Physical Water Surface

[Theokoles]

@lillbrorsan

Hey man, bought this amazing plugin a while back and I’m really impressed at how well it works!

I have a few questions regarding this plugin that I believe I can find by looking around for a while but would like your input on them (trying to potentially look at some sort of boat racing game)

1. I’ve noticed that the default settings make the boat stop as soon as it hits something that it could potentially slide up (such as a ramp), is this something one can adjust?

2. Increasing the speed of which a boat moves at (for example the one that comes with the project) makes it also tilt forward a lot, is there a way to prevent that or even make it tilt backward instead?

3. Any suggestion to keep the camera from going underwater? I have changed the camera to be controllable by the player and tried a quick fix by changing collision but might have to do some math to solve it.

Thanks!

Please excuse my late reply, somehow I’ve overlooked your post.

1. Please assign a Physical Material to the boat and to the ramp meshes and set a low friction value.
2. Please try to change the ForceCenter property of the PawnBoat. The ForceCenter (the location at the boat where the forwards force is applied) should be close the center of mass of the boat. You can also experiment with moving the ForceCenter up and down. The LinearDamping in the Buoyancy settings also influences how much the boat will tilt.
3. You can edit the WaterPlane Blueprint like this: In the “Custom” Collision Preset, set Pawn to Blocked. However this will still make the camera go underwater when there are high waves. But you could use the WaterHeight Blueprint to find out the wave height at the camera location and move the camera up when the water level is going up.