I have a question that I hope that someone can help me. I was wondering if someone could tell be how to create an animated water ripple in Bryce 4. Thanks!

I would say make several terrains with your ripples, and change the terrain for each frame

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Or you could make several grayscale ripples for making terrains, and at each keyframe change the single terrain to the different ripple image (using filter, image...) If I remember right, it should morph between the two between the keyframe so it looks like it's moving.. continue this process for as long as you want it to go.. Rosh

The cheaters way is too simply move an infinite water plane, texture mapped somehow other than worldspace, with a bump map. I've gotten very convincing results this way.

Hi Redbeard Do you mean a ripple starting from the middle and expanding outward? if so you might be able to do it with just one terrain and in the terrain editor,draw the ripples making them expand more in each frame , or maybe in an image editing program make a few differend geryscale maps of circles with different gradients to import into the terrain editor, and different points,and inverting them at other points,you might get more accurate circles that way. good luck and let us know how it works out. Hawkfyr

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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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Really cool Hubert, I'll have to try that. Hawkfyr

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