[3ds Max Animation Tool for Thief 2 in Beta]

That's Pinkdot. He did some models for Darkmod long time ago.

[Progressive, innovative and unconventional Music]

blur - one of my favourite bands recorded new album after 12 years. I listened to it couple of times and in my opinion it's not their best work. But there's still some good music there.

 

[Random video of the day...]

They have more hits like that

[The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt]

Newest trailer:

 

[Good splash fx in idtech4?]

Hmm why doesn't the _black diffusemap in the second texture "animated_water_refraction" make the water black and opaque?

diffusemap _black

It actually does something. Without it material doesn't react to lights. I added that to splash material.

[Deus Ex: Mankind Divided]

Human Revolution had a very strong visual identity and the excuse for it was this whole 'new renaissance' idea. And because the game was successful they now wont change a single bit. As a result I have an impression that I already played it. They could at least swap orange with pink and triangles with circles, or something. But yeah, I enjoyed HR so I will buy this one too I guess.

[Deus Ex: Mankind Divided]

The trailer looks a bit silly to me. And the whole thing is identical to the previous game. It looks more like an expansion pack then a proper sequel. And I guess having a huge, augmented villain with a phony accent is now a tradition.

 

[Any Artists Out There?]

Thank you. I plan to make more.

[Random video of the day...]

[Any Artists Out There?]

Thanks guys. SteveL, looks like you're bigger art fan than me. I just looked for classic sculptures on wikipedia I could reproduce and stumbled upon this one. I never even heard of Bernini before.

[Any Artists Out There?]

Hi, I've just finished this sculpture. It's inspired by Gian Lorenzo Bernini's "Damned Soul". It can be bought on Turbosquid.

 

[How to make a nice looking water surface?]

In the video you can see that it has specularmap affected by normalmap so specular reflection looks bumpy. Also image is warped by the same normalmap. And that's only one material. The other two are for the mirror reflection and a colour.

[How to make a nice looking water surface?]

Yeah, I think I just copied it from some other material. It probably does nothing.

[How to make a nice looking water surface?]

Have you seen this thread? Here's the demo map.

[Good splash fx in idtech4?]

Do you have "interaction shader" set to "normal" in the settings?

[Good splash fx in idtech4?]

Maybe I omitted something. Could you post a screen shot?

[Good splash fx in idtech4?]

It's basically a looped animation I created in Blender with ocean modifier. Here's a related thread. I thought about packing all the images into one file, but since the frames are 512 x 512 px and there's so many of them it would be a one gigantic image file. I don't think _black diffusemap actually makes any difference.

[Good splash fx in idtech4?]

I did not commit it, but of course you can use it freely. People seem to be worry real time reflections will slow down the game too much. But that can be replaced with cubemap. I think it's still better than nothing. My setup is pretty complex with 3 different shaders. But even a single animated refractive shader with 50 frames will look better than the stock clear water with a scrolling normalmap, in my opinion.

[Good splash fx in idtech4?]

Water uses 3 different surfaces:

a) semitransparent reflection

animated refraction (50 frames) that warps bottom of the river and the reflection; it also has specularmap with bumpmap

c) animated diffusemap (also 50 frames), semitransparent, using blend blend method, gives a little bit of colour on top

[Good splash fx in idtech4?]

Thanks

[Good splash fx in idtech4?]

@Arcturus, I think have asked for this before but - can you package up the map and all the files needed?

 

I don't think you have. Here are the files.

[Good splash fx in idtech4?]

I made splash the same way:

 

 

Here are the files.

 

I don't understand the setup or how the bumpmap is combining with the standard heat haze water surface effect.

 

Check the zip file I attached. Material looks like this:

 

 

textures/particles/splash_1
{
        qer_editorimage textures/darkmod/sfx/deforms/splash_local.tga
        
        noshadows
        noselfshadow
        noimpact
        nonsolid
        translucent
        diffusemap    _black
    {    
        blend    specularmap
        map        textures/particles/splash_s
        alpha 0
    }
    {
        blend bumpmap
        map    textures/darkmod/sfx/deforms/splash_local.tga
    }
    {
        program         heatHaze.vfp
        vertexParm      0       time * 0 , time * 0 // scroll
        vertexParm      1       2 //magnitude
        fragmentMap     0       _currentRender
        fragmentMap     1       textures/darkmod/sfx/deforms/splash_local.tga
    }
}

 

 

[Good splash fx in idtech4?]

I learned it from one of our water shaders, which has that effect barely noticeable.

[Good splash fx in idtech4?]

I thought it would look worse.

 

 

Effects actually blend nicely and corners are not noticeable. There are some drawbacks however. It doesn't work with coloured water:

 

 

The effect is one-sided and I don't know how do another stage with faces flipped. Also particle don't fade, they disappear abruptly.

There are 3 particles spawned at random positions in one cycle. Z axis is also slightly random to avoid z-fight. Along the heat haze effect there is also specular map, just like the water in the video. Here are the files.

[Good splash fx in idtech4?]

I doubt you can have alpha on heat haze effect.