how do you make translucent water?

[miuzaki]

I remember seing alot of maps where you can see down in the water.AND the water above sector is right where the water below sector is.these maps include roch.map HAUNTING.map ect. example pictures::dopefish:

[Mr.Fibbles]

It is a sprite/sector hack.
IIRC it involved some some what complicated sector work. There is a tutorial/example map out there somewhere.

[miuzaki]

THank you for letting me know its possible

[DeeperThought]

You can also use the transparent water in Duke Plus, which is a lot easier.

[lycanox]

Deeper thoughts Duke plus mod has a special water sprite that simulates the water surface. I would recommend using that. But it is possible with the use of sector effectors.

Place one SE with a lotag of 40 on the water surface.
Place one SE with a lotag of 41 on the bottom of the water pool. Make sure that they are positioned on the same spot in the pool.
Place one SE with a lotag of 42 in each sector that is able to see in the water.
Place one SE with a lotag of 43 in each submerged sector that is able to look out of the water.

Make sure that each separate sector that is part of the water surface gets an 40 and 41 sector effector. And that the angle of each one is facing down in 2d view.
The water surface has to be on the same vertical height in the above and underwater sectors. And the sectors must get a transparency tag. (T in 3d view.) you can check whether or not it works by pressing 3 in 3d view.

It is however pretty buggy and the current coders of eduke have given up on fixing them.
So don't complain when things doesn't look right.

[miuzaki]

You can also use the transparent water in Duke Plus, which is a lot easier.

Tank you deeper thought.but where is mario nukem?
oh And why are you saying its easy.it wasint easy for you was it?
all is apreciated lycanox

[DeeperThought]

Tank you deeper thought.but where is mario nukem?

you're welcome and mario is on my hard drive

[Chip]

It is however pretty buggy and the current coders of eduke have given up on fixing them.


I hope they return to this one day.

[miuzaki]

you're welcome and mario is on my hard drive
oh i just liked it and the download for it is gone.

[miuzaki]

hey how do you use transparent water? im a total noob

[miuzaki]

said it plain N straight in the dn3d repository. TRANSLUCENT WATER DEMONSTRATION (http://duke3d.bur.st/editing.php?getFile=1678)Hels Yeah!
wait for link to load.

[William Gee]

oh And why are you saying its easy.it wasint easy for you was it?


The DukePlus transparent water is easy to use and fantastic.

[miuzaki]

[QUOTE=miuzaki;675931]
oh And why are you saying its easy.it wasint easy for you was it?
/QUOTE]

The DukePlus transparent water is fantastic.
Got it...and this was done the hard way! my map.
THANK YOU BOB!
(bob averyll)

[William Gee]

The Bob water effect is ok if you don't mind that you cant view enemies below the water.
That and you cant view anything you drop/shoot into it. And you cant view enemies outside the water when you are under it.

Nice that you got it working.. I used this effect in some of my old maps, but its not something I would use again now that there are better ways.

[The Commander]

Yes, DeeperThoughts water effect is way easyer and alot nicer and has way more effects to it. You would easly know how to do this one Miuzaki if you downloaded Duke Plus, and if you have and you didnt know how your obveilsy another one who doesnt read "README's"

[miuzaki]

Yes, DeeperThoughts water effect is way easyer and alot nicer and has way more effects to it. You would easly know how to do this one Miuzaki if you downloaded Duke Plus, and if you have and you didnt know how your obveilsy another one who doesnt read "README's"

i cant get mapster to run with duke plus.

[DeeperThought]

Yes, DeeperThoughts water effect is way easyer and alot nicer and has way more effects to it. You would easly know how to do this one Miuzaki if you downloaded Duke Plus, and if you have and you didnt know how your obveilsy another one who doesnt read "README's"

Commander, once again your attempt to promote one of my mods is misguided. Honestly, if you're going to insult people like that I wish you would just say nothing. miuzaki has tried Duke Plus and he likes it, and if he wants to do transparent water the old-fashioned way that's his business.

[oak man]

WOW! I had no idea Dukeplus had transparent water!

[DeeperThought]

i cant get mapster to run with duke plus.

I'm not sure what you mean, since Mapster doesn't run "with" any mods -- it's a mod neutral map editor. Mapster doesn't run the game code used to create the various effects, so you won't see those effects until you are in-game. If mapster is crashing or something, make sure you are using the latest snapshot.

[The Commander]

Commander, once again your attempt to promote one of my mods is misguided. Honestly, if you're going to insult people like that I wish you would just say nothing. miuzaki has tried Duke Plus and he likes it, and if he wants to do transparent water the old-fashioned way that's his business.

No once again I read and replyed to what he said.

hey how do you use transparent water? im a total noob

This basicly says, Hey I d/l DP but I dont know how to use your water effect because I havent bothered to read the read me.

Im not insulting at all. Ive seen you reply with this reply before anyway. So dont be one to judge.

i cant get mapster to run with duke plus.

Can you post the log file of mapster32.log

[miuzaki]

Commander, once again your attempt to promote one of my mods is misguided. Honestly, if you're going to insult people like that I wish you would just say nothing. miuzaki has tried Duke Plus and he likes it, and if he wants to do transparent water the old-fashioned way that's his business.Thank you. i just learned how to do it that way and i works for me. i like ppl like you who back me up.but then again we all got each others
backs a 3D Realms

[miuzaki]

I'm not sure what you mean, since Mapster doesn't run "with" any mods -- it's a mod neutral map editor. Mapster doesn't run the game code used to create the various effects, so you won't see those effects until you are in-game. If mapster is crashing or something, make sure you are using the latest snapshot.
THATS MY PROBLEM.again thank you youre awesomeness.