Water ripple - can it be done?

[Tea Thief]

Trying to use SFM as a backdrop for 2D animation. Can you add a ripple effect to water?

[EmperorFaiz.wav]

There are a water ripple particle effects. There are in water.pcf file.

[episoder]

if not that. it depends what you need exactly the water for. reflection or refraction?

a basic water material looks something like this. i think most watervoids don't use reflection cause it usually glitches at the border.

water
{
	%tooltexture "dev/water_normal"
	%compilewater 1

	$basetexture "dev\grey"

	$bottommaterial "water/water_coastal_beneath"
	$abovewater 1

	$surfaceprop "water"

	$normalmap "dev/water_normal"

	$bumpframe 0

	$refracttexture "_rt_WaterRefraction"
	$refractamount 5
	$refracttint "[1 1 1]"

	$reflecttexture "_rt_WaterReflection"
	$reflectamount 2
	$reflecttint "[1 1 1]"

	$forcecheap 0
	$forceexpensive 1
	$reflectentities 1

	$forceenvmap 0
//	$envmap "lightprobes\water_endless_hdr"
//	$envmaptint "[1 1 1]"

	$fogenable 1
	$fogcolor "{7 16 18}"
	$fogstart 2400.00
	$fogend 3200.00

	proxies
	{
		animatedtexture
		{
			animatedtexturevar $normalmap
			animatedtextureframenumvar $bumpframe
			animatedtextureframerate 30.0
		}

		texturescroll
		{
			texturescrollvar $bumptransform
			texturescrollrate .05
			texturescrollangle 45.0
		}
	}
}

your choice if you wanna use the real reflection or exchange it with a lightprobe and forcecheap it.

[Tea Thief]

Originally posted by episoder:

if not that. it depends what you need exactly the water for. reflection or refraction?

a basic water material looks something like this. i think most watervoids don't use reflection cause it usually glitches at the border.

water
{
	%tooltexture "dev/water_normal"
	%compilewater 1

	$basetexture "dev\grey"

	$bottommaterial "water/water_coastal_beneath"
	$abovewater 1

	$surfaceprop "water"

	$normalmap "dev/water_normal"

	$bumpframe 0

	$refracttexture "_rt_WaterRefraction"
	$refractamount 5
	$refracttint "[1 1 1]"

	$reflecttexture "_rt_WaterReflection"
	$reflectamount 2
	$reflecttint "[1 1 1]"

	$forcecheap 0
	$forceexpensive 1
	$reflectentities 1

	$forceenvmap 0
//	$envmap "lightprobes\water_endless_hdr"
//	$envmaptint "[1 1 1]"

	$fogenable 1
	$fogcolor "{7 16 18}"
	$fogstart 2400.00
	$fogend 3200.00

	proxies
	{
		animatedtexture
		{
			animatedtexturevar $normalmap
			animatedtextureframenumvar $bumpframe
			animatedtextureframerate 30.0
		}

		texturescroll
		{
			texturescrollvar $bumptransform
			texturescrollrate .05
			texturescrollangle 45.0
		}
	}
}

your choice if you wanna use the real reflection or exchange it with a lightprobe and forcecheap it.

Ok, thank you.