Half-Life 2: Custom Water Shaders

    so nice

    only thing, the water moves quite fast, i dont know what kind of area it is but normal water doesn't move so mixed and fast,

    but besides that i realy like it.

    the water dudv maps for hl2 is definitely generated from some fluid gen tool (that they probably made themselves, dunno)

    afaik there are free tools on the web to do this stuff. just try out different parameters.

    Basically Half-Life 2 water is generated from 29 heightmaps, 29 DUDV maps, and 29 normal maps all compiled together and seamed. My version has 32 of each, so more frames. I basically started out with the heightmap creation in Photoshop (hand painted) which took me about a week to get perfect, as it was a bitch for it to be as seamless as possible. The next step was generating the DUDV and normal maps which took patience to get right except it was a lot easier than creating the heightmaps by hand. As I stated earlier, this is NOT a HLSL shader, but due to the fact it contains a DUDV map I personally like to call it a shader.

    And the seam has been fixed! Like I said earlier, one of the normal map frames was missing in the compile but all is well now.

    Quote from Squirrelly

    That's most likely configured in the .VMT, which I have honestly yet to find. It seems to be hiding...

    Oh, i thought you had find the VMT and rewrited it?

    Wfr, Sindwiller

    A custom shader is actually coding the vertex/fragment shaders yourself so it's a little misleading to call it a custom shader, as the code is the same but the materials are different. I'd personally call it a custom water material or similar

    Looks nice btw, but it repeats a bit much and has too much noise for my liking. I know how tough it is to make a nice normal / dudv map for water, so anything that looks pretty nice is a job well done

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