[Community Project] FREE Ocean Water Shader

[NilsonLima]

@swagentrotz

Hello Nilson,

first I would like to thank you for your work and your dedication for this community project. It has really grown into something amazing, you and all the other contributors can be proud!

I recently started to use the Ocean Project and I was not able to solve a problem I have encountered, I hope you or somebody else who has experience with the Ocean Project can help me solve this:

The problem I have is that translucent and additive materials do not get rendered between the water surface and the terrain. Please find below an image where I have displayed my problem and also show the material setups for this test.

I have pinpointed the cause for this down to the “BP_Ocean”, meaning if I set “BP_Ocean” to “Invisible” or “Hidden in Game”, the materials render as expexted.

I would be glad if you could explain to me the necessary steps so that translucent and additive materials get rendered, when under water.

Thanks for your time and all the best to you!

You need to set the value for Translucency Sort Priority at the Rendering section of you mesh (the instance, not the mesh at the content browser) to have a value higher than the value in use by the ocean plane (which is currently zero). It will work for you to see the a material with translucency features to completely be rendered on top of any other translucent material. The additive material behaves like a translucency material, so the solution works for both. If you ever want to mask the material at the surface, then you will need to use stencil, but in this case stencil with lower values has priority at rendering. The stencil way is explained in the video few posts above I have use to explain how to mask the water from inside the boat.