# My First Game \[RTS - 3D Top Down\]

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**Created:** [March 10, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/my-first-game-rts-3d-top-down/23727 "2015-03-10T22:54:47Z")\
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Hi, ErebusMC 🙂 came across your topic, decided to lend a hand.

**RTS CAMERA** I got quite good with blueprints, will try to make you an RTS camera blueprint - but you might as well just take the RTS example from the marketplace - it’s free - and use it as a base for your project.

**MAP GEOMETRY** you can use a heightmap to generate terrain, did you know that? You could make one in Photoshop or use a software like WorldMachine. It is going to be a PNG file. Here’s a tutorial I found on Youtube, I’m not the author, but it’s quite helpful.

[![](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/6/6/6/666d5d8b86c85872f6377fc416cbae0db14c2ba0.jpeg "Unreal Engine 4 - Import Heightmap (With Download)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6snn0lB5hCI)

**WATER EFFECTS** You could make a material with displacement maps and tesselation, if you choose that method I could just send you my water shader. It’s something like this - though I added translucency and subsurface:

 ![e5b7556a788e2678a2e55693223a70e318dee631.jpeg](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/e/5/b/e5b7556a788e2678a2e55693223a70e318dee631.jpeg)

The problem with it is, this kind of water is not interactive - and it does not have foam. It is possible to achieve interactivity with shaders; I’ve seen interactive grass made with them. But I haven’t yet figured out an effective way of doing that.

You could also use the VaOcean plugin:

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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7REUMOYmVd8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7REUMOYmVd8)

From what the developer says, it’s going to be amazing - with interactive collision, energy based foam and buoyancy. But those features are yet to come.

The third option is to have nVidia’s WaveWorks - there’s a version of Unreal Engine on their GitHub including it, you need to download and compile it - it looks great, but works better on nVidia cards.

[![](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/3/5/a/35a4474944e3a5bd7f5a0053d1a12b420c729633.jpeg "NVIDIA WaveWorks in UE4") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYXqQHEc8ec)

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