Mike i cant see the image but i googled it and see a submarine game, is that yours?
I kinda understand that oblivion water is not going to happen and having second look at the 3drad water plane i think is tweekable, id probably need some decent normals, some kind of script adjusting reflective and alpha and im guessing here but specular? so that the inflections of the normals give high specular and basically the object is left transparent maybe with a slight hue. The ability to animate or shift the texture would be handy to know too if you can do that.  As you probably guessed i dont really know much about shaders so excuse my psuedo speak.

*** googled again and saw your sub sim. your water is nice but what is more impressive is its size, is that a single object? im referring to the pic with the guys walking across the top of the sub, also is the sea object animating waves?***

thats the texture being animated i think, but mikes is a mesh animation from the looks of it, maybe both.

here's a more detailed look at the water...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V4eNhQh3TA

the water from the default water shader demo can be sufficient depending on what you need in your project...



also... Shadmar has a water shader that you might find preferable...

http://www.3drad.com/forum/index.php?topic=3297.0


you've gotta decide what you want...

--Mike

i'm a one man show... (do da... do da)...

and thx... but what you see in the video was an part of ongoing trial and error process to see what would actually work in a game... it's far from being pro...

i eventually had to take the boat reflections out in order for it to work smoothly in a 3DRAD game...

the final ocean is what you see in the skipjack sub video...

but your project may not require the same degree of fidelity to the water... the default water shader is a suitable replacement in instances where water is not the key focus of the game...

--Mike

--Mike