how water works in Sea of Thieves

[@StylizedStation]

Resistance is futile: patreon.com/stylizedstation

[@FormalSnake]

wait... does this mean ur bad at literature

[@themutatednut]

i bet Saitama in the thumbnail was one of the reasons that this got so many views 🤣

[@linden6190]

Why you have the square space logo

[@papermartin879]

for the record sea of thieves doesn't just use a bunch of stacked gertsner waves, it uses a tessendorf simulation, which is capable among other things of generating a full spectrum of waves (in the hundreds) There's a talk called "the technical art of sea of thieves" which mentions tessendorf simulation, and also goes over the extra steps they took to make it stylized, and a video called "Ocean waves simulation with fast fourier transform" by Jump Trajectory, which talks about a Unity implementation

[@bitmammothOG]

Thats really great information thank you!

[@JMPDev]

Why bother properly researching the sole focus of your video when you can just assume and present some general solutions.

[@ainursery]

This.

[@syaoranli7869]

Where can I learn more about understanding the math behind a tessendorf simulation?

[@papermartin879]

@@syaoranli7869 The unity implementation I mentionned is a pretty good place to start, and it has a bunch of link to various papers on the subject in its description, including the original one by jerry tessendorf

[@DatGuyGLK]

man your videos are good but those outros kill the ears

[@alessiokepeshchuk664]

Wdym?

[@ZahaX]

@@alessiokepeshchuk664 The sound is much louder than the rest of the video

[@wordydird]

I know it. Watching it late at night when I couldn't sleep and boy that outro jolted me up real fast. Along with my husband. Very jarring

[@moonshot3159]

Yup tone down your outro man

[@wzl717]

It’s not that loud chill out

[@bluesoman]

You skipped over the actually challenging part of this system: making the waves have physics(cpu) that match their displaced vertices(gpu).

[@CharlieToof]

they dont match, and it create a lot of problems on the game, problems that they said they're unable to fix.

[@caseym6272]

@@CharlieToof part of the reason players sometimes go towards the top of the water, and then get shot down to the bottom. Or why you can't grab water from the bow of a scoon, even if it's touching the wave. It still registers as a single plane, it just looks different with the player, and environment.

[@CharlieToof]

​@@caseym6272 As a player, they cant deal with shooting in the sea and with stability, a lot of wrong hitreg and really strange position bugs (not just sometimes.. EVERYTIMES), this tecnics it is not well optimized and rare is not able to make it work for an action adventure game.

[@QQnowQQlater]

mesh deformation.

[@Neek1154]

If you're talking about buoyancy, it's simpler than you would think. The CPU side has a collection of points in worldspace and it just queries the GPU for the ocean height and flow direction at all these points. Then the CPU can decide how to act on this. (for example by pushing the object upwards with a certain amount of force if point is below water).

[@lifeartstudios6207]

sea of thieves water does even more than what you've talked about here. As far as I am aware, it is the most technically involved water in a game even to this day. There are a lot of videos on sea of thieves break downs for their tech art and it's astounding all the things they were able to pull off with unreal engine 4.8.

[@WelshGuitarDude]

It's not the most technically involved. It uses an iFFT algorithm with a Philips ocean spectrum model, but there are better ones out there now like JONSWAP with more real world analysis. Other games have used this, Assassins Creed many years ago for example. Sea of Thieves is better looking due to all the added visual effects and the advantage of modern lighting/rendering features that A.C did not have but the waves themselves both use the same algorithm. The algorithm (for ocean rendering) has been around since 1995. And many games use it for oceans because it turns a O(n^2) using gerstner to a O(nlogn) using a custom spectra which is a huge performance gain. Subnautica also uses it and you can dotpeek their source code and see the iFFT which they made CPU bound which i would not recommend as it works super well on a GPU. The 1995 Tessendorf paper explains it all - its like the bible of ocean rendering. The nature of the algorithm is also deterministic making it seed-able so it can sync on a network very easily using a delta time.

[@jeffduckworth3714]

@Futso Unstable can run rare/epic graphics with an incredibly smooth experience. The game is heavily optmised.

[@PastPositive]

@Futso Been playing for years, I have never seen a glitch, and my game has never crashed, the map is massive, with really good graphics. The game is heavily optimized and is not buggy nor unstable.

[@likepick]

@Florida Man we acting like any other game never had a glitch happen

[@kauanjos3199]

@Futso it's not a buggy mess bruh

[@nightman2912]

I absolutely love the water in sea of thieves, Sometimes I login just to chill on the boat while studying. The colors and the movement is stunning.

[@Bobb_with_2_Bs]

Rare actually killed the water effects in their game. I still wonder to this day how it doesn't clip through the boat. Like seriously....I have never seen such amazing water mechanics in a game that doesn't clip through something as simple as a dock, yet alone a moving player driven vehicle. It will without a doubt stand the test of time

[@BusinessWolf1]

That's not even hard to do lol they just mask out the water with an image with a shape on it, the shape of the boat's edge loop at the water line.

[@AtomicGG]

I'm french so i don't understand every "complicated" english word in the video, but i understand the important things, that's really good content and explication

[@NewOxygen]

Honestly I think the best feature of the waves is how the sun shines through the tall ones from one side, would love to see how that works as it looks so effective

[@falk.]

I would love to see some in-depth videos that dont have to be so fancy edited and short but are very informative. Because this topic for example only scratches the surface!

[@Tertion]

Nice pun lol

[@papermartin879]

yes, it doesn't even mention tessendorf simulations, which is what Sea of Thieves *actually* uses

[@ultracapitalistutopia3550]

Search catlike waves

[@papermartin879]

@@ultracapitalistutopia3550 catlike coding's tutorial only covers gertsner waves and how to stack a few of them, it's not a full on tessendorf sim like in Sea of Thieves

[@ultracapitalistutopia3550]

@@papermartin879 There are so many to unpack in the seawave effect. Catlike at least gives you an in-depth explanation of the implementation of Gerstner, unlike this video.

[@Leon510er]

Hey, your videos are good, but the sound effects are really annoying after a while. Especially because they are relatively loud in contrast to your voice. I just watch the video at 1 o'clock at night and scare me every time^^

[@lemonke8132]

agreed

[@Austin-hm6qq]

Literally the reason I came to the comments. The sound effects actually hurt

[@gehtdichnixan613]

yeah terribly annoying, couldnt finish watching it

[@thomaspiskorski7324]

I don’t agree

[@shoc2177]

yes, and yes. after watching the vid, with relative chill voice, my ears are getting raped by retro game sounds

[@dyslexicsoap7605]

Sick video, I never really appreciated the waves in this game until now for some reason. Also, just some unsolicited criticism: I found the chip tune sound effects to be a little too loud (and maybe shrill), but I might be in the minority there.

[@Austin-hm6qq]

You're not in the minority

[@enigma8301]

I agree, please relax the sound effects a little bit! But very good video

[@llefty]

Agreed about the sound effects and outro music, both are way too loud and the sound effects could be changed altogether tbh. They are shrill

[@lycoriserom7213]

Strange, they sound normal in my K240R. Is that because of the equipment?

[@johncenashi5117]

@@lycoriserom7213 i had no problems at all with the tunes in my normal headset. Didnt even think about them tbh.

[@danielobrien1137]

Sea of Thieves has the best looking water hands down, its one of the things that really amazed me when I first played.

[@Fabio-zc7bs]

I've been working with materials in UE for a while now and water in general was one of the hardest parts when talking about Environment Art. It's hard to make an optimized, good looking and modular water shader. You first have to make the opacity interactions between the shore, middle part and deep water, then work to make a good water foam (stylized or not), then there are the waves that may change depending on how you want to implement water in your game. The type of water also matter. If you are creating an ocean, a river or a lake, for example, you may want to change how the normal map behave, how the waves behave and all. On top of that there is also the connections between these types of water. If your river is going to end up in an ocean, it's tough to make it look smooth. Add shader complexity on this and you have a really tough shader to take care. And I'm not even talking about buoyancy and other things that a programmer would do. Water Shader was a challenge for me 6 months ago. My stylized water is still not perfect but I added some automatic interactions on that (like adding flowing foam when the water plane is bent to the ground like a waterfall). The problem is that the shader is só damn big that if I work on other shaders and need to come back to it again, I would take almost an entire day just to understand what's is happening there, even though I commented absolutely everything and divided the shader in material functions.

[@robocu4]

Ahhh yesss the curse of navigating several thousand lines of code lmao

[@Rekkuza-eu6sp]

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[@oasis141]

The water in sea of thieves looks so tasty when it's sunny

[@guybrush3000]

the other big element here is that the ship is also responding to the waves, which has to happen completely independently from the shader. i’d be curious how it’s setup. they may use a simplified version of the same equation, running on the cpu, that drives physics interactions. And you would likely want that cpu function to manage some of what’s happening in the shader to keep it all in sync, and to avoid needing a very complex shader

[@jowjowbro]

And not only your ship but the entire server. So it needs to be network synced also

[@DngrDan]

It's absolutely mind blowing what they've done in this game with water. I really hope games in the future take from their techniques.

[@hanabi8224]

But how is the buoyancy simulation for the ship kept in sync with the waves?

[@izzak6189]

That may be done through programming. Something along the lines of "This ship changes height and position based off vertexes of the waves" Its probably not a simulation as it is a blueprint or code based off the interactions of the ship and waves

[@Erkille7]

Probably the waves affect in some way the root bones of the ship making an animation to rotate y the large axis and going up and down

[@LightJockey]

As physics is calculated on the CPU then the exact calculations the GPU performs to displace vertices must be copied to CPU instructions. Basically the game knows how to displace the sea both in shader language for visuals and C++ for physics. Every ship or other buoyant object then implements buoyancy points that get sampled by the server with the CPU function to get the water height at those points only. With that, you can calculate buoyancy and let the physics simulation run. Clients predict this outcome since the formula is deterministic, once they know the server's time, then their "waves state" will match perfectly without sending any more data. It still sounds easy but in reality it's quite the technical achievement to have that sea in a multiplayer game. It's way more complicated than your usual FPS game, most of them don't even run any physics through the network.

[@R3IMYSS]

If I'm not mistaken, the buoyancy simulation works hand-in-hand with the waves system in Unreal Engine. It just takes some tweaking to get a floating object to look like it's actually floating. :)

[@imjust_a]

Was kind of hoping you'd talk about implementing some of the coloring and foam details they have. The subsurface scattering (or what I assume to be -- the lighter, greener parts of the water) looks so good, but every time I've tried to implement it in UE4 it doesn't even come close to looking as good. I've also been trying to figure out how to get that shimmer effect on water for awhile.

[@squidward-sk8mp]

It's not just the water the whole game looks amazing

[@exiledrabbit]

The really impressive thing with the water in that game is that it's all physically enabled and the lighting (color/translucency/reflection)

[@Madlion]

This is not basic gerstner waves, these are generated with FFT. Called FFT Waves. It is better than typical gerstner waves because it sample from an ocean spectrum and generate alot of gerstner waves

[@BenBen-bb7bb]

Just letting you know that your sfx are really loud compared to your voice and bckrnd music, love the channel !

[@ULTRAWIDE.]

SOT still has the best looking water in any game ever. Im always in awe of it when i go back and play it.

[@marcm.official]

u should check assassin's creed origins or valhalla's water physics

[@ULTRAWIDE.]

@@marcm.official I’m very familiar with both. They’re no where near as good as SOT though.

[@PhilipIONO]

FINNALLY SOMEONE IS SMART ENOUGH TO DIVE DEEP INTO THIS

[@JackieLynn97]

While I think Sea of Thieves has the prettiest looking waves in a video game, currently, another title that has beautiful dynamic water is Valheim. I was blown away by the water in Valheim the first time I sailed out with the Karve, and sailing through storms with the longship is probably one of the coolest seafaring moments I've had in any game to date. Entire islands will become submerged during storms, and sometimes the tide will be really low, letting you see some terrain along the coast that's normally obscured. It makes for a really cool, and moody display, along with the dynamic lightning effects the game boasts. And I think it's even more impressive than Sea of Thieves' water, because the world is entirely randomly generated. Lagoons further inland can still be effected by oceans they're connected to, But they're usually much calmer So, I wonder how the tech functions in regards to connected bodies of water?

[@mfour7989]

Knowledge! Who needs a book a day when you have this!

[@matthewy543]

Hey dude well done with the video, you summarized this complicated thing in 3 minutes. Impressive

[@dyllanedwards5720]

Finally someone who just delivers the data to us instead of making us wait

[@MizoxNG]

premake a flat circular mesh that's a few kilometers (or maybe even more! depends on draw distance) across and is very dense in the middle and very sparse as you get closer to the edge with a gradual falloff, have this mesh's horizontal position always be centered on the camera, but have every other aspect be controlled by your wave function, and have said wave function operate in world space rather than in object space. any textures you apply should also use world space rather than UVs other possibilities: rather than circular, have it be a wedge which only barely extends beyond your camera's FoV, and have it rotate itself to always match the Yaw of the camera. this version may break down if the camera's altitude is too high and pointed down, the amount of mesh which exists "behind" the camera must be sufficient to cover this possibility

[@toozigooti]

Because of good art direction, this game will still look good for years to come.

[@cezannealves6926]

Please make a series of short videos like this explaining game rendering and design tech. And group them in a playlist. I would watch all of it.

[@azuliwolf5380]

Fun fact: The waves in Sea of Thieves always barrel the same way, from North West to South East.

[@jessiim]

The waves in Sea of Thieves all travel from NW towards the SE. So even with all the fine detail, the overall shape isn't fancy but rather a simple wave that goes across the map. Just shoot up out of a cannon and you'll see what I mean.

[@Erkille7]

yeah i have seen it

[@RyanLeachrtl]

Necessary evil in order to sync all clients for hitreg.

[@jessiim]

@@Halleyy1057 it would. Except the wind isn't always going SE from the NW in Sea of Thieves

[@mattlies7426]

Here because of Ryan's recommendation, cool video and great explanation.

[@syaoranli7869]

Is the wind direction and speed thing Fourier Transformations?

[@ryanm.191]

oh god i was just tryna watch something cool about aves and then saw fourier series

[@hiiammoot]

I hoped you would cover how collision works with the waves and ships, another time maybe?

[@LineOfThy]

Probs takes the same info from the wave functions to alter the ship's position and rotation

[@mjl3631]

Getting the height of a Gerstner wave at a precise location is not mathematically possible because whatever height you get from sampling that wave is the height at a *shifted* location in X and Y, and not the location we asked for! You can approximate the result using an iterative approach: first iteration, sample the height at the asked location. Second iteration, sample the height at the asked location MINUS the X & Y location offset you got from the previous iteration and rinse & repeat. Each time you'll get a smaller and smaller X & Y location offset and you'll get closer and closer to a height that is exactly the height at the asked location.

[@Blind_Hawk]

As a computer science student with interests into game development, this was extremely cool to watch.

[@tankosiris4991]

I understand everything. Thank you for sharing so much information on this topic that I so completely understand!

[@Indyjonesfan]

YES this it why i subscribed great videos!

[@Mabifield]

Amazing that some of this tech was in Battlefield 4: Paracel Storm. Amazing for it's time.

[@ikitclaw7779]

Actually in Sea of Thieves the waves aren't effected by the wind direction they always go south east.

[@a-klashinkov-4755]

also what amazes me about sea of theives is how the water doesnt phase through the ship when you are in the lower decks, never understood how the did it

[@dealloc]

This is often achieved by depth masking. Essentially the hull of the boat/ship model is used as a mask and the camera sees through that hull and ignore specific draws within the hull.

[@MrSosho]

is it possible for a full tutorial both in unity and unreal? love your channel

[@ivaniloski6605]

im shocked how people are this talented, ilke how????

[@Skeffles]

Fascinating! It's super cool to see this can be done in UE like this.

[@jakeman025]

They need to add rouge waves.

[@Samskihero]

This was more about how and why Sea of thieves water looks so good not really how it works like ships reacting to the waves, how it syncs with other players etc.

[@Sange4499]

can you explain why we get sucked into rocks while sailing close to them? My presumption was that the particles have no where to go when the waves are near the rocks, so they go down as that's that only space for them to go there for dragging stuff on the water toward the rocks, kind of like pulling a table cloth down off the edge of the table and everything on the table gets dragged with it, but I'm probably wrong.

[@chuckjohnson3013]

There's no particles in this version of the water. The pulling towards the rocks is likely a light pull done separately towards the rock when entering its perimeter. Just some basic force field.

[@justin7649]

Great stuff, I was actually curious about this topic as I'm a fan of the game. Thanks for the explanation!

[@kickermen1559]

Why did this just remind me of the End of the world mod for GTA IV with those 300m waves

[@cashexe7934]

Incredible production quality

[@DovahClone]

Phenomenal video, right up until my eardrums were destroyed by arcade sound effects lmao

[@kaelenharbottle4428]

I would make a water shader in Unity, but this vid opens up to some more ideas to make water better in games

[@kinglionbearali2447]

One of the BEST channels.. glad to follow you

[@ChuckDNorris]

how hard would it be to make a vortex in such a water?

[@robstaaa]

This video is misleading, great video but wrong answer. Sea of thieves litterally has public papers and techinical art talks on how that did it lol They used fast fourier transform (a ton more complicated then gerstner waves, but good starting point).

[@porcuspine2368]

Ok but how do they make it interact with the boats and stuff? And how do they make it so the water doesn't clip through the bottom levels of the boats?

[@richardchristie1293]

I know it's subjective, but I don't agree that Sea of thieves water looks good. I can't bring myself to look at it, it's too hard to suspend my disbelief when in a quiet moment with calm breeze you look down to see the water morphing between heightmaps of the Himalayas! All whilst being in - matte - chlorine blue - water which seems bottomless, but is in the middle of an archipelago!? I've decided on my own lore (it's set on an alien planet), but that only goes so far when the SoT world is so bizarre.

[@NullGameDesign]

Can the mesh tessellation render distance be controlled by maybe a quadtree?

[@theodore998]

Found a new channel to sub to :) I love this shizzle

[@secabrepheox5450]

@3:00 You forgot 1 simple trick: Everything outside of camera view is not being rendered at all

[@JuanUys]

Looking forward to the "other video" alluded to towards the end there :)

[@arushford]

the fact that nobody releases their source makes these videos obsolete by their vary nature

[@wileyglass3324]

yay!!! didnt watch yet or even see the channel before but god damn that thumbnail has no business bein that thikkkk

[@kabargin]

wow, this video was extremely good

[@Benzy670]

I’ve always joked Sea of Thieves is a “wave simulator” with a pirate minigame on top lol

[@marcosmena3060]

really like your videos man, good shit! keep going! please!

[@marcosmena3060]

@Stylized_Station120 wait what? what do you mean?

[@Rhacman]

If the displacement is happening in the shader and not in the copy maintained by the CPU, doesn't that mean that your physics model can't react to the waves?

[@Annatar0]

yeah that is my question as well. Both the rendering and collision has to match to a certain degree so I wonder if they are running a lower mesh version for collision?.

[@bdenix1997]

you can do that by doing the same calculations you do in gpu on cpu. but instead for every vertex, you do it just for 1 point that you need. like player position, or a buoyant object position. then you get the waveheight, if the objects y pos is lower than waveheight, you apply force to bring that up. you can apply it on an another mesh with lower vertices but, sampling 1 point does the thing too.

[@drolsey]

would love to see a short tutorial on how to achieve such waves

[@torimrow]

I have no idea how to use unreal engine, but feel secure in that if i ever learn, i can make waves.

[@peekayhaha]

as a batman fan i screamed when he wrote “arkham city” when it was showing arkham knight gameplay

[@fuglong]

THANK YOU! Been wanting this vid

[@bomhan8549]

I haven't seen ANY one talk about stone pavements and roof shader in Genshin Impact yet. Can you please talk about it? It look so good and convincing. They made it just right no one noticed or felt off about it.

[@PutineluAlin]

That's because they achieve this result using good physical sky simulation or goof light for short the shared is basic the sun is advanced.

[@coldmass]

damn the editing is great 1:52

[@boneshakerjake]

I have never personally played sea of thieves but one thing I do understand a little bit about water in video games in particular physics based sort of "build your vehicle from scratch" games is the underwater physics the one I will talk about in this comment is airtight spaces where under the waters surface a space that shouldn't have water does sea of thieves doesn't have this issue and in fact is one of the only games I know has a working airtight space on a 3d plane the reason I mention "3d" is because in games like barotrauma and we need to go deeper have a working airtight space system mostly because of their 2d atmosphere that make it easier we need to go deeper is a different case because if I'm not mistaken the submarine is just on a background you can only see through camera's on the outside making it possible to render the water as a background as the physics is never applied to the characters unless you are at a cave in which the physics are not needed so much barotrauma is in a different category because *you can* go into the water while the sub is moving you can swim in flooded rooms, and it even has a floating number that determine if the water pressure can kill you even have ballasts which have water in them depending on your depth, but the key factor is you can exit your sub and it works kind of like an airlock in space games you close a door and open the other to the outside if others inside the sub are using the sonar or guns, they can see you swimming I admit I don't have a super good understanding of programming, but I do understand that is hard, but it only gets harder in a 3d space because you can't just determine it using different layers of backgrounds and applying physics for some of those important details sea of thieves did somehow and if you or somebody who comments knows the secret tell me I'm interested.

[@driguest]

it's funny because Cryengine 2 from 2005 have exactly this kind of shaders, and the ocean shaders working exactly the same as sea of thieves ( waves affected by wind etc ) but ..more than 15 years earlier

[@FergyB20]

Like the short info style video. Its Good.

[@biglwrab9634]

Id love to see Subnautica with big crashing waves, thunder and rain etc. Itd add a lot of ambience when you surface

[@badm.d]

The next step is gettign someone who has spent a lot of time on the water to give advice on swell and wind. As someone who has im sorry to tell you, but the wave forms in sea of thieves dont really make sense.

[@dylananhorn1]

all i want is a way to add the waves from sea of thieves to other games tbh. but i understand this topic is very complex and isnt as easy as that.

[@ayron419]

I was looking for this video. SoT water is unmatched. Love the explanation!

[@martyr4861]

cool! never heard about that gerstner formula before

[@eyeforge]

Make a video about how clouds are made in Sea of Thieves 🧐 Please 🥺

[@LightJockey]

There's a brief GDC talk on the subject if you're interested kzbin.info/www/bejne/ganRd6Vrqsx0ftU They're standard meshes that get rendered to a texture and then that texture gets warped with noise to make the clouds look "fluffy". Then some postprocessing gets applied like blurring the ones that are closer and adding proper lighting. Basically shader magic, as usual.

[@RowdyBrian17]

I didn't understand a single word of what you just said, but this was pretty cool

[@donovan4444]

Dude that outro hurt so bad

[@liamm347]

educational and entertaining. great vid!

[@josh256m8]

Stormworks looks pretty good aswell

[@-zorkaz-5493]

I'd always wondered about those insane Arkham Knight waves!

[@tematoscybersage5626]

Thank you a lot!!! I was supposing so much how they did this! So dynamic collision is not generated at all, right? They just predicting height of the wave by calculating distance to it and correct models to that height, right?

[@Cyruseh]

2:07 let me get this going real quick 😂😂

[@SirBeepsAlot]

The water in SoT starts looking like mouthwash after enough hours

[@Leonismychild]

The whole game looks good especially the water

[@williamscott3673]

I am interested in how all of the players sync waves. When fighting another player, both players see the same wave. That seems like way to much data for a server to constantly be sending to the players (a rapidly changing height map!)

[@toebeexyz]

The algorithm used to generate the waves is deterministic which means it can be generated with a seed and be the same every time. All the game has to do is give every player the same seed and boom same waves.

[@rexdoom3848]

Love the video, very informative, but the beeps and boops are a little too much louder than the voices for my tastes.

[@NakedAvanger]

i got scared that this would be yet another 1 hour long video essay

[@dannyrpt]

What is the background music? It sounds really good

[@LetuscontinueBlending]

how is this special wind function called you were talking at the end of the video?

[@gamerkingdom1442]

Huh, that’s a really clever way to make waves! Thanks for the info, I may have to test this in the future…