Realistic Boat System (Floats on terrain water) | Optimized, Free

[Ringible]

Hi all, so a long time ago I created myself a realistic boat system with the use of @robro786’s water height calculator for Roblox terrain.

For a long while I kept it to myself but I got a lot of messages from people asking for the system, and now I’m deciding to give it to the public.

HOWEVER, I don’t really have a tutorial for this, so you must have some knowledge with Luau in order to create your own boats (just have a look at the boats in the kit for reference, and notice they all have the same folders, just try and copy and possibly do some research online like I did).

I can provide some help if you shoot me a DM on this platform, but I haven’t had the time to create a tutorial, hence why this system wasn’t released to the public for a long time.

! I WILL NOT BE UPDATING THIS !

If you want to grab the rblx file, it’s linked below:
Downlaod Boat System Here (rblx) (1.8 MB)

Some showcases of the system:

As always credit given would be great but it’s not required.

I would love to see what you guys create with this, even if it’s improving it, I would love to see this go mainstream and be used in big games in the future!

If you want to look into the water height calculator module more, here is the original post:

Sampling Terrain Water Height at Any Position

Have you ever wanted to create a buoy or boat or make any effect that required the height of a wave in Roblox? Unfortunately, as of now, Roblox provides now way to do this. So, I reverse-engineered Roblox’s current wave function and came up with a pretty accurate approximation, if not the exact equation. Just a disclaimer, this may not always match the Roblox terrain waves. If Roblox changes its wave function, this script won’t work anymore. --[[ robro786 5/18/2021 ]] --[[ NOTE: Waves use t…

[Virvek]

Why is it when I’m making a boat game, and I spend like a full week making my boat this just now comes out. (Don’t get me wrong I’m not complaining) But bruh this could have saved me soooo much time, plus this system is way more realistic than just my plank of wood “Floating” on water lol

If I do use this I will 100% give credit! Awesome work and thank you for giving it to the community, especially for FREE!!

[baseparts]

This looks really cool, thank you for open sourcing this

[diamond6529 (casualexplorer)]

Thank you so much! I’ve tried to recreate this effect for almost a year Will give credit on my next project

[Lord_BradyRocks]

It is cool. Thanks for sharing.

Question, if it is sampling the wave height, why when I increase the wave height does it not rock more ?

Also the water waves go through the boat. Is it on a static plane or relative to the terrain water?

Thanks

[Ringible]

So that’s the issue I had and just haven’t had the time to work on it further, it’s something to do with the syncing of the waves when the boat initialises, I’m sure you could do some further digging, but for now, I don’t have the time to work on it.