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How about in the settings it will have the option for making water having reflections and turning off the reflection.If only making it have reflections possible

First code the shader for water reflection.

PilzAdam wrote:First code the shader for water reflection.

+1
The Problem definitely is not deciding on adding it or not.

Water reflection would be very good. Does minecraft have water reflection? If not we have a brand new feature ahead of us :)

also waves would be good.

Reflections would be great, but probably not easy to code.

jojoa1997 wrote:also waves would be good.

Take a look at this http://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=4401

I once actually coded water shaders, this one is for waves:
https://github.com/Jeija/minetest/tree/shader_playground
Just in case you want to use it. I wasn't able to make working reflections, so I gave that up (only some white stripes and strange flickering, but nothing else).

could be good! waves+reflection=total goddness for minetest

If reflection only worked for taking a screenshots, i would already be a happy man.

offcourse YES !!

Terasology has reflections working well on water. Including wave effect and sun reflection/glare. Not that I find glare logical within a game setting. I dislike sun glare in real life. Why would i want this in a game?

Hybrid Dog wrote:Have you ever looked at the water of warzone2100?

warzone2100 is one of my favorite games, but their water doesn't really suit minetest's needs. From my understanding it doesn't use shaders, but just consists of animated textures (likely two of them moving in opposite directions, which creates a wave effect). For minetest however, people would rather expect to see actual waves, you can look more closely at the water than in wz2100.

Is it possible to have a node change nodebox shape instantly while playing? because then there could be 3d waves.

This is not currently possible, no, though there is work being done to exactly that end. What you can do in the meantime is define a few nodes with the desired shapes and swap back and forth between them by just doing add_node() for each change, but this is hacky and potentially slow.

Is it possible to have a node change nodebox shape instantly while playing? because then there could be 3d waves.

Once again, my 3d waves:

Jeija wrote:I once actually coded water shaders, this one is for waves:
https://github.com/Jeija/minetest/tree/shader_playground
Just in case you want to use it. I wasn't able to make working reflections, so I gave that up (only some white stripes and strange flickering, but nothing else).

12Me21 wrote:Is it possible to have a node change nodebox shape instantly while playing? because then there could be 3d waves.

No, but you can make an animated model and put it on an entity. But I don't think it's a good idea for water.

The problem with having 3d waves, reflections in water, and other more detailed water is that there are tons of water in the map, so any more detailed water would cause a lot of lag.