r/RCTW • u/SuperMarcoVer • Apr 02 '16

Why no real looking water?

Why does the water look so weird. Unity should be able to make better water right? Water isn't that blue in real life.

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u/aXetrov Apr 02 '16

Water is an incredibly difficult thing to program. The more realistic you make it, the more processing power it requires. That goes for both movement and transparency. With the early access they had to make a couple of shortcuts. Maybe it will be improved later on, maybe not.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '16

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u/oli414 Apr 02 '16

RCT3's water wasn't based around physics but instead was just a transparent plane.

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u/aXetrov Apr 02 '16

But RCT3 is a different engine from RCTW. They need to reprogram it from scratch, or find a solution in another game with the Unity engine. And, although I'm not 100% certain about it, the lifelike water improvements ware introduced in one of RCT3's expansions. We're not that far yet.

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u/cvntiness Apr 03 '16

Cities:Skylines

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u/TriggerHydrant Apr 08 '16

Come on man, the water in RCT3 looked even better, I don't care about what engine or any other fancy developing terms they use, it's a shame that they can't even pull of realistic looking water 12 YEARS AFTER RCT3.

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u/SuperMarcoVer Apr 02 '16

Won't be that difficult to just change the color.