[WIP] Water

[Modzy]

noes.

Yes. Those are the only two possibilities because I've done both before.

[Dirk Gently]

noes.

Yes. Those are the only two possibilities because I've done both before.

noes.

[Modzy]

Oh, by "noes" you mean, "yesh." ;P

[tokage]

Looks just like the good ol' Puget Sound.

[Dirk Gently]

Oh, by "noes" you mean, "yesh." ;P

no by noes I mean I don't think you are talking about the right thing.

[Modzy]

[Kiyoshi]

@ Modzy's pic

Sexy and teh Lolz

[Zanghfei]

I know this is bump
ME WANT o_o

[002]

Ever tried nulling out the fog?

[Zanghfei]

hum where?
Im very hopeless

[002]

I think it's in the SBSP tag.

[Sparky]

I thought dirk has been working on the shader files themselves, rather than map file metadata.

[dirk]

I am.

[Zanghfei]

So far, i was thinking dirk was death ;P

[dirk]

due to the fact I am working with graphics cards (any nvidia past 5200FX pretty much) as not supported for this. Halo was never straight up OpenGL, it actually uses a version of DX libraries that hookup to OpenGL from what I understand. This means that without engine end support it is extremely difficult to recreate the original water effects. I have one or two videos on my youtube account about water shaders I have tried, but the main issue is that I am trying to deal with a fatal flaw in the rendering engine. This flaw was introduced after the 2.0.1 update, so if you want to play single-player I can whip up a switcher so you can have nice shaders, and then have it switch back to 2.0.4 for multiplayer. However there was a performance problem with the game in the original 2.0 release for intel macs that caused some very noticeable lag during local play. I have been working on it as much as I can with classes at uni and my current project which is recreating a modding tool for the game Oni. Once that is done I can refocus my efforts on the shaders and get that done. Unfortunately I cannot get access to, even by proxy, a method to recompile these for Halo PC or Halo Demo/Trial. It will get done when it gets done.