How to do Foam Whitecaps on Mesh Deformed Oceans?

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#1

I can’t help but wonder, how other games do ocean foam whitecaps on their oceans. I want to try achieving it in Roblox, but I don’t know how to put it on mesh-deformed oceans. If anyone knows how to do this, let me know here.

Reference: Real-time Animation and Rendering of Ocean Whitecaps - YouTube

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#3

I’m not that experienced in mesh-deformation, but I’d assume they need to change the texture. This is possible in Roblox using a Texture.

#4

The texture would probably need to be animated, can you find a texture with those whitecaps

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#5

I’m unaware of textures like that. You can always make one yourself.

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#6

I think you can change the terrain water reflectance for a similar effect.

#7

I don’t plan on using terrain water for this project, and besides, the effect I am looking for has nothing to do with reflectance

#8

What programs can I use to do so?

#9

I would always recommend GIMP for something like this.

#10

I got the program in mind, but any idea on what specific tools in that program I would use for my purpose?

#11

Not really. I haven’t used the program in the while.

However, you might want to try out the texturing tools and the brush tool.

#12

In roblox studio there is currently no way to do this without tons of work. Im really hoping roblox will add a shader system like in Unity which would make many effects including this work.

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#13

It would be great if Roblox could add shader graph functionality💧

#14

is there a way to script a shader in Roblox? (idc if its a thousand lines of code at this point)

#15

The only thing i can think of for this is to create a TON of textures for the mesh and change the texture to a new one for the whitecaps. I also wouldnt say there is really any way to script shaders like this.

#16

try surface appearance tool and add normal map of some sort or i guess a smoothing map

#17

A surface appearance couldn’t really change the color

#18

ok what is he trying to do anyways then

#19

He wants to create foam on the water when it reaches a higher point.

#20

what scripts would be needed to make the texture only show or the water color only change when the water is high?