Swimming Movement Tutorial - Unreal Engine 5.4

[@BodoppelnCrawick]

I've commented here before and I'll say it again : You became one of my favourite UE5 youtubers. Thanks for this Tutorial and I'm patiently waiting for new videos

[@peanut_games]

That makes my day, I wish I could post more and show off larger projects but in the meantime I really appreciate the patience :)

[@coolguy-xb2yn]

does the underwater postprocess/waterline line up with the water surface for you? using water body custom, mine is very misaligned, and sometimes doesn't even appear at all when placed at certain Z heights.

[@peanut_games]

Yes I'm looking back on the project and for this video I just placed it at the right Z value lol.. Water body custom is a disaster, use other water bodies if you can, uncheck affects landscape

[@Dodo_ozc]

When my character goes in water he moves like he is slipping, how can i fix that?

[@peanut_games]

that's air friction in the character movement component

[@Dodo_ozc]

@peanut_games Thanks a lot

[@AadhirBaskar]

broo thirdperson please🙏

[@astralstormgamestudios1259]

Couldn't see from the tutorial, but can he swim on surface? I made a swimming system but he could only swim under water. Couldn't figure out how to swim on surface

[@peanut_games]

Yeah it works pretty well if you swap the jump with another input for movement that only moves up the Z axis

[@JustinJohnStanley]

Any tips how i could make it so that while I'm in water, my buoyancy constantly tries to pull me to the surface? (But i can still fight it and swim down). Love the video!

[@peanut_games]

Epic's buoyancy is only for physics, so I'd say simplest way is to create a new ticking component that applies force via "Launch Character" or similar nodes, and gets deleted when the buoyancy component detects exit from water.

[@JustinJohnStanley]

@@peanut_games thanks I'll try that!

[@peanut_games]

@@JustinJohnStanley I should add, for anything that ticks with an effect you'll have to adjust the amplitude by frame rate, otherwise advantages will be given to laggy or high fps players depending on what it is. It's Target Framerate ( 60 ) divided by ( 1 / Get World Delta Seconds ) will give you the multiplier. Put it into a universal function library and call it framerate scale or something.

[@lobot50mc15]

I'm having a problem where in the ocean if i keep swimming and looking up while moving to a wave i will keep the flying effect

[@JustinJohnStanley]

Me too

[@peanut_games]

@@JustinJohnStanley Check if the on exit water is even firing with a print string node. If not, that's epic's problem lol and you may have to use tick to check if you're in water every frame 💀

[@julianwardmusic]

What is the swimming movement mode? Could you perhaps link me to a tutorial for how to use it?

[@julianwardmusic]

Oh, I see that I could probably infer from what I am seeing in this tutorial.

[@peanut_games]

the default swimming movement relies on a manually placed collision box in the level to trigger swim so it wouldn't allow you to swim up large waves for example

[@julianwardmusic]

@@peanut_games Thanks for the reply!

[@StudioVacant]

Thanks man

[@Adil-vi8xw]

Ur discord server link?