koobas.hobune.stream
Can sprite characters in a 3D game sit inside transparent water?
I have a 3D game with 2D sprites for characters (I know that might be a bit odd but I really like the style, been doing it for a while). I'm trying to put a flowing river into the world and have run into a bunch of problems which I've shown in the screenshots below because I didn't know how to describe them...
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The left-most screenshot shows how I want the dog character sitting in the river except I want the river to be transparent and animated.
My first plan was to have an animated sprite turned 90 degrees (as shown in the two right-most screenshots) but I understand there are problems here as both the river and the dog are UI-type objects correct? Is there some way around this that I'm missing?
I've considered that maybe I need to explore and learn how to make animated textures and put that on a mesh but as seen in the second screenshot, there's a weird issue where the dog no longer "sits in" the water when the shader is transparent.
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So I'm just a little lost and unsure which way to go about this. Would really appreciate some help :)
(Edit: I refuse to use Unity's or whoever else's pre-made water! I just really want to make everything my self you know?)
I've tried a transparent/cutout/diffuse shader on the sprite form of the river which solves the problem of the dog being behind or on top of the river but it seems to ignore the transparency of the texture. Any ideas?
