Create breathtaking oceans and glistening seas with OceanShaper - a games focused, highly customizable ocean water system for Unreal Engine!

Overview Video | Setup Video | Performance Video

With multiple tiers of customizable ocean waves, custom wave actors, foam simulation, interactive water, underwater post process, a split view waterline effect, bioluminescence, animated caustics, buoyancy functions, and a high degree of modularity, OceanShaper is ideal for those wanting to create a range of both stylized or realistic oceans and water.

Features:

• Craft anything from calm and gentle seas, to stormy oceans with enormous waves 

• Fully customize water color with additional controls for wave crest and trough color + subsurface scattering 

• Customize wall falloff towards the shore of your landscape 

• Detailed and highly configurable water interaction for any number of actors + foam trails for boats

• Control wind influence on each tier of ocean waves individually 

• Wave foam simulation and shoreline foam

• Custom wave actors allow you to hand place waves in specific locations for better art direction 

• Adjustable bioluminescence effects on the ocean shore, on wave crests, and when interacting with water add an extra level of immersion in night-time conditions 

• Seamlessly tiling Gerstner waves generated in Niagara for optimal performance 

• Modular system means you can pick and choose the effects you actually need for your project 

• Create a variety of different water styles to suit various themes and settings - from vibrant tropical waters to chilling arctic seas - stylized or realistic, fantasy, sci-fi, horror, toxic waters etc 

• Buoyancy functions included allow you to set up your own buoyancy system + a simple physics based controllable boat is included to help get you started

• Control detail reduction in the distance to reduce noticeable tiling patterns 

• Multiple example oceans included with different wave styles ranging from calm to stormy + color variations to demonstrate different types of water 

• Underwater post-processing effects (fog, caustics, depth-based darkening) help create a range of aquatic atmospheres - from tropical shallows to thalassophobia inducing depths 

• Lifelike animated caustics effects with multiple patterns to choose from

• Sea spray particles at wave crests

• Demo island environment included 

• Written documentation + video setup guides + in-editor tooltips

The system is easy to set up in just a few minutes - just follow the provided written documentation or watch the setup video linked above. Join the discord or send an email for support - see info in documentation.