Rendering Textured Shore Waves (water)

Zky

I would like to create the following effect for a planar water object:





Does anybody have ideas how to create those kind of flat white wave animations?

My idea is
1) A plane with a blue texture
2) A second plane with the animated wave texture overlays it


I would rather have some precdural shader doing the wave work, any hints?

ZacD

Multiple scrolling textures works great, though I needed to add some precdural bouncing to really ace the effect. I did it all on one material/object, but I would use a floating plane if I did it again.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A07lyAzQ57o"]UDK - Wind Waker style waterfall material - YouTube[/ame]

Break down in here http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=98578

Zky

Thanks, i already read that article up and down multiple times before creating the thread, but iam looking into a more elegant way of achieving that.

Idealy the water should recognize any mesh touching / penetrating it's surface and rendering foam around it.