Large Scale Oceans in Blender with FOAM! 

For everyone experiencing issues with the ocean not animating, you have to go through all the image nodes in the shader and enable the "Auto Refresh" option. Sorry about that. I had initially left it disabled so the viewport playback would be fast for the camera move section then forgot to mention that you need to enable this option afterwards around the 43 minute mark in the tutorial.

FYI you can continue keyframed movements infinitely by hovering over the timeline and pressing shift+E > linear extrapolation. Much faster than messing about with modifiers in the graph editor.

Seriously, your Blender tutorials are probably the best on this platform. Heaps of info, no stalling, straight to tthe point, great stuff!

Hey everyone, if you're using Blender 3.4 then the Separate RGB and Combine RGB Nodes mentioned around 31:45 are now called Separate Color and Combine Color

This is the closest i've seen to a perfectly paced blender tutorial. Nice work.

Oh how awesome! Love your new version! What a fantastic tutorial - thank you so much for sharing your art!

You are such a good teacher. I learn so much from watching and you do everything at just the right speed and detail level. Very much appreciated!

Just spent the night going through this, and the morning waiting for it to render. Super stoked with the outcome. Thanks for this Dylan! 🌊

Thanks a million, times. There are wonderful tutorials. I just learned Blender for 2 months. been paid for the course but nothing has been done, this only one so far, so happy thanks again.

Thank you so much for the update, much better than the original! It would be nice to see an AE tutorial on the trail effect. Your attention to detail, explanation and pace of the tutorial makes you stand out to the rest! You are really good at tutoring!

great tutorial! literally saved me at work today, it was either export everything to Unreal spend several more hours fixing shaders, and do it with Waterline - or do it straight away in Blender, thanks for this, really helpful :)

Great tutorial man. Thank you! This really sped up my project heavily in that before I was trying to use a really large ocean modifier which made my renders 10x longer.

Dylan, thank you so much for producing such a valuable and detailed tutorial. I was really surprised at the result as I couldn't notice any tiling whatsoever in the ocean and it looked so real. I used your Ocean method combined with Flip fluids to create a cinematic animation of Quinjet rising out of Ocean on my channel. Thanks again and keep innovating.

Amazing. This is beyond a tutorial, it's a Blender life change. Not only a perfect and complete ocean, but how to do it light for amost any pc. Thank you so much.

Wow! By far the best and most detailed ocean tutorial I've seen so far. Thanks a lot! One remark: I also often had to struggle with triangular fans in circular objects. One way to get rid of it is to delete the triangles and fill the gap with 'Grid Fill' to get quads...

Thank you so much for this tutorial, I'm going to use this Ocean for many projects !

I followed your earlier tutorial just a few days back and made the ocean Thanks:)

Mr. Dylan, you are very kind to share your knowledge, from my heart, I thank you for that, cordial greetings from Mexico!

Thank you so much for this Dylan. I had been pouring over water videos for a few hours. Yours was the only one that suited what I needed to do. Sub'd

Amazing Tutorial. Even as a new unexperienced blender user easy to follow and incorporate into other projects 👌🏾

Super excited to relearn this one!

Thank you! Like the first tutorial. Now will spend my sunday with this :)

where have you been? we need more of your tutorials !!!! best blender ocean ever !!!

A LOT of useful things here! Thank you very much!

Great tutorial, i enjoyed it greatly, keep up the good work

Thanks for sharing the tutorial, will have to try this!

Great tutorial, much appreciated.

Thank you so much, Dylan! I will definitely use it. Greetings!

Thank you! You are great on teaching and your skills are amazing!

Underrated Blender Sensei right here!

As for me, everything is simple and clear. Thank you

okay this ones even better! THANK YOUUU!

thanks for the tutorial im working on a light house right now and this ocean works well with it!

Thanks for this amazing tut and all that jazz

Great Tutorial! I really enjoyed it.

I have been waiting for this one for 3 months lets gooo

This was a perfect tutorial. Checked all the boxes.

Great! Clear and pleasant speaking.

Awesome tutorial, thank you very much :)

I'd consider myself a blender noob and I still managed to follow this, amazing tutorial, thank you!

Great tutorial. Thanks!

Hey everyone, one HUGE thing I forgot to mention in this tutorial is to set your camera focal length to something like 24mm. Sky and ocean will look 200% better. Did it in the last version too. Just forgot this time.

I love that I actually hit bake, paused the video, went and make a coffee. I hit play and the first thing I hear is instructions on exactly what I just did. Leranding 😎😎

Great tutorial!! Thank You!!

Dylan Neill, Thanks so much for the tutorial. Your pacing and explanation of all the sliders are super helpful. For recommendations I would love to see this ocean fit into a larger scene and to see a final render. Also a cycles / redshift direct workflow comparison. ie. trying to set up a scene in both with cycles and redshift with materials and lights to get a similar final render. I was recently watching your blender redshift setup video which was super useful and the GITS one. *Any additional dynamics/vfx tutorials would be great. Especially where interactions between models and the effects are happening. It's usually a bit confusing to get that stuff to work. Like smoke/water/wind/fire/other particles interacting with materials or each other in what would be a fairly logical scene. Like...boat on water is on fire and wind is blowing the smoke. That one may be a bit heavy...but yeah, that would be useful. The nicest thing about your tutorials are the completeness of them. You bring in the full process from end to end and explain everything on the way. I didn't just learn ocean's from this one, but also learned a bit about the animation graph editor and a bunch of other stuff I didn't know. So thanks for that. One of the best channels on youtube in terms of educational quality for sure. Looking forward to more. Edit: Also, you mentioned that sorting out the foam with a trace or something in another software might be an option. Is there anything free/open source that could do that? Does DaVinci possibly have something? That could be a good follow-up tutorial. *Mike Tully's sand blowing suggestions is also a good one.

Oh man this guy is living legend!!!

Very good! Checking cyclic in the image textures solved the issue of the ocean not animating in the Render layer. Looks really good! Thanks so much Dylan

great tutorial. thank you

God bless you man thanks for this keep doing great work

Helpful for ocean liner renders. :)

I don't know what should i say. Im gonna just say i watched this tutorial many many many times completely... I will work on my new mega project about pirates of the carribean. When i done with this project i will ref this video. This tutorial is a masterpiece i hope one day you will start again sharing new tutorials sir!

amazing Tutorial!!!!

How the heck did I miss that there's an ocean _modifier_ now? Thank you!

Thanks for your tutorial.

This man is a legend

Nice tutorial 👍

I can't believe this is not a default addon yet! Making proper infinite oceans has always been a struggle.

Thank you so much!

The only invisible tile solution I have found after hours of experimenting and searching. One thing that stumped me that I may have missed whilst watching this video is I couldnt get the final result to animate. If anyone has the same problem, you have to click auto refresh on your image nodes.

finally you're back

Thanks so much!

And when the world needed him most, he returned

thank you for this!!

Very nice!

At 33:33 When switching to rendered mode, my "Ocean" ist just a flat surface. I have done 1-1 Everything the same. Did the whole thing twice but still have the same problem... Can anyone help me out?

Thank you!

Thank you for the very interesting tutorial. A tutorial about a ship sailing on this ocean surface with a realistic deformation and interaction would be of great help. I've tried some techniques but it's tough to find a good way to do it. Thank you again for your time and efforts.

it is very helpfull for me. thanks

I think a few other people asked how you'd go about making the displacements map loop - is there a way to do it other than overlapping/fading between the start ends in after effects or similar?

thank you so much, always clear and right to the point. Side Joke: Its Hard to believe that Steve Vai is also into blender Hahahahah

Did you just taught us how to make perfect ocean loop? :) Nice.

Great tutorial - Had to run through it 4 times because my system kept crashing but that was my machine. Going through this tutorial multiple times tho, I think you should get a raincoat and a cigar because I'm calling you Columbo from now on. Because "oh, just one more thing.." :)

just finished watching the old ocean vid damn didnt know there was a new one

Thank you for making the updated video. I admire your passion. Can you make a video on an object (Jet ski, boat, etc..) simulation in the ocean?

Legit was about to go back to your old one the other day. Lmao great minds think alike!

very nice

It's been a long time missed u 😊😊

for those of you who are frustrated with messy wave shapes at 33:33 minutes I have a useful tip. you need to change the mapping type mode to texture, and change the BSDF Random walk to christensen-burley, and change the sun settings like in the tutorial video. good luck

Hey great tutorial so far but I am having an issue where after rendering for the first time on in rendering scene (After working on the ocean material) All I get is a reflective material with no ocean texture or waves what so ever, might you help me with that?

The values for Nishita are realistic, rather than turning the brightness of the sky down, you should expose the scene correctly in the color management tab

Hi Dylan Neil i have a problem whenever i load the back into the shader the animation is missing i'm in blender 3.0 maybe it doesn't work there do you have an idea.

Thank you

Hey Dylan, do you know how I could achieve some spray leaving particles on the camera lense? Thanks for the awesome tutorial.

I'm wondering why we have to swap the the green and blue channels when we use the displacement that we baked out?

@Dylan Neill - Can you show us how to move the ship on the water causing water ripples? I've been trying to figure it out but no luck so far...

WOW THIS IS GOING TO TAKE A LITTLE WHILE. I WILL STUDY THIS AND ILL GET BACK TO YOU IN A YEAR OR SO.

I've got a question. After i got to 33:33, my ocean looks so sparky. Are there any settings I might possibly done wrong?

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

If the displacement map is not changing (staying on frame 1), make sure that auto refresh is enabled on the image sequence node.

is it possible to add a boat generating is own foam ? Or need I create an other layer and add them in the comps settings ?

Greetings! First of all, thank you for your great tutorial. My wish or idea were, a tutorial about "how to make bow waves and wake of an object" especially for a ship. It would fitting quite good to your last tutorials in context of water. Have a nice one!

Thank you thank you thank you!!!!

Hi Dylan! Thank you so much for your tutorial, it was really simple to follow and the result was amazing ! As you said we can ask you to do some more tutorials so, as i'm struggling to modeling an "underwater" view, it could be incredible if you could do a tutorial about it, see you soon on RU-vid !

Protip! You can use an expression to automate the wave animation instead of keyframing it- that way it will always scale to your animation. Under the "Time" slider for the wave, type #frame/(your framerate). My framerate was 24fps so I used #frame/24. Awesome tutorial, love your work! Edit: Discovered that foam will not bake more than one frame with this method. They really need to workshop the foam for the ocean modifier :/

Great tutorial. Do you know how to add breaking waves near an obstruction such as an island or a ship? I assume dynamic paint would work but so far I have no luck with it.

Hi Dylan - me again! I have another question: how do you shrink wrap onto onto the large plane to simulate the same movements? I can't get the shrink wrap surface to replicate the water movement the imported image sequences generate.; the shrink wrap stays flat and unanimated, despite me subdividing the small shrink wrapped surface. I am still learning the amazing power of Blender.. any advice? Thanks!

Hey Dylan,,,,am struggling with character rigging, where I transferred my model from MAYA 2015 to blender, my character does not Marge with the IK Rig (its well placed in order of my character pose) provided in blender.....how do I go about it....

Hi, great tutorial! I have a small question.... I'm done with the tutorial and I got the ocean working. It looks good, but it doesnt look as good as yours. Mainly, the waves or swell look a bit bigger and more dramatic in your project. Is it possible to adjust the waves etc after the bake and all shader stuff?

@dylan my ocean looks tiled. how can I get around this? thanks!

Hey, what’s might be wrong with settings when the boolean object is visible on render