"DP Pretty Water" Update

[Ghostbreed]

Very good, splitterface

[Seven]

Ghostbreed,

You would laugh if you´d know what odyssee this VISed pack went through...
grave_digga and Mindz know it

I am still not sure if it is legal to upload my VISed maps in public... (that is why I included that readme)
But as long as Baker or any other moderator says something I guess it is all right.
So now they are online again in 1st post.

Best wishes,
Seven

[Ghostbreed]

Hello Seven, you mean all hard work re-doing every single map of Quake?
I'm impressed indeed

[Seven]

No no no.
There are VIS-tools that do this in just a few minutes/seconds.

I meant the history of this special VISed pack.
It was released by accident... oohh long story.
But now it fulfils its destiny

Best wishes,
Seven

[PRIMEVAL]

I'm lovin' the screenies and video, but I can't get the ripples to save my life...I've done everything I've seen in this thread. Even downloaded that CFG file and still not working properly. The water texture itself looks great, I like the translucency, but I don't have any ripples. All the water does is sorta scroll for a little bit, then reset and scroll some more.

I got the Pak2 file, using dpwater0.4-DIRTY.pk3, added the lines to the CFG file, also tried WebAngel's pack and still got the same result.

What seems to be the problem? I just know it's going to be a simple answer to make me look stupid... XD

[Edit] Actually, I can make a video to show you what I mean, soon, but it won't be for awhile yet.

[Editx2] Ha sha: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWwmR...ature=youtu.be
Hope this shows you what I'm talking about.

[NightFright]

Those new webangel shaders for slime/water look really great, reminds me of the awesome water surfaces in Half-Life 2. Is anyone finishing these?

[Spiney]

[Editx2] Ha sha: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWwmR...ature=youtu.be
Hope this shows you what I'm talking about.

The video is flagged private so I can't view it

[talisa]

awesome shaders webangel, love em

immediately made them standard in my quake add-ons list

[PRIMEVAL]

The video is flagged private so I can't view it

Hehe...whoops. Fixed that, should just be unlisted now.

[Seven]

Hello PRIMEVAL,

Thank you for your post.

You need to know 2 things:
1.) The "hick-up" that you see was introduced via DarkPlaces build change in may 2011.
Please read here for more details: click me
2.) I can reproduce your visual and lacking refract (=ripples) by disabeling the cvar "r_water". The default is set to "0". You need to set it to "1" to make the dp_water shader work.

Kind regards,
Seven

[NightFright]

One question:
Which Darkplaces build is the first to support this new water shader webangel uses? I am asking because I am using a DP build back from August 2011, and as you know, newer builds tend to break things, such as normalmapping etc.

[PRIMEVAL]

Hello PRIMEVAL,

Thank you for your post.

You need to know 2 things:
1.) The "hick-up" that you see was introduced via DarkPlaces build change in may 2011.
Please read here for more details: click me
2.) I can reproduce your visual and lacking refract (=ripples) by disabeling the cvar "r_water". The default is set to "0". You need to set it to "1" to make the dp_water shader work.

Kind regards,
Seven

So do I need to have v0.51 with the Dirty Water version?
Also, I do have r_water set to 1. I've transferred what I have to my friends laptop and it works on his (granted I now made his DP Quake extremely laggy, hehe).

Nevertheless, it's still not working. Even took out the Dirty Water file.

[EDIT]
I just typed r_water 1 into the console and it worked... how odd. It seems like it's not reading the Config file. Still got that hiccup, though.

[EDITx2] Okay, so after typing it in the console, it's working every time I start it up. How odd...

[Ghostbreed]

putting in a cvar in the console adds it to the config file, so it's not odd that it'll work each time you start up DP

[PRIMEVAL]

The fact that it was already added to the Config file and wasn't working until I typed it into the console was odd

[EDIT]
Well, I'm special...found an older version of Pretty Water (slightly altered name) in my ID1 directory. Doh! I remember getting it from the PK3 for Dummies thread. Got rid of that and so far, everything looks good! Just a bit of lag...gotta fix that if I'm going to be doing a Let's Play of this soon.

Anyway, thank you for your help! Awesome work!

[Seven]

Hello PRIMEVAL,

You are not the first one that wonders:
"Why on earth is DarkPlaces ignoring my ID1/config.cfg settings ?"

The reason is most probably your Windows version.
You seem to have Win 7 (64-bit).
DarkPlaces looks into this folder for the config file:
My Documents/My Games/Darkplaces

This has something to do with programs rights on your machine...
I am an oldschool Win XP user, so my config file is inside the ID1 folder.
(But I might be wrong concerning the config, cause I never tested Win 7)

Regarding the water versions:
I only updated V0.51. The other version 0.4 has been dropped.
So if you want to use this water, please use V0.51 (Download link in 1st post)


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Hello NightFright,

You are save to use your current DP build.
I use it myself.
The reletavely new shader key word "dp_waterscroll" (which is used in webangels ported water shader from Blood Omnicide) was developed in october 2010 for Nexuiz: click

I also like this Water very much, as described here.
The water is just a bit too clean, but otherwise very nice.
The slime can be used right away
Thank you again Webangel !

Best wishes,
Seven