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Animated Water Caustics FX discovered in Unreal

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Animated Water Caustics FX discovered in Unreal

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http://forums.beyondunreal.com/showthread.php?p=2202755
I dug around some more and found that old Unreal has a built in ability to do cast animated Water Caustics FX on surfaces below liquid surfaces, though I doubt even the programmer realized this potentiality at the time the engine was coded.

The result looks like an animated UT2k4 projected texture FX, but this is with the old unreal/UT99, without any new code added.
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Re: Animated Water Caustics FX discovered in Unreal

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What is "water caustics"? You mean the watery shimmering (not light effect!) like some portals do?
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Re: Animated Water Caustics FX discovered in Unreal

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Seems so, view his attached images there.
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Re: Animated Water Caustics FX discovered in Unreal

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caustics can also be done in quake 3.. wow this is interesting.
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Re: Animated Water Caustics FX discovered in Unreal

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Seems so, view his attached images there.
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Re: Animated Water Caustics FX discovered in Unreal

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Seems so, view his attached images there.
Sorry, I was connected by my cellphone, images make a lot of bandwidth. :D

BTW, I just noticed I must register so GreatEmerald could you post the picture here?
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Re: Animated Water Caustics FX discovered in Unreal

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Re: Animated Water Caustics FX discovered in Unreal

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I didn't mean about that, but...
Anything. Nevermind.
This is actually Unreal 1 engine?! :o
How do you make that FX to appear?
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Re: Animated Water Caustics FX discovered in Unreal

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Did you read that thread? :D
For those still having trouble sorting out how this FX can be reproduced

In Ued texture browser look in the map mylevel texture pack, and open the properties of the...
http://forums.beyondunreal.com/showthread.php?p=2202755
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Re: Animated Water Caustics FX discovered in Unreal

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I didn't, my connection is too slow... ::)
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Re: Animated Water Caustics FX discovered in Unreal

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Geez, that's incredible! I wonder how he figured that out?
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Re: Animated Water Caustics FX discovered in Unreal

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Nice. I've seen something like that in a Quake mod (Tenebre or DarkPlaces). Adds even more beauty to the Unreal universe.
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Re: Animated Water Caustics FX discovered in Unreal

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Pretty damn nice. Not many people make use of the macrotexture field when making new textures.

Darn? Wth.. DA/\/\N nice.
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Re: Animated Water Caustics FX discovered in Unreal

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Try using damn nice for ex. Quote post 4 code :P
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