How to stop water animation?

[GentleMint]

Is there a simple (or any) way to stop the animation of water for a short period of time? A character in my game stops time but the water is still animated so it looks weird.

 

[orochii]

With no extra plugins, I guess you could make a static version of your tileset or use an image of your map as parallax, then do a teleport. This could lead to some innacuracies with NPCs and stuff, but that's all I can imagine without the need of a plugin.

Another idea could be showing a picture over the water, so it LOOKS it's still (kind of like a mask or an overlay). The cheapest trick!