Hi, I achieved some nice results, using a terrain and a pic with some fat circles (+/- filtering in the terrain-editor) to start with. Then, scaled it very small in my first keyframe and very wide+flat+positioned_it_lower in the second keyframe. Looked fine..., softly vanishing ripples. Hubert

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