Compiling Waveworks for Unreal 4.27.2

Capt.Unknown · January 30, 2022, 4:30pm

Hello there,
Nvidia’s Official Waveworks Github Repository was last updated in 2018, for Unreal Engine 4.19. Is there a way to compile it for Unreal Engine 4.27.2? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Natalo77 · January 31, 2022, 8:41am

Is that a plugin?

Capt.Unknown · January 31, 2022, 9:00am

It’s Ocean System for Unreal from Nvidia. They’ve forked Unreal Engine source & integrated their framework into Unreal Engine source. So in order to use it you’ve to compile their repository.

Natalo77 · January 31, 2022, 9:01am

I’d guess you’ll be on your own with this one - You’ll have to compile it yourself

Capt.Unknown · January 31, 2022, 9:02am

But the issue is it was last updated years ago, so it utilizes Unreal Engine’s source code of version 4.19

Natalo77 · January 31, 2022, 9:03am

Then you’ll have to compile it yourself for 4.27

Capt.Unknown · January 31, 2022, 9:04am

How do I make it compile with 4.27? The repository contains older 4.19 binaries

Natalo77 · January 31, 2022, 9:05am

Do you have the source code?

Capt.Unknown · January 31, 2022, 9:12am

Yes, I do
https://github.com/NvPhysX/UnrealEngine/tree/WaveWorks_4_19

Capt.Unknown · January 31, 2022, 9:46am

Any idea buddy?

Natalo77 · January 31, 2022, 11:10am

I’m not an expert on this, but you’re going to have to do any work needed to update the code for 4.27 yourself, and then follow a guide to compile the binaries for 4.27.

You might be able to just rip the source code and put it in the plugins folder tbh, then see what works needs to be done to fix anything broken by the engine version change.

Nufshi · April 18, 2024, 8:27am

Can you upload it? Nvidia removed all their repositories