Unreal Engine 5 Fluid Flux Breaking Waves Initial Setup Tutorial

[@nemysisretrogaming3771]

One small tip. Make the Coastline domain Z height higher than your water level or the waves won't render correctly and the sound also doesn't work properly.

[@AaronFhd]

Thanks

[@williamlacrosse9389]

One of the Best feature in the UE market place by far!

[@touristhawk]

a bit late but it actually works with meshes through distance field too. wheb you add a mesh you hit rebuild on domain.

[@JimJams-qf9vv]

Brilliant Tutorial! Got me up and running.

[@AaronFhd]

Thanks

[@901coryowens]

Would be SO great if they could make these water plugins work with static meshes. I have a whole 1:1 replica of Memphis, Tennessee that I'm wanting to add a beach to, but the whole project is a static mesh

[@AaronFhd]

Thanks everyone for watching

[@importon]

Can't wait until the waves can get much bigger. Surfing sim here we come!

[@marcapouli7805]

I hope this asset will be in the free for the month one day, I really would like to try it!

[@Paradoxx4k]

never will happen 😂😂

[@marcapouli7805]

@@Paradoxx4k Then I'll never use it, too bad

[@Preirin]

Discount? Probably. Free? Bootleg out of date maybe. From the developer? Most probably not. I feel your pain

[@marcapouli7805]

@@Preirin I won't be able to purchase even if it is on discount, unfortunately. Yes it is painful not having money for anything

[@neonbeachgames]

Great work! Would love a tutorial on swimming :)

[@wilismatrix9847]

any tutorial on how to add ultradynamicSky weather effects to the landscape for wetness and sbow and keep the wet short of the beach ?

[@AaronFhd]

I don't know if any tutorials but join the fluid flux discord and ask in there under support

[@biblescenes]

Thanks for the Tutorial, there seems to be little in the way of good explanations on KZbin. Did you find out if it was possible to use meshes?

[@AaronFhd]

Yes you can use meshes. The domain should put a grid for collision around them. You can see it with the debug

[@biblescenes]

Aah ok, thanks for coming back so quickly. I've literally just purchased it and followed your tutorial. I added a large cube onto the shoreline in the hope that it may interact with the water but nothing seems to happen. (I am not familiar with the debug):( EDIT. I just moved the Coastline domain up and down and now its working. :)

[@AaronFhd]

@@biblescenes Join the Fluid flux discord lots of help there as well.

[@numericfx2581]

What version of Unreal Engine are you using, sir... I tried using Fluid Flux on UE 5.3 but it didn't work ..i feel Comfused

[@AaronFhd]

I have done this with the latest version used same method

[@numericfx2581]

Sir, do you have Telegram... i want ask something about Fluid Flux ,i'm so comfused for the setting @@AaronFhd 🙏

[@FPChris]

I have a culling issue. I'm using this on an 8kmx8km landscape. It's all good but I have a large canyon in my map. I used the cut mask bp to cut out that area. Again, all good. But if the player's view is close to eye level with where the waterline level is then the ocean culling fails and looks like a flat plane popping up at the far end of my canyon. So far I can't get this to stop happening.

[@AaronFhd]

@@FPChris that is weird. Join the discord for fluid flux and ask in the help area. Post screenshots etc

[@FPChris]

Resolved: Maybe this will help someone. Under the coastline bp change "Infinite Grid Levels Over" from 5 to 7.

[@ibrahimakca8628]

It is possible to take the ship over the water in this sea simulation. How to do it?

[@dreambadger]

Outside of pricing, what are the main differences with Fluid Flux, Oceanology and FluidNinja? Are some better in certain use cases than others? Just asking as I imagine others will be weighing up same options.

[@AaronFhd]

That pretty much it. Each have their strengths. I am sure some will adopt some features from others. But keep there core

[@igorkirdeika4765]

All tutorials I find, the plugins already in the content folder... any tutorial how to add its folder there? Trying to copy in the game directory but doesn't work...

[@AaronFhd]

You need to add engine content and plugin content in the browser

[@igorkirdeika4765]

​@@AaronFhd Yes you need... For those who had the same question that is how you do it, after unpack the plugin folder, there's a project inside. Open it and migrate (right click the content folder name Fluid Flux > Migrate) to the content folder of your project. Plugins like UDS, you can just copy the folder trough explorer, but flux is different, somehow need this migrate thing to work...thanks for the reply anyway!

[@IIIQZAIII]

well done

[@williamminnaar6311]

Hello there - Thank you for the AWESOME tutorial - Not many good ones on Fluid Flux! A question, if I have an area, a lake in my case - How do I fill it with water - Without having to add the modifier and then wait for it to fill up! LOL, which can take a while :)

[@AaronFhd]

I don’t think you can do that with fluid flux would have to check. But best to just use plane with a water texture

[@williamminnaar6311]

@@AaronFhd Hi there - I bought Flux 2.0 - Been testing it a lot - It's awesome - A question - How do you use Initial State? do you understand how it works?

[@AaronFhd]

@@williamminnaar6311 take a look at the docs and also there is some tutorials, and the discord is a great resource

[@斯基-k9y]

Why is my sea shining?

[@AaronFhd]

Don’t understand? Visit the fluid flux discord and post in the support

[@斯基-k9y]

@@AaronFhd I found out that it was with ndisplay

[@Offbeater]

Why sometimes in my project water just disappears when I open the project only I get the surface..of caustics..

[@AaronFhd]

That is weird Join the discord and ask maybe there is a bug

[@VIJITHRAMvk]

veryusefull thanks

[@AaronFhd]

No problem 👍

[@pixel_carved]

for some reason im not able to select fluxOcean wave as ocean wave actor in surface_coastline

[@AaronFhd]

you should be able to. Make sure you are putting it on the correct spot

[@anurag3154]

Does anyone know how to add water caustics in fluid flux? I tried most of the stuff in fluid flux but can’t make caustics working.

[@AaronFhd]

Would have to look back but I think its the texture

[@kudjo24]

How would you get this into a dif map with different landscape for example?

[@AaronFhd]

Exactly the same way I did it here

[@CaelAnim8ter]

I wish I understood if this was running the physics on the CPU Or GPU, as well as how it works like In general, and what are it's limitations. My guess is the physics are calculated on the GPU? Makes me wonder the inner workings of this system.

[@AaronFhd]

This is all baked. Only thing that is real time is the interactions

[@Mahibul]

How to render in Sequencer using movie render queue? Thanks

[@AaronFhd]

@@Mahibul just like you would if you where making a movie. But out can draft it in from the outliner

[@Josh_Alfaro]

in UE5.4 the the entire ocean has this really choppy white water look for some reason. I tried tweaking the settings but doesn't seem to change it. help:(

[@AaronFhd]

I haven’t fully moved to 5.4 yet. I will take a look to see what is going on

[@Josh_Alfaro]

@@AaronFhdthank you!

[@IndigoKidda]

im using multiple static meshes, but when i do this it only works on one mesh (the one i drop it onto), any idea how to make it work with all static meshes in the level'? thanks

[@AaronFhd]

I had this issue as well make sure collision is on the objects. But what fixed it was changing the height of the ocean then putting it back. It updated all the meshes

[@IndigoKidda]

thanks man will try that, always change the height and not tried this

[@IndigoKidda]

@@AaronFhd it worked, thanks so much man, one more thing do u know if its possible to section a small bit of a coastline to use as a small lake without the excess world fill? without having to make a simulation?

[@AaronFhd]

@@IndigoKidda if you check out the sample map there is a modifier that will make the ocean calmer. And there is a some other sample as well

[@danielgracia3078]

i searched for coast but there is no bluprint named Coastline !

[@FPChris]

9:03 can you adjust that flow speed? It seems a little fast.

[@AaronFhd]

Yes you can

[@azythegreat]

How big is that map in your video? I have a large open-world map in World Partiton, multiple island 75% sea. Fluid Flux isn't an option. Too heavy. FPS killer. RTX 3080ti + R9 + 128GB RAM

[@AaronFhd]

The system can do 10km x 10km

[@nemysisretrogaming3771]

10900k, 3080 and 32 gig ram until Friday when another 64 gig arrives. I have 8kx8k landscape scaled 3x to total 24x24k map. Switched out oceanology for the new Fluid Flux and I have no FPS hit switching between the 2. Fluid Flux ocean is covering all of my landscape. Set your area world pixel size to 1000 and if your landscape is bigger than 10x10 then increase the Area resolution by powers of 2. So 1024 or 2048 for example. I have it set to 2048 for my large landscape.

[@nemysisretrogaming3771]

@@AaronFhd You can push it out further. I have it at 20x20 km.

[@azythegreat]

@@nemysisretrogaming3771 World Partition?

[@advancedtechnologiesandresearc]

this is a work or art.

[@thefloydian1876]

hi br, thanks for the video really helped a lot but I have a huge problem now, while rendering the fluid flux ocean the ocean moves in every single sample of the frame, for example I have 32*4 samples per frame in movie render queue that 1 frame with 128 sample fluid flux ocean moves 128 frames forward while sampling 1 frame so second frame starts from 129 while it should've started from 2nd frame, Can anyone help me please, I have been stuck on the rendering part from 4 days cause of this problem 😢

[@AaronFhd]

Join the fluid flux discord and as in the support area.

[@thefloydian1876]

@@AaronFhd liked and subbed bro

[@Canadia_nhomie4]

Hey question I’m trying to use this with als so how do I add ripples and stuff to my alsv4 character

[@AaronFhd]

Check out the documentation from the marketplace page. There is also a discord link and the developer is awesome. Also load the demo scenes and inspect the third person characters that will help

[@Deck_Dynasty]

Have you tried this out with multiple discrete landscape pieces in the same map? Does it work?

[@AaronFhd]

Yes it does

[@Offbeater]

How can we simulate things like boat or object to create foam interaction...

[@AaronFhd]

Through the blueprints

[@Offbeater]

But how can.. there is no tutorial if you can help me please... Just wanted to know the process...

[@AaronFhd]

@@Offbeater if you join the discord for it and look at the documentation. I haven’t got that far in one of my projects yet

[@thaZeref]

does this work well on Mac? m3 max on the way btw.

[@AaronFhd]

I don't think mac is supported for this plugin

[@thaZeref]

@@AaronFhd on the UE marketplace it says it is

[@AaronFhd]

@@thaZeref yah it should work but will be very performance heavy

[@gulagwarlord]

Thanks for the breakdown. I tried increasing the amount of foam with this setup but I'm having trouble.

[@gulagwarlord]

I figured out how to boost/tweak the foam... you have to play with the settings in the Foam section of the MI_OceanOver material. The new emissive parameter is nice. The cool thing about the breaking waves and the foam is you can see the foam texture wrap up inside the curl of the waves as they break, looks awesome.

[@jhonysteak5512]

Anyone figure out how to change the color of the water?

[@AaronFhd]

Watch the vid they have presets to change the near and far water Color.

[@jhonysteak5512]

I finally understood in the demo I get there without worries it is the bp_fluxsurface_water that must be modified. On the other hand in a personalized level it is not possible to select it. All I have to do is find out how to do it, logically it's in edit bp_flux, I'll look for it there, there's a lot of parameters, you just have to find the right one.@@AaronFhd

[@smanzoli]

Great! I run to download it... unfortunately this blueprint costs $350 bucks 🥺 It should be free... than many more would use and learn... in case a game is published using it, THEN you pay it... like UE itself.

[@AaronFhd]

Yea it’s expensive but someone needs to get get paid for the work they are doing

[@leonilsonbezerra4006]

I found it reminds me of island map from ark survival evolved 🤔🤫🤭

[@Deck_Dynasty]

...

[@nathangaming369]

350$!!!! u must be joking lol too expensive, at least 100$ not 350 🤷

[@blizzyblob]

do you realize the work that went into the coding of this? an independent coder/team made a REAL TIME water physics engine that rivals anything ive seen from a AAA title and youre bitching about the price. i can see where your son gets his brains from.

[@lucytop8977]

expensive. no good.

[@tofyeforyou]

any update on the ability for static mesh interaction? Thank you, great video

[@AaronFhd]

would have to check but I am sure it can be done through blueprints you can always join the discord and ask the developer

[@kinkias]

GTA V water looks more real

[@itsdw2323]

U must be joking

[@sinistera1634]

Why is it so expensive 🥲

[@masya6234]

Hi, I have a problem: my material about the landscape does not allow the ocean to work properly, I have already tried to find solutions and ideas, it must be because of pixeldepthoffset, and in order to fix it, material from flux MF_FluxPixelDepthOffset is required, but I could not fix it The screen is approximately the same as it should be in the material: imaginaryblend.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/pixel-depth-1024x283.jpg A screenshot of how it originally was for me: i2.paste.pics/cf707dd356637f5c88f444e8d2a3f05d.png i2.paste.pics/4c42886dd84743e08831705527e2c364.png Screenshot of how I did it 1 OPTION: i2.paste.pics/03d7e0b5cf4f23eaaad1ecee2610a785.png i2.paste.pics/1f570527f6928f74bdbfe07d0a7b64c8.png Screenshot of how I did it OPTION 2: i2.paste.pics/d357416c4879d712ecf96d1b1ea89e2e.png

[@AaronFhd]

Hmm weird sorry don't know what's causing it. you should join the discord and ask in the support section