River and waterblock interaction
by Bryan Morgan · in Torque 3D Professional · 08/11/2009 (3:29 pm) · 3 replies
Is there any plans for improving the waterblock and river so that they interact in some way when they collide? An example of how they could interact would be when the river meets the waterblock,the river doesn't render beyond the edge of the riverblock and either water foam is produced around the area it meets or the ripples of the water are altered by that meeting. I've been thinking on how to do this myself and for the most part it shouldn't be all that hard and could produce some fairly believable results, but the most important thing I'm wanting to implement is so the river doesn't try to render beyond the edge of the waterblock so you end up with the water surface of the river rendering on top of or below the water surface of the waterblock.
The only reason I ask is because my TODO list is constantly growing with every test I do of Torque 3D, and nearly every beta release, and having the river render inside the waterblock is unlikely to be a desired affect at any time.
The only reason I ask is because my TODO list is constantly growing with every test I do of Torque 3D, and nearly every beta release, and having the river render inside the waterblock is unlikely to be a desired affect at any time.
#2
08/11/2009 (5:19 pm)
Sorry if it was already asked. I usually check beforehand but I didn't this time so it's quite possible. I suppose it's not really that hard to hack the river system to stop rendering the river in sections that collide with a waterblock, and then from there it's not too hard to find where it's colliding and do some water ripple or foam effect. 
#3
Fully understand that for non standard behavior but wouldn't one assume that the water behaves like water and if you pour water into water you just get water not 2 different waters.
08/11/2009 (6:40 pm)
Quote:I believe (i may be mistaken) that same question was asked already and the answer was no, it is up to us to produce whatever desired interaction we want between the river and waterblock
Fully understand that for non standard behavior but wouldn't one assume that the water behaves like water and if you pour water into water you just get water not 2 different waters.
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