[Community Project] WIP Weather & Water Shader

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Hey in the May Epic Jam I made a dynamic wave surface that runs on the GPU and supports custom obstacles. For example the mud is also a dynamic surface and it’s heightmap affects the wave propagation. It’s running on a 2048x2048 grid in the Jam entry. Like you said in a previous post the technique tends to be frame based and can cause timing issues to mix with the wave system but in my Jam implementation the surface update is not tied to your fps and can be controlled independently, also since I’ve bumped the buffer from 32-bit to 128-bit the increased floating point precision can allow me to pass a delta time to the transformation to bring it in line with other more mathematical systems.

If you have any questions on implementation I’ll gladly share what I’ve got here.

Dropbox link if you want to try out the demo

Hey , nice to hear from you as always

I saw your game jam entry a while back, It’s really cool! congrats

For now I’m not worried that much about the fps problem, I have integrated delta time into the algorithm so it’s more consistent now (although not yet perfect, it still needs work but I think I got figured out).
Currently I have to say I’m kinda struggling with the GPU implementation though, I have not done before and there are not any simple examples or guides about vertex factories, .usf and whatnot out there.

If you could lend a hand with that, it would be !