How to animate a lake.

[sleeeeep]

i am trying to animate a lake at night. it looks funky with the lake just sitting still. i wont want waves but suttle movement but i am not so good at it. any tips please

[oldmanbeefjerky]

At 10/15/13 05:46 PM, sleeeeep wrote: i am trying to animate a lake at night. it looks funky with the lake just sitting still. i wont want waves but suttle movement but i am not so good at it. any tips please

try making the water sparkle slowly
use a few very light transparent textures slowly moving in circles, or otherwise moving back and fourth in a continuous loop slowly chaing the water texture seemingly randomly which effectively simulates air ripples

[Potatoman]

At 10/15/13 05:46 PM, sleeeeep wrote: i am trying to animate a lake at night. it looks funky with the lake just sitting still. i wont want waves but suttle movement but i am not so good at it. any tips please

Make little dots that get bigger and smaller

Here, i made a little example swf:

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/30edcfaa906973a61aeb744044eb87e7

Here is the Fla (Dont just copy the movieclips of water try it yourself and get way more detailed than i did):

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/df4bb98340eaeb4bc142f53a55df7cf8

[sleeeeep]

Awwesome! so helpful, thank you guys!