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<font size="3" face="Verdana, Arial" color="#cc6600">Brian D. Lawson, Programmer</font>

Water! Ripples of texture or of context?! (http://nwn2forums.bioware.com//forums/viewpost.html?topic=474203&post=4039191&forum=95&highlight=)
<hr />This is a very old thread (http://nwn2forums.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=432258&forum=99), so take with a grain of salt, but here's what Brian once said:
<hr />I wouldn't go so far as to say it's wildly different...i.e. something with mass etc. But, I can tell you it's more than just a flat plane with some scrolling normal maps. Not that that looks bad (because it doesn't), I just think ours looks better. But that's just a matter of opinion and of course I'm biased. <hr /><hr />Yeah, that's a pretty old post/quote alright. And I had implemented that very water about ayear ago believe it or not. However, I got pulled away from it until about last week. I rewrote it and due to time constraints that description no longer applies.

However, I took some time to throw in some pretty cool features in terms of hopefully allowing the end user to tweak and customize water. Adam is currently hooking all of that up to the toolset (exposing those tweakable parameters) as we speak. I think it's going to work out very nicely. http://forums.bioware.com/_commonext/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif

There will be no water physics.