What is wrong with my water?

[et_cg]

and those open edges will cause other problems

That's due to his choice of method. (Plane with a water! shader. That's how I'd do it to start off with) He may have also instanced an object that just collides and didn't have any special instancing characters set for it.

[jngrow]

... just experiment Jngrow. You really don't seem to be trying whatever you can possible. I barely have enough time to be on the forums for long. It seems you're quite dependant upon help. Just test. Test, and test again.

It's called scale. X_scale... y_scale... that usually affects your ripple. Gah, you should know that from testing/tutorials. :P


And Korn, your Unused property wouldn't affect how it looks in game. It just affects whether the texture makes it in or not. Or how the map compiles. Map compiling likes to crash if there's a bitmap with the unused setting checked.

Sorry to waste your time so much, but you don't have to answer me if you don't want to (although it seems pretty much you and Conscars are the only ones who answer them). I am testing a lot, despite what you might think, but I haven't been testing very well. I pretty much only change stuff I already understand, (which isn't very much). I need to experiment more, yes I agree. I promise not to ask anymore questions for a while.

[et_cg]

You can ask, but just be sure to go over various materials that are here! I'm glad to help... Earlier, I was just sort of perterbed and brought my feelings out in a bad way on the forums.

I'm sorry to have done that.

Anyways, I do hope that you are learning! If in the future you can't find any material covering your topic, or can't find the question that's been/being answered, then go ahead and feel free to ask.

[Bastinka]

Looks like your water broke wow no one has made that pun?
EDIT: Done, did, and gone.

And also, learning is good. Questioning is a way of learning.

[jngrow]

Thanks, its just the "three letter rule" in the search function REALLY gets on my nerves.

[et_cg]

Me too. But I know google spiders check this site quite often, so if you can use an advanced google search. I've had good luck with that before.

And hey, don't be afraid to ask after what I said.

[jngrow]

EDIT: Nvm, hella weird timing. It works pimpsauce now. I don't have any animations or ripples on it, but at least it actually behaves like water and has reflections and is transparent. Nope, Nvm. Looks fine in Sapien, no splash or anything in-game.

All I did was directly apply my water shader to a plane, with the % modifier for the material. I got this:
Shot at 2007-08-08

[Vicky]

I still can't make my water to animate either, it looks like water it acts like water but still no moving ripples. A complete discription, including what bitmaps are used, how to UVW (planar?face?), and shader settings, would be appreciated.

[Roostervier]

If you downloaded my shader, those are the settings I got to work. I never UVW'd my plane, and it shows up fine. The only thing I can think of is that you are not using the correct water bump map. If you download kornman's bitmap pack, it looks red, green, yellow, and black. That's the one I use.

[armoman92]

i got my water to work in sapien, but when i package i keep getting this error. I have made sure that all my bitmaps have unused unchecked. What wrong here...