Is this possible?

Unity Engine
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I’m working on a fishing game the game uses photographs of real fishing locations as a background adds 3d fishing rods etc to the scene.

I have a plane that represents the water level and masks any object that’s below it. So things like floats can ‘go underwater’. I have a duck that swims around the plane and it looks like its on the water surface.

I’m trying to get a reflection for the water plane that reflects the objects but shows the background image through it, so basically it only shows the reflection.

I tried the mirror reflection from the unify website but it’s not transparent. :expressionless:

Can this be done?

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Hi…
Do a Google search for the “Unity Island Demo” Find it and check it out… The water is really nice…
It is still available but you will probably need to dig a little…
A few months ago I found it and I also found a YouTube tutorial of how to fix the underwater shader to work in the latest version of Unity…
These links will help…

http://unity3d.com/support/resources/example-projects/islanddemo

http://www.jadeskaggs.com/2012/04/18/unity-3-5-island-demo-blue-green-water-color/

Best of Luck…

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I think it depends a lot on your photographs. I assume you need a 3D representation of the shoreline for each photograph and your program needs to know where the shoreline is in the photographs.

EDIT: Reading the question again, I think my answer misses the point: I was more concerned about accurate reflections of the landscape, not of the objects.

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This video might give you an idea of what I’m doing.

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For what it’s worth, here is my try to do reflections in Unity without render-to-texture: Cg Programming/Unity/Mirrors - Wikibooks, open books for an open world