Shade-C 0.90 water for A8

hi

as I mentioned I made this little Shade-C water conversion for A8 last week, without touching other parts of Shade-C 0.90. everything is detailed in the attached readme.txt file. 3 sample terrains are included and some other entities, and a character can be controlled to walk the scene throughout and check water behaviour.
I suggest you to tweak all the parameters to get a water you like, in the files I mention in the readme.txt, or wait for the next MapBuilder update where it will be possible in real time on a simple panel.
it supports now 16:9 screens, PSSM shadows, single skin or multiskin terrains using terraintex.fx, fog, HDR, but when you include sc_Dof.h and .c, you should always apply mtl_hdr, what you can disable afterwards immediately, as described in main.c to not to get a black screen.
corrections, improvements, donations welcome
and of course, thanks for BoH_Havoc for this great collection!

link: http://www.mediafire.com/?dak89ou5r04z2xe

features:

water with dynamic depth:


water without depth:


water with static depth map:


modified 3DGS mirrorwater:

hot, thanx sivan

thanks mate

wow, 52 downloads within a day it means it is worthy to do similar things (to be honest it was not a huge work, but was useful for learning view settings for me)

a little suggestion:
in sc_core.h at line 50 you can replace SC_OBJECT *myData = malloc(sizeof(SC_OBJECT)); with SC_OBJECT *myData = (SC_OBJECT*)sys_malloc(sizeof(SC_OBJECT)); for safety as it is freed by the engine on exit. or you can free it via water entity's skill99 before removing the water entity (maybe needed when loading a new level).

sivan , great contribution = big fame

I just realized that to avoid water wave flickering, commenting the following line in sc_water.fx helps, without any effect on the shader quality or errors:

v = v + float3(10000.0f, 10000.0f, 10000.0f); // hack to avoid negative numbers

When I run the "main.c", it says

I downloaded to check any zipping issue but it work fine for me.

after 134 downloads, I got no any error report so far, only from you. thus no idea, maybe folder path is too long. but what is shade-c.c?

Ah, sorry, it was an error due to the existence of spaces in the folder name. Had to set max_entities to a higher value, though, but it works now.

Beautiful
Unrelated question, and I am sorry - How Did you get your terrain to be so big, and not fuss up the fps? Im still trying to learn these things

thanks. the terrain is really not special. I use normally 128x128 quants as triangle size (the larger the faster ; the smaller the better resolution), 32 as chunk size (default), and the total terrain size is also the multiple of chunk size as described in the manual. there are a few terrains included in this package in different sizes, some of them have 1 large skin + a small detail skin, or tiled skins using a slightly modified (mirror effect compatible) terraintex.fx fixed function effect. no magic

Amazing stuff, really enjoyed playing with the level and quite like your move code as well....thanks....

First let me say this is beautiful. But I had problems

No sure why but I have to increase max_entities as I got a not enough reserved error. Easy fix.

The other problem - It choked on my weak system. It ran at 1 fps or lower. My system is weak so I am pm(ing) you my system configuration to help you determine "minimum system requirements"

Thank you for the this contribution.
Mal

@Malice

this is strange... (if your hardware isn't extremely outdated)
maybe there's a bug or shade-c uses some stuff which your hardware doesn't support.

@Kartoffel

It is the Intel HD Graphics 3000, built on the super slow i3 chip. The company that sold me the laptop told me that I would be able place a Nvidia or ATI card in after buying it. I knew the Intel solution was crap. But it turned out after I had saved for the new graphics card that the laptop didn't have a expansion slot. And because it was many months after the sale they refuse to refund the product. They are Liars, twice they lied about what I was buying. Shame on me for not learning. The company by the way is a well know U.S.A brand *ELL.com.

May someone has a simple debug script that uses a panel and return Boolean for the needed functions, Then I could tell you if one or more failed.