River (Closeup)

....what kind of water is that? amazing.

is this the sc2 or wc3 engine? im genuinely asking as I cannot barely tell the difference lol.

It's the unity engine

Water looks.. unnatural. Some sort of metallic liquid. You should probably use a custom texture for it.

What makes you think so? It looks too reflective? It won't be that reflective when seen from afar tho, just like in the other pic.

This looks more like a proper water; http://counter-strike.cn.ua/DreamHC/pictures/other/games/far-cry3/screenshots/011-far-cry3-water.jpg

Yours lacks transparency and is too reflective. The reflections themselves are unnatural. It looks like some kind of metallic liquid.

Hmm... The only difference I can see is in your pic it's calm water, while mine is not (it's ocean). The water ripple/deformation's probably what causing the metallic-look, while the reflection intensity & transparency seem to be pretty much equal. Or maybe mine's is even more transparent (you can see objects underwater even from quite afar).

But then of course it still looks better in many ways cz it's AAA quality water while mine's just a free water with a few tweaks. Heck in fact it was actually made for anime-style game, which luckily turns out pretty good even for realistic game.

Btw, I'm a lot inspired from Ark: Survival Evolved. In there the water is even more metallic, but it looks just gorgeous and a lot of other people admired it too.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oatzWBS9mr0/maxresdefault.jpg

Yours is an island, the water should be calm most of the time. The exception would be nigh time with high waves.

Hmm.. never knew an island has calm water. I might consider that in the future. But even so, at the moment my skill is far from enough to create my own water or to make significant improvement to the current water.

Ahh the unity engine, ok.

I think its very lovely water good job!