Making custom Water tile that functions like any other tile in the wc3 editor

[Drain Pipe]

Hey so I'm looking at another system that I want to try to create which is to make water a terrain palette rather than an effect that requires you make a ledge or do a trick with the ground.

Now as far as I've determined you cannot have an animated tile HOWEVER I'm exploring the option of splats or possibly the use of a base blue tile except with a series of animated water effects over top. I'm thinking either a dummy unit or something else to create the effect.

The reason I'd like to follow this is I have hero spells and effects that I want to build to react around water but I don't want to go through the headache of making all custom areas of water, especially because I can't place them naturally. However, what I've come up with is using this: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/jass-resources-412/snippet-tiledefinition-259347/.

Essentially I map out each terrain coordinate and create a properly proportioned dummy unit on any tile that is returned as a water tile, and store that location. In doing this, i just check the tile type and remove/add the dummy unit when it detects a terrain change to and from this tile.

Thoughts? Is there an easier way? If so, how?

 

[WaterKnight]

Use an alpha tile and make everything else via splat/model?

 

[Drain Pipe]

Only thing is I noticed is that there don't seem to be animated splats or is that ubersplats..?

 

[WaterKnight]

Splats are single 2d textures. Unless you use them sequentially (like replacing them 32 times per second), you cannot animate them other than fading them in/out.

 

[doom_sheep]

dunno how far this will help but making the entire map water then raising parts into shallow water/land increases your options somewhat.

or you could just slap water doodads everywhere, like some edit of waterfalls or the waves thing

 

[Arad MNK]

dunno how far this will help but making the entire map water then raising parts into shallow water/land increases your options somewhat.

or you could just slap water doodads everywhere, like some edit of waterfalls or the waves thing

There is a model called waterplane.mdx is UTM. He can use that.

Also, anyone knows what's the texture path for the normal Warcraft III water? I want to replace it ;p It's so un-cool.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Also, anyone knows what's the texture path for the normal Warcraft III water? I want to replace it ;p It's so un-cool.

There is not "one" water texture. It's a bundle of 45 images over a texture animation cycling through these images.

The filepaths for one type of water are:
ReplaceableTextures\Water\A_Water00.blp
to
ReplaceableTextures\Water\A_Water44.blp