The first time I swam through the water in Red Dead Redemption 2 Online with a lamp attached the the horse and saw how the light diffracted in the water, a huge smile grew on my face.

This has been a really fun series of videos so far! It's actually surprising to see someone with (I imagine?) genuine technical experience talking about this stuff; not just saying "wow, the water is pretty!" but mentioning flow maps, vertex displacement, and even demonstrating how it might be set up with simple examples in Blender. Not many youtubers would actually go to that level of effort, and this certainly differentiates your content from the rest. Well done! Definitely keep videos of this sort going :)

Really enjoying these videos as I bought RDR2 a few months ago and haven't been able to play it yet, but this series is getting me super excited!

Love the amount of work you put into this video, the graphics, test, scenarios and explanations. All of it is awesome!

This are exactly the type of videos I love seeing, video game development is endlessly fascinating to me. I’m really looking forward to more videos like this from you (:

6:00 does anybody remember that one ship glitch in AC: Black Flag where your ship would suddenly appear from the water, and the water had this weird hole shaped like the ship before it spawned? Is it the same water technique being used in both games to simulate water? Or just another thing entirely?

Wow! I had no idea there was an actual flow system, that is incredible! Seeing the whirpool from stirring an object blew my mind! Same with the effect of disturbing a still pool! They didn't need to do this. There is barely any water interaction in the game, yet their water is better than games that are actually based on water.

I don’t know an ounce of red dead redemption 2 nor game design, but this was such a banger video O_o i had no idea so much went into the game’s water physics, or just water physics in general

I really love this type of video, I learn a lot and I can appreciate the devs even more, because this and the cloud are clear amazing feat.

What a wonderful and complex system which I will never be able to fully appreciate as max water physics setting tanks my fps down to 20 from 80.

This was genuinely fascinating. I came here for the short animation videos but I'd love to see you make more longer form content like this. One small criticism would be the audio quality, maybe stick some foam pads up on the wall in the room you're recording your voiceover from 👍

This is one of my favorite games of all time and seeing you break it down really makes happy. Keep it up Kommander!

You should plan a series like this for GTA 6. It's expected to be revolutionary in evey technical aspect and a technical analysis like this would be super entertaining and informative.

This series is AWESOME!!! Please do more analysis on rdr2’s dev systems 🙏🏼 also would love to see you try out your theories with some code alongs or dev logs

Loving these non reload vids

RDR2 is such an amazing game. Definitely my favorite of all time

Amazing videos! I love these deep technical analysis

I always thought the water was great but this took my appreciation to another level. Thanks for the content

the way they did the water not coming through the boat part really blew my mind. i would have thought the inside of the boat is just filled with an invisible hitbox that just removes the water shader alltogether but this is really cool. definitely excited to see the step up to gta 6. i dont like to get my hopes up through rumors but the new rage engine featuring some kind of surface approximation for physics would be the next logical step up. the way rdr2 objects interact with the water already seem likey are on the way to make it more dynamic.

Awesome video on my favorite game! Thanks for making this video and please keep em comin

Just IMAGINE GTA 6's water physics. Ive always admired the fact that the water in rdr2 flows and changes flow depending on forces and also how it displaces in 3D. If RAGE 9 is supposedly a bigger jump than RAGE 7 to RAGE 8, the water is going to be incredible.

I loved the video, I'll go check the series ❤. You have excellent content I hope the channel goes viral.

Excellent work!

MARIO WiiU, the "amazing water" guy, would be very pleased with this.

Idk why but my respect for you has grown.

I love these videos

very insightful karl

The water in Dead Island 2 is pretty good. More so the ponds, pools, puddles etc. the ocean seems like it’s slightly less advanced.

I've really been enjoying these peeks behind the gamedev curtain.

This is cool stuff! Red Dead Redemption 2 has a lot of work put into it! From the terrain, to the clouds, and among other things... and water! They really know their stuff when it comes to making something beautiful but performant! (On an unrelated note: I didn't know Left 4 Dead 2 had flow maps, interesting Valve thing to do. :O)

Keep these kinda vids coming! Super insightful and inspiring!

I loooove this video series! Unfortunately not many games are as detailed as RDR2 I hope GTA6 will be on par if not better

What blew my mind is a video of a player on a horse making circles in water leaving something resembling a whirlpool. I think even Nvidia physx demos didnt have that

Thanks for showing us 🧡🙏🏼

Cool stuff, have you ever seen the water in Hydrophobia Prophecy? That is really impressive stuf too.

Thanks for making this

Air, earth, water, fire . . . I'm seeing a pattern here.

Give this man a better mic! It's quite a bit muddy and distant. Generally it is rather quiet. Besides that I really enjoy this content

This guy is amazing

I can imagen Morgan just flying around using telekenises to move around objects obsessively looking in the detail how the water behaves while any passer by is both in awe and over the top scared at the mere sight of an apperent god.

Underrated channel. Underrated video! 🫡

Stuff like this makes me think that fully raytraced games won't ever become a standard or retail thing, not because computers won't be powerful enough to run it, but because by the time we get there, we'll have much cheaper shortcuts to mimic the same effect anyway so there's no reason in doing this stuff. A lot of graphics now, (at least judging from these rdr videos, I am not an export, please correct me if I'm wrong) are just shortcuts to what would've otherwise taken a major toll on performance, and I think we'll keep seeing these things no matter how powerful our pc's become

Halo 3 had such water physics, even if not all the realism visual aspects

Hey karl,can u talk about the reloads in rdr2. I would love to see that

Can't tell you how many hours I've spent with Crest for Unity trying to get water to do what I want. Such a pain. AC:Black Flag and Sea of Thieves have amazing water.

The water is amazing in this game, the way it reacts to characters movements. Especially on a high end PC with the physics slider turned all the way up. Hope they carry this tech over GTA 6. It looks good in GTA 5, but it's static. GTA 4 had better water simulation

GTA 6 is gonna be crazy especially with the surf mode

Pretty cool

I hope we get an in-depth detail breakdown of the horse’s balls too at this point

this is great for gamedev

Have you made / can you make a video about RDR2 soft shadows (sunlight). The shadows from trees etc look totally raytraced, even though they’re not. Apparently it’s percentage-closer soft shadows or a similar tech, that’s rarely seen in action.

Making game graphics more realistic is reaching the point where it meats the diminishing marginal utility. The tears of the kingdom is absolutely marching on another path. I once was obsessed with the fluid/soft body simulation stuff. Then I realized I can't make them the fun parts of the game. How different the future games would be if they had all of these?

you should make a video breaking down the euphoria engine that rockstar utilizes ever since i think gta IV

hi i love ur vids

Hey, what is the spooner called? I couldnt find it anywhere

Love those videos I hope rockstar is putting all those things maxed out over level 9000 in gta 6 lol

No wonder this game is so hard on both CPU and GPU

Please turn up the volume. This video is quite soft-spoken.

0:07 hehe "dive"

Im currently playing Rdr2

It sure is something

Yes sure but does it reload?

So, has anyone made a MS Flightsim mod in this with a fps cockpit view?

To me the water in rdr2 looks like real water. The stones, mud and pebbles underneath the water look real!!!

That’s so watery

I thought the water in RDR2 was fantastic. Now this video has shown the detail, I have sent Rockstar a highly abusive email to "lift their game" for GTA6, and RDR2's water is a disgrace. I feel the shock value is needed so they make improvements.

5:20 Oh wow, I'm pretty sure this is the only R* game to use that technique, in older titles a simple mask is used, in fact that's the only way they could have possibly implemented submarines...

Does the graphic settings of water affect these functions?

have you hurd of a mod called brutal half life ?

While red dead 2 water looks good, I think the game Snowrunner does a better job at water and mud physics

And all this made without RTX implementation

How ironic is that! I used a boat to go on the islands of Flat Iron Lake (the tiny archipelago of Clemens Point) to skin a Perfect Iguana. Let's talk about how the water drains your life-force...

6:12 enlighten me please!

I think it's pretty interesting that RDR2 Water has an underwater filter, but ingame you can't get underwater. Only those very rare scenes, where you fall through a waterfall or something, maybe those moments you get the chance to see underwater. They could've left out this entirely, but no, they're R*, they make everything, doesn't matter that its not part of the game :D

Water is le best

I just subed

Always thought Crysis 1 and Half Life 2 got water stuff right....... could be wrong tho.

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I thought this was goat simulator 3 lol

They need to change the rules for AAA games honestly. Look what rockstar was able to do with the technology they had. All these new game rely on the insane fidelity of these new engines but no detail or soul into the game. You call that a AAA game?

Can you post all RDR2 mods you are using?

Can everyone with an ounce of game dev knowledge just come together and appreciate just how freaking long it would take to code all of these systems and make them work well together

i hate fluid simulation, lattice Boltzmann? navier stoke equation? matlab? openfoam? at this point I'd rather crack a paid software and click click my way out.

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Hey man, this one was interesting. I'd recommend trying to get better at writing and delivering the lines though - it feels very college essay and sounds stilted. Good research though!

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Is it just me or is this video really echoey?

RDR2 is not a good game. Stop talking about this trash.