[Community Project] WIP Weather & Water Shader

[LordEggi2]

Hi, i just downloaded recently and it looks very good, but how can i trigger the 2D Wave effect? The ThirdPerson Character can step on it and create Waves

[Moore_Game_Dev]

Nice plugin. I got it to work with world composition but it doesn’t save properly because when I reload the editor all of the objects in the World Outliner that are relating to plugin that I created in my previous session are no longer there. Also I couldnt figure out how to change the water level to something a bit lower. Best regards, .

[EvoPulseGaming]

@CrashA51

Well, lets tell the whole story, before we destroy someone with a promising future here…

I want crystal clear:
I sent a copy of OceanX, and he verified it’s nearly a 1:1 copy of the shader. Down to the comments by .
“cause it is not only “inspired” by project, it is a direct rip off, uses the same meshes, the material functions are the same, even the comments inside the materials are the same”
Not to mention we are noticing copied parts from plugins, particularly the buoyancy.
has a CURRENT copy of OceanXY on gumroad that is also a near copy, please help report here: Contact Gumroad - Gumroad Help Center!

is not a dead project, and tons of work has been put in for a future release. And before anyone argues some fine detail, remember the spirit of project. FREE
You want to sell it as part of your game? Fine, but don’t stitch a bunch of stuff together and claim it yours!

@CrashA51

Now for plug-in and NeOcean …
NeOcean looked good, really good, on a par with plug-in I would say… …may have borrowed and built upon a foundation of other’s work, but…

Lets be clear again, there is no but. If you improve plugin, keep to the spirit of the project. Help project. (You don’t have to, but don’t sell it as yours)

@CrashA51

EPIC shares some of the responsibility. The Marketplace review process failed. They could have told him what to change, and he would have complied. was only following their direction and Marketplace release process.

Excuse me? They can’t go cross comparing a new asset to every forum thread or project. Thats insane, what they can do, is reject the obvious, and review when reported.
And complied? If he removed all the copied content, there would be nothing usuable left.

@CrashA51

And now, we are back where we started years ago. And I suspect, if I check back in two years, we will be on page 290 of the forum, and still no BP implementation of or any other full water… because the first person that tries, even someone like TK, and the other sellers will run to EPIC, and have it pulled.

There is a reason moved it out of BP into c++, the same reason the weather simulator got pulled out of BP and back into c++.
The same reason NeOcean was going to go c++ FFT and Physical C ++
https://gumroad.com/l/NeOcean
Also, EPIC does not remove content from the market place because another seller CLAIMS infringment. (isn’t even selling it, so “sellers” is the wrong term) but after they can CONFIRM infringment (Wasn’t hard to do, the repo has been up way before Jonathan’s stuff came out)
Also, don’t blame epic, GumRoad removed NeOcean too!

[Moore_Game_Dev]

How do you change the sea level please?

[anonymous_user_0df12f74]

@jazz75

How do you change the sea level please?

If you are referring to the level of the water in your level, just to align it with your landscape, simply select the BP_Ocean actor in level and raise it up using the “move” gizmo.

Is that what you mean?

[Moore_Game_Dev]

If you are referring to the level of the water in your level, just to align it with your landscape, simply select the BP_Ocean actor in level and raise it up using the “move” gizmo.

Is that what you mean?

Yes that’s exactly what I mean thanks. So if I also want the third person character to appear to swim in the sea would I also have to place and raise/lower a “WaterSwimVolume” so that the top of it aligns exactly with the top of the BP_Ocean object?

[anonymous_user_0df12f74]

@jazz75

Yes that’s exactly what I mean thanks. So if I also want the third person character to appear to swim in the sea would I also have to place and raise/lower a “WaterSwimVolume” so that the top of it aligns exactly with the top of the BP_Ocean object?

Actually you don’t need to worry about it if you have a BP_Underwater actor in your level and have both the and Swim Volumes set, you can even set it up so the swim volume follows your character around by enabling it in the BP_Underwater details panel. The BP_Underwater actor will automatically set the swim volume to the same level as the surface.

Just make sure these 2 are set and the Swim Volume extends far enough in your level (or enable the option to have it follow player)

On a side note, there has been a simple fix for a performance gain added to BP_Underwater to prevent it from performing things like the follow and visual updates on Tick unless the character is near the water, it will be in the next update (which will be out very soon!).

[Moore_Game_Dev]

Actually you don’t need to worry about it if you have a BP_Underwater actor in your level and have both the and Swim Volumes set, you can even set it up so the swim volume follows your character around by enabling it in the BP_Underwater details panel. The BP_Underwater actor will automatically set the swim volume to the same level as the surface.

Just make sure these 2 are set and the Swim Volume extends far enough in your level (or enable the option to have it follow player)

On a side note, there has been a simple fix for a performance gain added to BP_Underwater to prevent it from performing things like the follow and visual updates on Tick unless the character is near the water, it will be in the next update (which will be out very soon!).

Superb, thanks Mr !

[Crazy_Rabbits]

Finally I figured it out

I have tried to make a project from scratch and the surprise is that i got exactly no underwater effect but only the wet lens effect as you did… and then I remembered that the only difference between those two was that one is the whole screen while the other need a special depth pass… which I confirmed opening the material to be a custom stencil.

So to fix you need to go to the project settings and set Custom-Depth Stencil Pass to: Enabled with Stencil

It could also be avoided if we both have copied the Config.ini file and overwritten the new project.

Cheers!

The underwater material cannot be seen in map of OceanStorm. The settings are the same as you say and are valid in other maps.

[sstefan4]

Can i use in my project ? , and how can i copy without breaking the code?

[NilsonLima]

@Estebantr

Can i use in my project ? , and how can i copy without breaking the code?

Yes, you can use in your projects, it is free. You are only forbidden to modify it and resell it in source form, please check the license file attached into .

As for copying without breaking you can refer to video, with a step-by-step. Just know that is a C++ plugin & Blueprint asset, so you will need Microsoft Visual Studio installed to make things easier. The video:
watch?v=1W6Z5XnUyAI

[skywaves]

Hi,

First off thanks to all who have contributed to amazing project.

I’ve been having a lot of issues trying to get the buoyancy component to work, every time I add buoyancy to something like a simple sphere unreal engine instantly crashes. Not sure why as I can run all the example maps fine without unreal crashing. But every time I try and add buoyancy to a custom object like a basic sphere/ unreal engine instantly crashes when you press the play button. happens with all of the various type buoyancy components.

I can add the BP to my scenes just fine with no crashes, but when adding a buoyancy component unreal just crashes on play.

It seems like it’s coming from the manager class and I have no idea why. I can also reproduce the crash in the example files by just adding the manager class
to the level. As soon as I do that and press play unreal will hard crash.

Not sure what I’m missing I’ve followed the tutorials for setting it up for your own projects and didn’t get any errors during the setup. I can add the buoyancy component items fine in blueprints
setup things up and compile and save the blueprints fine. But on play unreal instantly crashes.

using version 4.19.2 and the latest version of project from github.

Any ideas as to what is causing the crash?

Thanks for any help.

[NilsonLima]

@skywaves

Hi,

First off thanks to all who have contributed to amazing project.

I’ve been having a lot of issues trying to get the buoyancy component to work, every time I add buoyancy to something like a simple sphere unreal engine instantly crashes. Not sure why as I can run all the example maps fine without unreal crashing. But every time I try and add buoyancy to a custom object like a basic sphere/ unreal engine instantly crashes when you press the play button. happens with all of the various type buoyancy components.

I can add the BP to my scenes just fine with no crashes, but when adding a buoyancy component unreal just crashes on play.

It seems like it’s coming from the manager class and I have no idea why. I can also reproduce the crash in the example files by just adding the manager class
to the level. As soon as I do that and press play unreal will hard crash.

Not sure what I’m missing I’ve followed the tutorials for setting it up for your own projects and didn’t get any errors during the setup. I can add the buoyancy component items fine in blueprints
setup things up and compile and save the blueprints fine. But on play unreal instantly crashes.

using version 4.19.2 and the latest version of project from github.

Any ideas as to what is causing the crash?

Thanks for any help.

I will check for you, meanwhile why don’t you get in touch with us by Discord. It will make life easier and the amount of ppl online there might cast some light on other issues you may encounter: Discord

[NilsonLima]

@skywaves I would have to look if in the history any related were fixed, but I have access for the wip version about to be released in few weeks targeting 4.19.2 and it is working fine. See if you are using the steps on video (I am uploading at the moment) :

watch?v=r2ZVnAkZAKI

[skywaves]

, thanks for that video. It really helped with getting things to work, when i was first attempting to add buoyancy to my objects, I was following the buoyancy tutorial from .

After doing it your way without adding the manager class to the level it worked we no hard crash in unreal engine.

Many thanks again. The crashing was driving me nuts

[NilsonLima]

@skywaves

, thanks for that video. It really helped with getting things to work, when i was first attempting to add buoyancy to my objects, I was following the buoyancy tutorial from .

After doing it your way without adding the manager class to the level it worked we no hard crash in unreal engine.

Many thanks again. The crashing was driving me nuts

Few post earlier I have posted another video on how to migrate the assets to another project and no need to tap with the C++ base classes, all can be correctly done with the blueprints deriving from them. Don’t forget to join the Discord server with the link I provided earlier aswel (if you didnt already), other tutorials like will be added and soon will release updates that will make asset even better!

[skywaves]

Few post earlier I have posted another video on how to migrate the assets to another project and no need to tap with the C++ base classes, all can be correctly done with the blueprints deriving from them. Don’t forget to join the Discord server with the link I provided earlier aswel (if you didnt already), other tutorials like will be added and soon will release updates that will make asset even better!

Great, look forward to the updates. l’ll also take a look at your other video as well and join the discord.

Thanks.

[Cultor]

Is it possible for anyone to convert project to 4.20 Preview and share branch ?
I tried to do it myself but I got a few errors related to Visual Studio and I’ve no clue how to solve myself.
Don’t bother if it’s too much work. I imagine 4.20 is pretty close to being released anyway

[NilsonLima]

@Cultor

Is it possible for anyone to convert project to 4.20 Preview and share branch ?
I tried to do it myself but I got a few errors related to Visual Studio and I’ve no clue how to solve myself.
Don’t bother if it’s too much work. I imagine 4.20 is pretty close to being released anyway

We are working several changes into the package and we are closely testing it with 4.20. The release will be almost same time and the package will be even better, stay tunned!

[Cultor]

Ah that’s great news ! Can’t wait to try it out again