Adding waterfall to a map...can it work?

Offspring · Post by **Offspring** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 8:23 pm

what is the best way to add a water fall to my map? making out of a cylender then applying the water!$ material comes up with errors (because i think its a cylender in the first place so it wont work) (and because i think it runs into my water!$ plane in the first place) but if i fix that i still get errors, am i doing it right or am i supposed to apply the stream bitmap from Test/tutorial/bitmaps? what should i do to acomplish a nice looking one?

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 5:00 am

I will make a tut in a sec

Offspring · Post by **Offspring** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 6:29 am

patrickssj6 your tutorials always help man!

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 7:47 am

tnx nice to know.I have them ready in a few minutes

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 8:49 am

OK well i have some quality issues and thats whyy it takes MB a litttle bit longer.

Offspring · Post by **Offspring** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:36 am

ok thats fine, ive got to type up a hugeass essay

anway...

but i have a quick question when i add water to my level theres a huge hole in the middle and looks bad how can i get rid of it? i followed your tut but it wont go away..any suggestions?

The_Hushed_Casket · Post by **The_Hushed_Casket** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:37 am

Sweet thanks Patrick, I've been wanting to make waterfalls too.

Offspring · Post by **Offspring** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:17 pm

*** stares at computer skreen and waits for patrick ***

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:51 pm

well on my topic someone had the same problem.let me check for a sec.Well did you use the texture i said?Mb you could tile the texture yeah do that tile the texture in 3ds max.Its under UVW Mapping.Use a tile value around 5-10

Offspring · Post by **Offspring** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 4:20 pm

oh ok i bet that will work; i used the texture you said to use too...

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 4:37 pm

Yeah that guy fixed the problem somehow but he didn't tell us how.Anyway i hope you see that water whole in Halo and not in sapien cause many people think that spaien looks like the end result

Offspring · Post by **Offspring** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 7:14 pm

yeah its in halo... if you look closely at my pics of the gun i postesd and look in the middle of the level in the ditch its dark were the fog is but there is no water mask layer thingy...

so hows the waterfall tut coming?

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 3:27 pm

Omg i have som much work to do.But its basically the sam as water make the plane vertical give it the a30 texture and later the shader.You can optimize it a little bit later

Offspring · Post by **Offspring** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 1:15 pm

ok do i need to name it water!$ or just add the bitmap and shader and thats all?

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 1:26 pm

for the waterfall i would anme it waterfall!$

Offspring · Post by **Offspring** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 3:36 pm

ok i see... (that makes sence)

edit***

If you tile the water it works and fixes the big whole in the middle

ive been doing alot of school work and havent had time to try the water fall out yet but i will do it this afternoon.

ok i got it to export i even found the shader but for some reason i cant ess the waterfalls in sapien i even followed the waterfall tut on halowiki...
do you know what im doing wrong?

p0lar_bear · Post by **p0lar_bear** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:59 pm

There's also a waterfall scenery object that comes with the HEK... you add it in Sapien after the BSP has been built.

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:48 pm

Yeah but it doesn't always fits your map >_>.But yes you can use it reference.

SuperSunny · Post by **SuperSunny** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 2:47 pm

You guys missed something basic. Don't add the $ in the name. That's a fog layer. Fog Layers only work in flat areas, and there can only be one.

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 2:56 pm

omg yes sunny i forgot that.DOn't add the fogmlayer sign to it ohterwise tool will give you a "two fog planes are intersecting" error