Can anyone give me some advice on adding water to big terrains? I tried adding a water body in the open world level preset using the water plugin. I know it is in the beta state, but shortly after I place anything from the water plugin, the editor crashes. My pc is not too bad, I think (ryzen 5600x, 16gb ddr4, rtx 3060ti, unreal on ssd). Are there any other methods on adding water to big terrains?
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The water plugin has really bad performances, In my game I replaced it with a plane under the map and a water material.
Imagine that you wasted hours setting it up and every once in a while you open the project and you are not able to see rivers and lakes or even the entire ocean because something didn’t compile correctly…
No thanks, I’ll wait for a stable version!
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I’m having similar issues. When adding the water body, to somohow large terrains, unreal tells me that shaders are overloading the memory and that “extremely poor performance are to be expected”.
I thought that the shading would not be the issue, but I guess I was wrong. Do you have any insights ? Did you revert to the old trick of the plane ?
That really depends on the hardware you are using, I’ve recently tried to add it to a PCVR project and it was performing pretty good on my Desktop PC (RTX 3090Ti and Ryzen 9 5950X), I tried it on my laptop and it’s screaming (RTX 3070 and i7 10750H)
I’m still using the plane in many projects. I really wish the water plugin will be improved soon! I haven’t tried it with world partition, maybe it performs better.