Waterline PRO Tutorial: Dynamic Water Simulation - Part 4 Character Interaction

[@dumpsterfireproductions]

For a multiplayer project we also recommend watching this video as well - the key part is that you may need to add some extra nodes to your player pawn that we go over here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6vMpJWsZtOMock

[@unrealopenworld]

This looks very good! How can I make a character swim? That would be the most important interaction.

[@W.P17]

I don't have Ultra Dynamic Sky cloud shadows on the water surface

[@dumpsterfireproductions]

Hi! If UDS uses light functions, to generate cloud shadows chances are that they won't work as light functions in general are not supported on translucent water materials at the moment - it's an engine limitation

[@W.P17]

@@dumpsterfireproductions thx

[@maxsazanov8327]

Hi. Can Waterline interact with Chaos Physics? I have been tweaking many diffrent collision settings a long time but I haven't get any result. Fractured pieces don't interact with the water surface. Maybe I do something wrong or the WaterLine can't work with Chaos Physics yet?

[@dumpsterfireproductions]

Hi! Interesting! We don't have much experience with Chaos Physics in general although in theory it should work. Cloud you send us some details regarding your setup to our support email so we can replicate it and can do some tests internally?

[@laysiong1945]

Hi, is it possible to create water vortex or wave tide crushing each other with Waterlinepro?

[@dumpsterfireproductions]

Hi! Not out of the box with the tools we've provided BUT we have had other users successfully blend alembic flip fluid simulations from other software with Waterline, they also made a tutorial on how they achieved this here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZSZi2qsp7Cmb80 This is a 3rd party tutorial so we can't guarantee the outcome, but from the what we've seen it does look possible.

[@AllTotalWar]

realistically how performant is this to be used in an open world game as an endless ocean? I've seen a mixture of reviews that comment how heavy intensive waterline pro is and not quite geared for games but more for cinematics

[@dumpsterfireproductions]

Hi! You can use it for both since you can really fine tune the simulation quality and other VFX to match what you need - some effects are more expensive to run than others. You can have a look at some of our per-packadged demo projects on our storefront to get a better understanding of performance - it's worth noting that UE4 generally runs faster on older hardware though you can get similar results in UE5 by lowering some of the general graphics settings like Lumen :)

[@AllTotalWar]

@@dumpsterfireproductions I have seen that but that demo is very outdated now and needs a new one to match the latest version.

[@mr_sezam]

Hi! Can I use Waterline interaction (waves from objects) with sequencer and render it?

[@dumpsterfireproductions]

Yup! :D

[@MortalShores]

@@dumpsterfireproductions I have dropped in a mannequin into my map, with the gen3 ocean, and during sequencer playback with simulation started, I get no collision. Ive added the collision channel, enabled overlap events, and adjusted collision settings to Query Only. Not sure what to do

[@dumpsterfireproductions]

​@@MortalShores Hi! Could it be an issue with the way Waterline is tracking the mannequin - the default setup looks at the player pawn currently controlled, custom game modes can sometimes require some extra steps to implement. As we don't always get notification here could you contact us on our support email with some details regarding your setup :)

[@MortalShores]

@@dumpsterfireproductions ah, as Im not controlling, but in sequencer, that may be the issue! I will reach out to support, thanks!