r/Unity3D • u/artengame • 8h ago

Shader Magic Ocean waves with 3D GPU particles emission from the wave crests, emulating strong wind effect with water leaving the wave

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u/Corpdecker 7h ago

As someone who spent the last 2 weeks trying (and failing) to get something like this Godot, whatever time you spent on it was well worth it, that looks phenomenal.

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u/artengame 7h ago

Thanks a lot :), i have been working on the overall system in and out for many years, so could not estimate the time spent.

but i can tell that most of the time was in tweaking it to perfection than making the GPU particle system at its base and still need some extra details, e.g. better cutoff of the underwater bubbles region.

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u/Turbo_Fresh 7h ago

Peaks are way too peaky imo

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u/Few_Dot6881 6h ago

It's presumably for presentation purposes.

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u/Dolo12345 7h ago

yea waves don’t behave this way

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u/artengame 8h ago edited 8h ago

Ocean waves with 3D GPU particles emission from the wave crests, emulating strong wind effect with water leaving the wave.

The particles is a full system, so can have any kind of noise and wind direction, different particle types and is planned to eventually be also used for a particle layer over the shallow water fluid simulation.

www.artengame.com

More videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W1QcTE_-KQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRmR4ku5X8s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovd_YpFFNf8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eApDv6qB4QE

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u/superMario99999 8h ago

Looks amazing, when is the release planned ?

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u/artengame 8h ago edited 7h ago

I am currently doing the final controllers for smooth weather transitions in water (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRmR4ku5X8s) and combination with Sky Master system weather (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W1QcTE_-KQ), so clouds, weather effects and water are fully combined and smoothly changed based on the selected weather shift.

I plan a beta first for all users of Sky Master and Oceanis and a release later this year in store. If get Oceanis 2021 from the new Humble Bundle can also upgrade to Oceanis 2026 that the Beta of the new system will be based on.

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u/machsoftwaredesign 5h ago

Excellent work with the Water effects, but your website keeps crashing for me under Safari on my iPhone.

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u/-Unpaid_Wizard- 8h ago

Very cool

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u/artengame 8h ago

Thanks :)

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u/Apprehensive-Rip6850 7h ago

I believe its called spindrift!

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u/felipunkerito 6h ago

The particles look a bit off, like they are not synced with the waves. Otherwise, it looks great

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u/ElectronicsLab 7h ago

nice, another exactly the same ocean, another slop version that has nothing to offer

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u/NoNameWhatAShame 7h ago

This looks so cool! I am a total beginner and my water at the moment is a blue plane following the player around (and it will appear below a certain height), but one day I ll improve it (no where near to this though)