# How to make a lake meterial that's transluent?

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**Category:** Rendering\
**Tags:** Water, unreal-engine, question\
**Created:** [September 30, 2015, 5:39am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-to-make-a-lake-meterial-thats-transluent/333841 "2015-09-30T05:39:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![RozenSarbra](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@RozenSarbra](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/RozenSarbra)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 5:39am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-to-make-a-lake-meterial-thats-transluent/333841/1 "2015-09-30T05:39:47Z")

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I have been trying to make a water shader using the water shader tutorials i can find but everyone i use ends up not doing right, can anyone point me to a tutorial for UE4.9 or help with a water shader for a lake?

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**Author:** ![Hurley3D](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/hurley3d/32/1008940_2.png) [@Hurley3D](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Hurley3D)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 5:56am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-to-make-a-lake-meterial-thats-transluent/333841/2 "2015-10-01T05:56:39Z")

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In the Learn tab of the Epic Games Launcher, there is free Content. There is a free project called **Water Planes** which has three different types of professionally made water shaders, one of which being a lake like material. Create a blank 4.8.3 project, add the Water Planes content to your project. Then upgrade that project to 4.9.

 ![60965-launcher.jpg](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/0/f/c/0fc4e8bd2abc56c6ca52706131e797ded56487b4.jpeg)

You can also take a look at a tutorial on the Wiki

**Translucent Water Shader Tutorial**

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I hope this helps!

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**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_cc69b907](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_cc69b907](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_cc69b907)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-to-make-a-lake-meterial-thats-transluent/333841/3 "2015-10-08T17:28:24Z")

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Hello RozenSarbra,

The above mentioned links can indeed help you.

Here is a link to a water that you can swim in. [A new, community-hosted Unreal Engine Wiki - Announcements - Epic Developer Community Forums](https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Swimmable_Water_Volume_Tutorial)

I highly recommend using the Water Planes tutorial from our learning section. The water shader tutorial is a little date and requires a bit of tweaking that is not explained.