Water - rivers - Heightmap

RLK_III
Wed, 24 May 2023 08:09:35 +0000
World Creation

Hello all. I’m hoping there’s a genius or three out there.

After struggling with UE’s broken water system I finally bit the bullet and purchased a water system (WaterlinePRO). It’s great, but I only found out AFTER purchase that it has no current coding to serve as a river. Lakes and oceans, yes, but rivers… nope.

Undaunted (and refusing to tell my wife I spent $100 on something that doesn’t fit my needs LOL) I have been trying to make it work. It has TONS of customization when it comes to the water color and effects, and as you can see here it looks pretty good.

Except for where it doesn’t…

It doesn’t slope. It works on a flat plane only. I would LOVE to get it to work with splines but I am not experienced enough with UE to even fathom if this is possible. I would imagine it is, as I have seen splines used for a multitude of things, but moving rivers?

I reached out to the creator of the program and although he has assured me that there is no immediate plans on a river function but do hope to have them in the future (X_X) I may be able to “get something river like by modifying the infinite watersim actor’s water surface material in order to have flowmaps, but those will need to be made externally as well.”

This is gobbldygook to me. Is there an adult to help me with this?

Cheers in advance!

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