[Community Project] WIP Weather & Water Shader

[Nsomnia]

@;454637

Yeah it definitely is a big hit for a post proces

Did you get in contact with what was his username that forked the repo and made some great code changes?

I’m really Really thinking about putting time in development of the subsim again and now that I’ve learnt Java at a college/ level I’m sure I can pick up the UE4 API fairly fast and anything I come up with will be shared.

We need to get development going.

[n00854180t]

@;454637

Yeah it definitely is a big hit for a post process, VR or no VR

But I have a cheap method to do by having a small PP volume with blend radius follow the player camera and smoothly “fade in” the underwater fog when the camera goes underwater (so we only need to run the gerstner lookup in blueprint, which has no cost).
Obviously it won’t look as good with that method but at least it’s cheap Also you could do it GTA 5 style (snap the camera underwater) although I have not yet seen how they handle it in first person mode.

I wonder, has any game ever done the proper way? Every game that I have seen tries to avoid by either having flat water or doing some kind of camera snap or fading.

The only ones I know of that do it right are the Crysis and Far Cry games - they even do the half-camera above water case right.

The volume fade-in sounds perfect for my needs.

[Xosh_project]

Hello and thanks again for amazing :). I have a big problem and maybe one of you will be able to help me. I buy the Ultra Dynamic Sky and personnaly I really love it! Here the probleme: The won’t update with the Sky and the Sun. So I see my real-time sun reflection and the reflection of the sun before I press play. I’ll show you some screenshot.

So If I start the game in Night mode, the will always be dark and vice versa.

As we can see the light don’t work in real time with the .

If someone here know how to fix , it would be nice to share the solution.

Have a good day !

[TK-Master]

That’s because of the skylight capture which is not updated in real time and there is no decent solution yet (you can force the skylight to recapture over time but it’s too expensive and will cause a noticeable hitch).

As I mention above, I’m working on a solution:

Getting just right cubemap captures for the skylight can make a huge huge difference, I’m actually working on a system that blends multiple captures over time (for example you can use 24 cubemaps, one per hour) so we can have seamless day-night cycles without any hitches (since it’s all pre-captured).

[Xosh_project]

Thanks for the answer and sorry for the question!

[anonymous_user_36e35587]

@;355782

Hope someone can help… I am actually interested in the FishManager more than the .

I was wanting to spawn the Manager in different areas and then destroy it (and associated fish) when the player moved out of the area, and then respawn in the new area, etc. (Basically different areas around an island.) Spawning crashed UE4 and I couldn’t get it working, so I added an Enabled boolean to the C++ class, so when it starts up it basically idles until you set Enabled. Added a trigger volume, which turns on it on and off successfully when going in/out. I also loop through all fish actors and destroy them so they don’t consume resources while you are on land.

So I thought I had licked, until I tried to create another BP_FishManager instance somewhere else. It correctly spawns the fish selections chosen, but it spawns them in the ORIGINAL fishmanager location!? Instead of instancing the blueprint, I created a duplicate blueprint for the other location, and each one had it’s own instance… same story… it’s as if the FishManager object when instantiated somehow servers all instances of the blueprint…?!

Can anyone help with … it’s a very cool addition to my level, and would really allow me to use it effectively. At worst I will create an entirely new cpp/header if I have too. .but that’s a last resort!

Thanks
Stuart

Sorry for the late late late late late response. Haven’t check thread in forever, or any of the UE4 threads for that matter. It’s been a while, but when I stopped development I was in the process of building FishNode’s. Basically you would have one fish manager in the scene, and a large sphere collider on yourself. When your sphere collider hits a FishNode, it spawns the fish type and number specified in the node. When the node moves more than a certain distance away from the sphere it should de-spawn back into a node. idea was crafted so that you could have many more fish in the game world without having to compute their movement. It would also allow you to create schools of fish that migrate over long distances, or during weather events by moving only one object instead of up to 100’s, I’m not sure if I ever got around to the full implementation, but is the grand idea. I believe when I stopped development I was having issues where if you hit the node, it left the sphere, and you hit the node again in rapid secession it would crash the level editor. Probably a pointer, where the spawn is pointing at a memory address that had just been erased. would need to be solved for it to work correctly.

<3 you all,

P.S. image. Makes me happy to see the fish being used :3

[Nsomnia]

I’m getting back into my project 2 weeks ahead of schedule and I have “Learning C++ Through Unreal Engine 4” on hold at the library (im 5th in line!) has anyone read it is it any good? So I may start coding stuff soon as I start learning more about the C++ API using my uni Java experience.

[Nubtron]

@n00854180t;452221

A couple of really great articles about buoyancy simulation by one of the programmers for Just Cause 3:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/237528/Water_interaction_model_for_boats_in_video_games.php
Water interaction model for boats in video games: Part 2

Oh wow! Part 2 is out! I missed that! Can’t wait to give it a shot!

[WeekendWarrior]

really is a grate looking water, was playing around with it today going for that beach look. you cant see in the photos, but reflection that it gives off with the island look grate, and the way the water flows back from the beach, looks grate

[Filly_The_Owl]

That water looks realy professional and good.
I would almost say its the best water ive seen so far.

[anonymous_user_147235ab]

Hi. Can someone tell me the size of latest update?

[Nsomnia]

I’m third in line at the library for the ue4 cpp book. Gonna try to modify the mesh for boat wakes, bow waves and hurricanes. Any other ideas for cool things to try to code through cpp?

[BulleTime]

Hey, project looks .

Question: are there any copyrights the assets of project. Can i use any of the included models for free?

[Biduba]

Hello !

I just want to say that I loved project. It really is an incredible work!

Here is a screenshot from a personal game I’m working on using it.

Thank you for project!! :D:D

[Wrekk]

I wish Epic would implement into the engine, like in CryEngine.

[Nsomnia]

I’ve made my offical fork of DC’s project https://.com//

Will be updating and making branches as skills permit. Going to start with learning how to get triangle vert vectors and start modifying them in different ways.

[Nsomnia]

So first goal I think will be to implement and port anything i can from open source projects available and from papers such as breaking waves and work on boat physics and FX.

[Malrick2]

Sorry if has been asked, but is their any easy way to make “holes” in the plane (In the same way you can make holes in a landscape for creating caves and stuff)? Thankyou!

[Nsomnia]

Not that I can think of since its not a landscape based water setup like that one game. Youd have to do some shader/texture setups to make the height lower than everything else with no or you could tile the down and use multiple tiles with 1+ missing since they tile seamlessly.

[Burnrate]

Has anyone had problems with minimap flickering? I see flicker following my pawn around and showing up on the surface.

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