[Community Project] WIP Weather & Ocean Water Shader

[potatoslayer]

Hey I was wondering if there are any tutorials/guides on how to go about on using my own static mesh for a boat. I've tried just simply swapping out the meshs but it's obviously more rigorous then that. I checked the wiki too and there's nothing currently on it. Can someone explain to me how I could go about doing something like this?

[EvoPulseGaming]

There is something wrong with Longitude's calculation...
Here is a solar eclipse:
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/map/2017-august-21#
Using Columbia, Missouri Aug. 21st 2017 @ 1:13:50pm (13:13:50)
Latitude : 38.95
Longitude: -92.328
-6 UTC
Day Light Savings Time : Yes
You have to change Long to +92.328
But then the eclipse is on the wrong side of the world!
If you use -110, it looks pretty close, but its still the wrong Longitude...

Also, if you even use Daylight Savings Time or use a Longitude other than 0, you get a sun that bounces back and fourth, while the moon travels as normal
If you use Daylight Savings Time, the sun travels at 2x the speed....

Was this ever tested at anything other than the defaults?

[duke22]

Here's a normal map I created using an fft ocean plugin in 3dsmax. It's tileable, obviously and may be of use:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/t1qvj0betd...rmal1.png?dl=0

[DarkRisenGaming]

Whats the Regulations of using this and the assets ?

[EvoPulseGaming]

Whats the Regulations of using this and the assets ?

The MIT License (MIT)

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[duke22]

I've included a total of 3 tileable ocean textures in this one with varying degrees of choppiness. Feel free to use them in any way you wish, including commercial projects and marketplace assets. Note that i'm pretty sure the green channel has to be inverted.



https://www.dropbox.com/s/rc9op6nh4k...tures.zip?dl=0

[DarkRisenGaming]

EvoPulseGaming

Thanks for the information, this is one project that caught my wife's and my eyes for sure.
Only thing so far i notice that crashes the engine is the Fish, you add any one of them and Crash happens.
Any info on this ?

Thanks once again, will wait your reply.
DarkRisenGaming

[EvoPulseGaming]

EvoPulseGaming

Thanks for the information, this is one project that caught my wife's and my eyes for sure.
Only thing so far i notice that crashes the engine is the Fish, you add any one of them and Crash happens.
Any info on this ?

Thanks once again, will wait your reply.
DarkRisenGaming

Using 4.18 and the Fish map, I see the crash happen. I can look into it

Edit:
Solved: those fish are children of "FlockFish", which is managed by BP_FishManager, using them directly results in the crash because they have no reference to BP_FishManager!

Solution : Drag n drop BP_FishManager into scene, and in the right hand details pane, you can add "Flock Types" which is just an array of BP actors that use the FlockFish as a parent

You can even customize the number of fish!

[EvoPulseGaming]

I've included a total of 3 tileable ocean textures in this one with varying degrees of choppiness. Feel free to use them in any way you wish, including commercial projects and marketplace assets. Note that i'm pretty sure the green channel has to be inverted.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rc9op6nh4k...tures.zip?dl=0

Thank you! its nice to see additions to the project. I myself am working on a relatively accurate weather add on to the time manager in this project. If I manage it will be pretty cool. Weather based on time/day/lat/long and terrain such as water,desert,grass and buildings. All automatic. NO hardcoded events! Which will fit nicely with this

[duke22]

TK-Master i'll buy you a whole box of red bull if you release your fft water.

[duke22]

I have managed to integrate transparency into the project + underwater effect cut (Physical Water Surface)

I like that you took all the hard work from the contributors, changed it a bit and rather than contributing in the spirit of this project - sold it. Not only that but you stole some code from the Physical Ocean Surface author and released it as your own. Really good job.

[CrashA51]

Well, lets tell the whole story, before we destroy someone with a promising future here. Jonathan is only 23 years old. He could use a mentor, he doesn't deserve this .... And I do not find your characterization of him to be even remotely what I have experienced. EPIC did authorize the release of his NeOcean on the Marketplace... lets not forget that... If it had software copyright issues, why did they approve it?

This is some of the backstory that I know ....

In a matter of days, he added transparency to the Physical Ocean Surface shader, a feature the seller had promised for over 18 months. His work extended POS with a beautiful underwater effect and surface transparency. Buyers of POS liked it so much they asked for it. He then gave it away for free. It was EPIC that pulled the plug, and said he had to charge for it. Jonathan tried to work with the seller, but the seller refused. And to this day, POS lacks transparency. So the buyers of POS lost out.

Now for this plug-in and NeOcean ...

TK-Master, created a lot of interested about a year ago when he posted some of his work here, and said he would release it on the Marketplace as an all Blueprint project. There are many of us that want a BP ocean, not a plug-in. If I wanted that, I would use NVIDIA WaveWorks. But for whatever reason, no BP implementation came out.

However, Jonathan did manage to put together a great Ocean shader, all in BPs, the same thing TK promised to do. And once again it was EPIC that refused to put it on the Marketplace for free, and said he had to charge for it. So Jonathan released NeOcean. And now, EPIC has taken it down and given all buyers a refund.

As far as "stole," I don't know how much he took or changed. Maybe he did, I don't know. But this can be up for interpretation. Every programmer I know "borrows" from somewhere. In court proceeding, both the prosecution and defense use the same set of facts to draw totally opposing positions. What did Microsoft and Apple borrow from Xerox?

Once again, it is this community that is the loser here. Now, every dev will be cautious of releasing a BP implementation of a full blown Ocean shader, especially if it contains anything based on this or other work. How could TK or anybody ever release a BP implementation without someone running to EPIC and having it pulled from the Marketplace?

NeOcean looked good, really good, on a par with this plug-in I would say. And Jonathan was coming out with updates weekly. I don't question Jonathan's spirit ... perhaps it is others, that for various reason, that have the wrong spirit. Jonathan may have borrowed and built upon a foundation of other's work, but he released a full function water Shader that looked beautiful above and below the waterline, with great foam, buoyancy, masking for ship hulls, God Rays, caustics, great SSS, and he was working on shore line effects for the next update. He did in months what others did not do in years. That is a fact, and perhaps that intimidates some people.

EPIC shares some of the responsibility. The Marketplace review process failed. They could have told him what to change, and he would have complied. Jonathan was only following their direction and Marketplace release process.

And now, we are back where we started years ago. And I suspect, if I check back in two years, we will be on page 290 of the forum, and still no BP implementation of this or any other full feature Ocean water... because the first person that tries, even someone like TK, and the other sellers will run to EPIC, and have it pulled.

This kid is bright. Someone should offer him a job.

[duke22]

Why are you so intent on it being a BP solution (by the way, waveworks isn't a plugin, and plugins can contain BP code)? What's wrong with core classes being exposed to BP? No one is writing an FFT solution in blueprint, that would be insane. They're choosing the right tools for the job, not what's easier to read for a certain crowd.

[qdelpeche]

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[Deathrey]

Why are you so intent on it being a BP solution (by the way, waveworks isn't a plugin, and plugins can contain BP code)? No one is writing an FFT solution in blueprint, that would be insane. They're choosing the right tools for the job, not what's easier to read for a certain crowd.

I did FFT water on blueprints, both graphics and physics. What is so insane about it ?