Water Shader Land Intersection

[WAS]

How do you handle water intersecting land and popping up where it shouldn't? Luck? Lol

I was thinking of using the opacity of a default shader to cut-off the water at a certain altitude where the waterline does look decent, but having issues with a black shadow casted, when the object has no cast shadows.

[KyL]

I took the habit of using the opacity shader trick and offsetting the water surface by something like -0.5.

This usually solves all my issues. I am experimenting now with baking my displacement to a mesh I cut out in Maya, then bring it back in Terragen. But this is mainly for efficiency/render time savings.

[WAS]

I took the habit of using the opacity shader trick and offsetting the water surface by something like -0.5.

This usually solves all my issues. I am experimenting now with baking my displacement to a mesh I cut out in Maya, then bring it back in Terragen. But this is mainly for efficiency/render time savings.

So you don't have weird black areas where the water was with opacity? How is your setup configured?

[KyL]

No, the offset usually hides any artifacts.

The mask is the old trick from this thread
But using an imported geo is much more efficient from my latest tests!

[Dune]

Flatten/smooth the waves where they are over beach by displacement to shader mask from landline.