[Community Project] WIP Weather & Water Shader

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@Ranmas;226038

I would have posted video along with my last post, but you know how it goes. Someone broke something during an update and I had to wait for them to push out a quick fix.

Cool! I never expected a project like would use the , but it is great to see! I have an idea to make the in your scene look better while remaining cheap performance wise. It is basically a highly stripped down version of the material, but with a couple of additions. I will try and post it weekend for you guys!

@;226066

Wow, project is dope!
It is literally the most beautiful water I’ve saw and it even does not require tinkering, excellent job guys!

Aww shucks thank you !
Hopefully the new version will be even better

@Regalith;226112

Hey there, I was the one who set up the underwater , and to answer your questions:

1. There’s a new plane that is enabled when underwater. It’s just has a translucent material on it with panning normal maps.
2. The light shafts are actually just the default occlusion-based light shafts that come with the directional light. The only difference is the occlusion mask darkness is set to -1 to intensify the effect.
3. The caustics were created using a light function on the directional light. Its much like the panning texture on the water, but I blended 3 different textures. There’s also a second direction light that’s set up for static lightmaping, though Unreal doesnt support lightmapping on foliage.

O ya, there’s also an exponential height fog in the scene too that really helps with scattering the light entering the water and limiting view distance.

hope that answers your questions

Hey man good to see you on the !

I am really surprised the light shafts were using the default occlusion from the directional light, they look so much better than the last time I tried that approach. But as mentioned I think the height fog is making the difference so I will give it another try. And as I suspected the caustics are a light function, I have the same method in my project at the moment but it needs a bit more tweaking.

Thanks again for the info, you guys are doing a great job!