Water on the floor
Hello,
I want to try something new in a Hammer map. I like the idea of having some pools of water on my map but they have to be transparent so you see the floor in the water also. It should be like looking in a swimming pool and you the the bottom and the swimmers in the water.
Is this possible?
Tnx
You need a transparent water texture. I doubt there are stock ones, but you can download some from tophattwaffle's website. http://www.tophattwaffle.com/downloads/
nature/water_a1_intro3 is definitely transparent. I don't know if there are more to choose from.
thank you, suits what I want 
Ha, I made a custom water for my mod where I plan to use some underwater puzzles 
Here you can see a heavy WIP of one chamber (can you see that button underneath the water? )
It's not difficult to create. For the water to be transparent you only really need to add 2 parameters to the .vmt:
$pseudotranslucent 1 //a value of "1" makes the water to turn translucent; "0" is the default, non transparent (fogged)
$waterblendfactor 0.50 //this determines 'how' transparent you want the water to be (from "0" to "1" where values closer to "1" makes water less translucent, more dense)
You can add those parameters to wwhatever stock water material. In the case you need help with that, just say, k?
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[/spoiler]Didn't ML make aperture aquatic testing, or whatever the map was called?
thanks Chris! Hopefully, now that Valentine's adventure has finished, I'll have plenty of time to focus in my mod and finish the first installment in some months 
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