How to make an ocean in unreal engine 4

Development Asset Creation
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I know how to make the landscape as I bought the digital tutors tutorial for unreal engine 4 but if I wanted to make an ocean that is swimmable how would I go about that? I can’t find a single tutorial

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?v=LtyXjSb1P-4 <—swim.
?v=LHPAseF7ma4 <–swim.
https://forums.unrealengine/showthread.php?4181-Plugin-Ocean-surface-simulation-plugin-(VaOcean)&highlight=ocean <–ocean shader.
https://forums.unrealengine/showthread.php?8492-Water-Material&highlight=ocean

you know… back in my day when i started game dev (modding half-life), we didnt have all the cool stuff you have today. google had just come out, and youtube didnt exist yet…also, in the top right is a little search button… just put a little more effort into it, i do it to sometimes :wink:

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Actually bro while I thank oyu very very much for your help I did a ton of research on the internet before coming to you all. thats not my my is

I do not know how to make a ocean floor and then add an ocean to it. I can only get it to do one plane which is either the main grasss but if i drag ocean to it then it turns the entire thing into ocean and I can not use the landscape tool to make a mount when i use the landscape tool it raises the water like a mountain. so I do not know how to do two planes one the ocean floor and then the ocean on top of it. i have searched and searched for almost 3 days. sorry if I made it seem like I didn’t look but i truly did and is my last resort

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You shouldnt use the landscape tool as ocean. You need a separate plane mesh.

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Here you can download a plane mesh:

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Do you knwo of any tutorials I can find to figure out how to add or do a plane mesh? I am really trying I just cant find that much documentation on it…i truly appreciate everyones help

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Here are the steps :smiley:

  1. add a plane in blender/3ds /maya
  2. scale it up or down
  3. unwrap it
  4. import it into the UE4
  5. assign the material
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Ok I have the waterplane that you provided me up there, which one do I import? and what file would I import it to. and how do I assign it lol is what I need tutorials on. if you tell em that though I won’t bother you with no more stuff

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You can directly import the fbx file.

After you have done that, you need a water material which you will assign to the plane -> open the static mesh editor (double click onto the plane) - with the material in the content browser selected click onto the litte arrow beside the material slots

Now just drag and drop it into your level :slight_smile:

Here is a picture that explains the placing of the plane:

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You will have a lot more questions in the future if you dont start from the basics. Don’t focus on the water plane and start watching/reading tutorials on asset creation and import pipeline. has some starter tutorials on his channel and Unreal Engine Youtube channel also has some in-editor stuff for beginners that should help you understand the basics.

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Hey , when I jump in the water I made it where I can wim and stuff but the water plane disappears and it shows the sky while im swimming lol you have any idea how I can make it look like water when I look up

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I would assume it’s because you have a 1-sided plane. The plane would have to have two sides in particular instance so the person can see a material on the back side. Or just place two planes, so that the one on the bottom has it’s normal facing down, and the one on top is facing up.

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All you need to do is go into the details panel of your plane (or material) and turn on Use two sided material. It should be less of a performance hit than rendering 2 separate planes, especially if you have a complex water shader. :slight_smile: