Animated lake water?

[jpjapers_1]

Im looking at doing some cinemagraphs and id like to have a play with doing some rippling lake water. I have played around with various levels of noise and things but its never quite right.
Has anyone got any good methods for doing anything similar?

[sprayer_1]

Try this
Wave.max (804 KB)

[jpjapers_1]

@sprayer

Try this

Thanks im looking for more of a complex ripple, like one that conforms to the landscape with ripples that follow the bank of the lake.
Im thinking perhaps it could be done with a pretty complex material tree

[tom_grimes]

Without knowing more, not sure, but the CoronaDistance map could prove very useful for the case of having ripples (or other changes to the material) conform to a shoreline etc. Some simple example scenes at https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/12000017221-what-is-corona-distance-map- (just in case you don’t already have those and they provide a good starting point).

[jpjapers_1]

@TomG

Without knowing more, not sure, but the CoronaDistance map could prove very useful for the case of having ripples (or other changes to the material) conform to a shoreline etc. Some simple example scenes at https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/12000017221-what-is-corona-distance-map- (just in case you don’t already have those and they provide a good starting point).

Perfect tom thanks