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Water reflecting abyss? - DeAngelo - 04-11-2013

OK, you know that weird trailing effect you get if at any point in your level the player can see the "abyss" (meaning the nothingness at the edge of a map)

Well I'm getting that effect on my water for some reason. I can't figure out why other than the water not reflecting the ceiling and instead reflecting the abyss. I tried putting black planes outside my level and that fixes it but it oddly causes my framerate to freeze up to about 1 frame per 10 seconds and cause objects to randomly fly around. Freaky. Anyway here's a screenshot.

Spoiler below!
[Image: 2013-04-11_00001.jpg]


RE: Water reflecting abyss? - Romulator - 04-11-2013

Have you tried enabling a skybox in your Level Editor, even just as a color? If you cannot see the outside from where you are, which it looks that way on your image, why not try just making it black?

RE: Water reflecting abyss? - DeAngelo - 04-11-2013

That got rid of the trailing, but it still leaves a weird box in the water that immediately vanishes once I get close to it.

Spoiler below!
[Image: 2013-04-11_00002.jpg]

Edit: I just changed the water texture from Morgue to ArchiveCellar and it looks fine now. I guess the Morgue water texture is just borked somehow. Thanks Smile

RE: Water reflecting abyss? - PutraenusAlivius - 04-11-2013

It seems like some walls/ceillings forbid reflection (It means that it doesn't allow for it to be reflected/is invisible when reflected.)

RE: Water reflecting abyss? - Acies - 04-11-2013

(04-11-2013, 03:34 PM)DeAngelo Wrote: That got rid of the trailing, but it still leaves a weird box in the water that immediately vanishes once I get close to it.



Spoiler below!
[Image: 2013-04-11_00002.jpg]



Edit: I just changed the water texture from Morgue to ArchiveCellar and it looks fine now. I guess the Morgue water texture is just borked somehow. Thanks Smile
It can have to do with cubemaps and texture size on the plane - you could try creating a copy of that water material, but without a cubemap.