Humpback Whale

Elevate your underwater environments with the Humpback Whale Asset, enhanced by a procedural spline animation system for fluid, dynamic movements.

Dive Deeper into Aquatic Realism

This whale behaves in a lifelike manner, opening its mouth near the player and singing optional 'whale songs' for an immersive experience.

Comprehensive Animation System

• Procedural Spline Animation: Experience seamless, lifelike movements as the whale navigates through your scenes.

• Blendspace Integration: Combine 2 swimming animations and 3 distinct poses for natural, fluid motion.

Optimized Performance and Visual Fidelity

• 4 Levels of Detail (LODs): Ensure high performance without compromising on visual quality.

• Dual Texture Types: Choose between high-fidelity and performance-optimized textures to suit your project needs.

• Pre-configured Material Parent: Fine-tune details like scratches, dirt, and roughness with granular control.

Ready-to-Use Demo Scene

Jumpstart your project with an included demo scene, featuring:

• Underwater PostProcess Settings: Create a captivating underwater atmosphere.

• Caustic Lighting: Enhance realism with dynamic light reflections.

• Fog and Depth of Field: Add depth and mystery to your scenes.

• Pre-set Whale Paths: Showcase the power and flexibility of the Spline Blueprint system with multiple whales navigating pre-set paths.

Additional AssetsPosed Static Mesh

Perfect for museum displays, featuring a plastic-like material to mimic an exhibit.

Alternative Texture

A rusted, mossy texture for creating an atmosphere of abandonment.

Technical Details

Features:

Animations:

- Idle

- Swim

- Pose Left

- Pose Right

- Pose Mouth Open

Spline Animation Blueprint controls:

- Starting Distance along spline

- Toggle dynamic speed or maintain a constant speed.

- Toggle whether mouth opens near player

- Mesh Scale

- Show Spline

- Animation Playrates for slow and fast

- Animation Acceleration & Deceleration

- Distance for mouth to start opening

- Timing for how long to swim slow and fast

- Randomness multiplier of timing

- Movement speed acceleration & deceleration

- Movement speeds for slow and fast

- Intensity of rolling around corners

- Non-Dynamic speed, playrate & intensity

- Roll, rotation & movement smoothing values

- 1 Skeletal mesh

- A realistic Physics Asset for ragdoll effects (includes throat bone for flubber movement)

- A BlendSpace combined with 4 animations

- 2 Texture types (Adult and Baby)

- 1 Parent Material and 4 Material Instances (2 wet & 2 dry)

Scaled to Epic skeleton: Yes

Rigged: Yes

Rigged to Epic skeleton: No

Animated: Yes

Number of characters: 1

Number of Animations: 5

Animation types: In-place

Supported Platforms: Desktop PC / Mac / Xbox 1/ PS4 / HTC Vive / Oculus Rift

Documentation Included: Yes, in Blueprints