Blender Quick Tip: Realtime Animated Water Shader In Blender

In this quick tip, learn how to create realtime animated water shader using Blender and EEVEE render engine.

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[Nerijus_nc]

nice and simple. One additional tip: instead of animating on timeline, just write "#frame/500" in the noise node, W field. Adjust number 500 for different speed.

[CBmeh]

The W field is actually the randomness. Good work on the video!

[glhn]

this is the best simple water tutorial that i see on youtube. thank you for sharing.

[rubendebruin]

Great setup and nice tutorial. I found that setting the noise to 4D affects performance and does not give the required result when combining the shader with a deformed surface. Played around a bit to optimize the performance. What I ended-up with is:

1. set the noise texture to 3D
2. Place a Separate XYZ and a Combine XYZ node between the texture coordinate and the noise texture input
3. In the combine XYZ, set Z to #frame/5000 as mentioned by @Front2007 below.

Also both noise textures can use the same texture-coordinate input.
And the mix node can be before the bump node

Would be nice if I could paste a picture here in the comments.... Will see if I can upload my final blender file somewhere and line to that

[cgpixel]

great video but you can give more details to water by increasing the mettalic and change opaque to alpha blend in material properties

[oliviavolarich]

This was so easy to follow, thank you so much!

[MoodyKittyy]

Thank you so much for this tutorial ! So simple and effective !
I was wondering how would you manage doing a perfect loop with this kind of animated shader ?

[DragaoNinja]

Nice ! I leave my like here to help too! Congratulations!

[knucklemasterE]

Is there a way to make this look transparent also?

[lmnal]

When I click 'i' (3:24) it doesn't add a keyframe. The W changes colour like in the video though. How do I fix this?

[thetulipjani]

Amazing work, I want to know the specifications of your system. What are they?

[TaroFields]

nice! how would I render this? The silver water shows up in Viewport:MaterialPreview but not Rendered mode; it shows up only the blue plane. My 2013 computer isn't happy with 2 noise textures, but I think it's probably a setting somewhere, not just it being slow.

[lesonkitu]

The short cut Control+T its not working for me? im on a Bac

[takenbyblancship]

For this to work should there be geometry for the plane ? Mine doesn’t seem so obvious when I set up the nodes..

[mikelittlenz]

How would I go about making this move across the plane, like a slow flowing river? Great tut :)

[ForsythJC]

Now how do I make the water semi-transparent? I'm using Eevee (because my computer was built during the Jurassic Period).

[thetulipjani]

What are your system specifications???

[zenned_out]

So good. Now I don't have to worry about trying to use liquid sims when I can just get the illusion of water

[sametingame]

great explanation. but having a louder voice while speaking gives you something good.

[Elyxyak]

Thank you very much, great Tutorial. Is it possible to export this animation for real-time in GLB ?