I made Water!

I've been pondering making some actual 3D water effect for my latest project, Garland's Quest for quite some time now. Well I've finally gotten around to doing it. Actually this is my first actual 3D program so yay for me! :)



I have used 2 layers; 1st is an animation using Caustics lighting, the 2nd layer goes on top and uses a static texture that is instead drawn on a wavy sinusoidal shaped plane consisting of a 40 x 40 grid. (3200 triangles) I gave the 2nd layer a transparency of 40%. Looks much nicer in motion than as a still image, but the above image is the best I could do on short notice.


Caustics Generator:

Free Caustics Generator program


Water Demo:

Download (1 MB)