Been playing around with release for awhile and i just want to say great work! I was wondering though is it possible to make the waves smaller? I myself have not figured that out yet
Great great great job !
To make waves smaller you need to play with wavelength and amplitude settings all the way down the parameters in the BP_Ocean blueprint. Reducing the values basically can give you a calm water like a pond!
Hello,
Another buoyancy question, is it possible to get the buoyancy system to work on another type of object instead of the inbuilt ? For instance if I wanted to use a custom deforming mesh for an instead of the inbuilt . Or is the buoyancy heavily tired to the ? Would it mostly involve just getting the custom deforming mesh to feed the buoyancy system the height of the deformations, or is it way more involved than that?
Thanks.
The buoyancy system is tied to the solution, because we need the values for the plane height in order to do the math which is simple: How much is the test point below or above the water? With that you can go and apply the correct force on that test point.
If not in the , you can create your own buoyancy looking at : http://ue4resources.com/3d-projects and look for Simple Buoyancy Physics and Simple Boat Physics template projects.
Great, thanks. Iāll check these out and see how it goes.
Been playing around with some more ideas with the and buoyancy component. Anyone know the best way to get the waves of the to effect a skeletal animated object that was exported from maya?
I have animated a boat in maya traveling in a straight line then exported that out to UE, added buoyancy components to the boats BP and Iāve also added a physical animation component to the boats BP. Iām basically trying to get the boat to maintain the animation of it traveling in a straight line, but with the added effect of it being effected with the waves of the , kinda like an additive motion on top of the boat animation. With the additive motion mostly coming from the buoyancy component reacting with the waves.
Wondering if what Iām doing is the best way to go about it? So far my approach of using a physical animation component seems to almost work, except towards the end of the animation the boat
will lift off the surface. kinda like a plane taking off a runway, either that or the boat will stay on the surface of the but itāll keep going forever. Even when the source animation of the boat as stopped moving.
I would not animate in Maya, but instead would set sequencer to move the boat along the . If you do change only the x and y coordinates and let the z untouched, the buoyancy will adjust the height alone while sequencer will move it along. You can also set a loop in sequencer so you can like do a patrol in an area.
I donāt think I can really avoid not creating the initial motion in maya first. The boat traveling in a straight line example can be done without maya, Iām mostly using the straight line idea as simple base to start from and if that works then I scale up from there. As the end effect that Iām trying to achieve is going to be a lot more complex than a boat moving in a straight line.
Iāve been playing around with combing physical animation node with a buoyancy node, it almost works but need to fiddle around a lot with the physical animation settings till it starts doing the
effect that I was after. My problem now is that the boat just doesnāt stop at all when I need to stop, even if I set all the physics animation node settings down to 0.0.
I still vow for the Sequencer idea, you can do complex stuff with it, not to mention there is less things to worry regarding assets moving between Maya and Unreal. Im quite busy working on the new version or I would demonstrate in a video and post here. When I am about to finish here I will contact you and if you didnāt find a solution I will make the video.
Seems like there is some flickering on the shader in 4.20.
EDIT: is how it looks like: Screen capture - 05d251a68fb64733bce7753d5f8a535d - Gyazo
Thanks, . Just getting back into and started playing around the the sequencer idea further, but I was getting some odd results. Which is probably caused by me probably doing it wrong. So far Iāve had the most success with using forces to push the boat around.
Also, does anyone know if the advanced buoyancy will work on a skeletal mesh as well? Tried it out with a skeletal mesh instead of a static mesh and with skeletal mesh I just get an
error saying āmesh missedā.
Thanks.
I have played with skeletal meshes and the buoyancy like 2 years ago, so I really donāt remember all of it, so I guess if I canāt find the project I messed with it I will need to recreate one from scratch, but I do remember I made the 3rd person character float, thou not in a perfect simulation because I have wrongly put test points in the hands and feet, which is not correct, the test points needs to be put in head, torso and hips.
Hopefully I will get rid of some work Im almost finished and I will make a video to show how to approach the solution. If possible, I will deal with the Sequencer for the boat animation aswel, maybe a separate video for it too.
Any update on the of 4.20 I posted above?
Excuse me for stupid question but there is no instructions on . Should I merge the OceanProgect with UE4 source code and compile in order to make work?
If you follow video is enough to migrate the project and make it work:
watch?v=1W6Z5XnUyAI
@ thank you!
@ In the video on 32:25 when the sky is orange youāre connecting the SkySphere to Directional Light and the sky turns into blue but the still keeps reflecting the orange color a little bit. How do you avoid ? Thanks in advance!
Basically it goes off when you hit play, because the sky is one blueprint and it takes the sunlight vector on its own, while the uses another blueprint to retrieve the sunlight vector and stores it in a Material Parameter Collection which is only updated during play.
@ alright thanks!