Creating Water

[CoasterBuff]

I have just had RCT3 and it is a big improvement on RCT & RCT2. I am creating themes in the sandbox mode, but cannot add water.
I click the water button, ( which attaches a water droplet to the mouse cursor) then when I place it over a depression and left click, nothing happens.
I have had no proplems using the terrain tools, but cannot get water to work.
The Tutorials, don't actually show how to add water.

Can anybody help, or have I got a waterless copy of RCT3.

CoasterBuff

[Bigland]

Wherever you click will set the height of the water, so if you click at the bottom of the depression, you're setting "no water". Click somewhere on the side of the depression.

[CoasterBuff]

Okay, thank's for that Bigland, I'll give it a try later.

Any More help appreciated.

CoasterBuff

[Silkius]

Sometimes helps if you put the gridlines on - so you can see where the levels are - as the naturally also has a preventative to stop you flooding the park

or practice on a map that has good craters & valleys that are easy to fill (i.e. fright night near the park entrance.)

[Hooch]

Also check that your graphics card has updated drivers, this could cause the game to not be able to render the water. Some onboard graphics cards (i.e. Intel cards on the motherboard) has this problem and is mostly fixed with new display drivers.

also check your game settings, to see if water is turned on.

Water is a nice (rephrase -- amazing - awesome brilliant) feature in RCT3 but too much of it can bring a top of the line mega PC to its knees.

Conserve water :) Save it for our children’s' children :D

[CoasterBuff]

Hi Hooch,
Maybe you can help me then. I have a Hewlet Packard XP Home Edition computer, which has an internal graphics card within the motherboard, but I don't know what it is and where I can update the drivers from? Maybe this is why I can't add water.
Can you help?

[Fluxx]

Have a look on the HP site.........they should have a customer support page with the details of your PC and a link for driver updates......:tup:

[Hooch]

Hi
Have to agree with Fluxx. The HP site should list your hardware and also any updates for your graphics cards. This is freely downloadable.
I'm myself not clued-up on the onboard graphics cards and drivers.

Also, if you ask Flux nicely, I'm sure he would be able to help you figure out what brand of onboard GC you have from your Direct X diagnostics- their is a post here somewhere on how to extract this information - I don't know where though. I can tell you for now to click on "start button" -- got to "run" and in the block that opens type -- dxdiag -- and press enter.

this will open dxdiagnostics from where you can see the names of the internals on your PC- I can not decipher this info though. Hope Flux can or put you through to a forum where they can.

Hope you come right though. good luck.
Hooch