2D 'Side on' Water Ripple Effect

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Matt Vinyl (Posted 2008) [#1]

Hi all, I'm making a simple 'bomb the submarines' type game, where you control a ship at the top of the screen, and have to drop depth charges on submarines below the water. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could produce that 'shimmering water' effect? It doesn't have to be something that gets too involved, but just something that stops the water looking so stagnant. If I can find any examples of what I mean (picture-wise) I'll pop a link on here. Ta, M.

Warpy (Posted 2008) [#2]

Maybe consider something like this? http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/stam/reality/Research/PeriodicCaustics/index.html

Matt Vinyl (Posted 2008) [#3]

Cool, those are very interesting! Will see if they are suitable... :)