Strata

[DocCharly65]

Though I don't understand at all, what you specialists are talking about, I am again impressed by the shore 

I got your beach some months ago from NWDA but had no time so far to play with it.
Also I do not come forward with your ocean waves on my beach - just too much in the pipeline at the same time. Sorry 


But here and now I promise: In my 2020 film there will be at least one animation with almost  ONLY  BLUE  NODES ... 

[masonspappy]

But here and now I promise: In my 2020 film there will be at least one animation with almost  ONLY  BLUE  NODES ... 

He has gone to the dark side!!

[Dune]

Found the culprit; seems that my gradient wasn't exactly zero on shore, so a lot of quite invisible reflectuions had to be calculated on rough ground. Added a color adjust where I raised the black a bit, and hopsa, a faster render.
In another work on waves there seems to be a hard line in the hollow bit, but it's to do with the reflective shader.

And for those of you wanting to try the blue nodes... a little of my node setup 

[ajcgi]

  <- this

[Hetzen]

Got to love a bit of Linear Step action! 

[bobbystahr]

surf.jpg Makes me wanna grab a surf board...beauty

[AP]

Very neat. Can the wave be rolled over further? Eventually needs some spray.

[Jo Kariboo]

Very nice beach!

[Antoine]

Impressive waves !

[DocCharly65]

surf.jpg Makes me wanna grab a surf board...beauty

Dito... 

[mhaze]

Clever waves.

[DannyG]

That's been illusive until now, well done

[bobbystahr]

That's been illusive until now, well done

And typically it's Ulco who comes up with it. One would think that a bunch of Water Effects could be prepared and presented as Easy Waves like the new and very useful Easy Clouds.

[Jo Kariboo]

That's been illusive until now, well done

And typically it's Ulco who comes up with it. One would think that a bunch of Water Effects could be prepared and presented as Easy Waves like the new and very useful Easy Clouds.

Totally agree with you. Effects with water that could have easily used would very appreciated.
May be inserted into the water parameters a function of water foam on the waves and near the shore.

[DannyG]

I think the advent of the easy cloud might just be the beginning of that sort of user friendly approach to nodes and maybe built into the UI someday, there are only so many Ulco's in the world, Perhaps we should clone him .. yeeesss Clone Him !!