Weird Water

[oli887]

Hello. Since I installed Paintball 2 on my new computer ( Which uses Vista, dunno if its the problem) i got weird and annoying water.







Any ideas ?

Thanks

[lekky]

Use the search

[oli887]

Ok i found it.  Just tried to uncheck reflective water and it worked

Admins : You can delete this topic.

[Eiii]

Of course, then you don't have reflective water.

Do you have an ATI card? ATI + Vista seems to do horrible things.

[oli887]

Yeah. I got ATI X1300 128 mb. And yeah ATI + Vista is horrible.... Lots og low framerates and textures problems ...

[y00tz]

Yep.  I think we've figured out some Linux drivers cause the same thing... the trick with removing reflective water is just a quick fix, but you should add to the feature vote that you'd like to see this fixed.  I imagine it's possible to do a work around..

[Apocalypse]

This problem made it so I haven't seen reflective water in ages

[jitspoe]

Interesting - I hadn't seen the first case.  I guess ATI drivers just randomly pick which texture to use?  Is there any rhyme or reason to when it uses the blue-ish texture (normal map) vs the red/green texture (offset map)?  If anybody wants to take a stab at fixing this, it may be possible to do from pball/scripts/water1.arbf, unless the texture binding in the engine itself is the issue (of course, that's open-sourced as well - just don't use a modified version online).

[Cobo]

The bluish case just seems to be reflecting, rather than just drawing the texture.

[jitspoe]

But what causes the difference between the first and second screenshot?  Does the map sometimes load with one and sometimes the other, or does it flicker back and forth between them?

[y00tz]

It was my assumption that this is a map he made?  In which case, maybe he tried two different water textures, and thus the difference...  Hohum.

[oli887]

Nope . Used only one water texture. I first looked at the water. Then went on the other edge of the map ( Which is leaked Btw ) Then i came back and the water changed. But i think there is a link with using a specific water picture tho. Like, on dopjump my water is always Black/Green/Yellow Like the 2nd picture. But on some other maps the water will be like my first picture.

[Cobo]

Hm, fix the leaks and see if it still changes when you go to the other side and come back.

[oli887]

Ok i fixed the leaks and still nothing. I posted a demo of what i am doing. I dont know of you will see the blue and yellow/black/green water changes.

[Cobo]

People wont see the water colors in a demo.

[Edgecrusher]

Hello. Since I installed Paintball 2 on my new computer ( Which uses Vista, dunno if its the problem) i got weird and annoying water.

Any ideas ?

Thanks

It's not weird and annoying.

I like it.

Ads a new dimension to the game-

[y00tz]

Jitspoe:  After looking at the source, it looks like Paintball uses roughly the same water code as AlienArena (sp?) another popular mod/game, is this the case?

At any rate, I'm going to check out their forums to see if this has been reported and/or fixed.

[jitspoe]

Several people worked on the reflective water code.  I'm not sure which engines it made its way into.  Matt Ownby made the original reflective water.  Dukey tweaked it a bit and shared in on quakesrc.  I added some tweaks and put in the fragment programs for the ripple effects.