Solving an N Wave Problem about oceanproject HOT 2 CLOSED

I'll be digging heavily into this kind've stuff for my subsim game as time goes on and my knowledge of cpp and ue4's api increases

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The C++ part could be modified to solve as many gerstner waves as the user wants but the material side is a different story! there is no support for arrays or for-loops and so the number of waves have to be pre-defined in the shader.
We actually had 16 waves before but DotCam disabled the second cluster since it's wasn't making a huge visual difference anyway and the performance boost is probably worth it IMO.

That said, it is already possible to enable the 16 wave mode by enabling the second cluster from the material instance (but there are no configs for the second cluster in the blueprint or C++ so you will have to edit the code a bit).

And btw about whirlpools and wakes.. I really don't think you can make those with gerstner waves, those need a method of their own.

At the end of the day the gerstner wave system that we currently have is only a temporary solution so unless your project requires this soon then I would not bother too much with it, we will have an FFT system eventually which will be easily configurable via Beaufort scale (it's only a matter of time really).

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