Making a pond to wade in...

[Rhee]

Hiya. I am wanting to make a little pond that an avvie could go wandering into if they so wished (think the bottom of the Cleft), and while there a plenty of things saying how to make water animations and how to make ripples and so and so forth, I wasn't able to track down the exact information I am looking for, which is as follows:

First off, I am using Blender 2.61.

I have modelled what will be the bottom of the pond. This will have collision (obviously). To create the actual water surface, is it as simple as a plane set with a transparent material and texture? I assume that if i add no collision to it, the avatar would just walk right into it, but as I am having some difficulty getting my ages to export correctly, I am not able to test this (as yet anyway lol).

So, wondering if anyone could a) explain what it is i need to do or b) point me to a tutorial or thread that I have missed in my search that will do the explaining.

Thanks for any help!

[dendwaler]

Two years ago i posted a little example age with a waveset.

in this thread the fifth post
http://forum.guildofwriters.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4640&hilit=example

You can download it to see how to set it up.
it is a 2.49b file but good change this will do it in 2.6 as well.

[Branan]

PyPRP1 wavesets will not work in PyPRP2. So far wavesets have not been implemented at all in PyPRP2, actually. For now, the best way to handle a pond on PyPRP2 is with a transparent surface as Rhee mentioned.

[dendwaler]

Ok , i did not know .
i only work in 2.49 because PyPRP 2 is not matured yet.
In that case an animated layer (or better 2) animated transparent layers will do if you want to have it a bit " vivant"
A nice effect is using two times the same transparent texture's and animated the first up/down and the second left to right.