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This would be absolutely insane in VR and every kid's dream

For added realism, render an inverted camera in the water. Like the water droplet from the astronaut at 5:58 or the glass balls. It'll feel more real because our brains automatically assume it'll invert so when it doesn't, we feel something is off about the water.

there is an old game called "From Dust", you can learn so much from it, despite being a 2009 game it is still a technical masterpiece in term of water and terrain deformation.

Interesting idea - I like the fact that your graphics card wasn't up to water simulation - it made you think of a different solution which means other people without high end gaming systems will be able to play it as well!

Water bending has always been a cool concept, especially if you could control different liquids with different viscosity so they act different (maybe something you could play around with). Great work and I’m excited to see the next step, you’ve got my sub!

OH MY GOOODDDDDDDD!!! i've been dreaming for this! Thank you so much for sharing this,Tamara!

Great to see you back with such an awesome project! Realistic water is so hard, and it's amazing to see how you're doing it on limited hardware. I hope it makes a fun game.

Implementing liquid physics (at any form) is always a lot of fun! Few years ago I also made a very short game about water-bending but in 2D. Even with that, the mechanics were already tricky to design and implement. Looking forward to how you will approach this topic in 3D! It's not much and 1-dimension less but if you are looking for inspirations you can find a little showcase video of that game on my channel.

Hello. I am studying to become a game designer/dev. A few things that could help. To make the water seem more realistic you could put a multitude of things in the water to sell the realism. A few things such as air bubbles, dirt particles, murkiness, etc. As for the inversion, it is more noticable on small droplets but if its large bubbles you can do a warp effect instead. Obviously its still in its early stages but the player should collect the water for bending. So instead of a large droplet coming out of the water it would be more of a stream coming out of the body of water into the players hands, collecting until the water necessary is bendable. This could be acomplished using a teather system that attaches the players hand to the body of water. It would sell the fluidity of the water you are collecting especially if the player moves around while they are.

Very well delivered, honest presentation. Your perseverance is impressive. To me, final shots look more like mercury coming out of water, but what do I know! Good luck, wishlisted as requested.

I have ALWAYS wanted to be a waterbender, and loved water simulations. I've rewatched Moana so many times just for how the water looks. Didn't know I needed this game until now. My one request is the ability to be able to change the state of the water, too - make it ice or fog! I want to throw icicle knives at people or obscure my presence with fog like a smoke bomb.

So glad to see you back Tamara😇The work is impressive as always.

5:54 How have I not thought about this? Water in space is fantastic animation reference!

This might be a personal preference, but I think if you went for a more stylized look it would help make the water look even better. It would also prolly help running it on your computer in general.

I definitely will be staying updated! I've always wanted to waterbend and watched the same shows as a kid too so I totally get where you're coming from!

I saw one Godot video where someone made a simple GLSL 2D fluid sim that gets applied to the surface of ocean waves that are closest to the camera. So you could have a hybrid approach.

Hey, I had a couple ideas for how you could deal with the whole dropping the water ball down logic.Thought I'd share You could potentially detect what surface the waterball was dropped on as each material interacts with water differently, dropping it on soil as you did in the demonstration would result in deformation of the soil rather than spreading of the water along with water droplets that bounce off of the collected water for example. Here are some things you can try: Water ball dropped in: Water -> Treat ball as a rigidbody and use the same mesh dynamic to almost treat the top layer of water like a fabric, combine this with particle effects to give it that droplet look. After a preset threshold delete the waterball and increase the height of the water body based on the mass of the waterball. Soil/Grass -> Create a small pocket of water and then perform the same functions as the water to water collision. Soil/Grass option 2 -> Get a moisture index on the soil and increase it when water falls onto the ground. Give players the ability to extract water from the ground if the moisture index is high enough. Solid Ground (Concrete, metal, glass, etc) -> What you are doing rn is perfect for such materials Sorry for the long message, hope this can be of help. If you have more questions feel free to reach out, I am a developer myself so can help with implementation. Never worked with unreal though, more of a unity guy.

It doesn't look like water. It looks like Mercury.

Hi Tamara! I love your channel. I started watching your videos more than a year ago when I started on my game dev journey. Your unity videos were super informative and helped me get a grasp on fundamental concepts while also actually getting my project started! I am so inspired by your honesty about your struggles in this video, it's refreshing to hear someone talk about how it isn't always easy and you sometimes have to try lots and lots of things to achieve what you were looking for. I look forward to Twisted Waters!!

Welcome back and welcome to Unreal ! If you want to try again the "water plane" you could look up Unreal's "procedural mesh". It allows you to create a mesh through code and move the vertex around. I made water moving around like that using points moving up and down, affecting surrounding mesh, to have a feeling of waves, it also allows to have gameplay affect those points and have the water react to gameplay element for a more dynamic feel. It's not water simulation, but it's also a lot less demanding on performances. Good luck with the game !

Has anyone else read WATERBOARDING?

Best of luck on your project! I'm currently working on my own avatar inspired project, and it's really cool to see someone who is also inspired by the show and the concept of bending things

Hi Tamara! Welcome back! I hope everything is going better every day for you! This sounds like an amazing idea!! Looking forward to see the results

this was a fun video to watch. looking forward to your progress on the game!

Good to have you back! Project looks good! Cant wait to see where it goes 😀

This has so much potential! I wish you all the best for development.

look's like mercury :DD

This! And a mermaid game have been my two DREAM games I've always wanted to try out. You're amazing!!

Tamara!! You and I were delving into water simulator at the same time.. I'm making a game about a river and I was also trying my best to figure out how to make splashes and gloopy bits haha. Awesome devlog and cant wait to see more!!

Very elegant solutions to the performance problems. I'd be interested in seeing what the plans are for gameplay mechanics out of this. And would be interesting to see this somehow collab with Rumble the "earth bending" game. Dope. Keep it up!

ngl, this is awesome asf, games are difficult because things kind of have to render constantly and as smooth as possible, you can't have the player wait 5 hours for a bit or water to move a cm. That's why when I try game development my brain spazzes out on how I'd do anything higher in detail when I can't even program walking or anything yet

Amazing work so far. I am eagerly waiting to see the progress ❤

I was just thinking about how cool a water bending game would be, and then I see this! Definetly keeping an eye on your project ❤

Yesss you're finally back! This seems really cool, best of luck with the development!

amaaaaazingggg, i love how you overcame adversity and figure out a way to do what you needed with the tools that you have, amazing stuff!

Just continue to proceed with what you have now its an amazing presentation , we unreal devs are here to help you out with any questions u have .

Some complex stuff, Tamara! Very cool

Good luck. I am here for this.

Fantastic video and Congratulations on your progress!

Hell yeah, didn't expect to see a shoutout to asher in there, lol. Fantastic vfx artist. CHARLIE! Oh boy, such great people in the UE space.

Very entertaining video! Good luck on your project.

So hard to not leave a sub on dev creation , this was really interresting ! If you make the water bending appear more slowly it will look even more realistic, like if you can manage to make it cause an impact from the lake ( water ) and then kinda like it being pulled out and move towards you. small fine adjustment and this will be even better

Great ideas, however that water simulation when dropped is really cheap looking, instead give particles a try. If you want to use the dropped water later you could try using ponds, blending a water textures with a dirt textures for visuals, and somekind of method to keep track of these ponds. I think this should be cheaper and still look very good. Amazing job on the water shader with the vertex displacement btw!

ur so cool ur literally living my dream life

This looks incredible! I'm excited to see you're using Unreal; they're both great, and just for me personally I made the switch from Unity some years back and have never regretted it. I also love Korra and ATLA, and waterbending is a really cool mechanic for a game!

I absolutely need this game oml

Welcome back!

Incredible work!!!! The future!

Just found your channel through Ketra Games. Glad to see you're doing well! Subscribed!

Just found out about your channel. Hope you get the support you need to realise this project :)

This really helpfull lad

I just wanted to say that as a player I care more about good waterbending gameplay than about a huge open world! If the world has to be smaller for everything to run well and be fun, then I'd rather have the good gameplay with the water. Will be looking forward to your updates :)

So this video is basically about the developer learning to waterbend after all, just in a computer.

I’m so excited for this!!! The recent waterbending and avatar crossover in Fortnite made me start watching the avatar series and I was like why isn’t there a true waterbending game? It’s the coolest element to me and so amazing looking! Excited to follow this and play this amazing game!

imagine if this girl had a whole team then this game would be crazy

Hello, first of all great work... As someone who has been developing their water system for almost a year, I know how demanding and interesting it can be. But let me suggest a solution that will make your job easier in terms of water dynamics: look into SDF algorithms (whether it's for Unreal or Unity, Unreal Engine has a built-in SDF system, while for Unity, you'll have to put in a bit more effort to develop your own). I'm working on ocean and river system in the Unity engine, and modified SDF algorithms combined with compute shaders can provide a render texture or buffer containing everything related to water movement, leaving only the final details to be completed in the shaders, also you can use and raymarching technique too. Good luck with your further work.

When your water drops at the end of the video it legit looks like liquid mercury

subbed & wishlisted! As soon as you described spending hours trying to waterbend as a kid I was like THAT'S ME. If you need a writer, I need the experience :)

OMG I have been OBSESSED with waterbending and water powers have been my favorite for a very long time, I've also spent an embarrassing number of hours pretending I was a waterbender LMAO- So many games and general media don't do water powers justice and make them boring and uninspired, they can be SO COOL!!! This game is a DREAM COME TRUE!!! I'm excited to see how this develops!! I hope to see more devlogs here on KZfaq about it!! (especially because I'm using other social medias less and less and I still wanna see more of this game ;w;)

Honestly, you're so incredibly impressive

Idea about the game: there must be and underwater scene and a part where the character surrounds himself with water to be stronger

I still think that you have to add more smoke and mirrors it doesn't have to be a simulation, great work

Interesting vid God bless!

Im doing the same but going for a full elements theme 😬 I am planing to add the elements one by one tough and started with the earth element (the easy one) ..and its a VR game 😅. But coming along nicely if I can say so myself. Will be watching your videos for future reference 😶‍🌫️. Will be making some videos on it soon(whenever I find time 🙈). Good luck on the project and dont forget: imposible is just a matter of how and how long. Keep at it 😁👍

Awesome video

Looks simular to what the Four Seasons team made but more HD.

Take a shot every time she says "I was done" or something similat to that.

Hey! I really hope that you make that project a game and not ending up just a cool waterbending simulation that you’ll play 10 mins then move on

I'm proud of you Tamara. Way to stick with it even when it got hard.

u can use height field fluid simulation for lake like water body

Alright, got some ideas regarding controlls (I don’t expect these to be added because they might be more insane than I think but still) Left click adds/sucks in water, and right click + hold holds water in that sphere If you’re already holding water but continuously adding, you increase the pressure of the sphere, and upon release, it explodes out If you’re fast and turn while releasing or something, you could make like a water blade with the controlled high-pressure release I think this has lots of potential for creative players to come up with emergent moves and attacks

ngl, finall water looks like mercury, but it maight be just lighting, and the fact that it doesnt sink into the ground and just slides on the top of the dirt in thoes thick bloobs

Great stuff! I don’t imagine the water simulation is efficient enough to run on mobile VR out of the box otherwise I’d love to make a video coding a simple VR sailing game or maybe speedboating 🙂

This is a dream come true to many people. Such a great idea! I have small question tho u already experienced the migration from unity to UE and i just downloaded UE any recommendations to get started?

You mention H20... Me too girl, me too 😆

Yeah 💪🏾🔥

maybe something where if the prticles collide in a semi high density/ semi high speed their collor changes towards white/gray fading and and away. to mimic/fake light reflecting of individual water particles

You could try looking into volumetric rendering to produce complex shapes and water interactions. Unlike a static mesh though they don't have collision though

I feel like this is the method Portal 2 used, also im pretty sire the water bubble reflects things on the other side to look upside down

If u really make this game amazing I will wishlist it and buy it and for sure play it

7:40 the water looks like it’s over the grass instead of some of the water going into the ground and through the grass

You work so hard my friends that's the things i will never know 😂😂😂

This along with Rumble brings us one step further to an immersive ATLA game.

Okay, so there's an earth bending game, now we got water bending.. Can we get a mixed martial art game for bending?

I'll be shouting Fus-Do-Rah as I'm flailing water at my foes >XD

Great👍👏

Have a feeling, this video's gonna blow up

For Saving gpu computation you can add occlusion or like computing reflection transparent in some texture and reusing it though I don't know performance impact of this things

This looks so good already. Hope you continue to develop it, you got this 🎉

Hm, idk if Unity has it but wouldn't doing this on a sphere with softbody get you what your looking for? Still looks great. I'm over here in Godot still working on character controller crap for and animations... grah!

Whaat? Awesome 🥰🥰

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

It seems that there will be a new version of water in the new version of Unity

This thing is more a game than you thought about just finding a setting as 60 year old gamer making it understand the gaming and apply it to game creation.

What if there were keybinds to shape the water when holding it? 1 could make it longer and whip like 2 could be a ball 3 a wall

Don't you miss the csharp coding? How are you getting on with blueprints?

Glad to see you are still making games! Your s's are spiking in audio. You should crush your s's with audacity or something

I'm working on an alchemy game where the main character can control water (to a degree), and this is absolutely *inspiring* I must say.

Hi I think you should make the water dissolve into the ground like it does to dirt and sand.