Left 4 Dead 2

Left 4 Dead 2

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16 Dec, 2021 @ 10:39am
7 Mar, 2022 @ 7:15pm
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Clean and Reflective Water

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Meraru's Mods & Edits [L4D2]
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Description
Combines the tweaks made by Cleaner Water and Enhanced Water Reflections.

This still has the black door/window bug, subscribe to this taking this into consideration, thanks :)

Explanation of the bug by Blue:
"The black doors and stuff of the matter is usually area portals compiled within the map to make it more optimized by preventing rendering into a room/area unless you are close to it. This is prevalent on lower settings as the distance required for the "portal" to fade out requires you to be closer.
Since this mod reflects entities in real time via its VMT's, the specialized entity brushes (area portals) are reflected and this pretty much cannot be avoided.
This is because Valve likely intended such reflective water to only be used on a coast or open setting where there wouldn't be any special brushes or tools other than the water itself.
Its also worth mentioning that this feature likely wasn't intended to be used in L4D2, as the vanilla water VMT's only reflect map skyboxes and the 3D meshes within them. It would explain the conflicting bugs with optimization entities introduced in L4D2.
This is why some things "reflect" and others don't on vanilla L4D2, and why there is a crapton of black textured skybox meshes in the games files.

TL;DR, not the modders fault, can't be fixed, side effect of enabling a VMT to duplicate whats being rendered and flip it 180 on the Z-axis."

I don't take mod requests.

Credits:
- Ananasa Anaso 94, Theuaredead`
65 Comments
8-BitKiddo 5 Feb @ 8:04am 
I will, thanks for the reply
Meraru  [author] 4 Feb @ 3:03pm 
apparently map specific waters has fixed that bug, check that one out
8-BitKiddo 4 Feb @ 12:41pm 
Is there any mod out there to fix those black doors?
Tayzor Azul 9 Jan @ 11:37am 
The bug is the black texture that show up on windows and doors.
If you are to close it can create a black texture on them regardless if the door is open or not.

This can be tested best in Dark Carnival motel.

This is something from the engine I assume since all water mods has this bug.
Meraru  [author] 19 Dec, 2024 @ 9:44am 
bug :(
Forbidden Beverage 19 Dec, 2024 @ 4:52am 
bug :)
Meraru  [author] 28 Jul, 2024 @ 7:49pm 
Very specific and helpful, thanks!
MeroMero 28 Jul, 2024 @ 6:05pm 
bug :(
死。Μεγαθήριο 25 Jul, 2024 @ 12:37pm 
@伊莎貝拉 calmate ya porfavor
CaptainSzasz 28 May, 2024 @ 10:57pm 
Crashes some water intensive custom campaigns. Not the modders fault, but thought i'd let people know.