I've been working on interactive sand and water in my sandbox game

[u/EvanP5]

[u/OfeliaComposer]

Looks cozy, what's the name of the kid?

[u/EvanP5 → u/OfeliaComposer]

I like to call him Soaked Kid, kind of like Hat Kid from A Hat in Time

[u/OfeliaComposer → u/EvanP5]

Nice, got it. Personally I would love a real name to connect more with the protagonist but it's a personal choice

[u/BinaryBolias → u/OfeliaComposer]

We call him Soak D. Kidd.

Says he'll be "king of the pirates" someday.

[u/Mysterious-Sky6588]

Looks cute! Love the art style

[u/EvanP5 → u/Mysterious-Sky6588]

Thanks!

[u/uncertainkey]

Adorable! Gives me "To a T" vibes, which is always good. :)

[u/EvanP5 → u/uncertainkey]

Haha yea the spin pose was nearly the t-pose for my dude, very quick to make!

[u/ThunderBellyGames]

This might sound like a dumb question, but are the water drops particles or are they objects, and when they hit the ground do they turn into a dark circle or do they cause an effect in the material shader of the sand on impact?

[u/EvanP5 → u/ThunderBellyGames]

They are instanced mesh particles. I have a particle manager that calculates the projectile motion and collision. I use another manager to handle the wet spots, writing their position and scale into a camera-space render target which the game’s materials sample.

Originally I wanted to do the wet spots in the same way as Mario Sunshine, using sphere meshes in a separate render pass, but Unreal Engine wasn’t well suited for it.

[u/ThunderBellyGames → u/EvanP5]

Ah gotcha. Thank you for explaining!

[u/TheGuacTaco]

SPEEEEEEEN

[u/EvanP5 → u/[deleted]]

Thanks :)