Breath Indicator

[Springheel]

D3 must have some warbly "blur" effect setting that we could kick in when under water.

 

Well, it does. That's not the problem. The problem is, using it cancels out (or at least renders invisible) the heat-haze effect on the surface of the water. So once you're underwater you can't tell how far away the surface is, which we don't want.

 

I don't know how else to fake something like that just using regular materials, but if someone else wants to have a go at it, be my guess.

[Darkness_Falls]

If anyone can give me some pointers on how to apply blur efx, I would like to experiment. I've searched Doom3world and Wiki the past while trying to find answers to no avail. I have blur.vfp and .mtr files from here: Blur.zip. But don't know where to put files, or if I need to make new code to make work?

 

More info on blur: Simple blur shader (doom3world) / See approx. 3/4 down page

 

> I put the .mtr file in materials directory.

> The .vfp files in gui/assets/hud.

> Not sure what code to write, or where to write it (hud.gui?).

 

Maybe a very light blue fog inside the water brush could instead work, or is that only possible in HL2?

[Springheel]

I tried out that very same blur effect. You have to make a new glprog (or something like that, I'm at work) folder. It's whatever folder in D3 that holds all the vfp files.

 

You then have to modify the HUD to call the overlay.