Sand, rocks and water

[Hannes]

Ulco, I'd really love to know how you made these overlaying foam patterns, where the waves hit the sand. And of course if this is animatable (is there a drooling smiley?)

[inkydigit]

super surf/shore interaction... truly the best shoreline in TG?
cheers
J

[Jo Kariboo]

Beautifull !!!!!   

[choronr]

Agree, the best shore foam and white caps on the waves I've seen.

[Dune]

I explained before that I work with masks a lot (one hard end plus one soft end (you can base that on simple shape combi or the get position in texture+ x to scalar + some smooth steps), the soft end broken up by voronoi PF), so every mask can be applied to a different surface shader, making a stack of them in the water line. And if you transform each incoming mask (move it lengthwise along the coast) you get different patterns overlapping.
Time to experiment, guys!

[gregtee]

Really starting to come together nicely.

-greg

[TheBadger]

Oh yes, these are getting real good.

The teddy bear is just funny!

[otakar]

From far away (last image), there is no way to tell whether than beach is real or generated. Way to go, man!

[DannyG]

Impressive as always Ulco

[choronr]

That v3-5 is super!

[j meyer]

You're getting closer and closer.

[Dune]

Not close enough yet? Any improvements suggested?

[j meyer]

The surf is awesome,but my brain can't decide if that's ground fog or dry sand
on the beach,seriously.

[Dune]

Ah, good that you mention it. I have to remove that perhaps; it's dry sand, but I agree it's not good enough.

[efflux]

You've got the area where the water meets the shore to excellent standard. The small waves and foam and wet beach. Bigger waves further out is a much harder thing to achieve. I'm not sure how you'd get that truly realistic but with more subdued larger waves you'd have a totally convincing effect. I think with the waves you have, the effect where it meets the beach would be more violent but that would be extremely difficult to sort out.

One thought I have is that waves tend to build up or get rougher towards the shore. I think it would look more realistic if in the distance the waves were less rough.