Nephilim DX11 Ocean Water Engine for AAA Ocean Rendering / Simulation

Hello Unity Community

It is my pleasure to share a little information and an early alpha-version WIP HD Video of our upcoming DX11 Ocean Water Engine for Unity.

" The Nephilim DX11 Ocean Water Engine " Bringing next gen AAA quality realistic Ocean Rendering / Simulation and full interaction to Unity Software soon.

Video showing custom DX11 tessellation shaded terrain featuring multi-level tri-planar mapped micro displacement expanding the whole island, as well as the above mentioned Nephilim compute shaded (GPGPU FFT) Tessendorf ocean simulation engine. Ocean rendering with SSS (Sub surface scattering) using image based lighting (Candela IBL), Ocean showing deep water shading only in this video. Everything is 100% procedural and dynamic including the HDR IBL solution.

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Multiple methods for interacting dynamically with the water are on offer. Bouncy, transitioning from surface to underwater including many other Physics based interaction schemes are possible. We will post further technical details as we progress towards final release. Our goal is to achieve the highest possible level of realism with ocean simulation and rendering for shallow and deep water.

" The Nephilim DX11 Ocean Water Engine " is still in development and you can follow the progress from our website

www.livenda.com

Cheers!
Livenda

 

Saw the first video in the community ocean thread.

I have to say it looks really promising.

Two questions.
Do you consider other graphic API's other than DirectX11? And will this have caustics?

 

Looking great so far. What price range you aiming for on release?
Also will this system allow for correct Beaufort scale waves.
Only part of the video I didn't like was the foam disappearing to fast, would be great if you could make it that it faded slower.
Also if you could make the foam break up into smaller patches as it faded so patches of foam lasted a bit longer before fading away, would give it a more realistic feel.
I am really interested in seeing where this goes, the community really needs a great looking and affordable Ocean solution.

 

@OP
You're late.... Sorry...

@Nicopo. This water seem better that Hydrax-SkyX.

+1

 

Woah.

Totally gobsmacking impressive. So what's the time frame for this to be on Asset Store?

Also, I noticed there doesn't seem to be any wake or foam, will you add those features?

EDIT:, I see it now, its in later part of the video. Just not very apparent in the beginning. But what about "shoreline" effect? Also wave and splash?

 

Very impressive I too would be interested to know if this will support anything other than DirectX

 

Is this going to feature soft shorelines and maybe foam around meshes and terrain? From the Video itself, I couldn't really see it.

 

Super good. Sun transmits on water surface so good .Will it have "LOD" DX9 version?

 

Like water from Battlefield 4

 

Please, share some more news about Nephilim.

 

I would say it looks better than that.

 

VERY pretty indeed, great work.

 

Hi Everyone,

We just like to give a quick update on the progress of the Nephilim DX11 Ocean Water Engine for Unity. We have made some great progress and are aiming it to be one of the most advanced Ocean / Water Simulation engines to date among all others. The initial version will be DX11 only and support for other platforms is in the pipeline. Some notable features so far are Automatic Shoreline creation, Terrain Wind occlusion (This means if you have a marina/harbor the Ocean engine will calm the water inside these regions automatically, more on this later ), breaking waves linked to depth, procedural foam, last but not least, high fidelity physics interaction and more.

We will be posting a new video soon and if you wish to be updated please join our newsletter / twitter page from our website www.livenda.com

Cheers!
Livenda

 

This system looks absolutely phenomenal! Are there any plans on letting us get our hands on a beta at some point in the near future?

 

Amazing water ! I can see this water in my game already, with some dark underwater effects with sharks.. the players will not fall into that water.. Will this be released soon? Have you considered releasing a pre alpha version and just update it now and then?

 

Superb. The only thing that kind of looked odd was how the foam slid along with the caps of the waves...but I don't know how that can be avoided, or even if you would want it to. I assume foam is optional, or able to be only at the shoreline?

 

Hello,

I was wondering if your ocean would be able to simulate very high storm waves.

 

Any updates coming soon? more pics og videos?

 

Yes any update on that new video.

 

Looks Awesome !

 

Any update on that new video? Can't wait for this.

 

It's really looking amazing, can't wait to see it released!

 

Looks fantastic, please update.

 

Still no news on this, was new video ever released?

 

Whats the latest here guys? Haven't heard anything and we're all in need of high quality DX11 water.

 

Well it seems like this one..... is dead in the water....
no pun intended >_<

 

Thats a serious shame

 

Good job , unity always the best .

 

only can say : wow

 

We think it might be a dead project unfortunately.

 

i think they put it in pause to finish their other asset ( candela ssrr, spectraGI , IBL) , i believe they will come back on it after releasing SpectraGI ( i hope ^^ )

 

Well you all are seeing it with their GL, IBL... I think you'll need those assets to make it look as good as it does in the videos. I believe this is why we haven't heard much. One thing requires the other...

 

We are certainly still working on this product and is in Alpha stage until our other products are ready for integration.

The Nephilim Ocean/ water Engine is an independent product with no reliance on our other soon to be released GI / IBL / Deferred Area lights and the Next Gen 'Total Reflections' (project name only not the official release name) products. However, that being said, as mentioned above, Nephilim Ocean has to work/ integrate well with all these other upcoming products, so we are making sure it does and provide the utmost quality / performance.

Cheers

 

Great to see that it's still being worked on, any chance of a new video showing it off?

 

is there a time frame you have in mind for the ocean shader? Will it come before the "total Reflections" project?

 

I think I just wet myself

Man that is beautiful. Unfortunately the game I'm making won't be able to make use of ocean water like that, and even if it could, it would be so significantly better looking than all of my other assets, it would be too out of place.

Great job though.

 

Any update on the ocean shader?

 

It looks amazing!
But more than a year has passed...
Any news?

 

Livenda just stopped everything man..., wouldn't keep any hope up for their projects

 

check their Twitter.. they posted a screenshot of Candela SSRR 2

 

I mean, they posted a pic of their realtime screen space gi too.

 

yeah, next news will probably be in some months...

 

Is this dead?

 

??