BrianR opened this issue on Apr 01, 2005 ยท 9 posts
BrianR posted Fri, 01 April 2005 at 8:45 AM
Hi I'm hunting for a decent water material shader for P5/6, does anybody know of a good one out there for sale or free? Cheers
Shadow_Fyre posted Fri, 01 April 2005 at 9:12 AM
Ajax and mapps have some great P5 shaders in freestuff.
tbird10 posted Fri, 01 April 2005 at 10:40 AM
Attached Link: http://www.stu-runham.co.uk/water.htm
Or take a look at my tutorial to do your own :-)
BrianR posted Fri, 01 April 2005 at 10:45 AM
cheers guys!
nerd posted Fri, 01 April 2005 at 1:32 PM Forum Moderator
P6 has a new shader called fresnel (New Node > Lighting > Raytrace > Fresnel) that is designed to do a better job with water. It combines reflection and refraction in one node with the angle of incident effecting the amount of refraction, just like water. I have not had time to really play with this node yet. Nerd3D
BrianR posted Fri, 01 April 2005 at 1:41 PM
cheers nerd, I'll give it a try
AntoniaTiger posted Fri, 01 April 2005 at 4:59 PM
If you're stuck with P5, have a look for the very basic free version of face_off's reak-skin system, as there's a "fresnel" node in that. It's a re-name of one of the standard nodes. It might be a useful technique to get a water effect.
BrianR posted Fri, 01 April 2005 at 5:03 PM
Thanks everyone
mapps posted Wed, 13 April 2005 at 5:51 PM
If you have no luck with the water mats (I have yet to find aor make one I am 100% happy with) My "Lynn's Point" freebie has a very large mat that works very well. It is in the freesection here big download though 98 meg (see notes and req for trouble shooting the download) if you are interested. It is a to scale cove with huge textures which is why the download is so big.