Water Foam - UE4 Materials 101 - Episode 28 

Finally someone who explains stuff. I subscribed and I look forward to more water tutorials honestly. Hopefully we will also add physics to out water and also go underwater at some point . Thank you and Keep up the good work !

Your explanations are fantastic and so appreciated; not many other videos go as far as you have with details and how certain things work. Thank you!

Most useful channel about UE materials. I become understand many main principles of creating materials, not just copying.

Great video series! As always you break it down so anyone can understand. Request to take this series further into waterfalls, and possibly stylized water. Thanks!

The foam looks really amazing! Thank you so much for your hard work!

Excellent tutorials sir, been struggling with my water shader for my fantasy rpg game a few weeks now rebuilding it countless times and this has helped me achieve the look im looking for, Thank you!

You are a blessing sir. Thanks so much

keep going sir, best tutorial series ever made :)

Just binged through your series. Fantastic work man, I've learned alot through these and have shared some of the them with my dev friends. Keep it up!

Thank you sir, for sharing your knowledge.

Your tutorials are very well done, thanks for doing this! I would love to see some kind of waterline effect that works in combination with the Gerstner waves in the future. Something you would get for example when breaking through the water surface while wearing a diving helmet, or when viewing a water volume from the side through the glass of an aquarium.

Excellent work Ben! Thank you so much!

i put foam by getting the dot product between the wave normal and up vector. and i multiply it by -1. so i get a mask where waves normals are sharpest. then use that mask to project foam.

again very nice result!

These are wonderful, easy to follow and explained very well.

Absolutely love these tutorials. Super informative and easy to follow. Always look forward to the next one :)

OMG! I love that intro. Soooo retrooo!

Thank you for your tutorials, so well explained and for taking the time to teach us! I can't get the textures somehow and it's quiet hard to follow along without them since they are specific, do you have another location we could get them?😱

great work

i try this tutorioal on UE 5.03 and seams not working the water looks horrible would be nice a tutorial for water/river on UE5 maby its cuz UE5 not use teselation

very nice thanks

Great tutorial Ben, my results ended up being a little different but after playing with all the scalar params I think it came out really great. Really appreciate the tutorial. Whats the next planned series, have you already decided on that? If your looking for suggestions I would like to put out a couple things I would personally enjoy seeing. 1. Landscape stuff. I know how to make a landscape mat and use layer blending and what not but theres some crazy cool landscape stuff that can be done that I dont understand. I personally tend to just use a landscape material from an environmental asset pack but put in my own texture choices for layers like a cheater. 2. Vertex painting stuff. I love vertex painting textures as well as painting layers on landscapes, its super relaxing and fun. I have used vertex painting stuff from other peoples created vertex shading materials, but I have never made my own from scratch. Would love to make a nice 3-4 texture blend master for doing some walls / floors painting. Since its an unreal engine tut you can always use mega scans high end textures and we can all follow along with the same stuff.

I have tried adding foam based on mesh distance fields, but failed to get any results. It would be cool to see you cover that topic!

You're so awesome man

Excelent. Thank you!!

I've learned a lot with your tutorials. thank you. Can you explain how to use waves as a mask for foams?

INCREDIBLE WORK! I have only one question: is it possible to shade the water, foam and waves? because, it really doesn't look like a real wave or waterfall doesn't cast a shadow ... I tried everything (I read) ... it doesn't work .... there is no shadow ... it's weird if there is no such possibility in this engine ?! there are all sorts of other effects but no shade of water (or I can't achieve it)

It does not work with UE 5.1. At least not for me. I followed the Tutorial and some things changed in the last 3 years, some options are not available or not changable.

This is so awesome, I've made the whole water shader and it looks so good. I'm wondering if there's a way to trigger animations for plants under the water based on the waves, or if there's a way to trigger particle effects when the rocks get hit by the water?

is there any substitute for 4way chaos in unreaal5? i cant find it in the material graph :(

Hi, I do not have the Motion_4WayChaos Material Function available to me. Any idea why? Thanks for the tutorials, they are really enjoyable and educational!

hi, Ben, really thanks for this amazing tutorial. When I was trying to learn how to get the storeline like you showed in the video, I found there are two ways in general, one is using depth, another is using distance field. Is that possible to give another tutorial on how to use distance field method to achieve this effect? I've spent days, but haven't succeed yet, I am to know curious to know the difference between these two ways.

Can anyone help me with finding the Motion_4wayChaos in UE4? i cant seem to find it

Ensina como colar espuma em cima das ondas, estou fazendo um mar para meu jogo, não sei como fazer!

Hi ! I have a little question, how i add foam on the peak of the wave ?

Amazing man. Thanks a ton, been pulling my hair out trying to better understand water and advanced texturing. Going to watch the whole series!

FYI, your textures links aren't working.

The only thing that I didnt understand completely is how did unreal know where to apply the foam when it touched the rocks? I know you used 'depth' but i didnt grasp how depth conveys 'contact' with other objects. I hope I am explaining my query correctly.

I did exactly what you do in the video but I didn't get the foam result why is that?

How did you make those rock material?

in 4.26 there is no motion 4way chaos?what to do please?

the link to the textures does not open! Can you please share another link?

does anything know how to put the foam on wave peaks?

thicc foam

Hi, What are the "Water_Gestner_Waves" nodes in your Geometry Waves (14:17 minutes)? I cannot find any nodes that have all the inputs and output like in your VDO.

thank !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I understood like 2% of this videos information xD, its okay tho, I am a noob

Hey Ben, I have a question.. Is there a way to make an object that is moving on water, somehow create foam or displacement behind it? Could you potentially make a tutorial about something like that? Thanks in advance!

I thought that water foam happened on x and y axis and not on z axis

I just realized that it's been almost 2 yrs since I've been watching your shader tutorials and yet I don't remember if I've ever commented to say thank you. Before watching them I don't think I would've ever thought I could understand this stuff. Thank you so much for your knowledge and patience to make this series!!

Friend this four way doesn't have in my Unreal and my version is 4.27.