Ocean Waves using World Position Offset

[TheAgent]

Hello,

So I've been looking around for a tutorial on creating Ocean Waves, however most of them either involved vertex painting or were vague documentations. So I decided to take it upon myself and tackle this challenge.

I'm satisfied with what I got so I want to share this with you all, as I don't need anything complex so this is what I came up with. It can be expanded upon.

Connect this to the World Position Offset of your water shader.

Make sure you have a tessellated mesh!


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Enjoy!

[McTavish]

what you working on these days mate ? I aint been o nthe forums for ages and I always rememebred you had a couple projects going. Like the space thing with the pilot in the intro and there was the robot at one point too ?

[Anhrak]

omg, that material is just what I need for some sort of tropical map I'm going to make.

By the way, is the material transparant?

[TheAgent]

@ Anhrak: Yeah the material is transparent

@McTavish: Hey long time no see! Yeah i'm still working on the same projects, I've undertaken a few serious projects which have taken basically 100% of my time. Most of the projects you see around here that I do are usually for fun and or for community sources.

So my time is attributed to that and University, which I will finally graduate in one more semester. Thanks for checking by!

[Anhrak]

How do you apply this as an ocean (or beach)?

I always use a sheet brush and then apply that material on it.

Is there something I can make a better fluid surface with? Note that the player where this surface is, is NOT ment to be able to go in the water; it's decoration.

[TheAgent]

Make sure you have a tessellated mesh!

Once you have your Ocean shader ready, apply it to a tesselated plane. Anything not tesselated you wont see anything.

I dont know if it works with fluid surfaces. I doubt it does.

[Anhrak]

Oh dear me... I'm not that experienced with it yet, can you explain me how I can add it?

[TheAgent]

You make the plane that is tesselated (highly subdivided) in a modeling program, UDK might already have a plane that is kind of tesselated. Other than that, I don't know what else I can suggest.

[Froyok]

Wrong thread, sorry. :x