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.