This is getting annoying

[thanhle]

Maybe you want to create a project announcement for this water scenenode/shader in the project announcement forum.

That looks great. It almost looks like real water.

Request on your to do list:
1) update the water color and transparency based on the depth of the water/floor.

Goodluck
Thanh

[Destructavator]

It does look good now, yes.

If I may ask, what was the issue with the matrix math? I'm asking because I'd think the rules I explained in this thread for working with a matrix should have applied to *both* the inverted world matrix *and* the WorldViewProjection matrices you were passing to the shader. Looking back at your post after I explained the matrix stuff I see you mentioned changing the inverted world matrix like how I suggested, although you didn't mention anything about fixing the multiplication for how you get the WorldViewProjection matrix at the same time. I had assumed you tried what I suggested for both, not just for getting the inverted world matrix. If this assumption is wrong, I'm sorry.

Also, If anything I posted about the matrix stuff and what I was suggesting wasn't clear, or was misinterpreted, that's my fault, and I apologize.

So what is the working matrix code that fixed everything?

I'm not trying to be nasty or rub anything in when I ask this, it's just that if the problem all along was really matrix-related, I'm curious to know what the working, fixed result would be, because for OpenGL what I suggested works perfectly (rules applied to *both*, actually, *all* matrix math), but if the rules are different for a DirectX shader I'm wondering what those different rules are and how they are different.

Again, It's my fault if I didn't explain any suggestion clearly, and I'm glad to see you got it working anyways! The result looks very good!

[The_Glitch]

I think your taking it to serious bud. Yeah I forgot what the exact fix was but I set all my other data back to the original and tinkered with the matrices. And I discovered the water being shown all distorted depending on how you rotated the camera. From that point I changed around there orders and I believe I even removed one and got it working. None of the other stuff was wrong though.

[Christi258]

When is your water ready? I wanna see it

[The_Glitch]

Yeah I've added transparency to the water. I'm gonna test it in one of my levels and see how it fairs and move forward from there.

[The_Glitch]

Finer Spec "not always better though"

Added transparency. And finer controls over color, and specular lighting and other things.

[Destructavator]

Hey, nice!

Just one minor issue: If the forum software allows it, I'd suggest you change the title of the thread, to something such as, gosh, perhaps "This is getting real cool-looking" or something?

[The_Glitch]

I don't think you can once you post it or a little time after. I'm going to make a project announcement soon. And make a version for opengl.

[The_Glitch]

Beavercreek Halo 2 "Microsoft/ Bungie"

Screenshot for this particular level turns out darker than it's suppose to but o well.