# Ocean node material
**URL:** https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ocean-node-material/13554
**Category:** Demos and projects
**Tags:** material, nme
**Created:** [August 20, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ocean-node-material/13554 "2020-08-20T19:08:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@simon](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/simon)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2021, 7:46am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ocean-node-material/13554/24 "2021-06-26T07:46:27Z")
I thought about using parallax with ocean shader and most likely parallax can’t improve quality of water, because we need to use dynamically changed surface and i don`t think that uses of one gif is enough. Maybe i try to do anything later 🙂
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### Author:  [@simon](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/simon)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2021, 8:27am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ocean-node-material/13554/26 "2021-06-26T08:27:17Z")
Got that!)
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### Author:  [@Dok11](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/Dok11)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2023, 7:35am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ocean-node-material/13554/27 "2023-05-08T07:35:32Z")
@simon hey, that’s amazing work!
I note, this material does not working with the fog. To fix it, as I know we can add these nodes:
But I still have a question. How to change flat shading into smooth?
Maybe @Deltakosh or @Evgeni_Popov could point for me?
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### Author:  [@Evgeni\_Popov](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/Evgeni_Popov)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2023, 8:49am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ocean-node-material/13554/28 "2023-05-08T08:49:44Z")
I’m not sure what you call flat shading? It seems quite smooth to me.
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### Author:  [@Dok11](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/Dok11)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2023, 9:05am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ocean-node-material/13554/29 "2023-05-08T09:05:48Z")
I mean Shade Smooth from Blender:
> [@Evgeni\_Popov](#):
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> It seems quite smooth to me.
On large scale it’s not smooth:
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### Author:  [@Evgeni\_Popov](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/Evgeni_Popov)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2023, 9:18am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ocean-node-material/13554/30 "2023-05-08T09:18:27Z")
I see, maybe @simon will know what to do about it.
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### Author:  [@Dok11](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/Dok11)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2023, 9:29am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ocean-node-material/13554/31 "2023-05-08T09:29:35Z")
Do you think that it’s relative to this shader only? I thought it neccessary to add some “smooth normals” node, or smth like this =)
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### Author:  [@Evgeni\_Popov](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/Evgeni_Popov)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2023, 9:35am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ocean-node-material/13554/32 "2023-05-08T09:35:47Z")
Yes, this is relative to the shader. In a node material shader, everything is done in the shader, there’s no “external” shader code (the normal for each pixel is computed in the shader).
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### Author:  [@simon](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/simon)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2023, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ocean-node-material/13554/33 "2023-05-10T18:52:47Z")
Hi Dok11! Thank you)
This is topic about flat shaded normals
> [@How to smooth normals useing NME?](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/how-to-smooth-normals-useing-nme/30918):
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> Hello! When we use an a displacement for vertex shader positions is changing but normals isn’t. For some cases i can get normal data like i did that here: But i don’ t know how i can smooth this normals. I think this is an important question because i faced with this too many cases and it can be an bottleneck for large spectre of shaders.
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### Author:  [@derpdewp](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/derpdewp)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2023, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ocean-node-material/13554/34 "2023-05-10T20:56:59Z")
@simon I know this is an old post but I just want to express my appreciation on how minimal the code is in your playground. It’s very easy to look over and play around with. great job!
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