fake foam pt. II

[child@play]

hi,

don't have much time with the software, but i stumbled upon a (maybe new) way to fake foam on water.

the water's surface layer is limited by slope, 5 max, and 2 fuzzy, have fun =)

[inkydigit]

looks like a promising scene!

[rcallicotte]

SWEET!

Where have  you been, ol' champ?

[child@play]

work mate, almost too much. but it bought me a new render machine, laptop, so i can work a bit while at work

[rcallicotte]

Enjoy life.  You only get one.  And I know we need to work.  So, anyway, BLAST OFF!!!

[child@play]

yeah, i'm still working for a living, and not the other way round

i'm pretty confident that i'll be having more spare time in the future

[peejay]

thanks for sharing - this looks great

[bobbystahr]

beauty mate...been trying to stumble my way thru the sea foam issue with zero luck. This looks extremly promising..many thanks.. ...

[child@play]

this is more flexible than i thought, you can easily change the foam's color by adding a color pf as the surface layers coloring function. green foam anyone ? oil on water maybe

[PG]

Any way to restrict this to a few meters from the terrain?

[lightning]

cool thanks!

[child@play]

Any way to restrict this to a few meters from the terrain?

yep, just adjust the surface layers settings accordingly, either you do so via slope and/or height restrictions

[PG]

but there's no altitude difference between the shore and the middle of the water, also the slope only restricts it to sections of the wave, so I still end up with soapy foam too far out, maybe masking is the only option.

[child@play]

just running a quick test with distance shader, looks promising. here's the adjusted tgd and a preview shot.
you should be able to adjust the foam now by playing with the distance shaders settings


p.s.: sorry for the messy .tgd

[PG]

Would that only work with shots where the camera is close to the shoreline though? Here's what I've got so far, I only want the foam to soften up some of the hard water edges. It's already done that to a greater extent but I now want to restrict the spread a bit. As you can see from the render the foam just goes in a kind of straight line down the water.