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Brais Brenlla Ramos
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Brais Brenlla Ramos

Brais Brenlla Ramos is a passionate Architect, 3D artist, Unreal Engine 4 developer and first-time author based between A Corua and his place of work in London, UK. His passion for all things 3D-related dates back to when he was playing games as a child, experiences that fuelled his later studies in architecture and computer animation. His entrance into the professional 3D world happened at the same time as his studies were finishing, with initial projects undertaken in the field of architectural visualization for different studios. Since then, he's worked on many different 3D modeling and app development projects, first as a team member, and later as the Unreal Engine 4 lead developer at a company called AccuCities, based in London.
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Animating a sea shader

Even though we’ve worked with water in the past two recipes, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to talk about large-scale ocean shaders in UE5. I’ll admit it: this is one of my favorite subjects in computer rendering, and achieving great results is completely possible thanks to the methods we are about to see. However, this is not going to be a mere expansion of any of the previous topics. Instead, we are going to continue to learn new techniques and apply new concepts throughout the following pages. So, buckle up – there’s no time to rest in our journey!

Getting ready

There are going to be some big visual changes in this recipe but, despite this, everything you’ll need will be either provided by the project bundled with this book, included in the Starter Content, or part of the engine. Since we are going to be working on a large ocean material, it makes sense to move away from the familiar interior scene we’...

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Published in: May 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837633081

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Brais Brenlla Ramos

Brais Brenlla Ramos is a passionate Architect, 3D artist, Unreal Engine 4 developer and first-time author based between A Corua and his place of work in London, UK. His passion for all things 3D-related dates back to when he was playing games as a child, experiences that fuelled his later studies in architecture and computer animation. His entrance into the professional 3D world happened at the same time as his studies were finishing, with initial projects undertaken in the field of architectural visualization for different studios. Since then, he's worked on many different 3D modeling and app development projects, first as a team member, and later as the Unreal Engine 4 lead developer at a company called AccuCities, based in London.
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