sea surface

[olitech]

awesome! but why are you using maxwell?
I'm totally joking!

[Gijs]

Thanks

and a few more shots,

as you can see, in close up it is still a bit too smooth.

BTW: looks like the spherical camera shots do show the render primitives as it should...in the previous two it said 840.

[olitech]

do you have a bump on the texture as well? it should add the detail to the closeups...just make sure it's fractal or turbulence with at least 3 levels

[DaForce]

Looking very very nice indeed!!!!!

[jacksc02]

looks like someone is enjoying the vraysky!

[meanadam]

Hey - good timing on this topic....

Now the next step:
How to add rolling wave effect with white-cap breaks?

[Gijs]

if you know how to, please tel me

Anyhow, that will not work with simple displacement or noise modifiers. Somehow there should be made a shader that changes when the angle between adjacent polygons changes.

[instinct]

Well, as of changing the material by angle you could use one of the many "terrain maps" as they mostly do exactly that (height and angle).

A different approach would be doing it with particles and PFlow. Basically you can simply spawn particles by a deflector that is only on top of the higher waves.

Your approach looks damn nice so far! The only thing i am missing is those "glittering" white spots! Might appear with a brighter sun-spot and some detail bump-map.

Greetings,
Thorsten