@Hummel ...no words

If you make it transparent with refraction and add a depth calculation to create real time depth It'll be the best water shader I've ever seen!

Thx! However, for deep water under the given lighting conditions (dawn/dusk) it doesn't make a big difference whether I do all these nice depth based calculations or just set a suitable water color as I did so far for testing.

@Hummel:
Indeed a great job, but i had really no idea how to say that, so i found this nice picture which represents my face when i saw the video
Would it be possible to create an endless water effect with this?

MasterQ32: I was actually quite amused by your "reaction".^^
The height field is perfectly tileable, but as usually the tiles become noticeable if you don't add additional randomness (there are four grids in the video sharing the same height field (I think Crysis uses also four tiles before they blend to their flat water)).

i really like it
hows the fpa rate?

@Hummel
absolutly great O.o

...After almost 3 hours I finally won the fight against my object shader and got normalmapping perfectly working. ( I need some coffee now )


In this case I would use multiple displacement maps (or wherever you get the waves from) with different sizes
which are unlikely to repeat very often, like 1, 1.4, 3.2 etc. and blend them together.

The tiling will be almost impossible to see.

About 8.7 ms, e.g. ~115 fps. (moni-res: 1920x1200, grids: 4x512^2 vertices, ffts: one for height field, two in parallel for horizontal displacement, res: 512^2)

@Hummel: one of the best ocean water shaders I've ever seen.
If you could add some white foam (example), it would look absolutely realistic.

Improvement suggestion: I think the animation speed of the waves could be a little bit faster.

@Hummel: like it realy