Half-Life 2: Custom Water Shaders

[Squirrelly]

So a while back I made a complete set of animated water textures for Half-Life 2, but over a period of time I could never find out how to actually implement them into Source. Well, thanks to some useful tutorials I finally completed a water Shader for Source. Please remember: this is just a test so I know the water looks fugly as hell. I just wanted to see if it was actually possible to replace the water and it properly reflect the environment. The next phase is making it pretty, and then finally releasing it. Here are some images...

[General Vivi]

dude that looks crazy . fiddle with yoru settings a bit

[Squirrelly]

So, I figured out why its so bumpy. For water, it takes a very, very subtle normal map otherwise it looks like rough seas. Also, remember that this is actually animated and it moves properly. :wink:

[Furyo]

I'd be interested in seeing a proper "rough seas" one though. That could look very good in a 3d skybox

[Squirrelly]

Modified the normal map and recompiled. Looks a lot better in my opinion. I'll be getting a video shortly, but in the meantime some screenshots:

[hessi]

what was the problem with the default hl2 water? it is still phenomenal great and simple!

[General Vivi]

what was the problem with the default hl2 water? it is still phenomenal great and simple!

hessi i think he just wanted to make some custom water.

looks even better then before squirls keep up the good work

[Squirrelly]

A movie of it:

http://ftp.insmod.net/users/squirrelly/water/Water.rar

[Squirrelly]

Here is a comparison...

Mine:

Default:

[Zacker]

That's nice, you are a making new HLSL scripts and all?

[Squirrelly]

No, but I consider it a shader since it uses a DUDV map.

[hamst3r]

Good work, I like it alot. Keep it up.

[Furyo]

there appears to be seams ?? That looks a lot better already

[Spellbinder]

BAM! GODLIKE! Good job! keep it up!

[Squirrelly]

there appears to be seams ?? That looks a lot better already

I already fixed that. In the animated sequence, it was missing one of the frames therefore appeared it didn't tile correctly. All is well now.