[ART] Blender Reflection Texture

[Statyk]

I got my ice material by making a ~90% transparent grey image, set the type to translucent in the material (Blend = Alpha), set the normal map to the default water normal map (this was for an icicle though. for a crystal, you might have to tone it down or use another normal map to make it smoother), and added some refraction.

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Aah, of course, the water stuff has distortion. Completely forgot about that ^^

[Rapture]

Here's a screenshot of crystals i made with a water HPL2 material:



The diffuse texture is a solid blue color--nothing fancy. The cubemap i used is a cubemap shipped with the game: textures/envmaps/water_castlebase_cubemap.dds

I removed the wave properties from the water material so there isn't any odd texture animation.

How do you remove the "wave properties from the waterl material"?

[Your Computer]

How do you remove the "wave properties from the waterl material"?

Set the values to 0.

[Rapture]

Can you be specific to where it is?

I can't seem to open the cubemap in the material editor (I can open it in the bottom right, but the actual material name is still "untitled" so it's not like I really opened it I think. I'm still not exactly sure what it's for.)

Opening up the .dds file in notepad gives a load of encrypted garbage.

Don't see anything in the .mat file. I changed the variables at the bottom to "0", didn't do anything.

[Your Computer]

In the HPL2 material editor, at the bottom, you'll see WaveSpeed, WaveAmplitude and WaveFreq. Set those to 0. Not having a cubemap isn't much of an issue, but it does add a nice fake reflection to the model which is only really noticeable if the player camera is moving.