Ocean node material

[simon]

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

[simon]

Got that!)

[Dok11]

@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?

[Evgeni_Popov]

I’m not sure what you call flat shading? It seems quite smooth to me.

[Dok11]

I mean Shade Smooth from Blender:

@Evgeni_Popov

It seems quite smooth to me.

On large scale it’s not smooth:

[Evgeni_Popov]

I see, maybe @simon will know what to do about it.

[Dok11]

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 =)

[Evgeni_Popov]

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).

[simon]

Hi Dok11! Thank you)

This is topic about flat shaded normals

How to smooth normals useing NME?

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.

[derpdewp]

@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!