Ocean Wave Generation in Rhino

[nathanletwory (Nathan 'jesterKing' Letwory)]

@laurent_delrieu

Hey @nathanletwory one solution could be to use one of the shader developped by the blender community redo it in Cycles in Grasshopper.

Could you link to these shaders? It’d be interesting to see more of them.

@laurent_delrieu

Here a try, without displacement as it is not implemented.

I’ll try to get the displacement hooked up via GhShaderNodes too - displacement obviously works for Raytraced (:

Displacement is not working pèroperly in cycles rhino 7

And for fun bumped density all the way to 3 million polygons: [image]

@laurent_delrieu

Sort of wave direction can be added. Wind is one parameter of many tools.
here I added some directional movement depending on the high of the wave so it simulate sort of wind

This is becoming quite a nice definition. If you feel like it you could add vertex color information for foam. I could create a custom ocean shading material that would use this vertex color layer for adding foam shading. The Blender ocean modifier can do that too. The foam data is essentially just a gray scale where white means foam, black no foam.

(edit: except I suddenly remember that vertex color retrieval is a bit broken - but once that is fixed too it should work a treat.)

The definition you posted gives 40k quads currently for the surface it creates. That should give quite nice control over foam detail on and between waves.