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Ocean looked nice with connected meshes but it lacked reflection and refraction. Although Ocean is actually a deep water system thus should have no refraction but I did it anyways. For this implementation i followed this Paper.

It involved 5 basic steps.
1. Create the reflection texture : provided by engine
2. Create the refraction texture : provided by engine
3. Distort the textures according to a dudv-map :- We don't need it as it's used to apply distortion. Normal map worked equally great.
4. Apply bump mapping : not needed since we are using vertex shaders to generate waves.
5. Combine with fresnel effects : no problem :)

and here's the result

Ocean reflect refract

and this

island ocean

Some notes
-ocean exhibits No caustics. Caustics are already implemented in CS but aren't in ocean
-This shader is *not* shaderwaver. It is regular vertex and fragment program.
-LOD pops out as you move along.
-ocean doesn't entirely covers the island. a possible solution for it could be to increase the cell width and leght and corresponding parameters. so that it covers more area.
-also waves direction appears to be changing between different LOD when viewed from top. implementing inverse FFT could remove it, I think.

-Naman Gupta