ocean water rendering

[homer_simpson0]

i rendered small resolution water by rendering it like an animated terrain with spheremapped texture and it looks ok.

but it is obviously very inefficient specially for largscale water like a large landscape. how can this be achieved as i've seen it done in many games?

thanx in advance.

[scratt]

Wow! Big question!

These days the most commonly used approach for large bodies is a set of DUDV and DOT3 textures, large low poly meshes, and some nice shaders...

The Virtual Terrain project is a good place to start.
http://www.vterrain.org

Check out the pages on bodies of water. There is a whole section with articles, papers and even links to Open Source examples.

[predaeus]

awesome link, thank you!

[homer_simpson0]

wow they have some amazing demos. thank you.

[scratt]

np :)

[LangFox]

Thanks，it's very useful！