Physical Ocean Surface - Developing a Realistic Water Shader

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@alanconrad;292810

Looks awesome! Would it be optimal for this system to be place around a open world map, or is it too performance heavy?

I think it could be possible, but it’s difficult for me to say how good the performance is because my graphics card is quite old. I have a XFX RADEON HD6870 Black Edition. Using a water plane with 32000 triangles and 16000 vertices, I get 25 fps in worst case at 1920x1080 resulution and epic quality settings when I launch the level in full screen. Please keep in mind that I have done barely any performance optimizations.

@CyberDev;292914

I agree this is really great but could you implement an LOD system so we can use it in bigger scenes with a larger view distance?

Yes, I will make the water look good from large view distances.