Heres some real time waves that can be used in the BGE. Press 1 to watch the waves increase and then decrease on size. seems to run pretty fast. Hope someone can use it.
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Yea that worked. Its the same as the other one. Prees play to enter the game engine. press 1 to make waves biger. W for forward and A-D for left or right. looks like this and still runs 60 FPS.
Looks cool, although the waves needs some variation. I looked at it pretty fast, could not figure out how it worked. Could you explain the method you use to achieve this?
Look in outliner at the armiture. First I made a rectangle with nine sections then parented nine armiture to each section. Then animated the armitures to create a perfect sine wave. Then i parented the armitures to a cube. I applied 2 array modifiers to make the ocean as big as needed. An made a scale animation on the cube obj. Set up logic brick to play the wave animation always, and key 1 to run the scale animation which enlarges the wave height.
Oh wow, I had no idea you could instance an animated mesh like that using the array modifier, this opens the door for all kinds of animated surfaces.
Overall, it’s a neat trick, though I wonder if you really need that many bones for what seems to be a simple sine-wave animation.
I bet it doesn’t work as an exe.
I added the center row of armitures to create a little more variety in the wave action, but you can do it with just 9 armitures. And I haven’t tried making an EXE. Don’t know if that would work or not. If you have any suggestions on making it simpler or giving it more variety let me know.
That’s a very cool trick! Looks pretty good already, but if you modified the wave action a little bit, and threw a shader on it, then it would look fantastic.
I wonder if Martinsh fantastic water mode could be applied to it. Right now I mosly run it in shadeless mode which is lighter on resources. In GLSL mode high specularity starts to show th edges of the arrays. But it works at a cost in frame rate.
2.66 make .exe and it work this is cool.
Great I’ll Have to try it.