Water Material to Mesh

[reddozen]

No matter what I do, I cannot get water material to work with existing meshes. I'm assuming that it doesn't work, and will only work with built in "ground" meshes. If so, this is a problem. My scene below is a good example. Odd shaped pool where a plane wouldn't work. Any help would be appreciated. I'm at a loss.

http://red12.studio/Demos/Web/index_water_test.html

[jpdev]

Your demo link only shows a skybox for me, nothing else.

Here is the water material applied to sphere and a plane:

http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#1SLLOJ#231

So it's not "ground" only.

Here it is applied to a completly custom loaded mesh:

http://babylonjs-playground.com/#JNOJX#5

[reddozen]

I have attached a picture, and you can use the mouse to drag and look around. Could take a minute to load

Could the problem be that my mesh has a texture applied to it already? can that be resolved without reprocessing the mesh in 3DS?

 

[GameMonetize]

Water material is supposed to be attached to a flat surface

[reddozen]

The mesh is flat, but you could have flowing water like a water fall that isn't flat that would may want refraction / reflection on. So I'm assuming that I will need to make a custom shader, or did I do something wrong with how I'm using water material?

[iiceman]

unrelated but still cool - stargate: http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#1SLLOJ#232

Edit: still unrelated: it feels like I am pretty close making the iris work..but to tired to keep trying: http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#1SLLOJ#234 anybody care to help?

Edit2: I was kinda done with the iris and it was pretty cool... then the playground crashed...all progress gone...sucks

 

Back to topic: can't you just add the water features like @jpdev demonstrated after importing the mesh? I mean leave them out in the 3D model and be creative with code to at them in the right shapes, place and rotation... you get waterfall all over the place: http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#UHILW ... add some particles to the end of the waterfall, too, to make the water splash!

[reddozen]

I hacked something together... Now my next question... is there a way to tone down the reflection to make the refraction come through more? Basically make the water more clear, while still seeing the reflections.

[iiceman]

Did you already try setting the alpha of the material? I think that would have the effect you describe.

[reddozen]

Setting the alpha level or the specularpower doesn't seem to do anything about lowering the intensity of the skybox reflection. My guess is that it's something to do with the water material.