Ocean wave lighting

Is it possible to get this kind of lighting on my ocean mesh in Roblox? If it is, what are some ways I could recreate this? (I already have the wave mesh set up, my only problem is with the lighting)

Wanted behavior

My wave

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Hello! If you use Blender for modeling, you might want to set the Mesh Shading as Flat, so each one of the faces get their own reflections.

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Post above is correct. I’m using 180 degree shade smooth if you shade flat you can achieve those waves. Wondering if you’re importing the wave into Roblox and making it play animations like my flag concept.

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I’m not using animations, I’m using a Gerstner wave formula to manually move the bones of the mesh. Unfortunately, shade smooth does not work in my circumstance(tested).

I don’t believe there’s any other way than Shading Flat to achieve this type of waves. Did you find the reference on Roblox? I don’t think the vertices have anything to do with this. You could as well move the Sun to a sunset position, so the shine would reflect on the mesh as required. Also you could make the mesh material to Glass on studio. It’ll make the waves shine more. I hope this helps.

If you haven’t already you could triangulate the faces if they weren’t already. Or you could insert a light inside the mesh or if the mesh is really big individual lights inside the bones. Surface light works best.

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