how to mimick objects being dropped in water

[Mike Clasby]

This may be what you want.

Click on Jim Tierney’s head and go down to the tut.

Caustics: Dropping the Cow into A Pool of Water by Jim Tierney

or

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/script_gen/authorsort/tierney_jim_script.html

[Mike Clasby]

Oops> I think he used to be on the pics above, so you need to go to
Tutorial (in the green column on the left) > Find Article by Author > Jim Tierney.