Hi, there seems no recipe, to get really good looking waves within BR4. Thus, I cheat too. One terrain (ripples, water-mat) for the waves and itself duplicated (now with fog/cloud-mat/transparency-fiddling), filtered and with cut-off base, to consider only its highest parts in the terrain-editor and finally slightly shifted, to look like foam on the top. never looks like the real thing, but throwing in your additional haze-trick might help. ;-) Hubert

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