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2d surface water (like Crimson Steam Pirates)

by Chris Evans · in Game Design and Creative Issues · 12/09/2011 (1:36 pm) · 2 replies

Hi there,
Just looking for a little advice. I'm working on a 2D game and presently have just a plain blue tile for the water. I then discovered this little video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtrZX3e4AL8

If you watch a few seconds in, you'll see some pictures of the water and what appears to be random waves placed across it.

Any suggestions how this may have been achieved?

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#1
12/09/2011 (2:59 pm)
i bet its really just a large animated image with a very long cycle so it looks semi-random. so Photoshop and a lot of time tweaking the animation frames in Photoshop then trying to save it all out as a cell sheet will be your best best

Torque Owner Daniel Buckmaster
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#2
12/10/2011 (6:09 am)
I'd bet on some sort of particle system that distributes transparent 'wave crest' images across the ocean. Each of these wave crests could be given a random orientation and velocity, and just fade out in a small amount of time. I'm not too familiar with T2D's capabilities in terms of particles, but it doesn't look too difficult.