How can I make my sea more beautiful?

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#1

I want to make my endless skinned mesh sea more beautiful. It is inspired by this topic (@tyridge77’s sea). The texture on his sea looks really good, in contrast to mine.

The issue is that I am not really that familiar with using Blender and texturing in general. I am a scripter and not an artist. This is what I have right now:

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I am aware of the level of detail issues in my skinned mesh. The goal of this topic is only to find a way to make the texture more beautiful.

I tried to import various textures, but none of them really looked good.

PS: I am currently trying to make a showcase of this game. There will be a ‘Cool Creations’ topic in the future about it with a public showcase.

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#2

I’m not the most talented in this sort with the game engine, however I believe the only possible way to have this effect recreated is with a proper skinned mesh, as with textures you can’t create waves or true detail, you’re not going to get a good looking result just by placing a texture on a flat surface

It appears what the other developer is doing is using a smooth wave texture, but with the normal map on top of it to give it more detail.

I think it’s worth researching the topic a lot more and figuring out what works best or is the easiest for you.

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#3

I just find it a bit annoying that all information I have comes from devforum posts, rather than actual Developer Hub documentation. So now I am just guessing that you have to do the texturing in Blender beforehand.

It is not flat, waves are actually emerging as you go further.

#4

Yes, you bake your roughness map in Blender.
Put crudely;
What you would do is create the simplistic wave model

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And then within blender you shade and texture the model, and then apply it in ROBLOX.

Ah, I see, it needs to be scaled up more than that if you’re looking for an aesthetically pleasing result.

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#5

Yup, I see. This will be a struggle, cause I have never actually used Blender with success before. But I will see how it goes.

#6

The waves are contained by an island mask, so they are actually quite big even though I did not include the true size of them in the picture.

#7

I enjoy this guy, not only is it super helpful, it’s quick and really fun to watch!

#8

Hi

If you’re still looking for this, I created this topic that can help with exporting PBR textures from Blender to Roblox: Export PBR textures from Blender (Water)
In my second reply you can see the AssetId’s. You can just use those if you want to.

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#9

Your sea is nice but I do not like the texture repeating. You could make a bigger texture size.