I could spend hours messing in Vue trying different things blindly ... but hoping someone can give me a directional head start here 8 ) I'm doing a lake scene, quite smooth water but just near the shore I want it to look as if a motor boat had passed by farther out and the boats wake ripples come into the shore ie. long rows of horizontal wavelets rolling in . Other than the ripples the water surface is tranquil. Afraid I don't have a ref image to show so I hope this is a clear enough verbal image. So how best to go about this ? 1st I thought maybe a terrain from a greyscale image I can do in Photoshop with a water tex on it or 2nd- maybe it's to do with procedurals, bumps .... one of those technical aspects of Vue I haven't investigated much yet. or 3rd- some way I don't even suspect yet ? TIA for suggestions. (Oh, and I'm using 6Inf)

You can easily go the grayscale route or, in the terrain editor just reset and then paint your ripples on.

Or, go to the backroom here and follow the Creating a real shoreline in Vue tutorial, only instead of using white, use the same water mat only with bump applied.

Hehe , the 3rd way = The Backroom.. My crystal ball shows me a few water scenes in my future !! I always forget to look in there, ta, Monsoon .