does anyone have any tips to model realistic ocean water? I have such a hard time modeling beaches and realistic waves. I found a few tutorials but they''re for still scenes. To top it off, most of the surrounding environment is just hacked together by use of high detail textures. Any suggestions? Tutorials? This isn''t for realtime rendering btw. ------------------------------------------------------------ My Site

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Look up Brian Smith''s Realistic Simulation of Breaking and Curling Waves.

I think there''s an article no gamasutra about rendering ocean water. Realtime, I think. It might be a little too difficult, though.

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Wait my article on the display and animation of unbounded water areas for ShaderX 3 !

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The Lounge really isn''t the place for this.

O_O I''m so confused


I''ll check those sites out

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No wonder these are technical articles....WRONG FORUM SUPER PIG...

I''m acutally looking at the artistic side of this. That is, without any programming.

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quote: Original post by Anonymous Poster
Look up Brian Smith''s Realistic Simulation of Breaking and Curling Waves.

Hi! Do you happen to know where could I find his thesis?
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Balint