What the deal with water?

Proxzee

I was looking at some real time shaders for water and was wondering if there was efficient shader that i could use in max. They had some really cool stuff even in beyond good and evil. Also beaches. A lot of shaders don't treat the water/land interface properly. Even Xenogears had waves and beaches, however due the nature of that game's water color style textures, i think they were able to pull off cool stuff.

OcR Crimson

There aren't many good shaders because most game engines have their own water tech built in like unreal does.

I made a water shader for maya that took me a week just to get the fresnel effect working properly.

http://i948.photobucket.com/albums/ad330/evand89/water.jpg

also, im a noob and a student so its still not that great haha

Proxzee

dang, so how do we put water in our stuff?

Ged

I think the easiest thing is to just import your models into unreal or crysis(where I think beaches and waves interact automatically ...not sure though)