Why only few games make decent water?

>>389846073
Because water is scary

WE

Honestly it's surprising because water is one of the first thing they got right in cgi film, now I really don't know the connection or if there even is one but I assume there's some weight there, like maybe it means water is simple I don't know.
Games can do really well with static "painted" backgrounds though, really look at Halo 3, shit looks good.

>>389846127
Had boats?

It's technically challenging and the payoff is usually minimal.

Resources are generally better spent elsewhere.

>>389846207
>It's technically challenging
Do you happen to know why?

What happened to that Wii U user that jerked off to all the water in games?

>>389846286
Not him but animating fluid is fairly difficult to get right in video games
You can't have everything rendered in real time, that would tank framerates so hard that SLI 1080tis would struggle at 1080p
The alternative is using filters, sprites and textures to emulate splashing effects, which is obviously not going to look great because you're using flat 2D images with no depth to look like they're fluid.

>>389846286
the industry (acadamia, NVIDIA, etc.) is still in the process of fine-tuning real-time water simulations that look good. right now you can do some smaller, simpler simulations that require limiting interactivity/scope, but real-time convincing water with any sort of interesting interactions get really hairy really quickly.

>>389846205
Water isn't hard to get right, but it's extremely hard to get it right, optimized and free-form enough to not be uncanny in a game.

>>389846536
But the tesselation isn't the opposit of using 2d images?
Also in OP's pic looks like the waves caused by the boat have volume.

>>389846536
>>389846557
>>389846627
Thank you.

>>389846073
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuleBkrRfjI
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuleBkrRfjI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuleBkrRfjI
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuleBkrRfjI

>>389846657
and if i had to guess, they're using a shallow water equation + normal mapping to simulate it. It's a limited simulation, but works really efficiently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shallow_water_equations

>>389846657
Tesselation essentially gives the illusion of higher poly counts and can help with making small ripples in the water, but not much else. Something being dropped in the water, for example, would need to use sprites for splash effects. Also, tesselation is still quite performance heavy for anything that isn't using a higher-end nvidia card, so not everything can rely on it, especially consoles.

>>389846205
>Had boats?
WUZ

>>389846793
stop shilling this game man
you've posted this in every thread

>>389847424
Sailors?

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What game has the worst looking water?

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>>389847667

>>389847667
Holy shit, how did they manage to make the water look so much worse than JC2?

>>389849727
Foam shaders looks like ass.

It looks great from the distance, and when it's calmer.

>>389847667
jc1 had the best fucking water
even had tides and shit

>>389847667
Destiny 2 has surprisingly bad water.