Left 4 Dead 2

Left 4 Dead 2

Clean and Reflective Water
65 Comments
8-BitKiddo Feb 5 @ 8:04am 
I will, thanks for the reply
Meraru  [author] Feb 4 @ 3:03pm 
apparently map specific waters has fixed that bug, check that one out
8-BitKiddo Feb 4 @ 12:41pm 
Is there any mod out there to fix those black doors?
Tayzor Azul Jan 9 @ 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] Dec 19, 2024 @ 9:44am 
bug :(
Forbidden Beverage Dec 19, 2024 @ 4:52am 
bug :)
Meraru  [author] Jul 28, 2024 @ 7:49pm 
Very specific and helpful, thanks!
MeroMero Jul 28, 2024 @ 6:05pm 
bug :(
死。Μεγαθήριο Jul 25, 2024 @ 12:37pm 
@伊莎貝拉 calmate ya porfavor
DeadMeat May 28, 2024 @ 10:57pm 
Crashes some water intensive custom campaigns. Not the modders fault, but thought i'd let people know.
J4CK3T Jan 22, 2024 @ 7:36pm 
OMG is perfect
miawawa Jan 20, 2024 @ 9:14am 
hurt my eyes
Bane Apr 6, 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 Mar 26, 2023 @ 10:12pm 
The reflection does effect performance but the transparency it doesn't
Meraru  [author] Jan 26, 2023 @ 6:21am 
it will depend on your pc.
En Croute Jan 26, 2023 @ 5:35am 
Does this affect performance minor/major?
♬♫~Joe Blaze~♫♬ Jan 11, 2023 @ 2:30am 
Best water mod.
Blewoter Nov 13, 2022 @ 12:28pm 
Is that some kind of Ray-tracing?
Bitz Oct 3, 2022 @ 6:38pm 
gotta love source spagetti
Meraru  [author] Sep 26, 2022 @ 2:28am 
no, but seems like reading is for some of y'all :cockatiel_hype:
Bitz Sep 25, 2022 @ 3:24pm 
There we go, was that so hard?
Meraru  [author] Sep 25, 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 Sep 25, 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 Sep 25, 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 Sep 24, 2022 @ 12:51pm 
good job:steamthumbsup:
Dr.Cryptoxxx Jul 29, 2022 @ 7:36pm 
Does anyone know why the zombies come out in black and white?
DarkRedZombie Jun 12, 2022 @ 8:29am 
Doesnt work for me u.u
garratose May 12, 2022 @ 12:19am 
I'm getting black doors
Meraru  [author] Mar 30, 2022 @ 3:50am 
It depends on your system i guess, some people were experiencing lower framerates, others (including i) weren't.
Vyse Mar 29, 2022 @ 9:35pm 
Would this cause fps drop?
Meraru  [author] Feb 9, 2022 @ 5:01pm 
Thank you for all the info! at least we know why it's happening now.
Blue Feb 8, 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 Feb 8, 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 Feb 8, 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 Jan 11, 2022 @ 9:52am 
Hard Rain and Swamp Fever have never looked this pretty.
jpcarsmedia Jan 3, 2022 @ 5:08am 
I would love to see this mod in Insurgency or Day or Infamy too. Beautiful work.
Meraru  [author] Dec 25, 2021 @ 11:35am 
Yeah, this has been addressed several times in the comments.
我贼喜欢李知恩 Dec 22, 2021 @ 11:48am 
nice
T626 Dec 21, 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: Dec 21, 2021 @ 2:10am 
AWsome
THE LORD SPARTAN Dec 19, 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] Dec 19, 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] Dec 19, 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 Dec 19, 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 Dec 19, 2021 @ 3:03am 
It looks cool!
Meraru  [author] Dec 18, 2021 @ 10:15pm 
Nope, no idea.
TheHastyCarrier Dec 18, 2021 @ 7:14pm 
Meraru I see... iiiiiiiiis it possible for you to see what the problem is? 0_0
Meraru  [author] Dec 18, 2021 @ 4:52pm 
I wasn't replying to you.
Meen And Grean Dec 18, 2021 @ 4:48pm 
Oh. That was meant to be a joke. Sorry.
Meraru  [author] Dec 18, 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.