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Subject: Check out this function-driven shore foam

dburdick opened this issue on Apr 02, 2005 · 15 posts

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dburdick ( ) posted Sat, 02 April 2005 at 2:15 AM · edited Sat, 11 January 2025 at 3:45 AM

Based upon the genius of Eric Holbrook who came up with the idea of using Vue 5's new functions for creating foamy waves, I have extended his idea to a terrain model and simplified it a bit so that it renders real fast. The foam against the shore is generated by a function in the ocean terrain that basically tells Vue to progressively change the color of the material to white as it nears the shore. There are only two terrains in this scene (file size 550 KB). I'm sure with the proper lighting and twiddling with the bump map, that his could be a good solution for creating convincing, high-altitude ocean scenes. I'll try and upload the VUE file somewhere as well.

Ms_Outlaw ( ) posted Sat, 02 April 2005 at 2:30 AM

Looks good to me.

war2 ( ) posted Sat, 02 April 2005 at 3:46 AM

yep looking good to me aswell nice work, to both you and eric

SAMS3D ( ) posted Sat, 02 April 2005 at 4:55 AM

How did you do that? Sharen

ChileanLlama ( ) posted Sat, 02 April 2005 at 5:26 AM

I've been playing with it too. This isn't too much different to Eric's original, I'm trying to keep the breaking waves, but remove the angularity and soften up the wave crests a little. This one retains the single procedural terrain, and water plane of the original. My work has been in trying to refine the function for the waves themselves. Bravo to Eric though, he did all the hard work :)

DMM ( ) posted Sat, 02 April 2005 at 5:26 AM

I'd be interested in learning how you constructed it in the function editor, what your thoughts were when you decided on a specific node etc. The manual isn't very good at describing the function editor.

dburdick ( ) posted Sat, 02 April 2005 at 5:55 AM

Here's another take on the same idea but this time at close range and mapped to a flat plane versus a terrain. The thing that's cool about this is that you adjust the shore foam by raising or lowering the shoreline that intersects the water - just like real nature. After I play some more, I will post the filter map for this.