Relating to making water textures in a uploaded painting animated so water looks lil

Need a tutorial or advice for animating water in say a painting thats uploaded ,for example a waterfall and all I want to move is the water parts

Appreciate greatly any help from u fine people !

Steve57!

One way to do this is with texture animation with frames same as cartoons. There may be other other ideas from other forum readers. If you have a paint program that uses layers you could have the water that changes on one layer and the static part on another layer. You would create 4, 9 or 16 frames in a single texture and play them on a flattened cube. Or you could have the water only on one prim and use alpha channel transparency so the static texture on another prim behind it shows through.

Here is a tutorial on texture animation

http://www.kan-ed.org/second-life/using-LSL.html#texture

Ty Sylia for that info and I will try it out, Was I clear in what I was wanting though ? its like these viewers u see in game that have a painting framed and theres maybe like a river running next to a old mill and the water is moving like if it were real?

Thxs Again!

Steve57

I haven't seen anything like that in game.