If there a means of obtaining the vertical height of the water surface at various points, say to act as input to a buoyancy simulation of ships and boats on the waves?
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I guess you are talking about the WaterFilter.
There is no easy way of doing this, but, water height is sampled from a heightmap in the shader, maybe you could sample it to get the height…
look at the heightTexture in the WaterFilter.
Also, for a starter using the getWaterHeight and just approximate the height of the wave with a sine function could do the trick…
Hello,
I was able to sample the heightTexture, but all the bytes inside its buffer are constant in time.
I also tried to sample the surface with rays, but they do not collide with the water surface.
Suggestions are welcome, thank you !
[EDIT: ok, I begin to understand, this is a fixed heighmap, translated in the winds direction & following a sine in the vertical direction. I have everythin I need now!]