Water looks kinda ugly

Hey Guys!

I’m working on a lake right now. I’m using the free Water Plane and the Water from the Starter pack to create it. But the water looks really ugly. It’s dark, not transparent. I’ll attach some screenshots so you can see how it looks for me.

Is there a way to make it look more realistic? Im using the M_Water_Lake Material on an Box Brush, but it looks with every Water Material just not pretty. I will attach some Screenshots from other Materials.

M_LakeWater_01:

M_LakeWater_01_Inst:

And so on, I don’t wanna screenshot all materials but they look all like this… Is there a way to change this?

You’re probably missing some reflection capture actors. No actors equals no reflections, so all you’re going to get is black. Drop a sphere reflection capture actor on the middle of the lake, move it up a bit, and see how that improves thing