Water textures?

[Farmer-Giles]

Hi all I know I've asked about water textures before and I do appreciate all the help I'm getting.
My question is iv put a river into a map and followed the tutorial to the end but would like to ask why it looks black and not watery

[Tiredasagiraffe]

Your are missing these parameters from the material section of your water plane.

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<CustomParameter name="bumpSpeedScale" value="0.2 -3.75 0.02 0"/>
<CustomParameter name="underwaterFogColor" value="0.2 0.203 0.13 1"/>
<CustomParameter name="windScale" value="0.35 0 0 0"/>
<CustomParameter name="depthScale" value="1 0 0 0"/>

Open the French map i3d in Notepad++ and search for

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water_mat

Copy and paste into your own map i3d at the corresponding spot.

[Farmer-Giles]

Thankyou

[Farmer-Giles]

I would assume that all this would of been done automatically by the editor.
So if not am I to assume I need to do this myself.

[Tiredasagiraffe]

Sorry, a correction you will need to add the below:

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<Reflectionmap lodDistanceScaling="0.5" viewDistanceScaling="0.5" type="planar" scaling="1" refractiveIndex="1.03" bumpScale="0.1" shapesObjectMask="256" lightsObjectMask="16777216"/>
      <Refractionmap coeff="1" bumpScale="0.1"/>

So the section for the water material should look something like this:

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 <Material name="lakeWaterPlane_mat" materialId="371" diffuseColor="0.8 0.8 0.8 1" specularColor="1 1 1" customShaderId="1568">
      <Normalmap fileId="1567"/>
      <Reflectionmap lodDistanceScaling="0.5" viewDistanceScaling="0.5" type="planar" scaling="1" refractiveIndex="1.03" bumpScale="0.1" shapesObjectMask="256" lightsObjectMask="16777216"/>
      <Refractionmap coeff="1" bumpScale="0.1"/>
      <CustomParameter name="bumpSpeedScale" value="0.2 -3.75 0.02 0"/>
      <CustomParameter name="underwaterFogColor" value="0.2 0.203 0.13 1"/>
      <CustomParameter name="windScale" value="0.35 0 0 0"/>
      <CustomParameter name="depthScale" value="1 0 0 0"/>
    </Material>

Yes, the Giants editor does not add these extra settings.
I think they may be added when Giants devs create a water plane and export it from Maya through their exporter.
But, I can see no corresponding setting in the Giants Blender exporter so we're left with the option of adding it by editing the i3d file directly in a text editor.

You can also add a second plane that acts as a mirrored surface. The French map has an example of this.

[Farmer-Giles]

Oh OK thanks for the info, it's now starting to get abit confusing not sure if I'll be able to take all this in but thankyou all for your help.