Do we have a work around to stop the water plane from cutting through entities when place in the water?

I have only just noticed that this happens.

The water is inside the boat..

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Altitude?

Thanks, !nullptr

It would be nice exclude the water plane from within an enclosed entity, that is placed into the water.
I made a "tunnel" bend that big enough to drive a vehicle through, but its full of water.

Its not a big issue at the moment, But I was hoping someone else might of already worked it out.
ill add it to the, to do list.

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Not possible at present. The water plane is just that and there is no way to hide it in places that way. Even when they revisit the water code (much was promised) I don't think this will be easily possible. It does make rowboats sort of not possible though as they do not float over the water magically in reality.

Even in Skyrim and Fallout the water plane would cut through boats. The only time it wouldn't is when the boat was enterable to a new map of being inside the boat. However for a small boat like you have in your screenshot you basically have to raise it till no water is in it. If the water does breach into the boat it means the boat wasn't designed correctly for GG. It needs a thicker taller base.


EDIT:
Actually I take back my comment about "wasn't designed correctly for GG" . Didn't necessarily mean it that way.

Just put a bucket in it. All's good!

It might work if you use a transparent plane shaped for the boat. GG can be funky with transparency and might remove the water behind it, I will give it a try myself tomorrow when I have time. Try yourself with settings 1-4 and see if any remove water behind
Not a perfect solution but worth a try.

Thanks, Guys

@rolfy,

Thanks I have tried a few combinations.
I ended up editing the shader. Getting close.

The model and the water are both cut out in this picture.

When I get some more free time I will return to this one.

Cheers.

It can also depend on the order models are placed..try placing the boat first before placing the transparent plane or other way round.
Might even work better if the plane is attached to the model, again the boat should be created first before attaching the plane the order also is important in modeler. Make a small part of the boat texture transparent for the plane so you can keep it all in one to use the entity shader.

Thanks rolfy,

I will try all those ideas.

Cheers

If you design your boat to have a deep hull and make your deck higher than the water plane, you should be able to sit your boat on the water without being able to see the water plane cutting through it. It's one of those fakes game developers use all the time to keep performance high while creating a great scene. If you wanted to go into the boats lower decks, then you could probably write a script which switches off the water plane when you are inside the boat a little, this way the water plane is not there when you descend into the lower parts. The script you will need is called gooutdoors.lua.

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