Make sure that you use the same exact wave settings
HeHello, could you please tell me how to make the character swim on the waves, I have it moving up and down, but this more or less works when the character is next to a bone.
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local LocalPlayer = Players.LocalPlayer
local PlayerGui = LocalPlayer.PlayerGui
local Backpack = LocalPlayer.Backpack
local Character = LocalPlayer.Character
local HRP = Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local Hum = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local Wave3 = game:GetService("Workspace").Wave3
local origPosTable = {}
for i, bone in pairs(Wave3.Plane:GetChildren()) do
if bone:IsA("Bone") then
origPosTable[bone] = bone.Position
end
end
function GerstnerWave(SamplePosition,Wavelength,Direction,Steepness,Gravity,SampleTick)
local k = (2 * math.pi) / Wavelength
local a = Steepness/k
local d = Direction.Unit
local c = math.sqrt(Gravity / k)
local f = k * d:Dot(Vector2.new(SamplePosition.X,SamplePosition.Z)) - c * SampleTick
local cosF = math.cos(f)
--Displacement Vectors
local dX = (d.X * (a * cosF))
local dY = a * math.sin(f)
local dZ = ( d.Y * (a * cosF))
return Vector3.new(dX,dY,dZ)
end
game:GetService("RunService").Heartbeat:Connect(function()
for i, bone in pairs(Wave3.Plane:GetChildren()) do
if bone:IsA("Bone") then
local bonePos = GerstnerWave(origPosTable[bone], 120, Vector2.new(1, 0.5), 0.6, 1.5, tick()/8)
bone.Position = origPosTable[bone] + bonePos
if (HRP.Position - bone.WorldPosition).Magnitude <= 100 then
local v = Vector3.new(HRP.Position.X, bone.WorldPosition.Y, HRP.Position.Z)
Character:MoveTo(v)
end
end
end
end)
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The texture of the ocean mesh looks too massive/stretched and not realistic
What I am offering is the code for the wave, the texture I used is from another tutorial, and is purely for educational purposes. If you donât like the texture, change it, I am just open-sourcing the module and an example.
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His texture worked just great for me switching it from a surfaceappearence to MaterialVarient.
I switched to materialvarient but then the textures looked repetitive and weird
I donât seem to have any issues with them? Did you be sure to switch the MaterialPattern to Organic? On regular you will see massive tiling.
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Woah it looks cooler now, but iâm not sure if materialservice is live yet
MaterialService went live in-game few days ago.
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Oh, Great! Thank you for the answer, Although one last thing, If there were multiple planes (10+) will the game lag? even tho there is maximum render distance customization in the script? since the creator of this module said 4 planes may lag? Nvm, i just realized these final questions donât seem to be answered.
Hello, is there any way of adding object floating and swimming to this âoceanâ?
If yes then could somebody help me with it? If no then is there a way of doing this any other way?
does anyone have the function to get the height of the wave since im making a boat that will need this
Is it possible to make this ocean infinite? Or is there any way to make it cover more area?
Im not sure, I could code it if I get the time but Iâm pretty busy, however I will tell you how to get cracking on making your own.
The skinned mesh I provided contains a ton of squares that each corner connects to a bone. You can get the position on the wave of the height you want to get, get the four bones that the point is inside of, and calculate the height based off of the four positions of the bones.
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What you could do is create like 4 or more of these oceans, and as the player moves in a direction, move the fastest wave planes in front of where the player is moving, giving it a chunk loading effect but you really are just moving waves. You do not want to update wave frames every frame to the character of camera position, as that will not move the texture with it (unless there is a way to do skinned mesh texture offset, I canât remember as I am using the demo wave from another tutorial I linked in the OP).
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Is there a way to sync the waves with the server? Not render in on the server, but If i were to name a position with a specific wave instance or something then it will give the height of the wave at that point(trying to implement buoyancy)
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Hi
The way I did it was by making the scripts that calculate waveheight a shared module.
Keep in mind that the time component in the Gerstner formula should be synced as precisely as possible between the server and the clients (with of course the server as authority).
This way you could update bones on each client (which would be an intensive calculation for the server), and make server-owned objects float using simpler calculations on the server.
An important parmeter here is server-owned! Use this piece of code on the object you want to float: partToFloat:SetNetworkOwner(nil)
I donât think you understand, what I want to do is be able to input a vector2 of x and z and get a Y value out of that(the top of the wave at that specific point)
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For anyone wondering how to get the exact height of a gerstner wave at a specific position, you have to use an iterative function that backtracks to get the height at the desired position.
13:21 of this video provides a perfect visual
It is likely the most performant method, and doesnât take an octtree or other shenanigans.
The only downside (maybe) is that it doesnât get the visual height, but the actual height of the function at that point. It would essentially be the height if your mesh had infinite bones.
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Sorry for the late reply, but I believe I understood your question correctly. I explained how you would make a server part float (in broad terms). You should be able to implement this on your own using some of the tips I gave.
Sorry for the unclear explanation, but I canât give away the scripts. I hope you understand.
As @WreckDough pointed out you can only get an approximation of the height from an xz-pos. I found that running the position twice through the bone offset function already produced a good enough result for my usecase.
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