Water

[Modular100]

I'm having some really awful troubles with water, I'm beginning to think I'm truly missing something, because I can't get the water to be just that, water. Whenever I add water somewhere, the character turns into jesus and walks on it! I'm using a base texture as floor, a liquid area for the liquid, and a water texture on top to make it look like water. How do I make this top texture be like the surface of water, instead of a solid material.
Please help a newbie out