GWater2 - Improved Low Radii Visuals

[@stanley8006]

Humanity has one lua and c++ source engine modder to thank for inventing sex 2

[@nightxday]

funny water strikes again

[@georgevasilopoulos5359]

1:46 the funny liquid

[@molten2010Again]

the liquid remains funny

[@Handhandme]

I hadn't seen the full video yet and skipped ahead expecting something else

[@TylerMcVicker1]

The fact this runs in Source blows my mind.

[@fireandcopper]

Source engine might as well be its own operating system at this point it's so ubiquitous and the modifications for it are so easy to do if you know what you're doing, there's probably an exponential curve of technology in Gmod, on the fly water physics in Gmod is something I never would have thought possible in 2011

[@juango500]

tyler!!!!

[@sean_r]

can i borrow some of your money

[@MCSteve_]

Not pure Source, it uses Nvidia FleX, its injected Nonetheless, indeed feels so insane

[@Meetric1]

MCSteve_ is correct about FleX, though all of the rendering is still done properly via the sourceengine interfaces. Shaders are *very* powerful

[@RushFreak]

He just does *not* stop

[@robertaltuhov8295]

I want this mod but i can't >:(

[@cruzmercado7358]

​@robertaltuhov8295 it will become free to download, prob in 2025.

[@TheRealRiggyPlushie]

@@robertaltuhov8295 he said around 0.6 - 0.8 he will release it on steam

[@Падрэ-б9ы]

That because communism take all your money ​@@robertaltuhov8295

[@1newfieland]

@@robertaltuhov8295 Is it because it’s water not vodka?

[@ChezzyKnytt]

Looks like we're gonna need more accurate bath hitboxes soon :D

[@augustine6683]

Fairly certain there's already a mod on the workshop that improves the collision meshes of most base game hl2 props.

[@luigiss]

@@augustine6683 i found one called "Collision Accuracy Project" but it was the easiest one to find in the workshop, i did not find any other one

[@lordcaprisunthe2nd]

@@augustine6683There is

[@rico-228]

@augustinehuizing6683 i don think it works with gwater

[@Lord_common_sense]

@@augustine6683 fr

[@sitkinator]

I legitimately don't know where this project will be once it's reaches it's 1.0 release version. But I for one cannot wait to see how this all ends up, especially with the fact this isn't even near the final version.

[@bals1632]

I doubt its possible but it'd be crazy to see the water dissolve when it touches ground and for the ground to become a bit darker for a while to make it look like a puddle or something. Gwater 2 feels more convincing than like 99% of water physics in games and it's in this old engine from 2003 but the biggest problem is that it feels like everything is coated in aerogel. It's one of the features im not expecting will happen but knowing Mee and how crazy this guy is he's probably already been brainstorming solutions for this exact thing for months now.

[@Milbyte11]

correct me if im wrong but i remember mee mentioning that the info he gets on particle hit is very limited so i doubt it includes the material/texture in that hitinfo.

[@trashtrash2169]

Isn't that just because of the color? It'd look more realistic if it was just clear. Then the surface would just look wet. Only the concrete would get darker, but it would also still be glossy for a while.

[@Meetric1]

I've been brainstorming since gwater1, I have yet to think of a (non performance obliterating) solution.

[@xentrix89]

I only know A little bit of unity but i could make it switch to another particle system on collision that has the darker color/texture the particle system can be timed to show the water get dark to light as it "drys" aswell the water would need a dissolve effect on hit aswell that might be another particle system depends

[@FyonixYT]

@@Meetric1 what if you make top down screenshot of the water and make the extremely close water particles be black and anything else be white and you can use that as like uhh mask? for the puddle

[@dynamitestalker4219]

Now thats freaking crazy!

[@darkdwarf007]

I haven't been following the project for a while, and when I saw this, I legit screamed "No way". This actually looks like real water now. Absolutely insane

[@trashtrash2169]

That's what happens when you use smaller particles. They're going back to larger ones after.

[@hoffer_moment]

actual wizardry

[@Dr.W.Krueger]

I find it amusing how NPCs perceive the world.

[@Dr.W.Krueger]

​ @hoffer_moment mental ray, starting all the way back in early 1986. Initially we were just two developers and a physicist. Maybe my most influential contribution, but it had to be retired after more than 30 years due to its aging architecture. It wasn't feasible anymore to tuck on new features. I was part of the RnD team on Nvidia's Gelato and Iray. That effort took roughly six years. I continue to develop in-house tools and machine learning solutions for our VFX pipeline @ Das Werk. I also contributed a few technical papers over the past 35 years.

[@rgbforever4561]

Shit looks really good

[@Solutra]

ewww

[@Devex-Tech]

@@Solutra why did you type eww 💀 he said shit, looks very good idk what ya thinkin abt lil bro he just said the water looks good

[@Solutra]

@@Devex-Tech there was no comma in the original comment.

[@fantastikboom1094]

@@Solutra and still isn't, so I agree EWWWW🤮🤮🤮

[@mythicalgod]

ewww!!

[@sharcc2511]

Holy hell. The water until now has always just sort of seemed like a very good aproxximation of water - like everything in most video games, it looks good enough to be convincing. But this, genuinely looks indestinguishable from real liquid. (Minus the, source engine surroundings, obviously, and low fps). Incredible stuff.

[@lordcaprisunthe2nd]

He has a stable 60 fps, so I’m thinking it’s just the recording quality that makes it look choppy.

[@Meetric1]

My GPU is completely utilized, which causes the recording software to struggle to keep a consistent FPS. The counter in the bottom right is a better indicator of framerate

[@marwan7614]

@@Meetric1 Did you have to do some low level CUDA/ROCm or OpenMP to get the physics working ?

[@Meetric1]

I use the Nvidia FleX API for particle physics calculations

[@Gaood.]

Just take the best modder of the century award already

[@Hellisfear]

Honestly I think one of the biggest things this will help is machinima style videos utilizing gmod. Simulating how real liquid physics works could be huge for any animated film or short.

[@JokaPlayz]

at first I tought that was a person holding physgun in real life, until i saw the title and shat my self of how realistic this looks.

[@GarbageLord6543]

I just wanted to say your videos are incredibly relaxing.

[@augustine6683]

When the water physics are so good that the prop collision meshes are what is lacking.

[@profpic]

If the prop collision mesh were to be fixed, you can trick people thinking it’s just blender water.

[@JDKaraffa]

you are probably the best modder ive seen for any game, doing this all solo is just insane

[@MAYKOSHARKO]

YEEEESSS THANK YOU MEE, YOU ARE A GOD HOLY SHIT, ive been dreaming of this 🙏🙏🙏

[@simon5143]

Now we need bathtubs with high polly hit boxes.

[@Space-Shuttle-Scam]

Get a better collision mod. It'll add better, high poly collision models.

[@SovietDoge_]

The old hit boxes of hl2 props look a bit funny when you add water in the bathtub

[@Psyden5757]

Now this just looks like a blender flip fluid simulation at this point i love it

[@MCSteve_]

I was curious what small radii would look like, and as expected, it looks so damn good, wow Glad you worked out the kinks with making it blend correctly

[@orionblackstorm7926]

I've been waiting for this for so long, I've always been amazed at how well gwater looked with large particles but the big question I've always had in the back of my mind was "how does it look with small particles?" You sir have made something on par with water physics integrated into an engine, I applaud you

[@The_Neutraal]

Your talent is actually insane

[@FuzzyQue.]

just skimmed through the whole series from GWater1 - now and this is just an incredible series

[@scraub8913]

You never cease to amaze, never would've imagined this in gmod

[@fraktal852]

Yeah, this is beginning to look seriously good. Keep up the good work, sir!

[@thebrightplayer3940]

You, my friend, are making a game changer for Gmod animators.

[@Dwolfin]

We are getting ever closer to the waves update I can feel it!

[@jackman6625]

how the hell does it never stop getting better with every video? Great work.

[@dewrow]

This animation looks like an actual game. Nice

[@Zakolus]

I'm really gonna have to get this when I can!

[@stanleybochenek1862]

it looks so good!!!!!!

[@WretchedRedoran]

What an absolute marvel of coding!

[@aphy460]

the water itself look like jelly but the splash effect look like water, very good

[@Meetric1]

Too blue I suppose

[@lunarlight69]

cant wait for gwater3

[@saplemyrup]

Astonishing.

[@Mewmew-y4m]

Thank you Mee.. Now i can finally say that Gmod makes me Wet without people questioning me.

[@NicolaiSeven]

looks very realistic, god job, comrade!

[@Drakey_Fenix]

You're so talanted!

[@Eleechee]

Meanwhile triple a game studios think we want to see the pores on the faces of every random npc we talk to. This is way more appealing.

[@TheDolphinTuna]

This is completely nuts

[@cherryparry]

improved visuals, decreased fps :D

[@that_catto]

i mean, he has an very old gpu im pretty sure anyone with good hardware can run this smoothly

[@hoffer_moment]

@@that_catto i'm skeptical that this isn't hitting engine-level limitations that better hardware might not be able to overtake

[@dopadream]

@@that_catto source engine would beg to differ

[@Pacman009]

@@hoffer_momentit’s not IN engine. It’s basically a real time simulation in a different software being rendered into GMOD

[@Mr.LeoNov]

It's just because he has made particles much smaller for this video so the simulation is more accurate. In other situations it'll be just as fine (I know it was just a funni comment and I'm just overthinking, sorry)

[@Insanabiliter_In_Linea]

Damn that looks incredible. I haven't played GMod in over ten years but I might have to boot it up again just to mess with this.

[@normalpizza1567]

Can't wait for the reflections update to this mod

[@Meetric1]

Reflections exist, they just aren't very powerful and rely soley on the cubemap. Unfortunately, screen space reflections are impossible because I do not have access to a proper depth buffer

[@normalpizza1567]

@@Meetric1 :(

[@cadoo]

Great stuff, I love the updates on the project!

[@TheMostExtremeGamerOfThemAll]

update: bought the mod, happily taking a bath

[@dominic5386]

Finally Gary’s mod players can simulate what it’s like taking a shower

[@Melihkoctas]

you are amazing man.

[@varicosevaynes]

This is insanely impressive holy sh!te

[@perillous]

and it still feels like yesterday where putting too many cans in a bathtub would crash a darkRP server

[@Ceeed100]

crazy how good this looks ^^

[@peter_fbx]

Another crazy good video man your killing it. Something to think about implementing could be some sort of absorption system for stray particles. For example in the instance where the small bit of fluid is stuck to the rim of the tub at 0:24, those particles might just fade out or shrink in scale until they are no longer visible. Resulting in those small rims and sticky instances of only a few particles fading away, leading to something that might be more realistic, and to my naive mind more performant due to the particles being killed. Just some food for thought, keep up the great work!

[@judlex7300]

finally droplets look like actual water

[@serdiuk2774]

This is amazing, wow

[@aaronwolfpaws4854]

keep up with the good work on Gwater 2 and hopefully can not wait for the public download when it gets done into the Steam workshop when complete so I can use it since I do not want to spend money on it since I am patient person

[@AndroChimera]

dude you keep impressing me, now i wanna drink it.

[@spartv1537]

i can't understand how you manage to make it more and more pretty

[@cgbreeki849]

This is surreal

[@lordmarum]

This is always so impressive

[@fortressflashdeck4089]

looks alot better!

[@ZetaPrime77]

Bro is making a mod that adds something to Garry's Mod that isn't even in most modern games. This is absolutely astounding

[@Its-Proxy]

beautiful work

[@3dsoup147]

I haven't seen gwater in a while and this actually looks close to water now.

[@pistolcolt22]

Looks really cool. Won't get this until it comes out free, but, this looks worth the wait. Also, most of the glitches will be patched by the time it's free. Looks sick, good job on this dude. 👍

[@fantastikboom1094]

I got so excited when I saw it actually behaves exactly like water irl. Except that it seems slower. Regardless, it's cool.

[@Meetric1]

Yeah, my GPU was not happy recording this video

[@rip_and_beer]

Bro's talented asf

[@leastexpected3115]

Can't wait for 1.0 release! This looks almost like real "offline" simulations, except for liquid lagging behind the vessel object, and except for not path-traced lighting (which is a impossible and impractical ask in source engine). What i was talking about? Ah yes, love vids, love seeing you progress, and hope to see how good it will look at 1.0, and how hard it will peg my cpu and gpu to the wall, and myself when i will try to make it work it through proton on linux

[@Meetric1]

I will try my *best* to get a linux compile during 1.0 but so far I've hit a brick wall every time. At the moment I'm having problems linking the Nvidia libraries to the binary

[@Rusich15335]

when it's ready :p

[@bash3997]

This looks so nice

[@NOLNV1]

Love the colour! The Sims style

[@svijj_]

Damn, quite impressive considering this is all done on the Source engine!

[@Left4Plamz]

This is next gen

[@Hervoo]

ah yes, all i need after hard day at work, some warm bath

[@fenn_fren]

omg no way, water looking water in watermod, just like Watery Newman intended

[@Burgerplayer3920]

wateriest water i've seen

[@alonch]

the hardest part in all of this is learning the plural of radius

[@SimulatedGoat]

1:04 me when I pee in the toilet

[@BertranDeGato]

this is. this is crazy

[@grigoriyefimovichrasputin7897]

Bathtub full of smurf jello puddin.

[@ujmeadelostherliver]

The one GWATER IS REALLL

[@thatguythatlikesvideogames3176]

Thats insane That water looks realistic, looks better than any AAA game lol

[@Xenthio]

Gwater real

[@RoyCappuccino]

Valve, hire this man

[@Wheagg]

I think at this density it might be worth using the visual mesh rather than the collision mesh to avoid some of the weird banding seen in the bathtub model

[@ethosaur]

Mhh yes.. hydration

[@IPFreelly604]

Insane

[@Nicolas-zw5ex]

Thank for the Gcum

[@Noxedwin]

*Actually* unstoppable. If I played GMod more than twice a month and for more than _Jazztronauts,_ I would back this. Also if I had the money to do so. Waiting is the price I must pay. I pay it with grace and duty, but not joy.

[@NealjanYT]

this is real water.

[@molten2010Again]

this is so impressive i wish liquids were real

[@tacotwinsgaming9373]

GWater 🔥

[@egorkhoroshev7970]

This water simulation looks better than blender's lol

[@Thornskade]

Would it be possible to add a feature toggle that vaporizes small individual water particles as they hit the floor, leaving a decal instead? It would probably both look better and maybe even save on resources. Of course all water can't just disappear, puddles should be allowed to form and I don't know what it would take to have these kind of vicinity and distance to other water particles check

[@vilesparza438]

It looks realistic now

[@larzchristie8239]

It already did but not as good

[@goob8945]

Wow, incredible

[@gumballegal]

PS3 duck simulation vibes, nostalgic ngl

[@Ganza9991]

Now its already looking like smth that my computer would not handle

[@Meetric1]

I'm running on 10 year old hardware, if your GPU is any better than a GTX 970 you'll run it fine