Thief 2 water issues - TTLG Forums

goldwell on 23/2/2016 at 10:27

I keep finding that in game my water will alternate every 1-2 seconds between the old water and the new water. Is there a way to fix this?

I tried searching for a solution however the only suggestion I found was to delete the t2water folder in the mods folder and that fixed the switching water however it stayed permanently on the old water whereas I want it to stay permanently on the new water.

Thanks

Renault on 23/2/2016 at 14:49

What I do is have EP2 installed, and then deleted t2water, that seemed to work. Do you have any of the EPs installed?

goldwell on 23/2/2016 at 17:07

I have EP2 installed, but if I delete the t2water folder the water ingame doesn't look too good.

Without the t2water folder it just looks like still clear water with no movement whereas with the folder in it has fluid movement and some nice animation too.

AntiMatter_16 on 23/2/2016 at 17:24

What's your cam_mod.ini file look like?

goldwell on 24/2/2016 at 04:36

Quote:

; ----------
; FM options
; ----------

; FM selection can also be done with command-line options (which override mod.ini)
; -fm : to start the FM Selector
; -fm=name : to start game with 'name' as active FM

; always start the FM Selector (if one is present)
;fm

; start game with FM (the name is the FM's directory name, located in the FM path)
;fm TheDarkMansion

; to specify a path other than the default "FMs" (the specified path must exist or
; it won't be accepted and the game falls back to the default path)
;fm_path .\FMs

; a single relative path name to override the FM movie directory
; default is "Movies" for Thief and "cutscenes" for Shock
;fm_movie_dir Movies

; define the library name of an alternative FM Selector, the default is "fmsel.dll"
;fm_selector fmsel.dll

; an FM Selector is a separate library (DLL) containing a utility, usually a UI based
; application that lists the available FMs and lets the user pick which one to run.
; A selector could range from a simple list box with the FM names to a full blown
; manager with extended info, last played timestamps, sorting/filtering etc.

; ---------
; Mod paths
; ---------

; the max path count is 63 for "uber_mod_path" and "mod_path" combined
; (avoid an excessive amount of paths, it can make file handling slower)
;
; the full path search order is (starting with highest priority)
; uber_mod_path -> FM dir (if active) -> mod_path -> resname_base(/movie_path/etc.)

; these are mod paths that override the active FM in the search order
;uber_mod_path mods\UpToDateOSMs+MyGemMod

; these are normal mod paths which are applied after the active FM in the search order
;mod_path MyBowMod+.\TexturePack
mod_path .\MODS\t2water+.\MODS\t2skies+.\MODS\EP\EPBooks+.\MODS\EP+.\MODS\NTEX+.\patchedmis.

Looks like this

yxlplig on 28/2/2016 at 20:08

I assume you're running into this issue in FMs and not the original game right?

Also if you are using EP 2.0 make sure you rename it to EP.crf, otherwise that mod path won't load it. Your EP should be about 800MB if you have the latest version.

So I've been having this problem for months and I finally bothered to fix it this weekend. Basically, if you play an FM with custom water textures that have less frames of animation than your custom texture packs, you will encounter the flickering water thing. At least I assume that's what's happening. When you encounter this, you can comment out your modpath with a semicolon temporarily, or here's my permanent fix:

1: Remove t2water from the modpath (I'll post my full mod path at the end)
2. Use NecroWaterOnly - I think this aesthetically is the best water texture, but more importantly it only has 20 frames of animation.
3. Open EP.crf with 7zip and delete the folder "Waterhw" (EP.crf\FAM\WATERHW\) - Now the EP no longer adds water textures, it should shrink down to about 770MB
4. Adjust your modpath to enable NecroWaterOnly

Code:

mod_path .\MODS\NecWtr+.\MODS\t2skies+.\MODS\EP\EPBooks+.\MODS\EP+.\MODS\NTEX+.\patchedmis

goldwell on 29/2/2016 at 05:30

Thank you Yxlplig! That sorted my problem out, and yes you're right the NecroWater looks much better than before! :)