Foam offset

[flipbook]

Not sure if there is a foam offset but would be good to be able to lower the foam a little as the reflection on the water surface creates a doubling up effect with the foam sat a bit above the surface.. if there is an option I have missed then apologies :P

** Just seen it was raised in this thread: https://forums.chaosgroup.com/forum/...surface-offset

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hey! But with your scenario, is there smoothing as well?

[flipbook]

No, no smoothing and it is not using the particles etc just a basic ocean mesh

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Weird thing... Will add an option to offset the particle data.

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

An update - in tomorrow's nightly there will be a crude option for offsetting particles vertically...

[flipbook]

Awesome.. thanks Svetlin, this will especially work well with low res sims when the foam generally sits quite high

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hope it helps a bit this way - determining how much the mesh vertices changed during smoothing and applying this back to the particles would be a difficult task, much like applying the displacement over the particles, where you'd want to do this only for the particles close to the mesh, so I still have to think about it. Alternatively it could be an algorithm that shifts all particles a certain distance towards the closest geometry, but this might look bad in animation.

[Guest]

Hi,
this parameter is available in the latest nightly build. You can find it named as Vertical Offset in the particle shader.