Physical Water Surface

[Theokoles]

@Reondryt

Hello, I recently bought your physical water and after a very long time figuring out how to get my boat working (I’m just a 3D artist, blueprints and UE 4 are rather new to me aside of standard asset setups), I just can’t manage to block out the water clipping through.
Quick outlines: I have a boat that has a lot of animations (doors, steering wheel etc etc) so it’s a skeleton mesh. Managed to get that working now as intended, attached lights collected in a blueprint, added your buoyancy and created the masking mesh. I just can’t set it up like in your instructions, because I can’t find any mesh distance field options on the skeleton mesh.
My solution (or so I thought) was to give the mask mesh no collision and make it the mesh distance field mesh, attach it to the boat and give it a masked out material. When I visualize mesh distance fields it looks correct, but water still goes through.
Either I’m missing something that is not mentioned in the documentation but logical to people more akin to programming and/or blueprints, but I need help here. It’s the last stepping stone for me.

Couldn’t get it to work so far with Per Poly Collision, which would be great if that was possible.

Would appreciate some help here.
Even if this is not supported as of yet, good work on the water, looks really good as is. Once you manage to implement shores and transparency this would by even more amazing.

Also: I would love to connect your water with Ultra Dynamic Sky. Should be possible I think, but I don’t have the know how to synchronize wind direction, speed etc with the weather. Even if those are not connected, connecting the splash effects of the rain with the water would be awesome too.

My first idea would be to attach an invisible static mesh to your ship, which is just responsible for generating the mesh distance fields. It sounds you’ve already tried to implement a very similar workaround. Does the Masked Water example map that comes with physical water surface work correctly? Is the water masked out in this map on your machine?

I haven’t worked with Ultra Dynamic Sky, so I’m afraid I can’t give specific advice at the moment.
I think connecting the splash effect with the water surface could be possible, the next update of Physical Water Surface will bring some functionally that could help to detect the location of the splashes.