Figure I'll spread this here instead of just on facebook...
Last night I was playing around with a waterfall effect. I don't know if or when it will make it into the game... it has a few technical issues still left to be worked out anyway... but it looks kind of cool.
Here are some pics:
Here is a video which does it more justice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GTrbnF1VuUI posted a link to a download of this little test program to the donator's group. Membership has it's small privileges.
This renders beautifully on my nVidia card but has issues on some ATI cards that limit point sprite size, etc.. Still fun to play with and helped me get my coding feet wet (pun intended) after my long trip.