fast cubemapped simple water

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I remember reading somewhere that you don't have to render all 6 faces of the cube map, only the ones facing you.

Anyway I just tried it and it works. I did not render the cube faces behind me or the cube face facing down and I only render 1 face per frame. I went from 200FPS to 280FPS :)