Left 4 Dead 2

Left 4 Dead 2

Clean and Reflective Water
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.
J4CK3T 22 Jan, 2024 @ 7:36pm 
OMG is perfect
miawawa 20 Jan, 2024 @ 9:14am 
hurt my eyes
Bane 6 Apr, 2023 @ 9:31pm 
I'm just wondering, does this still reflect like the lights, explosions and infected? I haven't tried it, yet as I'm already using the one by Theuaredead
(^^^) Xeno 26 Mar, 2023 @ 10:12pm 
The reflection does effect performance but the transparency it doesn't
Meraru  [author] 26 Jan, 2023 @ 6:21am 
it will depend on your pc.
En Croute 26 Jan, 2023 @ 5:35am 
Does this affect performance minor/major?
♬♫~Joe Blaze~♫♬ 11 Jan, 2023 @ 2:30am 
Best water mod.
Blewoter 13 Nov, 2022 @ 12:28pm 
Is that some kind of Ray-tracing?
Bitz 3 Oct, 2022 @ 6:38pm 
gotta love source spagetti
Meraru  [author] 26 Sep, 2022 @ 2:28am 
no, but seems like reading is for some of y'all :cockatiel_hype:
Bitz 25 Sep, 2022 @ 3:24pm 
There we go, was that so hard?
Meraru  [author] 25 Sep, 2022 @ 12:40pm 
just added Blue's explanation of the bugs into the description so y'all can stop complaining in my comments about it :spiffo: not that y'all read descriptions either but whetever :steamhappy:
Bitz 25 Sep, 2022 @ 12:18am 
If you hop onto the 3rd stage of Hard Rain, the last building you enter before the saferoom house has weird void spots past doorframes.
Bitz 25 Sep, 2022 @ 12:12am 
Was really hoping this fixed the weird black void borders when entering a new color corrected area that are a present bug in enhanced water reflections, nope.
Trueherogamingtiktok 24 Sep, 2022 @ 12:51pm 
good job:steamthumbsup:
Dr.Cryptoxxx 29 Jul, 2022 @ 7:36pm 
Does anyone know why the zombies come out in black and white?
DarkRedZombie 12 Jun, 2022 @ 8:29am 
Doesnt work for me u.u
garratose 12 May, 2022 @ 12:19am 
I'm getting black doors
Meraru  [author] 30 Mar, 2022 @ 3:50am 
It depends on your system i guess, some people were experiencing lower framerates, others (including i) weren't.
Vyse 29 Mar, 2022 @ 9:35pm 
Would this cause fps drop?
Meraru  [author] 9 Feb, 2022 @ 5:01pm 
Thank you for all the info! at least we know why it's happening now.
Blue 8 Feb, 2022 @ 10:44pm 
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.
Blue 8 Feb, 2022 @ 10:41pm 
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.
Blue 8 Feb, 2022 @ 10:35pm 
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.
crosby 11 Jan, 2022 @ 9:52am 
Hard Rain and Swamp Fever have never looked this pretty.
jpcarsmedia 3 Jan, 2022 @ 5:08am 
I would love to see this mod in Insurgency or Day or Infamy too. Beautiful work.
Meraru  [author] 25 Dec, 2021 @ 11:35am 
Yeah, this has been addressed several times in the comments.
我贼喜欢李知恩 22 Dec, 2021 @ 11:48am 
nice
T626 21 Dec, 2021 @ 1:59pm 
@Meraru OMG it really is Christmas!!! Thank you so much creatin' this, mate! I had tried asking Ananasa Anaso 94 directly if he could make these two mods compatible with each other before since they conflicted with each other when I got them. But now, they're at last combined into one. Thank you!!!! :steamhappy::steamhappy::steamhappy::steamhappy:
Adam 󠀡 6: 21 Dec, 2021 @ 2:10am 
AWsome
THE LORD SPARTAN 19 Dec, 2021 @ 5:04pm 
If I find something I'll let you know. I was also trying to make something similar with the water, but I'm still at failing point right now.
Meraru  [author] 19 Dec, 2021 @ 2:33pm 
I'm gonna leave the mod as it is for now, i'm not too bothered by the bug and people are already aware that is there, so subscribe keeping that in mind. If anyone know a fix let me know.
Meraru  [author] 19 Dec, 2021 @ 2:31pm 
Yes most definetly, because all enhanced water reflections does is edit the text in the water materials (as far as i know all it does is change a 1 to a 0). A possible "fix" would be to remove the materials related to the passing from the mod, but that would mean that it not longer will benefit from the aesthetic changes, and it could also affect other maps that use the same water materials.
THE LORD SPARTAN 19 Dec, 2021 @ 2:28pm 
Yep still have this bug. The problem is because it edits some mechanic on VFX in the game. I had this bug with water mods, some lighting mods. It's not a hardware problem. Modding water texture do not do this, but it's text files does.
W 19 Dec, 2021 @ 3:03am 
It looks cool!
Meraru  [author] 18 Dec, 2021 @ 10:15pm 
Nope, no idea.
TheHastyCarrier 18 Dec, 2021 @ 7:14pm 
Meraru I see... iiiiiiiiis it possible for you to see what the problem is? 0_0
Meraru  [author] 18 Dec, 2021 @ 4:52pm 
I wasn't replying to you.
Meen And Grean 18 Dec, 2021 @ 4:48pm 
Oh. That was meant to be a joke. Sorry.
Meraru  [author] 18 Dec, 2021 @ 4:16pm 
I don't know what causes the issue so i'm not working on a fix, so it is what it is for now.