Water Reflection & Refraction Shader - UE4 Materials 101 - Episode 25

After creating our water ripples and water opacity, now we're ready to add reflection and refraction to our water. This Unreal Engine 4 Material Editor Tutorial explains the basics of reflection in Unreal Engine. We talk about skybox reflection, reflection probes (cube maps), and screen space reflection (SSR) - and how all three of these work together to create the final reflection effect we're looking for on the water.

We also discuss what refraction is and the settings that are required to make refraction work correctly on our water shader.

Finally, we put all of the effects together - ripples, depth opacity, depth color, reflection, and refraction - to create our final water shader

If you haven't already seen them, be sure to watch the other videos in this series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r68DnTMeFFQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TObymSnTwV0

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Learn more!!

Videos with more detail on reflections in Unreal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ2jIgqLHPA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Sx9qINRoIY&t=351s

Videos with more detail on refraction in Unreal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdGJy1ynoPg&t=214s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnLHneZn3qw

Web Resources
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/water-materials
https://forums.unrealengine.com/community/work-in-progress/7372-water-material

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Learn to write shaders in HLSL:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL78XDi0TS4lEDHfahG4ddRwZ3AUrOIYcq
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL78XDi0TS4lE772rZflLkFe-WdhYEV4WE
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL78XDi0TS4lE6UnUO9OTC5M1Wo3bJLDe9

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Theme Music
Peace in the Circuitry - TeknoAXE
http://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=1526

Background Music
Sappheiros & Almaa - Dreams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ukQE6-BqYM

Видео Water Reflection & Refraction Shader - UE4 Materials 101 - Episode 25 канала Ben Cloward