Hi Poly Friends, Im working in a smarthphone game and one of my task is make a Sea Wave Foam Animation. Im trying make in with UV scroll animation + mesh transform animation. Any recommendations? or info to help me on this? cheers
Thanks for the info doggett, But im using Unity3D :/ So I trying to make it into maya, with UV scroll animation and mesh transform. without vertex animation (it a bit heavy for smartphone)
doggett, I can't use particles :/ The animation is for a landscape, is not so close to the camera and is for Iphone, so not needed big details on it. I must do it at optimize i can. :/ So super lowpoly, 2 textures (1 with alpha and other without alpha). Is pure classic old school job i guess :)
I see. So do you have a shader in Unity that pans the texture for ya? Would a few particles being animated for foam be a better solution? Then you'd need to place them in the world, and decide how they lod (if there's a lot of them). And if you went the mesh route, does unity support non-uniform scaling? You could emulate…
Typically you could use the DepthBiasAlpha node in UDK to Lerp in the scrolling sea foam texture... but that's not great for shader performance. Are you using UDK mobile? From what I remember briefly using it - it's materials are fixed function (ie. no shader networks). Depending on how detailed the coastline is, you could…