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Cool water reflection

by Cory Anderson · in Game Design and Creative Issues · 08/07/2007 (9:06 pm) · 6 replies

I found this screenshot in the Torque 1.5 collection. I was wondering, how is the reflection and water specularity achieved? I have played around with the options and have been able to get close to the cool specularity, but I can only get the water to reflect an environment map, and not active reflecting. Any ideas?

Link: www.garagegames.com/products/111/images/?current=5
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Torque Owner Tim Heldna
#1
08/07/2007 (9:20 pm)
That's not stock TGE water, it's a custom shader that was added into the engine. The modernization kit features such a water shader and there's also a separate water shader resource available.

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    Torque Owner Cory Anderson
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    #2
    08/07/2007 (9:42 pm)
    Oh thank you very much! :D

    Torque Owner Cory Anderson
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    #3
    08/10/2007 (8:36 am)
    Is the TGE water upgrade the same shading engine that TGEA uses?

    Associate David Montgomery-Blake
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    #4
    08/10/2007 (8:49 am)
    Nope. It is a hack to allow some nice new features into TGE. TGEA's renderer was completely re-written from the ground up with new tech in mind.

    Torque Owner Cory Anderson
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    #5
    08/10/2007 (10:48 am)
    So would you consider it worth integrating? Or does it cause too many bugs right now?

    Associate David Montgomery-Blake
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    #6
    08/10/2007 (10:52 am)
    It depends on what you need and how many graphics cards you have to test it on. It's a great resource, as is the Modernization kit, but it would take some stress testing across cards before a production release.