I am making a course fishing game for the pc and i am at the stage of implementing water, i want a pond look to it , not open see, what is the best way todo it , here is a screenshot of my fisherman rendering, the format i choose is FBX, thanks for your input.

... the screenshot?

where did it go? :c

so i forgot to press attach , sorry to why its dark , i havent figured out how to change the lighting in the fbx viewer

I'm not well versed in the 3d side of things, but I have to imagine some sort of plane with some semi-fancy shader magic on it would be one of the simpler paths to take.

There are lots of ways to render water, depending on what effects you want to achieve. Do you want the surface of the water to interact with your fisherman or his equipment? If not, then you can do an approximation with a plane and then use reflection and refraction to simulate the water reflectivity properties. I think there is a decent article in one of the GPU Gems books that describes how to do this. This was also extensively described in some of the old Half-Life 2 technical presentations.

I have a sample which offsets the texture cords of a texture so its moving, i think i will go with that for now , but i really dont know how i am going to do the fishing line, like i know i need to find the end of the rod , lock the vertexs and find the point which the line would start from , i dont even know how i would present the line to rendering, would a L:INE_LIST WORK?