[Best Practices] Diffraction for running water stream

Development Rendering
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Hi,

I’m just trying to tackle the following effect to get started:

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I’m preparing to recreate some of Mark Ferarri’s environments in UE4 in the near future.

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Apply a normal map on the water with panning. This will distort the reflection.

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And that will diffract the light like so?

It is a stylistic exaggeration of a natural phenomenon in shallow waterflow that makes the water seem cold and fresh.

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Bump…itty bump.

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This should help: Can Refraction operate on colour channels separately? - Rendering - Unreal Engine Forums

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Brilliant. Thanks Jacky. The term chromatic abberation completely slipped my memory. It all came flooding back.

Thanks again.