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Creating ripples on a fountain

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I am trying to create a ripple effect on water such that circles grow outwards from a point. However, they always seem to grow in the vertical plane rather than the horizontal even though I am using only the X Scale and Z Scale together with X/Z Scale rates and goals. It doesn't seem to matter what I put in the Face statement either.

I am using the 4th right 3rd from the bottom image in fx_1.bmp as this seems to be appropriate, all I want to do is put this on a horizontal surface and make it grow to about a 3 metre radius.

Any advice would be gratefully received.

George
 
Maybe the rotor downwash effect of the helicopters can help you? That is probably the kind of effect you are looking for. Maybe you can learn from the code how it is done there (I am not an export in writing my own effects at all :)).
 
I made a similar effect using a piece of the Bellagio fountain code (fx_BelgFount1, fx_BelgFount2 in the effects folder) although I don't have it anymore. This is a fountain effect in the default Las Vegas scenery.

Perhaps you could use that as a starting point.

Rellek
 
Thanks guys,

The missing piece was an undocumented statement "Ground Normal=1". This is not mentioned in either the FS2002 nor FS2004 Effects SDK.

It's workiing now.

George
 
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