What's wrong with my water texture!?

[ThaGuyWithCake]

Ok, generating normal maps using caustics to make an animated water texture was a good idea. But when I view the water ingame its completely white and doesn't animate. However, when I view the underside of the water texture in hammer (otherside of the surface) it's there. But even in hammer the surface of the texture is white. Why is it doing that?

[ThaGuyWithCake]

If it helps, here is the code:

"Water"
{
"$abovewater" 1
"%compilewater" 1
"$forceexpensive" 1
"$reflectentities" 0
"$envmap" "env_cubemap"
"$refracttexture" "_rt_WaterRefraction"
"$refractamount" "0"

"$bumpmap" "Water/water_awsome_bump"
"$normalmap" "Water/water_awsome"

"$surfaceprop" "Water"
"$bottommaterial" "Water/water_awsome"
"$bumpframe" "0"

"$reflecttexture" "_rt_WaterReflection"
"$reflectamount" "2"

"$fogenable" 0
"$fogcolor" "[99 214 225]"
"srgb$fogcolor" "{63 214 225}"
"$fogstart" -1024
"$fogend" 90

}

Note: The bump map is the normal map texture saved as bump map.

[poisonic]

lol you forgot to animate it my friend

[ThaGuyWithCake]

Here is the updated code:

The texture itself is still appearing as white however.


"Water"
{
"$abovewater" 1
"%compilewater" 1
"$forceexpensive" 1
"$reflectentities" 0
"$envmap" "env_cubemap"
"$refracttexture" "_rt_WaterRefraction"
"$refractamount" "0"

"$bumpmap" "Water/water_awsome_bump"
"$normalmap" "Water/water_awsome"

"$surfaceprop" "Water"
"$bottommaterial" "Water/water_awsome"
"$bumpframe" "0"

"$reflecttexture" "_rt_WaterReflection"
"$reflectamount" "2"

"$fogenable" 0
"$fogcolor" "[99 214 225]"
"srgb$fogcolor" "{63 214 225}"
"$fogstart" -1024
"$fogend" 90

proxies
{
"AnimatedTexture"
{
"animatedTextureVar" "$basetexture"
"animatedTextureFrameNumVar" "$frame"
"animatedTextureFrameRate" "25"
}

}
}

[WhiteDevil]

your animation is set on a basetexture which your water doesn't have

[ThaGuyWithCake]

But my base texture is a normal map or can it not do that?

[poisonic]

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"Water"
{
"$abovewater" 1
"%compilewater" 1
"$forceexpensive" 1
"$reflectentities" 0
"$envmap" "env_cubemap"
"$refracttexture" "_rt_WaterRefraction"
"$refractamount" "0"

"$bumpmap" "Water/water_awsome_bump"
"$normalmap" "Water/water_awsome"

"$surfaceprop" "Water"
"$bottommaterial" "Water/water_awsome"
"$bumpframe" "0"

"$reflecttexture" "_rt_WaterReflection"
"$reflectamount" "2"

"$fogenable" 0
"$fogcolor" "[99 214 225]"
"srgb$fogcolor" "{63 214 225}"
"$fogstart" -1024
"$fogend" 90

"Proxies"
   {
      "TextureScroll"
      {
         "texturescrollvar" "$bumptransform"
         "texturescrollrate" 3
         "texturescrollangle" -90
      }
   }

[crazycarl]

White water: I'm guessing your reflections are too strong. Try this:

You can color or tone down the reflections by supplying your own RGB values here.

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   "$reflecttint" "[0.6 0.65 0.68]"

If you haven't already, remember to always build cubemaps

$bumpmap should be a Dudv, which is for users running directx 8 or older.

A typical proxy block for water:

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   "Proxies"
   {
      "AnimatedTexture"
      {
         "animatedtexturevar" "$normalmap"
         "animatedtextureframenumvar" "$bumpframe"
         "animatedtextureframerate" 30.00
      }

      "TextureScroll"
      {
         "texturescrollvar" "$bumptransform"
         "texturescrollrate" .05
         "texturescrollangle" 45.00
      }
      "WaterLOD"
      {
         // fixme!  This has to be here, or material loading barfs.
         "dummy" 0
      }
   }
}