[RELEASE] "Better" Procedural Water 3.3.5a

[Shelldon]

Well, I didn't go deep into it, but I got that white water only with wow.exe with custom name. If you're using custom called wow.exe try to rename it, I hope it'll help

[Dottore]

Hi there.
Water worked for my client without any problems. But when i tested it with other people, they had this "white milk" problem too. I tried a thing or two and replacing blank file seems to fix it for me.

http://ulozto.net/xLHS65kh/blank-zip

Here u go. Its czech server but u should be able to download it. Hope that helps.

This helped me to get the white water fixed.
Big thanks to you Dundee64 !

[Milly]

Is the White water problem fixed?
I still have tbis issue.

Several fixes have already been determined throughout the thread, such as modifying the Blank.blp texture, deleting it, etc.. I won't be updating the original download any time soon though because I'm not modding atm.

Well, I didn't go deep into it, but I got that white water only with wow.exe with custom name. If you're using custom called wow.exe try to rename it, I hope it'll help

Hmm that is very interesting..

[Steff]

You dont have ro.
But someone fixed it could.

[Shelldon]

After few tests and one strange idea I got this:



I don't know exactly why, but when I use wow.exe with custom name water becomes brighter. I mean much brighter, as you can see. So, after few tests I decided not to use Milly's blank.blp and take some other textures. Those textures were blizz's shader textures (proceduralRiverDepthTex, proceduralOceanDepthTex) which gave me the same effect (as I believe) without bug with white water. Anyway, it is not very good fix, water with custom called wow.exe is still much brighter than it should be, but it is also better than white one.

So, feel free to test it by self, leech it, or do whatever you want

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_FX_Y ... sp=sharing

P.S My dbc also includes fixed wmo water (just static textures with good transparence, no reflections, waves, etc.) and few types of cata water (for converted maps).

[Milly]

Shelldon, have you tried just deleting the Blank.blp from the dbc? And not replacing it with anything else?

[Shelldon]

Yep.  





With right called wow.exe everything seems to be ok, but with wow - копия.exe it really doesn't. (When blank.blp is deleted from mpq)

Second screen - from dbc.

[Milly]

Oh yeah I vaguely remember coming across invisible water when making the mod to start. Interesting. So it seems the only real way to get it working with a renamed exe is to make a new Blank.blp. I believe Schlumpf mentioned a way to get proper transparency in blps earlier in the thread.

[Steff]

Thanks Shelldon your fix works.
Will try around now with different settings.Opercity needs now some tweeks i think.

[Skarn]

Weird. Works even with custom wow.exe name for me.

[Steff]

Works good now. Thanks again for all help and releases.

[Selaya]

On a slightly related note:
How feasible would it be to have true procedural water with 335a?
Like, disassemble a cata/mop wow.exe, downport the procedural water stuff (and some other neat features), then rebuildi the wow.exe for 335a from scratch
Would that be doable (probably yes), but within reasonable time?

<3, Sela

[schlumpf]

Unlikely.

[TheBuG]

On a slightly related note:
How feasible would it be to have true procedural water with 335a?
Like, disassemble a cata/mop wow.exe, downport the procedural water stuff (and some other neat features), then rebuildi the wow.exe for 335a from scratch
Would that be doable (probably yes), but within reasonable time?

<3, Sela

Or you could just work with Cataclysm or MoP.

[iindigo]

On a slightly related note:
How feasible would it be to have true procedural water with 335a?
Like, disassemble a cata/mop wow.exe, downport the procedural water stuff (and some other neat features), then rebuildi the wow.exe for 335a from scratch
Would that be doable (probably yes), but within reasonable time?

<3, Sela

Or you could just work with Cataclysm or MoP.

It'd be pretty great if the community as a whole moved to Cata or MoP. WotLK is getting long on the tooth and the Cata/MoP clients have some pretty useful features that are absent from older versions.