water color

akmassassin · Post by **akmassassin** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 4:00 pm

ok i made a copy of a water's shader tag and i made the water green and very opaque. i named it swamp_water.shader_transparent_water... and in 3ds i named my material to the same thing, and then compile it..., but wen i open it in sapien it has a nice clear blue color!!! so wat went wrong??? i tryed to delete the shader tag just to check if the scenario wont open in sapien an it didint open. so my scenario is using my water shader but i dont know y, its blue.... if any one know wat is the awser to this noob problem please tell me

akmassassin · Post by **akmassassin** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 6:53 am

comon i need help

Superfly · Post by **Superfly** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 8:59 am

This is a guess, but would it have somethinbg to do with the perpendicular colour (guessing)

HMC Helljumper · Post by **HMC Helljumper** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 10:32 am

i think what you are doing might have something to do with the shader... if u just copy the shader, then it points to the bitmaps of the level that you got it from. make sure that you redirect everythign to your new bitmap, and dont forget about the reflection map!

akmassassin · Post by **akmassassin** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 2:33 pm

thx but ive checked and everything is allright and my material is named swamp_water and my shader is named swamp_water too. so i dont know wats wrong...

HMC Helljumper · Post by **HMC Helljumper** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 3:05 pm

no... go into ur shader... and make sure that the feilds that say: base map\reflection map point to the altered bitmaps. not the old ones... if they point to the old ones, then its still reading hte same file.... get it? ive never made water but thats my best guess... and no one else seems to know so give htat a shot

geminijunodeluxe · Post by **geminijunodeluxe** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 4:34 pm

Try editing the reflection bitmaps, they are the ones that give it the color.

akmassassin · Post by **akmassassin** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 6:01 pm

thats were was my error. it worked thx alot

HMC Helljumper · Post by **HMC Helljumper** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 6:24 pm

whooo hoo im on a role today

Banshee Ace · Post by **Banshee Ace** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 9:52 am

YES THIS HAPPENED TO ME TOO WHEN I WAS MAKING MY VOLCANO MAP!! I TRIED TO MAKE THE WATER RED BUT IT TURNED OUT BLUE...