[Community Project] WIP Weather & Water Shader

anonymous_user_0df12f74 · February 14, 2015, 5:03pm

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Curious about one thing - sound. How can that be handled in more realistic manner? Sure, slapping “” sound would work, but is it possible to like get multiple sound files, ie:

sound1 - when the is calm
sound2 - when the wave breaks
sound3 - when the wave is reaching its peak
sound4 - when the wave is “losing” its altitude/power

Then, to somehow wire it up so particular sound fires off when some condition happens. For example when each wave hits and breaks (don’t know the correct terminology, sorry all) on the beach it should fire the sound2, when wave reaches its peak, sound3 fires off… And all sounds fires for each individual wave based on certain radius from the player (so it doesn’t take much of the performance)… then if player was to fly over the , the sounds should be as realistic as possible because each sounds particularly describes each wave that’s in proximity…

answered already with an ideal solution, so I will add the info to my todo list on the Trello board. Thanks for the suggestion, and thanks for the explanation !

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Hey everybody!

Great news, I have combined predator and flocking fish into one c++ file. Now flocks can pursue other flocks :). I will try to give out my initial code weekend and post another video. I finally was able to get everything into the c++ file, so there is no need for any blueprint gobbledygook. It is easy as parenting a blueprint to the “fishflock” class I have made, and giving it the attributes you desire: enemy types, prey types, neighbor type, speed, turnSpeed, distanceFromLeader (min, max) , (boolean) isLeader, pursueDistance, fleeDistance, pursueSpeedMultiplier, fleeSpeedMultiplier, distanceFromNeighbors, max/min vector of underwater box, and a few others I may have forgot to mention.

There are still many issues that I want to clear up in the next few months, but since our project team only has 7 weeks to complete a game, I wont be able to work more on for the next 3 weeks. Some of the current issues I want to fix/add: avoidance behavior when the fish sees a mesh, better steering when near top of water/sea floor, better spawning, better flock v. flock behavior, and smoother movement.

Cheers!

Sounds good man! Take your time, it’s no rush. Look forward to seeing what you come up with!

Hi there! Welcome to the

The download is actually a complete project you can open by double clicking the “OceanDemo.uproject” file from the OceanDemo folder after you extract the zip file. The latest download is for UE4 version 4.6.1.

Right now it is a huge pain to transfer out the files to another project, but I will have that fixed for the next version using a plugin instead. Let me know if you need some more info!