water ripples?
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| How would I make water like this using a bump map? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMj9bpD6ZSY if you need the bump map, i will upload it |
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| That looks more like a cubemap applied to a mesh, which is being deformed in real time. |
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| You could try using the FastExt library for ADDitional special effects... |
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| is the fastext free? if so, where can i find it? if i dont have to do much formula w/ fastext, that would be GREAT |
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| Nope you have to pat for Fastext, but it is def worth it!!!, Create effects you can do with it |
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| ok, does someone know of a code base entry that has an example of a cubemap applied to a mesh and deformed in real time? |
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| JA2 ;) Well, you need to generate a cubemap, of the surrounding area, texture the sea mesh with it. You should start by investigating the vertexcoords command. This command will allow you to move the position of a vertex. |
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| Rob Farley's cubemap example in the code archives is excellent as a means of developing cubemaps. As for the deformation, I'm pretty sure there was a similar thing too in the code arcs. |
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| FastExt is very good and well worth the price. With it you can render shadows, water reflections, etc Comes with lots of examples too to get you started... |
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| id LOVE to buy fastext, but right now my budget cannot handle it. so i need a codebase entry that shows how to deform a cubemap. |
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Hmm it only costs $12 and there is a free trial available, too. Might save you (and everyone else) a bit of time... See, looks nice doesn't it :) |
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| You can't deform a cubemap. Your looking to deform the water mesh. Have a look at the vertexcoords commands, and it's examples. |
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| it does look nice. but my budget cant handle it atm.. :/ maybe in a few weeks.. |
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| Here's an oldie but goodie: Rob's cube map demo NOTE: The zip file has a .txt extension because my free web space will not accept a zip file. You must rename the downloaded file. |
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| Devil Engines are free: http://www.devil-engines.net/ There is water included with the shadow system. |
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| I don't think it's a plane with wobbling vertices (although it could be made with this 'slower' method). It's an EMBM material (EMBM stands for Environment Mapped Bump Mapping, a graphical feature native to D3D 7). It has it's "Normal" texture being animated or moved, so as to provoque the appearance of ripples. The diffuse texture is a cubemap. What aShadow and FastEXT allow you to do is use this EMBM material more easily (but there ARE free options around here. Search the forum for EMBM). It's a tradeoff between paying something or having to deal with more implementation difficulties - but it's totally doable, both ways. PS: I'm saying it's an EMBM because that is the way to do it with Blitz3D. I'm sure that the video you showed used shaders all the way. |
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| Ah, thanks for the explanation man, and sorry for the bum info everyone! |
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