Cyberpunk Ocean Shader

VFX
#1

Was toying around with vertex-color driven animation in UDK, came up with this.

//youtu.be/KElJA_gieYQ

I made a script to give some random vertex colors to specific verts of a grid-like mesh. I wanted to use the data to drive animation, random z-offset, and masks for color gradients.

I then started toying around with some sine waves, and ways to get some natural looking movement to the ocean itself.

Since it’s implementation, i broke up the constant repetition of the horizontal waves with a vertical wave that gives the white caps a more interesting feel.

Speaking of white caps, i am simply using a world-space height based mask to compute when the color should turn white. If the pixel is higher than, say… 48 units in world space, it will turn white.

#2

Very cool! When I first saw an image of it (slow buffering…) I thought it looked interesting but flat, but in motion it works really well!

Now… how do we get this into minecraft…

#3

Love it and +1 for minecraft!! I bet it would also look amazing with some basic fluid simulation on the water. Like driving a jet ski around on it and leaving a sweet digitized wake.

#4

Tron version of Wave Race 64? :slight_smile: Nice stuff Ryan.