Thanks for the link. I am resolved to using the shader I have finished. Has what I want and it is easier to modify. Here is an image of my final sand. The sand has the gentle change in darkness the farther it goes from shore which is exactly what I was going for in the beginning of this thread.

Thanks to all who helped me with this task. I learned a lot from you guys!

Tom

It is released.

That's an impressive set. I could only wish for breakers, but I can't imagine the hoops one would have to jump through in the material room to achieve surf. ;)

Awesome set Tom :-) Will have to check it out soon...

I went into trying to do bow and stern waves a while back... similar issues to breakers I suppose... and yes, it was hoopy and I didn't get fantastically far with it, in terms of mat room... did find a few decent models of waves kicking about in freestuff though.

I imagine that it wouldn't be all tooooo far off from how BB got foam in this old thread.