Water Refection bug

[Trundamere]

In this picture you can see the water refection of the metals and the power coils as it should be

In this picture after leveling the water off to where I want it to be in the build you can no longer see the refection

water refections look very nice and this needs to be fixed.

[Nightstar]

This isn’t a bug, it’s a design choice for performance.

Each planet has a fixed “sea level” and only water at this level will generate reflections. @lucadeltodecso @dave has posted recently on the specific technical reasons if you want to scan his history for it.

[Trundamere]

@Nightstar

This isn’t a bug, it’s a design choice for performance.

That is quite disappointing, and it should be a option the user and turn on or off with the default of off if it is a performance problem

[Nightstar]

@Trundamere

That is quite disappointing, and it should be a option the user and turn on or off with the default of off if it is a performance problem

How to fill a pool with still water?

This is due to the way we do reflections. At the moment we do reflections by inverting the camera through the water plane and then redrawing the scene. This is not particularly cheap CPU or GPU wise so we only do it at sea level since that is where most of the water is. Doing it for multiple water levels would require us to redraw the whole scene for each height of water. So, if the water is not at sea level you won’t get reflections. In the future we may add screen space reflections which uses…

Apparently it could change in the future, with some limitations.

[Trundamere]

@Nightstar

with some limitations.

I guess I just have to lower the floor of this room by one then, slightly annoying but considering how good water can look in this game, It will have to be done.