Hi I was hoping someone could give me some help. Back when i used to play quake1 i had vis maps to see thru water, but when i use any of these more modern clients i dont see thru the water. If i load up my old glqwclient i can still see thru the water with it. Am i missing a setting? i tried r_novis but that didnt help.
Any help would be appreciated thanks.

Old glqw-client had also command r_wateralpha, had it at "0.3". It's also needed for a transparent water. Doesn't help with these new clients thought.

the servers disable water see through

you can turn it on using serverinfo watervis 1

Also to not suffer the FPS loss r_novis gets you, you can patch your maps VIS data with the vispatch-program:
http://www.atomicgamer.com/file.php?id=20210

but if you do that you might not be let onto servers since you have differing .bsp versions

but map checks do not consider the vis parts of the bsp, so revising maps for water (or even level 4 vis) is perfectly fine and not detected by the server.

The server can disallow the see-through even if you have vispatched maps.

The server has serverinfo watervis 1 enabled.
With the old glqwclient i see thru water, with ezquake i can't.
any other ideas?
thanks alot guys =)

Try gl_turbalpha command in ezQuake
e.g. gl_turbalpha .3

It works! While watching a demo or observing on a server. It disabled itself once you join in. Too good to be true.

yes, Thank you moon that command did the trick!

tho.. I can't see items and players in under the surface.. I just see the map through the water.. how do I see things in the water (on private server of course)