terra water plane animation

[Nickak2003]

I am going to add a water plane, I know how to do this. My question is how to animate it to look more lively and water like. I know older versions of ogre had animated textures, this could be an option. Another thing of course would be to use a ocean shader, any tutorials on this sort of thing around?

[Lax]

Hi,

does not xrgo's ocean do this kind of thing?
viewtopic.php?t=93592
I tried to use this, but without success, also the shader implementation was only for OpenGL.

Best Regards
Lax

[Nucleartree]

A simple but still quite effective technique is scrolling two textures in the pbs datablock. For instance this material using some of the textures from Ogre's provided texture samples:

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{
    "blendblocks" :
    {
        "waterBlend" :
        {
            "dst_blend_factor" : "one"
        }
    },

"pbs" :
{
    "waterMaterial" :
    {
        "blendblock": "waterBlend",
        "workflow" : "metallic",
        "diffuse" :
        {
            "value": [0.1, 0.1, 1]
        },
        "detail_normal0":{
            "value" : 1,
            "scale": [0.5, 0.5],
            "texture": "SeaPattern.tga"
        },
        "detail_normal1":{
            "value" : 1,
            "scale": [0.5, 0.5],
            "texture": "SmallWaves.tga"
        },
        "transparency" :
        {
            "value" : 2,
            "mode" : "Transparent"
        }
    }
}
}

I feel like a proper artist would want to tweak this a bit but you get the idea . I can then animate the offset for the detail layer in code, providing a nice animated effect, without having to write any hlms modifications. If you want to get the vertices to move you might need to look into that however.
You might be interested in this video about many of the water effects used in Mario Galaxy, and you might be surprised to find out that many of the effects were done with static geometry and scrolling displacement maps and textures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rCRsOLiO7k

[Nickak2003]

Cool, I will have to look into this!