I am trying to make the foamy shoreline from this wonderful tutorial. http://www.paroge.com/vde/tutorial/shore/default.htm I can't seem to get a clean shore. Even though I "dug" out the terrain it still shows in the render. Any help would be appreciated. cheerio lululee

I know of two ways to clear this up: 1. Go into the terrain editor and set the clipping for the minimum altitude (drag the left hand end of the bar at the bottom of the editor) to remove some of the terrain. 2. Place an infinite ground plane under the water terrain at the same height as the bottom of your terrain and apply the same texture to it as the terrain Hope that helps Cheers Mark

I would say you are close - so to say. Make the foam smaller, looks way too big right now and clip the island from below in the terrain editor so that the rectangle isn't seen anymore. That should do then.

Thanks so much for your help, impish and wabe. I think this is much better. I appreciate your help. cheerio lululee

Can you make the foam still thicker and smaller? Then it will be perfect!

Is this better? When you say thicker, do you mean taller? cheerio lululee

Lululee, you probably need to play with the transparency settings on your foam to make it less transparent as it nears the island shore - Im in the middle of a render now, when it finishes I will send you a mat file for water that varies colors and transparency as it nears the shore.

I am curious. Are you guys using Vue 5 Infinite? Can you do this in the regular Vue 5? That is all I have at the moment, and I am VERY new. dburdick, would it be possible to get the mat file as well?

Yes, I am in VueI. Thanks so much for ofering to share your mat file. I really appreciate it. cheerio lululee

Attached Link: http://www.burdicksoft.com/downloads/FoamySeaShore.vue

Here's a link to a vue scene file (450kb) containing the foamy water and wet sand materials

Just downloaded the file. Thanks so much. It will help me out a great deal. Still very new at this.

Whoa, that is gorgeous shore water and sand!!! I happened on this link and this is one thing I have had trouble with and always given up... thanks so much for your generosity so we can "learn by seeing the real thing"! :))

Thanks Dave, I will learn from it too, since I get the shoreline effect on some scenes, and not on others. Since we are using the "distance to object below" node, could this happen because the underlying surface (bottom of terrain or infinte plane in this case) is too close or too far underneath?