Quote from josepezdj on May 8, 2013, 4:39 pm

Fracture wrote:

i know nothing of these GCF files.
I realise now i only have authoring tools and not the sdk

Fracture, just go to your Steam/SteamApps/ folder and you'll find all pack files (.VPK) you have in your computer related to your Valve games. You can open them with GCFScape and even extract the materials to reuse / edit them.

I've been checking out all HL/HL2 water materials (I also checked "hazard_liguid" from Portal but it's too ugly), and I've found a really interesting material into source materials.gcf called "water_dx70_beneath.vmt" that makes use of an animated texture with 28 frames, and make them go changing with material proxies. Due to the fact that its look was like this:

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I decided to extract all those 28 frames, then retint them (turquoise shade like), apply an aplha mask, save them as .tga and them import them all with VTFEdit again. The result is nice:

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Attached you have all you need for the func_water_analog entity; there are 4 files:

- josepezdj_water_analog.vmt = this is the above material and the one you should use on your top of your func_water_analog brush

- jose_turquoise_water_animated.vtf = the animated texture with the 28 frames in turquoise colour.

- water_movingplane_beneath.vmt = [taken from HL2] it's the bottommaterial

- water_moving_beneath.vtf = [taken from HL2] it's the bottom texture

(you don't really need any bottom materials even though a warning yellow message appears in the compile because the above material has the parameter [i]$nocull 1 in and you can see the back of the above material from underneath the water)[/i]

Remember to place these 4 textures into portal 2/portal2/materials/josepezdj/water/ ......OR change all paths inside the .vmt files

Let me know if you can make it to work and if you like it... and/or post an in-game picture!