Looks cool. Will it be kind of like Stellarium, where you can see the night-sky in real-time from any place on Earth (or other planets)? Except, in this case, you see the ocean from any point of the world.

I wished I had time and sense to do such extraordinary good work.

Gratulation

OldDoc

Not really. If you've seen one deep water wave, you've seen them all.
I have some game applications in mind for this. For at least some of them it'd be nice to be able to pick an arbitrary geographical location and date and have at least the sunrise/sunset times be realistic, so while I was implementing the day/night cycles I thought I might as well go all the way and make them completely accurate. So as a bonus, I've now learned a whole lot more about orbital mechanics.

OldDoc: Thanks!

Looks awesome. The rain effect looks a little over done, but then again I don't exactly have 20/20 vision anymore so I may not be the best judge

Looks awesome. What are you plans for it?

This is excellence. Good work; especially on the reflections. Keep it up.

It is a bit overdone, but I was pressed for time when I implemented it.

First off, to refactor it completely.
But after that, I have a couple of game ideas for it. One of them includes people who go "Arrrr!".

So how is this going? This sure has been here for a while.

Haven't had that much time to work on it, unfortunately...
But I've cleaned up the worst of the late night hacks, added some post-processing (e.g. basic HDR with dynamic tone mapping and bloom filtering) and re-worked the night sky from a static skybox to dynamic, accurate star rendering (in case someone wants to do celestial navigation or something. As this is a pet project, feature creep is no problem ).

Next up will probably be frustum culling and proper LOD of the wave geometry instead of the awful hacks I have now.