Water material looks different in material editor preview than in game

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Another question: Is there a way to make sure that I calculate the normals correctly? Here is a screenshot where I combine world displacement and normals of multiple waves. Can I visualize the normals in the editor viewport as lines? I just want to see if the normals are actually normal to the mesh, is there an easy way to see that? In Blender I would just turn on the “show normals” option.

I’m worried about these dark areas, I have marked one of them in red. I can’t decide if these dark areas are supposed to be there, or if it is some error in my material, most probably in the calculation of the normals.
If you look carefully, you can see that the screen space reflection of the rock is not present in one of the dark areas. That can’t be correct, can it?

What method are you using to calculate the waves? Is done with displacement maps or mathematically (Gerstner or FFT)?

There is no way to view the normals outside of the static mesh editor (that I know of), but the normals can be calculated depending which approach you took.

Also, check that you are not using a value of 0 for roughness, I use 0.05, going too much lower can create effect in SSR. Also are you using a custom reflection input into the material? or just a fresnel?

You can PM me if you want, I have a material that will be released soon to the community, let me know if I can help (I used Gerstner waves).