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I've been searching for a solution to a problem I've had for quite some time, but I finally decided to ask someone myself. In recent maps I've made from Source SDK (configured with Garry's Mod) the water textures are messed up a bit. When I enter the water it is very murky and brown. I look at peoples' videos and notice the water texture they use is not murky, although mine is, even if I use the same texture. Please help! Pictures are here - http://img825.imageshack.us/g/surfaceq.jpg/
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Choose a different water texture? It could be depending on your graphics card as well.
Wasteland002a is a good water texture I found out.
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Alright, I will try it. Every texture I've tried is murky. My graphics card, from my understanding, is pretty good. In maps that I have not created like gm_construct, the water is perfect. I must be doing something wrong in the Source SDK.
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Thank you! The water looks great, unfortunately I can't see the ground whilst in the water. Anyways, it looks better.
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What is the graphics card..out of interest.
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If you want a crystal clear water texture, you'll have to make your own and disable the fog. Or you could use a cheap water texture and func_water_analog, but that looks really bad.
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NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS
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That's a terrible card. A gs too.
The card is a mid range 7 series, but the budget model. It does not come close to being pretty good. It's won't cause you any problems, but its not a good card. Pretty good in my book is an 8800gt, the best cheap card you can buy.
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His avatar suits what he should do to his computer.
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Hahaha alright thanks.
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130572
Buy that, it is a great card and will surely be a giant upgrade.
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Why get a 450. At least do it reasonably right and get a 60.
But the graphics update isn't the only thing to consider. My 7800gtx was in a single core with not much ram. Boosting the graphics would be like putting roadworks on the m25. You get bottlenecks and the system won't perform as well as expected.
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I'll look into it, thanks.
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So something of this nature? http://www.evga.com/products/moreinf...01G-P3-1371-AR
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Yes, that'll be perfect. What is your CPU though, because unless it's a good duo (overclocked) or quad you'll get bottlenecking.
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My processor is an AMD Anthlon 64 Processor 3200 + 2.00 GHz, which I am pretty sure sucks. Not sure what duo or quad it is. =/
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Its a single core cpu. You need a total pc upgrade really. Just upping the gfx card won't help.
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Single core cpu... definitely upgrade your PC.
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Aight. Thanks.
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Here's the thing... I don't know why gm_construct water is crystal clear! My card can obviously run high quality water appearances. Do I need to add lights in my water or anything like that?
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Are you only applying the water texture to the top face of the water? Not just creating a brush fully made of water? That might be why..
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Yes, I am just applying the water brush to the top face of the no-draw texture.
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Here is what happens when I use a complete brush.
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Its just the fog color, try using a different water texture.
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Which water texture is the least foggy? water_canals03 is the texture I used.
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You can extract the construct water texture from the GCF for Gmod with GCFScape or GCFExplorer. That way you can get that nicer looking texture.
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WHAT THE FUCKING monkey fuck shit are you talking about? I've got a Radeon 6850 and don't mod so I wanna know why my water textures are fucked without modding.
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Source was made in 2004. The original textures for HL2 are still from around then. So all you need to do is find a texture. You can make your own textures if you aren't happy with the default ones.
same for you OP
http://www.facepunch.com/threads/947...ure?highlight=
Go down to the water section.
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What a wonderful first post.
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okay people, um just looking at water footage, and all of them seem to be murky.
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next Terrenteller here folks.
/sarcasm
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Speaking of terrent, I haven't seen him post in forever, where is he?
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He's labr4t
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Somewhere.
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Thanks everyone. I'll keep trying. So where do I put the water code?
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in materials\directory where you want it
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Like materials\water\
or materials\nature\
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oh hey dude, VIDE's website is down, can you put it back online?
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It's been down for weeks. Still waiting on the actual owner of the server to sort things out.
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I extracted water from gm_construct. Looks much better now.
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Sorry for the bump, I just thought it is better to bump rather than make a new thread so, how does one do this, and does it make it transparent for every map, because it sucks not being able too see anything underwater
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Alternativly you could have used the mapping question megathread.
You can use vide or pakrat to open a map and extract the wanted files. Then drop them into the materials folder of your game, and insert them in hammer. It is a water texture in its own right.
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But how do I do it so every map in gmod uses it?
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Oh god. Don't use 3Kliksphillip's tutorials. He'll never learn that his methods are wrong
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