Godot Endless Ocean with Buoyancy

Play in your browser:

YouTube Video:

 

Features in this demo:

• Supports ALL RENDERES.
• Land collisions will sink ship.
• CPU based buoyancy calculation, with dampening and smoothing.
• 7 x 7 = 49 tiled Gerstner waves used to simulate endless oceans.
• Persisting Jacobian foam.
• Persisting ship intersection foam.
• Land will continuously spawn.
• Minimap showing active water tiles and land tile positions.
• Wind direction change affects sails and flags.

Buttons and Controls:

• Switch Camera: North, East, South, West and Deck views. SPACEBAR will also do switch.
• Wind +-: Change wind strength.
• Port / Starboard: Change ship direction.
• Wrench: Switch to ultra low resolution setting for mobile.
• Star: Opens YouTube video explaining solution.
• FullScreen: Forces fullscreen on the browser.

Limitations:

• Intersection foam has a few bugs.
• You can still detect tile swaps in the distance if you look closely.
• Tiled waves pattern apparent when you zoom out.
• Only ship hatch has stencil.
• Works well on desktop GPUs.
• Will struggle on Mobile or older hadrware, make sure you click the WRENCH icon to switch to ultra low resolution mode.