Help: Waterfall Terrain

[Devvv]

Hi everyone.

I am building a level in the UT Editor 2 and need some help. I finished sculpting out my terrain and need help with the waterfall. Basically, I want the water to run down the mountain and end up in the pond. I searched online for some tutorials on waterfalls but they are all waterfalls that run straight down. I want mine to run along the surface of the mountain. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

p.s: does anyone know which package in UT I can find running water textures?

[Fordy]

Your best bet is to add the undelying texture to your terrain to make rock under the waterfall then you will need to make a mesh in either Max or Maya that will actually be the water.

You could then add an appropriate shader to the mesh and add a few emitters to simulate water spray where the water crashes onto rocks on its way down.

Sorry but I dont think theres any easier way of doing this.

[BmB23]

Particles?

[Wormbo]

UT Editor 2
UT1? (UnrealEd 2)
Or do you mean UT2003/4? (UnrealEd 3)

[Nereid]

Well, the terrain makes it look like it's UT2003/4.

I would do what Fordy describes. That's what seems to be what is done in many retail and custom maps as well.

[ImaCarrot]

http://www.imacarrot.com/advent_screens.html

There's a couple shots of my waterfall running down a terrain path. Just like Fordy said, I did it with a combination of custom xProcMesh's and particles with a good shader.

It looks better in motion :)

[N°tAdm¡n]

oh my god i do have to say, that is some of the most beautiful level work i have seen in a while.Advent screenshots looks really dramatic and cool.
but with beauty and style comes lag, optimize the crap out of this map, i dont want to see something like this one get ruined..

[ImaCarrot]

Thanks! For what it is, it's optimised rather well. There's definately more I can do to it, but I'm going to take a small vreak from it. It's for a custom gametype, so I don't have to worry about multiplayer or anything.

I'm going to release a pre-alpha demo that almost works the way I want it to pretty soon. A few days if I can, gonna update the site with more info.

Carrot