Alejandro Saez (cano++at++krusty.engr.sgi.com)
Mon, 9 Mar 1998 16:21:31 -0600
Well, you could buy Paradigm's Vega, they already did it.
There is no "official" way to do it, which is good or we would be out of job :)
The best way to do it will depend on the nature of your simulation (if you are
flying up high, there is no reason to simulate the waves, is there?, you could
just fake the visual perception of a wave), the target platform and.. you. One
way to do this is to lay a dynamic polygon mesh and apply a sinusoidal
function which would deform the mesh accordingly, that mesh you texture.
Needless to say it will eat app time which could or could not be a problem.
I've seen moving textures that simulate waves and look extremely cool, but I
doubt they would look equally nice or be of any value if your simulation calls
to be floating at the surface.
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