Water

[Dune]

This will be my last for now. I still need to find a way to direct the animated height of the wave into the height of the foam dribbling down the rock (preferably with a delay of some frames). Seems so simple, but I probably can't get it to work as I use no compute terrain.
I did use some warp to bend the waves around the rock a bit.

[DocCharly65]

Whatever you want to make better, Ulco... I have seldom seen better animations of ocean water in general... and never rendered with Terragen! 

[Hannes]

I think the foam down the rock already looks quite good. As far as I remember the water running down the crevices of such a rock after a wave has hit it, runs down quite randomly depending on the depth of the crevices, so in my opinion this is already great. Maybe too much correctness would look unnatural?

[knoplund]

Supergood. Love how real the dancing reflections on the water feel. At least the poor guy on the rock died with a stunning view.
But I see what you mean about the water not matching the draining water on the stones... if it is unfixable for now, you could simply rise the sea level a little more and hide the details behind some light mist/fog, lower the sun a little more... But I guess that wouldn't fit the style you are after, nor the intention behind you doing this animation.

As I said, really nicely done. Will try to recreate.

[Dune]

No, I think the foam running down needs to be better and can be done better. I will get it some day.... (hiding is no option).

[Dune]

That day has come (I think). Some issues still. The pumping water around the rock is a bit overkill, foam isn't hard enough, etc.

[Rumburak]

Very impressive. Never thought that this would be possible with Terragen. Is there a chance that you release your water setup on NWDA (or somewhere else)?

[Dune]

I might do that.

Here's an updated version. I'm not quite satisfied with the foam running down the rock, so I stretched the fractal a bit more and sped up the 4D, also stretched the wave mask for it a bit, so it stays longer (hoping that works). And added foam remains. I was hoping to get some sort of tails behind the foam activated by the ridged part of the waves, but I don't quite know how I can achieve that, as that foam is masked by the waves, so as soon as they die out the tails will die out too. Now I added some independant tails in the next version.

EDIT: Just got an idea; stretch the wave mask in Y for the tail remains....

Btw. detail 0.4 AA2, so the whole lot rendered in 80 minutes.

[bobbystahr]

more impressive with each iteration and if I had got to a few previous versions back I would have said, "Perfect, a final"...I love the way this has grown before our eyes...thanks for that as well.

[Dune]

It's fun to think this out. Made a mistake now in the sequence of masks, quite funny actually 

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With a the sample shader in form circle ?

[bobbystahr]

It's fun to think this out. Made a mistake now in the sequence of masks, quite funny actually 

Hee hee, amusing indeed. I quite like that...in hour 11+ on my bridge....

[Hannes]

It's fun to think this out. Made a mistake now in the sequence of masks, quite funny actually 

Hahahaaaah!  First I didn't notice the displaced rock, because the foam running down looks awesome!!
Great work, Ulco!!

[Kadri]

Yes good and funny

[luvsmuzik]

Because I am new here....has he ever done an earthquake??....just wondered.

Very good stuff!

Also, do your animations only play windows format, or is my tablet outdated already? It's an Apple.