Fake refraction with nodes in realtime - Bge Tutorial

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Learn how to fake refraction with nodes for use’s in the bge you can use this to make your real time Water look even better

Normal Animated Water texture Download: www.mediafire.com/view/g036y81bznc0dxx/Water_1_Animated.png

Ship .blend www.blendswap.com/blends/view/76008

Could not find the old tutorial on making a animated normal map

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This looks really impressive. Could be useful for the upcoming “Water”- themed BGMC.
How did you create the normal texture? Is it just procedurally generated?

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a mix of this tutorial https://apricot.blender.org/tutorial-animated-normal-maps/ and this one http://www.thatimst3r.com/animated-textures

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I’ve got a couple of animated normal maps here:
water_normal_maps.zip (3.07 MB)water_normal_maps.zip (3.07 MB)

Thanks for the tutorial, I’ll probably use this in my own projects, and it’ll be very useful for the coming BGMC 17.

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Thanks a lot for this tutorial John hamilton!

This was my result:

Blend file here:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2701022/Fake_Ref_Refraction.blend