How do I make a good top-down water effect?

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- else
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I'd like to make a boat racing game viewed from above and was wondering if anyone has any tips for making nice-looking top-down water. In particular, I'd like the boats to leave wakes and affect the water as they move.

All advice greatly appreciated!
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- R0J0hound
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One way could be to create ring sprites at the boat that grow and fade to transparent.
- GeorgeZaharia
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you may need to use a water webgl effect on the water layer, then on top of it have waves layer using alpha threeshold for waves making them popin out in size and fade
- else
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Thank you both! Excellent suggestions and I'll test them out straight away.