How would I recreate this Water reflections/shadow effect?

[TikiTurtIe (Turtle)]

Hi! So we are trying to make a somewhat realistic ocean right now and we want to make it even more realistic by adding these little shadows to reflect underwater to give that underwater feel. I have a picture for reference of another game that did it

And here is the link for the video for a better example: https://twitter.com/fouledrblx/status/1633603596548751360?s=61&t=-V8Rwp7wL6CTV7XBe0utgQ

Do any of you know how to recreate this effect and how they did this? It would look absolutely stunning I think in our game and if you would know how to please let me know!

[jumpcats1234 (Jingus)]

You can mess with RTX to get the effect you want

[Dede_4242]

You could mess with the opacity effect for the water
(Also is the image you provided from Subnautica?)

[Sovo12_B (Sovo)]

Hey, I recently found this post while I was scrolling

Caustics Effect (Optics)

I’m not sure whether this has been done before so I’m just gonna post it here I found a way to create fake underwater caustics in Roblox through a method similar to Gobos, what do you guys think? Light Caustics Demo - Roblox Studio 2022-08-08 21-01-54 - Video Link I used Roblox’s water texture normal map, set the part’s transparency to 1 and the texture’s transparency to 0.4, I also put the shadow softness to 1 to make it look a little faded. And don’t forget to set the lighting technology to…

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