Well if this was a reallife-scene and if there were waves there would be a shoreline but when using something like this in a game both the waves and the foam have to look really good.

Kartoffel@ in real life, lake doesn't have any kind of a white foam shorelines (as far as I can see from the pictures, it's a lake), if it was an ocean, then yes.

I meant foam created by waves
But yeah, it looks more like a lake...

Kartoffel@ yep, I got your idea but the white foam isn't always that useful, so it would be really great to be able to turn it off in the .fx file.

I once looked through the water shader and I think I saw a value which controlls the foam visibility.

EDIT: and something new from me:


color grading

thanks all.

I just made the basic things to work with shade-c default settings mostly. there are several parameters in the water shader what can be set, including several foam variables, so it appears over (or under) a certain depth value i.e. at low water around shore (or you can use a depth texture instead of the dynamic one). my plan to make them set in real time to see what they do exactly...

if you turn off Dof, no foam appears (only if you use static depth texture), but in that case water depth looks not so nice. what I want is to eliminate Dof because I don't like it, imo distance fog is much better.

later I will deal with shade-c 0.91b too, since its water is the same (nearly). unfortunately the water shader is not lightning fast, but acceptable (but reflection, refraction, and dynamic depth can be switched on separately to check their performance cost). unfortunately in latest shade-c evo neither water nor terrain shader included.

today morning I got the idea how to implement pssm fade out, after lunch I have had some time to do it. currently the last split is fading out, but using 2 distance parameters is also possible. works nice with my pssm split processing limiter, which results in a significant preformance boost, and now not so ugly because of the hard clip, and much better with distance fog.

sivan@ looks pretty nice man, keep it up and don't forget to contribute

my answer is this funny song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g26StE8N60 (but yes I'm planning to share it somehow, nothing scientific)

sivan@ awesome song I'm singing it right now with my gf ^^