Re-creating floor shader [Help]

Punanni

Hey guys, I'm about to embark on creating a level with a few friends and I'm aiming to recreate the floor shader as shown here: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ4wjHYYvzU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ4wjHYYvzU[/ame]
It doesn't need to animate when the player is close, more like an ocean made of cubes. I'm thinking it would be something like, moving vertexes on the Y-axis using a sin wave, on a giant floor piece made up of a bunch of cubes? any ideas on how to do this? Would this be too inefficient or work at all?
Any help would be appreciated, theenks!

explodingseashells

I'm trying to solve this exact problem now using vertex offset and real cubes, can't see any way of masking the cubes though as texture maps can't be used in the vertex portion of the shader. Anyone else have any ideas?

ambershee

Use individual cubes and World Position Offset. What's the texture even for?

explodingseashells

For those interested I did manage to work this out using uvs as the mask. Shader preview @4:26 [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtRZ0BjO4Rg"]Pixel/Cube Ocean Shader - YouTube[/ame]

explodingseashells

For those interested this is what I'm building using this shader. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P85bZhc1wCI"]TronWreck Environment Update - YouTube[/ame]