Technical breakdown
What changes in the scene
- Soft, stylized wave motion with real-time height control
- Gradient-noise ice mask that starts at the shoreline and expands outward
- Ice amount control blending from subtle rim to fully frozen surface
- Progressive wave damping as ice coverage increases for stable “frozen lake” look
Rendering approach
Animated waves, gradient-noise masking, shoreline-biased ice coverage, parameterized blending and damping.
Performance notes
Cost mainly scales with noise layers and any additional sampling for ice/wave detail. First optimization step is reducing noise complexity and sampling frequency.