[Community Project] WIP Weather & Water Shader

[NilsonLima]

@eobet

I am in the exact same situation as meuliano (I just want a water surface, and perhaps subtraction volumes, but no physics or underwater), and I’m also completely new to Unreal Engine.

I can’t complain, since is one of the few free things for Unreal Engine, and it looks very high quality, but it’s very unfortunate that it’s not prepared for blueprints, forward rendering and VR.

Hopefully some day, someone will update it for that purpose! Now I must go shopping for something that works.

Did you have a look at the free asset Water Planes from Epic at Marketplace/Learn Tab? Those are quite nice, but they dont have super waves…

In order for any material to work with forward rendering you need to do two steps:

• inside the material, mark at Translucency section, Lighting Mode=Surface ForwardShading
• change the project settings at Engine->Rendering section, Forward Renderer, mark Forward Shading (See below)

Once you mark the option for Forward Rendering all your shaders will be compiled and takes a lot of time, so do not worry, let it do it.

After all is finished you can plug your VR gear and voilá!