2 hours ago, jabloomf1230 said:

Chris, you added the shimmering issue to the original complaints about the appearance of P3d water. I won't argue that FSX looked more realistic in that regard but I also agree that it was probably not by design.

The issues of foam lines and whitecaps are those to be discussed with a grain of sea salt.  It think that it's more important for LM to spend it's "water" coding resources on how seaplanes take off and land rather than on the visual condition of the seven seas. If I was a software pirate I might think differently.😉

I believe it was intentional.  The effect is created by two semi-transparent texture sheets moving in relative directions, possibly even wind related..  The whitecap effect is produced by part of the lower sheet showing through transparent sections of the upper one.  There are some arcane settings (I now forget where) that governed how those texture sheets were shown and how they moved.  Probably in waterconstants.xml??

What about replicating the real world and put a whole bunch of plastic in the beach?.

Regards,
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