Hello!

I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas of how I can create water areas dynamically (i.e. in-game)?

I noticed that WaterArea used to have a create() function, but this no longer seems to be present, and it's not obvious from the documentation as to how one might create a WaterArea without using the editor.

Specifically what I'm trying to do is create a portal with a water/ripple effect. I can create the mesh for the portal itself dynamically. But I'm at a loss as to how to produce an animated ripple/water effect on the mesh.

Obviously I want to avoid using the Water class, since that seems to cover an entire plane rather than a single mesh.

Thoughts?

Wasn't there some global container for lakes/ rivers (just like grass etc) ? Or it was just in the roadmap?

hmmm, interesting.

There *is* a "WE Water" file, forming part of the Edit namespace.

It does contain a Lake object, which contains a WaterArea. Though I'm not sure if this is available for use. Obviously there are no examples :/

@Esenthel:

Any chance you could let us know how to manually apply the water shader to a mesh? I think it's necessary to set a bunch of parameters, but I don't know what they're all called or do

I figure that if I can do that, it would give the effect I'm looking for

do you need the portal to be vertical? (standing) or horizontal (laying down)
water shader supports only laying down orientation.

Yeah, I need them to be vertical (standing).

Dang.

Any ideas how I might best produce what I'm looking for?

You can make your own blend shader, as in tutorials, and add ripple effect manually.
I know you have some problems with running the shader tutorials on Mac. Please give me some time to investigate this (at the moment I don't know why CG is producing incorrect results for you), I will need to check this.

hrm, does that involve some clever use of RippleFx, or would I basically need to write my own shader from scratch?

When you say blend shader, do you mean Shader Combinations?

RippleFx is builtin 2d effect, so it won't help you.
Yes you will need to write your own shader.
I think 1st shader tutorial uses blend shader (also "shader parameters for different instances" tutorial)