NVIDIA GameWorks Integration

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Wow, news. Can’t wait for GI and hair, keep up the good work NVIDIA!

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I wonder will be eventually integrated into UE4 as a module, or is NV going to keep running a parallel branch?

Kinda inconvenient to have a separate branch right now, as we then have to merge back changes from epic/ into it (unless your branches will be up to date with epic?).

Thanks.

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Which lib? When I committed that branch, I checked out a clean copy and it built for me. If there’s anything missing, I apologize and I’ll check it in as soon as I can.

Thanks,

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At the least, I can say that we will make every effort to keep it up to date. We want tech to be accessible, one way or another. I’m open to all suggestions.

Thanks,

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Hey ,

Thanks for reading on Christmas. :slight_smile:

Well. I know from my own adventure with getting the Editor to work in Linux that running parallel branches is pretty tough, and I suppose if there’s no other way around but changing Core API, then it is what is.

But otherwise, if could become a TPS module then it could be a matter of dropping it into the Engine/Source/ThirdParty/ and compile from there.

Also anyone from EPIC reading :

I guess there’s a whole licensing part that is not being discussed yet and if I may suggest that I would gladly pay couple of more $ extra on my monthly subscription if Epic and NVIDIA could work out a deal to integrate the entire suite of technologies into the base engine/subscription.

#justsaying

:smiley:

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In the source directory, third party, waveforks there is no lib directory nor the needed lib, and visual studio is complaining about it.

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Sorry about that. I’ll fix it ASAP. Not sure how that happened, unless Git is configured to automagically ignore lib directories because of size limitations.

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I’ve attached a zip file with the missing libs. I’ll upload to Github next I get.

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Thank you very much!

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Does the waveworks have a specific Graphics Card requirement like VXGI because I was able to run and open up test project but the OceanMaterial is all Black.

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Yes, I think there is. Any recent NV card should do (I’m not sure of the product numbers offhand, but I think any desktop card in the past few years is OK. I run it on a 670).

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Then there is something I am not doing properly because I have 690 card and when I compile and run the test project, the ocean material is all “black”.
Is there someother settings that I have to set it up?

Thanks,

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Do you have the latest driver? Are there any errors coming out on the console? I’ve seen that before when the shaders didn’t compile correctly.

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I am getting warning : “LogD3D11WaveWorks:Warning: FD3D11WaveWorks Simulation_CreateD3D11 FAIL”
I didn’t have the latest drivers and m downloading latest one right now.

Thanks,

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Yup. It was driver update. Working properly now.
Thanks for the help and amazing job integrating it to UE4.
Can’t wait for other gameworks parts to get integrated.

Thanks,

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can some one record video of waveworks in unreal?

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Finnaly had time to check it out. It looks really nice!!! However, I’ve got a question regarding licensing. If we’d like to use in our projects, would we need to contact NVIDIA for a license, or can we use it freely with ue4?

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The code checked into the UnrealEngine/NvPhysX branch is free for you to use in any Unreal project, but it can’t be ported out of Unreal into another code base.

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Why would you use anything other than Unreal? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Great stuff, really looking forward where is going :slight_smile:

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Can’t seem to find any Waveworks folder in the GitHub branch, it compiled without any issues, but theres also no documentation that I could find.
What could be the Problem?

I’m working on a ship simulator for my high school Project, so I thought it would be great to use Waveworks for the river :slight_smile: