Water crashing in VR UE 5.6.1

UE 5.6

Create a new project using VR Template.

Turn on the unreal engine included water plugins (restart). There’s 3 experimental. One is buoyancy.

Add the water to the scene and crash.

Anyone know how to fix this?

I was following this tutorial except using VR template. Why does everything in unreal engine not work?

Hey there @dredgeho! Welcome back to the community! Many of the features of the Water Plugin are incompatible with VR without modification. I would also recommend rolling your own lighter weight water for VR purposes anyway.

If they can’t fix it I sure as heck can’t. What a crock of

It’s not so much an issue to “fix” it’s that it uses mechanics that aren’t compatible with VR. Just using a simpler water setup that doesn’t use rendering tech that is unsupported. It’s not so much a technical hurdle as it is also a performance hurdle when it comes to rendering everything twice in stereo.