What new is ? It really bugged me when I found out reflection captures were useless with a fully dynamic setup.
Hey , Iām just curious to know what will be the next thing you will change on the water (or sky or whatever). Continue on way and have a good day :D!
I just downloaded and started messing with it a bit.
Iām currently working on adding adaptive tessellation LOD, depth bias wave and undulation height masking (smaller to no waves/undulation at the shoreline) as well as a few other rendering optimizations to the water materials.
I will let you know how it turns out and share with the project manager.
Canāt wait to see your improvements CharlestonS!
So Iāve been trying to get sweet looking working in my project, and the instructions in the wiki seem simple enough, but I get as far as Step #5: dropping BP_Ocean into my map, and the editor wont let me? If I try to edit BP_Ocean, I get: āBlueprint could not be loaded because it derives from an invalid class. Check to make sure the parent class for blueprint hasnāt been removed!ā
The example maps work fine, but I would really rather avoid having to rebuild everything else on top of one of them.
Turns out I managed to misspell āPluginsā when I made the folder, working just fine now thanks XD
Plugging my own assets into for Pirates Pirates Windows, Mac, Linux, VR, Android, XONE, PS4, WiiU game - Mod DB
, will need to get with you when youāre back so we can collaborate on some updates. 
Iām sure its just me being stupid again, but I cant seem to get anything to float on my ? Iāve tried dropping in the example boat blueprint, adding test points and set the buoyancy variables as suggested in thread, and Iāve copied and pasted the boats from the example maps, but they all just fall through the surface like it isnt there?
looks VERY cool and is definitely going into my game. Wow!
Love the work, I canāt thank you all enough for contribution. Iām having issues integrating it with my project though. I followed the instructions on the wiki exactly. I got the project to work just fine as a standalone, but after I follow all of the steps, neither the shader or the sky compile. Iām at a loss. Iām just left with the grey plane infinitely. Equally strange, whenever I attempt to open a material I canāt seem to open its material. Instead, for many materials it treats it like an instance material. Iām able to open M_Ocean_Depth but get the following errors
Error [SM5] (Node CollectionParameter) CollectionParameter has invalid Collection!
Error [SM5] Missing Material Function
Error [SM5] (Node TextureObjectParameter) Param Tex Object> Requires valid texture
Here are the steps I followed:
Downloaded both the full 4.9 project from and the plugin.
Extracted the plugin to the root folder of my project
Copied everything from the content folder of into an āā folder in the content folder of my own project
Opened both projects
Waited for everything to compile in , didnāt take long. I deleted all the atmospheics and lighting in the starter map on my project.
I copied and pasted all the important /sky features from the world outliner into my project.
Nothing happened. So i saw the BP_Ocean didnt have meshes or materials assigned to it. I found all the correct ones and just had a giant grey plane that refuses to attempt to compile.
Any help would be appreciated.
EDIT: Wow I always end up spending hours trying to figure something out before coming here for help, only to find the solution moments later. Turns out copying the content into its own folder made things a bit ****y. So donāt do that, just copy everything right into the content folder.
Hi,
Iāve been playing with the 4.9 version for a few days now and I must say project is just ! Congrats! 
The āemptyā map, containing only the , sky and ground is really helpful to duplicate the environment in another project.
Everything went well for the but I have some trouble with the fish manager: when there is a Fish Manager BP in a map of another project than the demo the editor crashes as soon as I run the game. Someone has? (note: it works well in the fish map of the Demo thoughā¦).
Beside I have 2 questions:
- is there a way to know that the camera is underwater?
My aim is to trigger the underwater post-process as well as some other stuff as accurately as possible (when the camera goes through a wave for instance).
I tried the events On Actor Begin and End Overlaps but they do not seem to generate any message.
-when the time of the day is changing in the Empty map, the SkyLight is not moving accordingly and continue to generate a high sun reflexion on the surface of the . In some cases reflexion is not event related to the sun light direction. Is there a way to rotate it and to make it follow the sun?
Thanks a lot
A ātinyā request, I think it would make the sky even more ā¦
Is it possible for the sky color to be HDR? Iāve bumped the color curves way up, but it doesnāt seem to be HDR, lowering exposure results in a grey and not a blue sky. I could be doing sth wrong or it may be an engine limitation of some sort, but I believe it would be an improvement.
It works on emissive materials it seemsā¦
Hi, Could you help me with another?
I would like to create a static light blueprint, a light which will turned on only if the time is in rang of 18 - 5 or any other period of time, or when sunrise or sunset positions, i think you got my pointā¦
Please help me to do that, what nodes should i create in construction script
(get all actors of clas - get - default hour, get current minute, in range xx- xx branch set intensity) something like that, but it is not working.
Please
Hi
I am a relatively new convert over to the Unreal Engine, and I am still busy migrating all of my development over to it, however I have been playing around with the Plugin and I am extremely impressed. As a result of my playing around (and Iām now integrating Plugin into my game world) I would like to put forth a few points that I feel are worth mentioning.
- I have been using Ultra Dynamic Sky in my project which seems to work fine with Plugin but I have yet to find a viable weather system (or Iāll create one further down the line).
- It seems with your sky you get the sky colour and light intensity for underwater and Iām not sure Iāve got equivalent in Ultra Dynamic Sky - I am using Sun Brightness for Set Intensity and Horizon Base Colour for Set Light Colour.
- Player Buoyancy - I was thinking about including the Buoyancy components into the player character so they will float on the water surface - has anyone attempted to get the player to float?
- Is there come kind of documentation on how the Buoyancy settings work? I simply dragged the BP_Boat blueprint into the level to create another boat, changed a few settings, and clicked play and the boat sank.
- Post process under water - Firstly I was thinking about making the post process for the underwater global, and then turning it off or on depending on the z world location of the head or a socket attached to the head. Will work?
- Swimming - if I can get the player to be buoyant, and the player has collided with the , would it be possible to work out the depth of the water so swimming animation can be blended into the player movement?
- Underwater detection - like my proposed method of turning off or on the post process for underwater - the player would have to be affected when they dive under the surface such as consuming air.
- Underwater depth - assuming I can get underwater detection working, I am proposing on adding a depth float variable to the player character so that when the playerās z location reaches within range of , they will die. value can then be affected by things like submersibles.
Right now Iām battling the tiled landscape import, since it always puts the landscape at around about -90000 on the z axis and I have yet to find a solution on how to get the landscape closer to 0 on the z axis - so far iāve spend a day researching and playing around but not found a solution yet - I donāt want to have to move the water down, since my landscape material is detecting the height of the landscape and applying material based upon height so as the material thinks its all underwater, its mostly and rock at the moment.
Can somebody help me? I did somewhow what I asked, but after sudden crash i lost all my work and no idea how to do that againg, i remeber i was playing with sun heightā¦
I did a script, I guesā¦
But now it is does not updates itself, I meanit compares float and light is turned on and turned off, but it is not dynamically, it need to be moved or something like that
I get same. If I drop the FishManager BP into my blueprint with nothing else (instantiates with a single flock of Bluefin Tuna, I think), the editor crashes. But the demo of the underwater fish works fine. Iām on 4.9.1.
A lot of the individual fish when dropped in as blueprints by themselves seem to do , too. It looks like it may be correllated with whether or not āIs Leaderā is set to true. Types with checked by default (e.g. White Shark) donāt crash when dropped in unmodified, and can be invoked by a FishManager BP with no crash. However, the Blue Fin Tuna can be dropped in only if you check āIs Leaderā from its default-unchecked state, but will still crash FishManager if you drop one in consisting of Blue Fin Tunas.
Some major features and fixes that we need for .
- Networking fit for a dedicated server
- Block in areas (like inside of ship or inland on an island)
- Coastal/Low-depth sim alternative OR a plugin that uses an outline of terrain to transition current system of wave behaviour to conform to island shape and depth.
More on 3, when youāre on an island with multiple sides and the waves all come from only one angle, and the same intensity as on the high-seas, it presents an with land based maps.
Hey and all, thanks for your amazing work on these assets! Iām using them in a short student project at Academy of Art in San Francisco. It wonāt be released anywhere but I may link it here once itās done.
I have almost everything set up in a new project except my character ( animation pack Zoe) is sinking the boat. I have a custom boat mesh with collision made in Maya. I followed the instructions on the wiki to copy over the Plugins and assets to a new project, but not Sky or Boat assets. I added a Buoyancy Force to my boat, TestPointArray set up and the boat floats perfectly. I can place physics objects on the boat with varying mass and the boat responds appropriately. As soon as my player character jumps on the boat, however, it sinks like a rock. Any idea why would be? Do I need the boat assets for ?
As far as I can tell, there is nothing abnormal about my characterās mass, it has default values for the Zoe character. Iāve tried to find the difference between my player and the one from your examples, and all I can find is you added a Buoyancy Force to your third person character. I imagine is what makes them able to float near the surface, but I tried it anyways and it did not help with my character sinking the boat.
Any help is appreciated, thank you!