Extracting CSGO water for use in another map [solved]
I want to use the CSGO water texture "shack_water" in a map for Portal 2. So I've located the .vmt in CSGO's pak01_dir.vpk. But the .vmt requires some other materials that I don't know where to find, that I also need to extract for the texture to be usable. Inside shack_water.vmt:
"Water"
{
"%compilewater" 1
"%tooltexture" "dev/water_normal"
//forceexpensive Must be set to 1 for Portal 2 water reflections to work.
$forceexpensive 1
"$abovewater" 1
"$surfaceprop" "water"
"$bottommaterial" "dev/dev_waterbeneath2"
"$normalmap" "dev/water_normal"
So I need the files "dev/water_normal", "water", and "dev/dev_waterbeneath2", but I'm not sure where to find them in CSGO.
$surfaceprop "water" is just a name, not a texture, and "dev/water_normal" is already in the Portal 2 library. So you don't need to worry about those.
The only missing one is "dev/dev_waterbeneath2". That is the material for the bottom side of the water surface and it's in the HL2 library.
I did a quick test and it appears that Portal 2 does not include the HL2 textures, so you need to include this material with your map. Here it is:
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"Water"
{
"Water_DX60"
{
"$fallbackmaterial" "nature/water_dx70_beneath"
}
"$abovewater" 0
"%compilewater" 1
// "$forcecheap" 1
"$CHEAPWATERSTARTDISTANCE" 500.0
"$CHEAPWATERENDDISTANCE" 1000.0
// bottom materials shouldn't use $envmap!!! They won't work if they do.
// "$envmap" "env_cubemap"
"%tooltexture" "dev/water_normal"
"$refractamount" "1.0"
//"$refracttint" "[0.95 1.0 0.97]""$reflectamount" "1.0"
//"$reflecttint" "[1 1 1]"// "$reflecttexture" "_rt_WaterReflection"
"$refracttexture" "_rt_WaterRefraction""$scale" "[1 1]"
"$bumpmap" "dev/water_dudv"
"$normalmap" "dev/water_normal""$surfaceprop" "water"
"$bumpframe" "0""$fogenable" 1
"$fogcolor" "{22 20 10}"
"$fogstart" 1.00
"$fogend" 400.00"Proxies"
{
"AnimatedTexture"
{
"animatedtexturevar" "$normalmap"
"animatedtextureframenumvar" "$bumpframe"
"animatedtextureframerate" 30.00
}"TextureScroll"
{
"texturescrollvar" "$bumptransform"
"texturescrollrate" .05
"texturescrollangle" 45.00
}"WaterLOD"
{
}
}
}
It looks like the other textures in this material are also included with Portal 2. I could not test it completely, since the text snippet you pasted is probably not the entire material script, but I could get the underwater side to look correctly using this bottom material.
So the only thing you need to do is paste the above text into a new VMT and refer to that VMT instead of "dev/dev_waterbeneath2".
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