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Vector Mode | vector – When disabled, normal displacement is used for the output format. When enabled, vector displacement is used and in order to the Ocean Texture to be compatible with the V-Ray Displacement in Tangent mode, X and Y of the texture are centered around 0.5, while Z is centered around 0.0. For more information on vector displacement and normal displacement, see

the Vector Mode example.

Control by Wind Speed | usewind,wind

 – When enabled, the wave height and speed are automatically calculated according to the wind speed. When disabled, wave height and speed are directly set by the Wave Height and Rate of Change parameters.

Level of Detail | lod

 – Controls the amount of detail in the texture. This is similar to the Levels parameter in a standard noise texture. Larger values will produce more pronounced and richer details.

Wave

Height | rgbmult

 – Controls the amplitude of the waves.

When Control by Wind Speed

 is enabled, this value is a multiplier of the amplitude.

When Control by Wind Speed is disabled, this value is the final wave height measured in system units.

Vertical Offset | rgboffset

 – Introduces an additional shift to the displacement.

Sharpness | sharpness

 – Controls the definition of the wave crest peaks. When using with V-Ray Displacement, keep in mind that

when Vector Mode

 is enabled, adjusting

the Amount parameter of a V-Ray Displacement Modifier

 will affect the resulting sharpness. To avoid this scenario, use only

the Wave Height parameter in this rollout to control displacement and not the 

Amount parameter in the V-Ray Displacement.

Velocity Coherence | velcoh

 – Controls the degree of variation in wave direction. When this value is set to 1, all waves will move in the same direction, as they do in coastal areas. When set to 0, all waves will move in random directions, as they might in the open seas.

Wave Crest | crest – Adjusts the length of the waves' crests. For the most realistic results, use smaller values to create short crests when the Velocity Coherence is low and larger values for bigger crest when the Velocity Coherence is high. For more information, see the Wave Crest example below.

Seed | seed

 – The initialization point for the random generator. Changing this value changes the randomization of the waves. In the event of multiple Ocean Textures in a scene, use

different Seed values to make each texture look different.

Displacement Scaling | scaletex – Controls the strength of the output values with a texture map. Black values equal a value of 0, and white values equal 1. Values less than 1 will scale down the output value strength.

Playback Mode

| animmode – Chooses between different options for animation control:

Linear – This is the default mode. The animation is played with constant speed.
Direct

Time – Explicitly specifies the time in seconds to be used for the current timeline frame using the Direct Time (sec) field. Can be used to either show a static ocean or it can be animated in case you want varying play speed, including playing the animation backwards.
Loop –  A specified part of the texture animation is looped.

Rate of Change | velmult

 – Controls the speed of the waves. When Control by Wind Speed is enabled, this is a multiplier. When Control by Wind Speed is disabled, this directly sets the velocity in system units per second.

Direct Time (sec) | t2f– Directly specifies the time from the animation that will be used at any given point in time. 

Loop

Length (sec) | loopLength – Specifies a range of the animation to be looped.

Image ModifiedVector mode is disabled
(normal displacement is used)

Image Modified
Vector mode is enabled

Image ModifiedWave crest = 0

Image ModifiedWave crest = 1