Quote - In your most recent posted image ( with the artifacts problem)
you no longer can  see the  3 or 4  tiny dark bits  right at the point where the water meets the sky.

In the earlier posted images, i saw these and wondered if those tiny dark bits were supposed to be visible, i wondered what you were going for ...but i like the fact that they are missing in the most recent image

Those dark bits are Poser reflection rendering artifacts. They are showing up on the ground plane where it touches the environment sphere. They are 750 feet from the camera and Poser has numerical accuracy problems with this combination of extreme overall distance, extreme close distance between reflected and reflecting surface, shallow camera angle, and the bump pattern distorting the normals to create the waves.

I think they are still there, but in the zoomed in view, they are outside our field of view.

I'll sort out the tweaks necessary to get rid of those before publishing. That's why this is a WIP!

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