Water Brush and Shader Problems As Well As Assorted GTK Radiant Quirks

[DarthDementous]

Well hello there gentlemen,

 

Basically I made a water shader that worked okay but still needs to be optimized for the current setting of an underwater base, as it was previous outside so it was all weird and glowy. 

 

 

     textures/float/water1

 

     {

 

               qer_editorimage textures/float/water1.jpg

 

               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 64 sin 0 0.5 0.2 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

               {

 

                        map textures/float/waterenvmap1

 

                        tcGen environment

 

                        blendFunc GL_ONE GL_ONE

 

               }

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

               {

 

                        map textures/float/skyenvmap1

 

                        tcGen environment

 

                        blendFunc GL_DST_COLOR GL_ZERO

 

               }

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

               {

 

                        map $lightmap

 

                        blendFunc GL_DST_COLOR GL_ZERO

 

               }

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

               {

 

                        map textures/float/skyenvmap1_sun

 

                        tcGen environment

 

                        rgbGen const ( 1.00 0.95 0.79 )

 

                        blendFunc GL_ONE GL_ONE

 

                        glow

 

               }

 

     }

 

 

I was wondering if by replacing the skymapenv1 picture with a view of what the environment at the top of the water brush will look like (in this case an x-wing in a bay) will fix this? 

 

Now onto the big painful ass thing that has been plaguing my GTK Radiant. Whenever I create a brush for a water brush I texture it entirely in caulk_water then texture the top and bottom faces with the water texture I want to use. HOWEVER. Sometimes only one little pool of water actually functions like water other times they're both like regular old stiff brushes and I have no idea how to fix that. Also sometimes there are pieces of brush missing ingame but not from the editor so what's up with that?

 

Bit of a jumbled post I know but some help would be greatly appreciated.

[Pande]

If I remember correctly (I may be wrong I haven't used water in like 6 years) water brushes must be square (just like fog brushes) to act properly. And yep, make sure it's caulk water ALL over it. Using clip tool for example could screw this up without you noticing. To be safe, just select all the water brushes (MMB on their texture, shift + a, invert selection (i), hide (h) ) and reapply caulk_water to all of them, and then reapply the water shader to their top faces.

 

edit: by square I mean no angles to any faces

[Boothand]

If I remember correctly (I may be wrong I haven't used water in like 6 years) water brushes must be square (just like fog brushes) to act properly. 

 

Actually I have a functional 8 sided water brush in my map, so that shouldn't be a limitation.

[DarthDementous]

Yeah that's definitely not it because it's a big rectangle that clips through the areas that need water in it

[Pande]

Hrm. Maybe it was just that the top face needs to be (which would make sense, I guess). The fog used when under water is the same as the fog used in a traditional fog shader, though, so that may be buggy if you use oddly shaped brushes. I know for sure fog volumetric fog can't be strange brushes