Waves on water surface

[FlorianK]

For days I am trying to get some slight wave motion on top of my Grid, but without any success. The basic setup is a cube, that is constantly emitting into one direction and the water is getting killed by a kVolume. Doing so the water as a constant water height and some movement.

When meshing (not using any Displacement) with the mesh set to From Particles, one can see a wave pattern on the surface.

My problem is, this pattern will stay the same for the whole animation. It doesn't look like water at all but like a plane with static displacement being pushed from right to left.

I tried a lot of stuff in order to get some movement in there:

- Animating the emitter's speed
- Adding an irrgular ground
- adding some objects inside the grid to create some currants.
- adding noise

...all this gives me nothing, just no movement on the top of the surface.

Just look in the videos, there you can maybe see what I mean (Poor Quality, but it illustrates the problem).

Do you have any idea wht I could do in order to get some movement on the top?

[tsn]

I'm having the same issue here on OS X, but it's only a preview thing and not related to the simulation, because when I scrub the timeline I can see the animated displacement. Sometimes it works, sometimes not, but I couldn't find a pattern so far. As a workaround I use the Export Central preview function (PREVIEW > Image sequence (*) ). This preview method is working for me.

[FlorianK]

If that is the case I am going to eat my desk because of all the time I've wasted with this one.
Danke!

[atena]

Florian you are not using displacement, are you? From the videos it seems to me that you are actually using a displacement, and the displacement is not animated. That might be an explanation but you said you are not doing it this way.

Can we have a look at the scene, please? Thank you.