Infinite Plane

I am making an island, so I need water. What is the best way to achive an infinite look to said water. Just add the default water and make it really really big?

As a sidenote, how do I make the water look "larger"? Whenever I use it it seems like the ripples are very tiny.

Thanks so much.

 

I don't know if this helpes, but I achieved an infinate plane effect in another engine... Get a really big piece of water. If you have a full skybox with hazy sky colors along the bottom, you can make an alpha channel for the water surface so its like a blurred circle from the top, transparent around the edges. As dumb as it sounds, it creates an effect that looks like the water//ground goes far off into the distance, eventually being obscured by haze slightly on the horizion... I'm not sure its the best way to do it, but I swear it works.

 

You could just use a sky box that inclueds a watter plain on the bottom, asuming that you don't actualy need to go into the watter. I also can't seem to get the watter asset looking good. Jeff

 

I wonder how it was done in the first level of Gooball? That looked infinite enough.

 

Just have a water plane moving with the camera?

Edit: Hm sounds like what David talked about.

 

i had made a while ago a little project, to get "infinite water"
the solution i conceived is by only get the plane in the field of the camera.
i don't know if this is the best solution...

image:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B42Bm98t_DnQNmtIYUVGMVd4WWs/edit?usp=sharing

 

A 9 year old thread, wow. Maybe start a new one to get some help.