Ocean surface improvement

[aik6980]

https://godotshaders.com/shader/wind-waker-water-no-textures-needed/

I'm still trying to figuring out how to make this work with the surface on 3d sphere

[nekotogd]

Hi @aik6980 ! Sorry for seeing this so late, I've been mostly busy with work at my uni.

The root of the issue lies with the UV mapping of a sphere which doesn't work very well.

There's 2 main issues to solve:

• Make the foam noise tile perfectly
• Remap the sphere UVs to something that tiles the water well

I am currently working on both of these, here's a little progress picture:

However, I'm still having issues with the UV mapping:

And also in order to solve the first issue of perfectly tiling the noise, I designed the noise in an external program and baked it into a texture. I will be releasing this as CC0 so you can use it without worries. However, it sadly no longer becomes "No Texture Needed" shader 😢

I'll attach the foam texture in case you want to experiment with it early:

Also to fix the issue of the UVs I'm basically using the "Cube to Sphere" with each quad having the same UVs:

So it should tile perfectly that way. However, there's still a few places where the UVs are messed up:

Once I've fixed these issues, I'll be back here.