David Miranda: The Lighthouse

As starting point, i have made a base mesh to sculpt it later in Zbrush (One of my first sculpts)

The rock shader contains 6 different color maps; rock and sand textures, a normal map baked from the high poly version and a color map wich includes a modified cavity map, ambient oclussion and color variation blended like a photoshop 'Soft Light' blend mode.
Here is a comparison between photosop Soft Light Blend mode and my color map in my shader (almost the same ^^):

The textures blends using masked per-vertex colors to avoid the typical 99' soft blend.

I also added a grey mask to add a wet effect to the rocks which are in contact with the water. The wet zone is animated using some maths operations and custom hlsl. It follows the sea height.

The water foam is animated modifying its UV's using the same transformation of the sea height and wet movement.
The ocean mesh is animated via vertex shader wich reads data from a wind entity and math operations to create the waves.

So lets see it moving!

Also available on vimeo

... Its late for the Oil field rocks :/

Edit: 23.10.2010

For so long, i have had a personal challenge. Its called HLSL!!! So, i have started playing around, reading msdn, hitting my head against the screen... and here is my first post production Xtreme sharpen effect:

Edit: 28.10.2010

Today, i tried to add foam layers/small waves to the beach. I had to code a custom node in HLSL that allows to pan a texture only in one direction. Atm, i have only worked well in the codding aspect. The texture is still quite bad (fast made), with no visual effects added at all.

The custom node has 3 inputs: the texture to pan, the uv's and the offset to apply to uv's. This offset comes from a sin*cosin operation wich moves at different speed.
This operation is smoothed to avoid extreme values. This sin*consin function is also used to control the wet zone movement and the water mesh height, so that means everything dance together :D!

Lighthouse built!. Check it here

Edit 08.11.2010

Sky God rays. Its sky time. First, i implemented a god rays post process. But i didnt find it useful, i dont want to apply the effect to the whole screen. So i tried to implement a god rays effect in a texture. And here is the result: