Water body's ocean waves are glitching

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Hello,

I got a question about the UE4.26 water plugin.
When I place an WaterBodyOcean actor into my level, the waves have a weird glitch.
It’s like the mesh is breaking and segments are overlapping each other, like my image below.

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This image is made in UE5 early acces, but I have the exact same problem in UE4.26.

I have not changed any parameter. This is the result out of the box.

The only 2 solutions I have found are to set the steepness of the waves to 0 or the tesselation of the waves to something below 4, which both are no real solutions ofcourse.

I haven’t seen this glitch appear anywhere else on other people’s videos about this new water system.
Does someone knows why it happens, and how to solve it?

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That is just a part where normals of the wave invert due to overlap. Either reduce steepness, or handle it material. For example, you can check if normal’s z component is pointing downwards and if so, flip the normals.

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I’m having the same exact issue! Strait out of the box, no parameters changed. The water looks so bad and nothing like other videos :frowning: I even verified my 4.26 installation and it still looks like this.

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Did you have any luck sorting this out? I have the exact same issue and it’s a real PITA…