nicest water effect

[BFG10K]

UT2003, Serious Sam TFE & TSE, Call of Duty, Medal of Honour Allied Assault, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Unreal, Unreal II.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Might and Magic 3... ok far cry : )

 

[Elcs]

Best water effect has to be from my fountain in the back garden. Talk about realism....

Morrowinds water effects are very nice indeed, UT2k4 isnt too bad imo. Farcry... I cant be bothered to waste money on. More important things to save up for.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

blach hawk down had some pretty nice water in the multiplayer demo level 🙂

 

[sodcha0s]

Farcry has the best I've seen. Here's a couple of shots at night in the game. Notice the realistic reflections and how the water laps the beach.

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[McArra]

Farcry and Chimp demo 🙂

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: fsstrike
actually ut2k3/4 has some of the worst water effects out there. There arnt even any splashes, at all! It looks more like jelly than water. Farcry has the best water ive seen, halo comes second.

yeah but u dont play UT to look at the water effects do you?.........hell if it slows down the FPS then i dont want it....u play UT to frag every mofo u see 🙂 and u need speed for that

 

[Insomniak]

Actually, the way Far Cry's water "laps at the shore" is just an animated texture effect (or something that looks exactly like it) and is not impressive at all. You can sit there and watch the texture stretch, return, stretch, return, just like a rubber band. Far Cry's water, IMO is severely overrated. It looks too much like a swimming pool to be a tropical sea. Anyway, I concur with the getn who noted to wait for vertex AND pixel shaded water. That's when shit is going to get truly impressive.

 

[Alkali]

What about the water in HL2? That reacts really well to things being trown in it, or bullets going through it in the techdemo.... Plus in the other techdemo (in the cave) its got some lovely shimmering effects and follows that physics law (cant remember the name) where it refracts proerly while looking into the water...

 

[MonkeyClaw]

definatly half life 2 with uru in close second. oh hey im new 😀

 

[sxr7171]

Dope Wars

 

[g3pro]

Originally posted by: Alkali
What about the water in HL2? That reacts really well to things being trown in it, or bullets going through it in the techdemo.... Plus in the other techdemo (in the cave) its got some lovely shimmering effects and follows that physics law (cant remember the name) where it refracts proerly while looking into the water...

refraction?


oh yeah, but we'll have to wait until Q1 2005 for HL2, anyways.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: vshah

Originally posted by: g3pro
oooooh, shiny water. hmmmm. mmmmm oh yeah, baby. (smack smack smack smack smack) oh yeah. shiny water. :lips:

damn boy you must be playing on a.......

Jetway 5200
:beer:

It's better than a Radeon 9100, and even a 9600 in some tests!
No, really!
Why don't you believe me?
Benchmarks?
I don't need those, I have fanboyism!

- M4H

 

[SickBeast]

Far Cry.

 

[elkinm]

Half Life 2 demos by far.

I just tried the FarCry demo at max details and although the water seems good from above, it looks horrible and flat swimming or underwater.

From what I remember Unreal/II had the best in game water.

 

[Insomniak]

Unreal 1's animated texture water layed the smack down when it came out, and remained king for a good 18 months after that.

Man, the first iteration of that engine was so ahead of it's time...

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: vshah
For those of you who havn't played Joint Ops...the water is pretty nice. It varies in clarity and "muddiness" and splashes nicely and all that too.

I'm excited to see the eventual use of vertex mapping in water generation. most games now render the ripples onto a flat texture...if you're swimming, the horizon still looks like a flat line. with vertex mapping we may get real ripples!
splish splash


-Vivan

Joint Operations is out?!?!?! WTF didn't I know that?

 

[Jeff7181]

I don't particularly like the water in the Far Cry demo... it doesn't look real... it's such a bright blue it looks totally fake. The Joint Operations water looks worse though... doesn't look like they make very good use of DX9 shaders since there's no waves or wake when you run through it. Morrowind's water looks MUCH better than JO's. HL2's is decent from what I've seen in the Bink videos... we'll see when it's released though.

 

[vshah]

Originally posted by: sodcha0s
Farcry has the best I've seen. Here's a couple of shots at night in the game. Notice the realistic reflections and how the water laps the beach.

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Pic2

agreed it looks nice...but there is still a very noticeable pattern in that second screen

-Vivan

 

[vshah]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: vshah
For those of you who havn't played Joint Ops...the water is pretty nice. It varies in clarity and "muddiness" and splashes nicely and all that too.

I'm excited to see the eventual use of vertex mapping in water generation. most games now render the ripples onto a flat texture...if you're swimming, the horizon still looks like a flat line. with vertex mapping we may get real ripples!
splish splash


-Vivan

Joint Operations is out?!?!?! WTF didn't I know that?

just the multiplayer beta demo....but it frekin rocks

-Vivan