Physical Ocean Surface - Developing a Realistic Water Shader

[Theokoles]

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Also, I need to do a few questions about your plugin:

• There is translucency and SSR?
• There is a way to detect when character submerges, to fire some events?
• Is a simple plane with material, or is a infinite plane generated on the fly? I ask that because I will need to change the parameters using vertex painting techniques, or something similar. My project will have areas inside buildings, and there i don’t will want waves. In other words, there is a way to make “Holes” on material, or something similar?
• You will provide the buoyancy component?
• Can you provide to me ONLY the material for some tests? I really need to know how this works before waiting for something that maybe will not work for me at all.

• Just to be clear, it’s not a plugin but a collection of regular assets
• Currently, there is no translucency. SSR are enabled, you can see them in this video: http://gfycat.com/SnivelingDeliciousAnteater
• A blueprint is included that shows how you can query the water height at a location (X,Y). You can easily create a blueprint that fires an event when the Z coordinate of your object becomes lower than the water height.
• It is a simple static mesh plane with a material applied. You have the option to make the plane follow the camera (infinite ocean system), or it can remain stationary. Having holes in the water is currently not a feature that is included. There are multiple ways how this can be achieved. You could make your own static mesh for the water plane with the holes you need. There will be documentation how to replace the static mesh. Or you could use these techniques to make a part of the water plane transparent: Diablo Style Wall Hiding in Blueprints - Programming & Scripting - Epic Developer Community Forums or A new, community-hosted Unreal Engine Wiki - Announcements - Epic Developer Community Forums
• Yes, the buoyancy component is included, of course