Shader Trouble

[Vegeta]

I can't get a certain very realistic water shader to work in my Kashyyyk map.  I was borrowing some textures and shaders from Sith-J-Cull's Kashyyyk map, but I am still unable to get the realistic water shader to work.  In his map, the water is very realistic, yet when I use the same exact shader in my map, it appears way too reflective and stretched out, like stretched or smeared glass.  I'm not talking about the waves that come up onto the shore, (I already figured out how to do that using patches) I am talking about the main water.

Here's a link to a demonstration video of Sith-J-Cull's Kashyyyk map ->

[Futuza]

Do you have anything for us to look at for YOUR map?  eg: Shader files, screenshots, something?  Hard to kind of just guess what you did wrong.

[Vegeta]

Lol, yeah sure, here is what the .shader file looks like

textures/Asjc_kashyyyk/water_surface1

{

qer_editorimage textures/Asjc_kashyyyk/water1
qer_trans 0.75
sort banner
surfaceparm water
surfaceparm nonsolid
surfaceparm nomarks
surfaceparm trans
q3map_material water
q3map_tessSize 512
deformvertexes normal 0.1 0.1
deformvertexes wave 100 sin 1 2 2 0.6

{

map textures/Asjc_kashyyyk/waterenvmap1
tcGen environment
blendFunc GL_ONE GL_ONE
}
{

map textures/Asjc_kashyyyk/skyenvmap1
tcGen environment
blendFunc GL_DST_COLOR GL_ZERO
}
{
map $lightmap
blendFunc GL_DST_COLOR GL_ZERO

}
{
map textures/Asjc_kashyyyk/skyenvmap1_sun
tcGen environment
rgbGen const ( 1.00 0.95 0.79 )
blendFunc GL_ONE GL_ONE
glow
}
}

 

 

Unfortunately, I do not have a screenshot to show you.  This is only because I already used an alternate water texture on the map, and the compilation process takes hours

[Lucidia]

I can never seem to get shaders to work in my maps, I always just use the base textures, but this gets annoying sometimes...

[Szico VII]

2 things spring to mind

 

1) That water is lughtmapped so try lighting it better or writeva shader with no lightmap.

 

2) Try a tessSize of 128 or 64.

 

Both require recompile unfortunately...

[Vegeta]

How do I change the tessSize to either 128 or 64?  Is it in the .shader file or is it in GTKradiant?

[Vegeta]

Alright, I changed the tessSize to 128 and recompiled the map using the shader, but I got the same weird error... Below are some screenshots of what the problem is

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Szico VII]

Did you make it a detail brush?

[Vegeta]

No, ( I checked to make sure ) it is definitely a structural brush.  Is it supposed to be detail?