Waves terrain

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Hello,
got a few questions regarding a “terrain” that should serve as ocean waves.
I got two terrains. One that uses a sinus calculation to generate simple sinus waves.
My question regarding that terrain is if it is possible to change the math so that it only plays one wave at a time?
Also how could I make the outer vertices not being influenced by the waves so that they lay flat?

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My second terrain uses noise calculation for the waves.
The result is pretty nice but the terrain keeps flying slowly upwards.
Also at some point the cube falls through the ground…

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Hope somebody could help me out. Thank you
Here is also a blend, just in case…ProceduralTerrain.blend (649.9 KB)

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Not sure if you’ve determined the cause or not, but for the second wave, is the “slowly floating upwards” potentially caused by the line self.vertex.z = [etc] + self.timer.getElaspedTime(), would that part continuously increase? What happens if you remove the timer?

I don’t have much experience with python in blender, but my first thought is that the z value is constantly increasing with the timer. Best of luck if I’m way off base here.

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just multiply the formula output by the inverse distance from the center vertex.XYZ.xy.length

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You are right, if I remove the timer, the plane stays in its position.
The problem is that there won’t be any movement at all…

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By adding the code you said, all the stays flat…

self.vertex.z = noise.multi_fractal(position*0.01, 1.0, 500, 8, 1) + self.timer.getElapsedTime()

 self.vertex.z *= vertex.XYZ.xy.length

Am I doing something wrong?

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lol its a bit more complex than that, and you forgot the self in front of “vertex” (why do you even need that?)

dist = vertex.XYZ.xy.length
z = ((maxdist-dist)*(dist<maxdist))/maxdist

this is the simplest, z can be offset and multiplied to change the falloff.

im on mobile so i cant type code easily, or test it.

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yeah that self. was redundant :smiley:
sorry, but I don’t get it…
What do I do with z?
And where does that maxdist variable come from or is it a constant you assign?
Something like this?

            dist = vertex.XYZ.xy.length
            vertex.z = ((10-dist)*(dist<10))/10

This way it doesnt work, there is no movement

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To have the vertices moving you must add the timer to the position.
Regarding the influence, you could use the vertex colors.

The code would be something like this:

timerVector = Vector((0.0, 0.0, self.timer.getElapsedTime()))
position = (self.object.worldTransform * (self.vertex.XYZ + timerVector))

self.vertex.z = noise.multi_fractal(position*0.01, 1.0, 500, 8, 1) * self.vertex.r

With self.vertex.r you control the influence using the red component of the vertex color.

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Hello @a-k-m ! Sorry about my ignorance but what version of the game engine are you using?

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I’m using upbge 0.2.5

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You could just add a couple shape keys to your wave, keyframe them to make a wave animation, then add logic bricks to make it always play that animation on repeat.

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does the wave have realtime collision detection with shape keys?

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Yeah, I’m pretty sure it does as long as your settings are right to make animations use force. I was trying to make a boat game and got the waves to move the boat with shape key animations.

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Hi thanks! I’m testing with UPBGE 0.3 Alpha and it is not working. I also tested inside UPBGEv0.2.5a-b2.79Linux64 and it’s not working.