How to Set Up Dynamic Water Physics and Boat Movement in Unity | Ship Buoyancy Tutorial

Several of you have asked about how I made the ship float in my game, so here's a tutorial! Let me know what you think 👇

Love how at the end you're told that's the wrong way to do it and if you want it done right, you're on your own with the link. 10/10 right there.

I love the way the water moves and looks with the lowpoly look!

This was AMAZING! he didn't waste the first 5 minutes with some crazy long intro, and he does the steps quickly while still explaining it pretty well, I mean if your slow to understand stuff I guess this would be pretty complicated and you would've had to watch it in 0.5X speed, but still this tut was AMAZING !!!!! liked and maybe subscribed . . . I'm gonna tell my friends about this

Hi Tom! 👋 Thank you so much for making this quality tutorial! 🎉 We took part in the Brackey's game jam 2020.2 and made a sailing game using your physics setup as a basis for our work. Really simple and intuitive setup, which was easy to extend upon. We planned to replace the sine wave function with something more fancy, but it actually turned out so beautiful when we finished our ocean shader and the motion of the boats was nice that we decided to keep it that way. 🌊 (Will be soon posting a devlog referring to your tutorial 💪)

This is a great tutorial! I love how you show which script you are modifying, making it easy to understand and your voice is also easy to understand!

What can I say except thanks! I saw some other tutorials online about this and they were all extremely heavy on my CPU. Using some other shaders and the floating points from your tutorial I was able to achieve what I wanted without stressing my CPU. Amazing content

Dude, this is really good and informative. You definitely deserve more

I love your style. Easy to comprehend as you code while speaking.

If you're finding it hard to understand everything on your first watch through and you're amazed by every commenter seemingly having absorbed the entire thing in one go, do not despair: I have years of experience and still had to do a lot of pausing and rewinding. Awesome tutorial by the way! Thank you so much for sharing ☺️

this video was so helpful, I havve not only learned how to make waves but also how to get variables from another script. Thank you so much!! amazing!

Not planning to use this any time soon, but damn that was a good and simple tutorial!

Thank you for this utterly amazing tutorial. I learned what I wanted and you presented the information in a clear and concise format. Defenitely going to implement this floating into my game.

Great video Tom! Cant wait for the next one

Your channel is treasure! Really good tutorials, keep it up!

This has been very useful tutorial in two ways, I have been working on a floating object for a project and I wanted to have it keep moving up and down on the surface and then this tutorial also helped me to figure out how to mimic the movement of the waves in my water without having to try make them real waves.

Incredibly good tutorial, I was looking for simple arcade buoyancy and this did the job right away!

dude, youre an absolute legend. looking forward to seeing your progress with this game:D ty

This is a great tutorial for quickly getting into the good stuff. Thanks!

Tom The Man! Thank you bro, using this immediately rn. You got a sub!