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DX9 Material = Water About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. DX9 Material = Water // New Users 1  |   Order by default Post by kujisha // Feb 12, 2009, 8:01am kujisha Total Posts: 50 Can someone please explain to me how to create a simple DX9 Water texture to use on a plane? TIA. Post by Jack Edwards // Feb 12, 2009, 7:32pm Jack Edwards Total Posts: 4062 I'm not sure simple and DX9 go together. There's a lot to know about shader construction. Quickest way would probably be to use the built-in "Alpha bacteria" material and put a water looking texture map in the diffuse channel. ;) Let me know how advanced you're looking to go, because you can take it as far a adding vertex shaders to displace the water and make it ripple. :D Post by jrboddie // Feb 13, 2009, 7:34am jrboddie Total Posts: 91 Shaders and LE magic are great for advanced users, but I suspect that many would find a library of common materials being more useful--water being one of the most common. I suspect that to have a good answer to the original post, it is necessary to know the volume and environment that is to be modeled: glass of water, puddle, pool, fountain, pond, stream, river, ocean shore, ocean deep etc. Right now, I am struggling with water of the pond variety--rather shallow, greenish, calm--no animation required. I have some almost passable results by adding a cloudy sky environment map to the glass material reflection channel and messing with the other parameters. Post by Délé // Feb 13, 2009, 7:39am Délé Total Posts: 1374 Perhaps Parva or Noko have some water shaders available? I seem to recall some great DX water from both of those guys. They would certainly be the first two that I would ask. ;)

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