Hello! Waves back 👋🏾

Congrats, everyone! Well deserved!

Commented! Thanks so much for alerting me.

Included in the video is:
- 6 wave sets using Gerstner wave math
- Reconstructed normals for proper lighting response
- Subsurface scattering or change of color from depth
- Foam on wave tops from generated heightmap

Additionally, there are niagara electricity ribbon trails and ground dust attached to the feet and a camera modifier used to tilt the camera when we dash. Those are not included in the breakdown just to keep things short!

In the material, we take input direction and stretch the verts accordingly, masking the leading edge of the character, so the verts appear to trail. We also eat away the mesh as we stretch. Once the ability is over, we destroy the poseable mesh.

In a blueprint, we use a poseable mesh component to copy the character's pose at the time of the dash (since the pose can vary) and we create dynamic material instances so we can pass input direction to material and animate the material values. This blueprint is spawned by the gameplay ability.