2d Atmospheric Scattering

I've uploaded a demo of my 2D atmospheric scattering material in UE4

http://youtu.be/3ZTzVXlZXQs

Ludum Dare 30

Here is my entry after 24h
Linking

Here is the final build

Switching from render targets to gerstner waves

Tutorial on adding buoyancy to a pawn

Made the boat drivable.

Dynamic Water Wiki

I've added a tutorial to UE4's wiki
https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Render_Target_Lookup

Material driven dynamic physical water

I wanted to be able to have a boat float around water and actually respond to waves so I went ahead and made myself some physical water that is driven by a material.

I did this by generating a heightmap from the ocean material which is then sent to a render target. This render target is passed into a little bit of C++ code that read and stores the values every frame.

The floating objects are covered in test points that read height values from the C++ Heightmap reader. From those heights it then applies a force to the mesh at their locations. If they are underwater the object is pushed up, if they are over water gravity pushes down at that point only. This allows the actors to sway and bob with the water.

Everything except the heightmap reader was done with blueprints.

Level Streaming

Started playing around with Level Streaming and doing it manually without using streaming volumes.

I also posted a tutorial on  UE4's wiki page

https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Blueprint_Manual_Level_Streaming

Unreal Engine 4

I've decided to retire my engine and move on from XNA for now to try Unreal Engine 4. So far it looks pretty good.

Elemental Forge DPB 2011 has been submitted

My contest build is completed and submitted. I didn't think I'd have enough time but I was able to add shadows at the last second today.

Here is the trailer

Magic

I've got most of my magic system completed.The idea of my magic system is to let players build circuits with crystals to create any type of spell they want.

DBP 2011: 3 weeks to go

Only three weeks left before the submission deadline. Here is a video of what I've got so far.