Near horizon reflections shadow

[BitMechanic]

Hi

this is a very cool plug in! i have one issue, using the standard ocean. I have a character on a boat, when viewed in third person mode, the colours of the character reflect in the water near the horizon. Also, if the character's head is under the horizon, there's a shadow in the water from the top of the head to the horizon.

Is there a setting I can change to remove these artifacts, or is it a bug?

Thanks, R

[ufna]

Hi,

May I ask for screenshot, please?

V.A.

[BitMechanic]

here you go, both shots the camera is completely static.

[ufna]

Thanks, It's a bug of normals of supplied plane mesh. I'll fix it soon this week.

[BitMechanic]

Great, thanks!

[ufna]

Oh, a little misunderstood, I'm speaking about long shadow on horizon.

Character color/siluette reflections is a "feature" of screen-space reflections. It should be less vizible with right ocean color. I'll also make demo project this week and will show nice lighting/color config.

[BitMechanic]

Ok. During the day the color silhouette looks like screen refresh ghosting- you can only see it if you're rotating around the character. However, my game has night time scenes, and when the ocean is dark, it's quite obvious.

[BitMechanic]

I can probably make it so the night time scenes are mostly fps only. Also introduce atmospherics/fog etc.

[BitMechanic]

By the way, is the vignetting at the sides of the screen caused by the same thing that's causing the shadow on the horizon?

[ufna]

Unfortunately "vignetting" is caused by nature of screen-space reflections, it's not a bug at all, it's how it works.

I hope Epics will add forward-rendering pass with classic planar reflections in future.

[ufna]

I've fixed near horizon shadow bug, you can try it in demo project: https://github.com/ufna/VaOcean/wiki/Demo-project

[BitMechanic]

Ahhh, ok. The light dawns. The demo is a big help, thanks!