Extracting CSGO water for use in another

Dafflewoctor · 2015-06-24T12:30:48Z

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:

&quot;Water&quot;
{
&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;Water_DX60&quot;
&nbsp; &nbsp;{
&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;$fallbackmaterial&quot; &quot;nature/water_dx70_beneath&quot;
&nbsp; &nbsp;}
&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;$abovewater&quot; 0
&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;%compilewater&quot; 1
//&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;$forcecheap&quot; 1
&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;$CHEAPWATERSTARTDISTANCE&quot; 500.0
&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;$CHEAPWATERENDDISTANCE&quot; 1000.0
&nbsp; &nbsp;// bottom materials shouldn't use $envmap!!!&nbsp; They won't work if they do.
//&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;$envmap&quot; &quot;env_cubemap&quot;
&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;%tooltexture&quot; &quot;dev/water_normal&quot;
&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;$refractamount&quot; &quot;1.0&quot;
&nbsp; &nbsp;//&quot;$refracttint&quot; &quot;[0.95 1.0 0.97]&quot;

&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;$reflectamount&quot; &quot;1.0&quot;
&nbsp; &nbsp;//&quot;$reflecttint&quot; &quot;[1 1 1]&quot;

//&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;$reflecttexture&quot; &quot;_rt_WaterReflection&quot;
&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;$refracttexture&quot; &quot;_rt_WaterRefraction&quot;

&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;$scale&quot; &quot;[1 1]&quot;

&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;$bumpmap&quot; &quot;dev/water_dudv&quot;
&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;$normalmap&quot; &quot;dev/water_normal&quot;

&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;$surfaceprop&quot; &quot;water&quot;
&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;$bumpframe&quot; &quot;0&quot;

&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;$fogenable&quot; 1
&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;$fogcolor&quot; &quot;{22 20 10}&quot;
&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;$fogstart&quot; 1.00
&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;$fogend&quot; 400.00

&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;Proxies&quot;
&nbsp; &nbsp;{
&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;AnimatedTexture&quot;
&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;{
&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;animatedtexturevar&quot; &quot;$normalmap&quot;
&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;animatedtextureframenumvar&quot; &quot;$bumpframe&quot;
&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;animatedtextureframerate&quot; 30.00
&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;}

&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;TextureScroll&quot;
&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;{
&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;texturescrollvar&quot; &quot;$bumptransform&quot;
&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;texturescrollrate&quot; .05
&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;texturescrollangle&quot; 45.00
&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;}

&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;WaterLOD&quot;
&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;{
&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;}
&nbsp; &nbsp;}
}

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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