Shader Water in Spirit - The Tutorial Created 16 years ago2007-12-31 13:28:07 UTC by ChickenFist

Here's a tutorial on how to implement MechMod's shaderwater in a Spirit of Half-Life 1.5a4 based mod, and everything else you need.

There's also a precompiled version if you're to lazy to do it yourself.

All credits go to Jason "ssjason123" Matson for the water code itself, and me for porting it to Spirit and writing the tutorial

Download the package!

http://mechmod.sourceforge.net
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Thanks chickenfist, I'll check this out. I'm a bit concerned about this performance cost though, hopefully its worth it

Well, as it's togglable the performance hit shouldn't be that big of a problem. Players who lags can simply turn the effect off.

Thanks! btw, did you try that code i sent you or did it fail?!? (probably failed as I didn't test it in Spirit)

Ok, I added this in, at first I put some code in the wrong function and I was getting some nasty graphic glitches, after I fixed it it worked properly.

This effect is very good, its just like source water, thanks for posting it here chicken fist, and thank jason for me for the best water that we may ever see in goldsource.

If you got any other code snippets let me know because I am very interested:ciggie:.

Nice of you to share.

lmao.
I might take a look at this for SnG's

hlife_hotdog, I forgot actually. Will check it out.

What I find with the shader water, you loose alot of control over the water. You cant change the fx amount, speed and even water flow direction (which is the most annoying) In my mod, I have some areas with alot of water, and I have no control over which way the water flows. Can you at least change it so you can change the direction of the water flow by changing the yaw amount. I shouldn't be to hard to change in the code.

I can't run it. I get the error "error on fracture" is this just my crappy video card or something more sinister???

Did you add the code properly? Try running the mod that comes with the package and load up a half-life map with water in it.

It's not working. Do you need Vista to see the effect?

Ofcourse not, you just need to be running half-life in opengl mode. I added the code into my mod, it works fine for me.

Do you need Vista to see the effect?

I lol'd. A first for Dave's many posts.

No, no vista required

Requirements:

• Graphics card must have support for 4 texture units and fairly primitive vertex and pixel shaders.
• OpenGL mode.

It that case, the dianosis is:

Crappy video card!