July 7, 2012

water/undewater shader WIP

This is a water shader I am working on in my spare time. The work is based on my own observations of water characteristics and written from a scratch. It is still a work in progress.
Right now the water surface is a plane, but support for real geometry waves is on its way.


Due to my old computer I am currently on, I am almost unable to capture a video with decent framerate, but the shader uses simple calculations and runs very well on even 6 years old mid-end hardware.








thread on BlenderArtists HERE


blend HERE


known issues and bugs:
- OpenGL clipping plane is not working on some GPUs
- mouselook goes wacko on some BLender versions but works fine in others
- some are reporting that sun-grab is not working
- and for some it does not open blend at all..

19 comments:

  1. Leonard RitterJuly 9, 2012 at 3:19 AM

    Incredible work! That's some amazing water.

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  2. spheron industriesJuly 18, 2012 at 12:06 AM

    this is just so awsum , words cant describe it! :)
    can i use this great work in my game project? with your credits ofcourse..

    regards,
    Dharmil Asawla.
    CEO & Founder of Spheron Incorporated.

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    1. martinshOctober 7, 2012 at 5:18 PM

      Hi,
      well you can try, but the setup is very fragile and the shader is a mess itself. Hopefully I will make a more usable version sometime soon.

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  3. MateoOctober 7, 2012 at 5:06 PM

    really like this! I am wondering though how to change the texture of the landscape, any ideas?

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    1. martinshOctober 7, 2012 at 5:23 PM

      you mean that checkered texture on the ground? you can switch it with any other texture in material editor in Blender.

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  4. DeathList702December 7, 2012 at 8:00 AM

    Awesome work !! But this shader still buggy i think ,i append it to my project to test it ,but the water shader is'nt working .

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    1. martinshDecember 7, 2012 at 8:12 AM

      yeah the setup is yet very fragile. I hope to continue the work on it and make it more accessible for others to implement.

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  5. UnknownMay 9, 2013 at 4:47 AM

    Hello, this is really awesome and super realistic. I tried integrating bgui v 0.08 into the blend file you posted but its doing something weird. The frame buttons are having their color modified by the "watershader_high" shader. As a result the bgui label text cant be seen. I did some digging and narrowed down the problem to the vertex shader. If the line "gl_Position = ftransform();" is commented out then the labels show up(but no water shading ofcourse).

    I dont really know if this is a bgui problem or something with the shader and I know very little about graphics coding in general.

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  6. UnknownFebruary 4, 2015 at 11:43 AM

    I don't get what I see in video- there apperas to be like gray blanket over water- when I walk deep in water so I see just a small angle(like 1 degree over water sorface) I get clear, reflective water. How to make me get it always, not just when almost with head in water?

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