okay, thanks!

inspired by Emre's great water shader, I added a secondary wave tweaked by a single new parameter to my water shader to get non-repetitive waves, resulting in both lake or river like ripples achievable. I know a video would be better, maybe later:

I just hope once I can make a more life-like effect... but it does the job for non-sea-battle games...

looks like plastic

, add better sunlight reflection I quess. Or just add a shit-load of water vegetation and ship debris .

Apart from that I do like it though.

hmm... indeed a plastic like setting, what is less visible in movement. but decreasing Sun reflection and separating speed and scale seem to help a bit... no place for more sliders

I guess the looks-like-plastic-effect is caused by a too low specular exponent.

Try increasing it (I think you'll have to increase the spec intensity aswell)

thanks, there are a couple of parameters to tweak, and maybe using different normal maps (more noisy) would help too...

AckLua:

@sivan: maybe, but it's important to not use too noisy normalmaps.
Better focus on an accurate one.

here are 2 example screenshots, this should come out if you increase the exponent and intensity:

( please ignore the bad and wrong normalmapping )

Kartoffel@ your sun looks like weapon's muzzleflash otherways ocean looks awesome!

Greets