How To MAKE Things FLOAT in Water | Unreal Engine 5 Tutorial 

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Excellent tuto, thank you ( the best one since 2 days I searched for ) The solution for buoyancy with material is great !👏👏👏👏👏

Thank you!! I nearly gave up on implementing something like this in my game but this made everything so much easier.

you answered several questions i had and several i didn't know i had! thank YOU!

Thank you. This is fantastic. What a lovely technique ! Appreciate you friend

Great tutorial! Very helpful.

Thanks. Very helpfull tutorial. Nicely structured as well :)

Great Tutorial all the thingsare to the point, Thanks.

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Wow dude you blew my mind with the material approach. Very detailed, full of useful information... I mean THANK YOU, it's a very good tutorial. Learned a lot. Subscribed!

Really cool! Thanks!

Great tutorial using UE5.0. Had to import UE5.0 scene into UE5.2 for the "WaterBodyCollision" to appear in the Ocean. For the second method, the WPO for the materials only worked in 5.0. Thanks for the awesome videos!!

Great tutorial!

Thanks sir very well explained tutorial ♥️

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thanks for your video 👍👍👍

I wish you could have created this tutorial last year..so badly need to get boat physics done in Unreal..but thank you for creating it, better late than never..

Thank you for this tutorial! Is there a setting for the water body? I followed all your steps but the boat keeps falling through. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Hello, thank you for the video. I was able to get this working with a static mesh version of my boat. But i have created an animation of a paddle wheel turning on the back, now i have a skeletal mesh instead and I cant add sprockets. I have no idea how to get the buoyancy to work now. Any help would be appreciated

Thank you. All the other tutorials wasted my time by wanting me to use arrows and cubes.... bunch of morons lol. Yours worked. Sockets is much better.

In the first example, I noticed you gave the boat, as a whole, a mass of 100kg... is there a way to distribute the weight? I imagine it's difficult to get a very realistic simulation without it... For instance, even a static asset like a small dinghy going over a wave might be back heavy and land differently than if it were front heavy. Similarly, you could imagine a player standing on the side of a canoe or something, the weight of the player might be expected to dynamically effect the canoe and cause it to capsize.

Does anyone know... If I already have a landscape, can I add the UE water plugin without having to create a new landscape? Thanks

Hello. how do you make damaged pieces from chaos float. i got planks of wood that explode an splinter. but they sink like rocks. how can I please make them float like HL2 does. thanks.

Hey great tutorial dude, I did just as same you did but my object is jumping off. Please help

I can't seem to get the material method working unless Depth Attentuation is disabled, but doing so greatly limits what I can do with it. I am trying to use it with an ocean, anyone know why this may be happening?

Dear Klaus! Great tutorial, thank you. It works very well for static meshes. But when i try to make a skeleton float (with physics enabled, for ragdoll physics) it doesn´t work. There is said that there is a collision problem.... any ideas?

hi, thanks for the great tutorial. i got the first method using pontoons to work, but the second method (material magic) does not work for me. the blueprint graph looks exactly the same as yours but when I apply the material to my plants and enable physics and gravity, they just immediately sink. the same thing happens when i try the material method on a cube or sphere. i tried playing around with the mass value and set it to something very low like 0.0001 like some comments suggested, but it has no effect, everything just immediately sinks when i try the material method :( please help

Nice tutorial, can you do one about how to make them int?

Is there a way to use this info to make Character float up and down Gerstner waves ?

Awesome tutorial! What pack contains the boat mesh?

it's good. But what's next? He floats on the water. But how to make it not just swing on the waves, but float in the direction of how the ship floats and that the foam and waves follow it

can u make a tutorial on how to move the boat ?

Hey. I have a problem that the water go inside the boat. Do you have any idea to remove that.

material section does not work for UE 5.2?

Very good job ! But... I'm with the UE5.2 version and for the 1st method everything works fine. But nothing happens with that of the material

can i make this work on custom maded ocean? (plane wit material) Specialy floating with material setup. I cant make it work on custom maded ocean but on Water Body Ocean its working...

I have the water plugins and extras enabled for UE5 but wtf is the bouyancy component I cannot find it?

Doesn't work for me in UE5.1. Object just falls on the "floor"

Fluid simulation not working ue5 5.02? I try example map and moving skelmesh not react with water

Anybody been able to make lyra character float/swim?.

SIR PLZ HELP ME HOW CAN I ENABLE SIMULATE PHYSICS OF WATER IN DETAIL PANEL

Thank you for the video! Any idea how to set buoyancy parameters via blueprint? Nothing is exposed on the buoyancy component unfortunately...

I am using UE5.2 but the material version is not working, or am I missing anything?

Great tutorial though!, but i didn't quite figuring out how you implemented the material function to your foliage from Megascans since, it has already a materials that are conected to the World Position offset. .6:02 ,11:50

would you have any ideas why my boat just sinks?

Hello, I need your help, in the view port everything works fine, but when I create a sequence level and render, the objects that should float do not move. Thanks

The material approach no longer works in UE5.1. Anybody know any workaround?

How do you place the water on a level? I've looked at every water video I've found and they ALL start with the level already there with all the water properly set up already and NO video says how the water got there.

Great tutorial, thank you but i have question; I made a small boat, tried it with the same logic. The boat bounces and somersaults on the water. Any idea how to fix this issue?

Does this only work for landscape water? How can I achieve this with an indoor body of water? Like a pool or something.

Hello, wondering where I can get the Gerstner Waves material function? thx.

"When I try to create the material, as soon as I connect the bool parameter to the switch, Unreal Engine crashes. Has anyone been able to solve that? I'm using version 5.2 of Unreal."

I was wondering how it would be possible to create buoyancy for an object in still water that does not have waves that is a flat plain. The issue I've come across is I don't want to make a timeline and animate the buoyancy as I have a blueprint where the water level changes when a button is pushed and I want objects to move with it while having buoyancy even if the water is a flat plain. Not sure how to do this though.

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Hi, I tried this but I faced an issue. When I'm trying to float the object it's not even sinking, I enabled simulate physics. But it's still the same. Is there any change I have to make in water details also, plz reply

Been trying to get this working for a while now. Running UE5.1 water plugin, all the settings are identical to yours. My boat just spins uncontrollably nose down and sinks below the water. I have the BP_TestBoat above the level of the water. If I modify the Buoyancy Coefficient it'll propel into space! Has anyone got this to work on UE5.1?

Is it possible to make the character float down a current?

The material doesn't work in 5.3; WPO does nothing to the object; it's like it's broken or something.

Dude you are way to fast for us lol... but great content i can say... Gonna try following you video in less speed lol... Txs for this one

I try to do this in the WaterBodyLac and it doesn’t work :(((

not work in 5.1 :(

Thanks Peter Griffin

I have now watched every single tutorial, read every document and done everything exactly the same and still nothing floats, everything sinks as though there is no water at all. I've been learning UE5 for a few months now, but this is a HUGE issue and I will definitely quit UE5 and try another platform because this is F6CKING B6SH1T!!!!!

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