masking water

[dorianvan]

Is it possible to mask a lake in TG2? I have some rectangle pool objects imported, and need the water.  The lake node is round and rotated wrong, I was thinking if there was a way to mask it, I could make the water any shape. Thanks.

[Tangled-Universe]

The water object is a disc object, but you can also create a plane object and attach a water shader to that as surface shader. Easy peasy.

[dorianvan]

I like easy, so I'll do that. So to be clear, there's no way to mask the disc?

[Tangled-Universe]

I like easy, so I'll do that. So to be clear, there's no way to mask the disc?

Of course there's a way to mask the disc:

http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,8793.msg94182.html#msg94182

Once you understand this method you'll see that there are multiple ways of applying a mask for the water.
For instance, (camera projected) image map, simple shape shader, distance shader etc.

But serious, use the plane object, much quicker, easier to do and less laborous.

[dorianvan]

Thank you!