Water pulsing problem

pwl on 2/12/2012 at 16:53

I am having a problem with the water in T2 fanmissions pulsing from clear to opaque. It is very annoying.
I noticed it in the new Holloween mission Bad feeling and loaded some others and they are doing it too!
I have the 119 patch.

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Firehawk on 2/12/2012 at 18:04

Do you install Fms with FMsel?
If yes the problem is FMSel copy the FMfiles not in the gamefolder. FMSel use his own folder. Now the game use the watertexture from both folders (the gamefolder and the folder FMSel create).
You need to copy the watertexture from your gamefolder (for example c:\games\dark2\fam\waterhw) in the folder FMSel create (for example c:\games\dark2\fms\fam\waterhw).
You need to do that by every FM where the waterhw folder is in the zipfile.

pwl on 2/12/2012 at 19:38

No I use DarkLoader

pwl on 2/12/2012 at 21:27

OK I got the water to stop pulsing by doing complete clean up of all the folders that was suggested in the Thief1/2 faqs. Now the water is clear!!:D;)

Albert on 3/12/2012 at 17:09

Although this breaks the immersion of some FMs that use custom water. DrK's new Halloween FM is a good example of that.

There's a way of overcoming this, and it involves copy-pasting the 19 frames or so of water animation several times so that it is larger in count than the newest water textures, and editing the settings appropriately. Someone who has access to T2 files can explain it better I hope.