Hello all, i would start a discussion about water plane because, from the beginning (v1.001) it appeared and actually appear not too much natural, look at the attached picture: the water is too clear!

it could be good for a pool, but not for a lake!

i noticed that if you place objects under the water plane they aren't affected by the waves distortion. so innatural!

The water is a quick and dirty version, just to get water in. As the betas progress and the game speed increases water will get the love and attention it deserves.

yes water has had me thinking the same thing tbh, would be nice to see it more natural looking, and to have animated water reeds and underwater plant life at some point to .

I would think that is yet to come. As in FPSC where you control the water color and the depth also the ripple effect. That is all done with setting it up in a fpi script. So until they decide if they will use fpi or lua then we will have a crack at it. That is how I see it anyway .

I'd say for starters, just a better shader with more reflection would look better. You can't really tell water is transparent from any real distance.

You know what would be cool it you could paint the bottom of rivers, lakes, canals, and etc with all different choices of shades of blues to change the color. Of course it probably will have to have some kind of reflective effect to it.

If anyone has any DirectX 9 shader and code examples of good water techniques, I can certainly flick through them for inspiration. Only a few days ago Rick emailed me a shot from the water out of SkyRim with the simple tagline 'I Want That'. Without increasing the performance drain on the engine, I am curious what directions are available to me. I know a little about a vertex mesh I can physically undulate, and even some parallax mapping to give them impression the surface undulates but it's often easier to grab a working demo, stare at it for a long time, then borrow some of the shader code to speed up the process of integration. Links to lee@thegamecreators.com welcome!