I’m looking into adding a river to my landscape using the builtin Water plugin. It’s a larger 8k terrain and I’m aware there are still issues with this plugin, especially for larger landscapes. I’m trying to figure out how to work around those, similar as how this video shows how the Infinite Ocean material can be made to work on 8k and World Partition landscapes.
When I drop the Water Body River in my level, set the Z location to 0 (sea level) and then move the spline points where I want them, it digs the riverbed into the landscape as expected. There’s just no water in it.
I’ve experimented with other water materials - I use the Waterline Ocean asset for the sea, and several of those materials do show up. The builtin Water_Material_Custommesh material is also visible. The problem with all those is that they can’t follow the slope of the spline, and show up as separate tiles with a vertical gap between them - and of course specific river features like the stream velocity won’t work with those materials.
I experimented a little with a cube: added the Water_Material_River to it, setting landscape invisible and look if the material appears at maybe some different height. I indeed found something showed up far below the landscape, but I couldn’t yet figure out what determined the water’s Z position: positions of the spline, the main Water Body River actor, the landscape origin, or some combination of those? I also found that Water_Material_River has a UseFixedZ variable - in short: too darn many possible variables that may all influence this.
Does anyone know some sensible way through this maze so that I could debug this material?
Thanks 