Ocean Shader

[Neilg]

You can use it to bake out a series of images for an animated mesh then use that as a density map to spawn particles. Not fast, but then trying to do foam is never fast :/ - http://www.rpmanager.com/plugins/TensionMod.htm

This looks like it might be useful for doing fake crests too - and probably better than dirt. it is now in the testing queue...

[joconnell]

Yeah it's nice. It'd be great if it was a bit faster on dense meshes, maybe with a 2013 or 2014 rewrite.

[wxyz]

How about VRay Distance Tex?

[joconnell]

Kind of - Vray dirt with inverted normals does a nice job too.