Dynamic Ocean - Where to position/angle the beams

[Joyniser]

Hi everyone!

I’m currently trying to create a dynamic ocean using beams, but I’m not sure on how to position/angle the beams so they don’t overlap each other. I’ve looked for a couple of days, on here and other websites, but can’t find the answer.

I am aware of this topic on the forums:

Help on creating a dynamic ocean using Beams

Hi. I recently played a game called Fishing Simulator, which contains amazing waves and ocean physics. After searching everywhere about this, I figured out this effect was created using beams, so I set out to create an algorithm to do this. It is just nodes ordered in a grid, and I attached beams between each of them. It created this when moving the nodes around using the move tool: [image] This, however, is not the intended result. The intended result is the video in this post: It turns out…

And a developer on Fishing Simulator gave an answer that is:

Help on creating a dynamic ocean using Beams

The way I setup each beam was between 4 positions which I like to call “nodes” (they’re aren’t actual parts, just Vector3s). A beam has only two attachments however, so you have to position and rotate each attachment between two of the nodes.

However, I can’t quite visualise how this looks. I’m aware that they took this out of the game, but I want it for a much smaller scale.

Does anyone know what they mean with the positioning/angle, and maybe a diagram or something would help.

Thank you very much,

Joy