Matrix Water Programming

I''m sure there are plenty of articles about producing realistic looking water. I think I''d calculate the height in two stages, one for waves and effects that would be there if the player wasn''t there and then one for waves and effects created by the player. I''d recommend that you experiment with lots of things and see what looks best, however make sure you understand what you are doing, or you''ll just get confused.

Thanks for the info, ill check it out.

SixBlades,

This is just a thought, but you could have 3d water by a 3x3 matrix that contains:

[ sin (x0) sin (x1) sin (x2) ]
[ sin (y0) sin (y1) sin (y2) ]
[ sin (z0) sin (z1) sin (z2) ]

where you have 3 direction vectors t =(x0, y0, z0), u = (x1, y1, z1), v = (x2, y2, z2). This way, a vector in the water is transformed by this "water" matrix each scene. Then each scene the t,u,v vectors would be calculated through functions of time (such as t = f(x), where x[0,1]). That should produce a waves in all directions, but if you use it you''d probably need to play around with the idea.

-brad

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Original post by Galapaegos
SixBlades,

This is just a thought, but you could have 3d water by a 3x3 matrix that contains:

[ sin (x0) sin (x1) sin (x2) ]
[ sin (y0) sin (y1) sin (y2) ]
[ sin (z0) sin (z1) sin (z2) ]

where you have 3 direction vectors t =(x0, y0, z0), u = (x1, y1, z1), v = (x2, y2, z2). This way, a vector in the water is transformed by this "water" matrix each scene. Then each scene the t,u,v vectors would be calculated through functions of time (such as t = f(x), where x[0,1]). That should produce a waves in all directions, but if you use it you''d probably need to play around with the idea.

-brad

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I did something like that a while back. It looked the naff side of okay.