Water "Settings" Creation Question

[Suri Cassady]

I've been trying to create a water setting and can't seem to figure something out.  Is it possible to change the water "color" to that of the selected water map texture instead of it "tinting" to a selected color?  I wondered because every time I try to turn it white, it actually turns white instead of the color built into the texture, as it would on a prim object.  If anyone knows the answer to this I would be grateful.

[Jenna Huntsman]

No. The water texture isn't a diffuse, it's a normal map, which is a different thing - see here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_mapping