parm5 || 0) * 0.1)) , time * ((( parm5 + 0.1) - (( parm5 || 0) * 0.1)) * 5)
		vertexParm 1 (( parm6 + 1.5) - (( parm6 || 0) * 1.5))
		fragmentProgram HeatHazeWithMaskAndDepth.vfp
		fragmentMap 0 _currentRender
		fragmentMap 1 textures/sfx/vp1
		fragmentMap 2 textures/water_source/vp_water
		fragmentMap 3 _currentDepth
	}
	{
		blend blend
		map textures/water_source/water_clear
		alpha 0.7
		rgb 0.05
	}
}

See Also

Objects_Floating_in_Water Ragdoll Corpses in Water