https://youtu.be/BQlpBdi-lJw

Effectatron uses a few tricks to create automatically driven water ripples in Cinema 4D.

This new tutorial from Derek Kirk (Effectatron) shows a relatively straightforward way to create water ripples that automatically react to objects in the scene using C4D and Redshift.

The example scene is more stylized, but the techniques using vertex mapping will also garner a more realistic look with some work.