Water troubles.

[Steeveeo]

I've decided to dip my hand into map making recently, and, I cant, for the life of me, figure out how to get water working correctly!

Can anyone point me toward a tutorial for this? I've got all the physics, reflectiveness, and height all correct, just no textures or underwater fog at all...

[mrtwosheds]

You have to type the texture name into the box in the editor.
water fog needs to be set up in the console, fog.water
you will need to set all 4 values.

[Steeveeo]

Did all that, the fog is now there, but I dont have any textures on the water still.

[bigbadbogie]

make their transparency 255

[mrtwosheds]

And don't forget the texture file extension like
water.dxtbz2

[Feared_1]

water256.tga
rendlava.tga
plutoice.tga
toxic_water.tga

That's 4 that I know...
In all honesty, that's all you really need. Water isn't a massive part of a map, and if it was it would be one texture anyway.

[Steeveeo]

I put in the textures long ago, (water256.tga), but they never show up...

[Nielk1]

I have this same issue if I make a map from scratch. To make any kind of map I have to take an existing one and blank it, replace the textures, and go from there.

That's why I'm not a mapper.

[Steeveeo]

Oh there we go, after coming back from dinner, they just kinda, showed up...

[Feared_1]

Your .WAT file wasn't present while you were trying to add the water

Re-save the map in the editor and it should add one for you.

[Steeveeo]

Your .WAT file wasn't present while you were trying to add the water

Re-save the map in the editor and it should add one for you.

It was. I restarted BZ2, saved, and reloaded the map several times, just decided to work after about the fifth reload.

[Feared_1]

I get that problem when my .WAT file was removed.

Your computer must have given it to the aliens to work on for a few hours.

[Steeveeo]

Must be the same aliens who keep throwing random "FIXME: Tracked Physics gone Berserk line 861" into my stuff (first my thumper, then the missiles, wonder whats next)...

[TheJamsh]

oh yeh had things like this happen before... things just 'work' for no reason... and dont for no reason...

i have NO idea why

ERROR: Weapon gpistol|=|a.odf can not be found

that |=| is that stupid hollow box that comes up if i cant display a character for whatever reason. the thing is theres NO weapon in my folder called that. similar tho

[mrtwosheds]

the thing is theres NO weapon in my folder called that.

Yes that's what the error is saying....
Something says there should be one.