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I'd like to achieve a simple wave distertion effect like the reflection has in this image:

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I'd like to animate the reflection so I tried to do it with material nodes. I thought I should mix the UV mapping with a wave texture, but I must be missing something because I can not get enough control over the direction and the amplitude of the distortion. My current state:

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How can this be done correctly?

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Mix color instead of Add color

Starting from a similar situation:

enter image description here You should set up a wave texture with horizontal bands and a little bit of distortion:

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Then Mix the coordinate of the UV map with the Wave texture. Keep the value low.

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Finish by animating the values of the Wave texture in order to achieve the desidered result.

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    $\begingroup$ Thank you! I was able to follow your steps and it looks way better now. $\endgroup$
    – britsplease
    Commented Dec 1, 2019 at 13:47
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    $\begingroup$ I'm glad it helped. $\endgroup$
    – Carlo
    Commented Dec 1, 2019 at 13:47
  • $\begingroup$ @Carlo, thank you for this answer. I am learning the usage of some nodes. Yours will help, as I too had last week asked for distortion effects on gif animation. blender.stackexchange.com/questions/158950/… $\endgroup$
    – Rita Geraghty
    Commented Dec 1, 2019 at 15:09

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