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Does anyone know where I can find some good tutorials for water (specifics or broad concepts)? Basicly, I've found only 2 types so far:

1. plainiar water
2. super-uber-volumetric-3D-run-at-half-a-frame-per-second water

the first one I've mastered down to a bloody stump and the second... well, I'd kind of like my game be playable.

What I'm really looking for is how to deal with water that's out of controled situations, ie, rushing on the floor, coming out of pipes, using particle effects for creating dynamic water (think bioshock). I'm trying to creativley come up with new methods for dealing with water and treating it like a real particle or special effect rather than a decal.

If you can pick anything up from the name, I was thinking to myself: well, I already have "soft" particles, why not liquid particles?

Anyway, any and all links to this kind of thing are appeciated. Thanks in advance.

[Reedbeta]

If you want to learn more about how Bioshock's water effects work, take a look at this. It's quite interesting.

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*takes and shoves in pocket while no one's looking*

wow thanks man, that's almost exactly what I was looking for. That whole thing about using shadow mapping for the waterfalls was ingeniously simple.

[marek-knows.com]

Thanks for the link Reedbeta. Where did you get this from?

[Reedbeta]

It's linked from the front page of 2K Boston's website. I came across it while I was applying for a job there (didn't get in, though ).