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Focuses on providing artistic freedom, rather than a realistic water simulation. Spans a wide range of applications requiring water. Easy to use and self-documented

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Details

File size: 51.7 MB

Latest version: 3.0.5

Latest release date: Mar 4, 2025

Original Unity version: 6000.0.23

Render Pipeline Compatibility

This pack supports the following render pipelines:

Built-in Render Pipeline: Not compatible ❌
Universal Render Pipeline (URP): Compatible ✅
High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP): Not compatible ❌

Note: Strictly compatible with Unity 6000.0.23f1 (and likely newer) where Render Graph must be enabled. For Unity 2021.3–2023.2 support, see Stylized Water 2.

Description

Stylized Water 3 focuses on providing artistic freedom rather than realistic water simulation. It spans a wide range of applications requiring water, from tropical beaches to lava lakes. The asset is easy to use, self-documented, and built on over 9 years of experience in water rendering for both the Asset Store and commercial projects.

Key Features:

Custom Lighting Model: Direct control over color, light, and reflections while retaining dynamic lighting behavior.
Revamped Wave Animations: Includes a profile system for various wave types and GPU-based height queries for rivers and dynamic effects.
Water Decals: Snap textures onto the water surface (e.g., oil spills, weeds).
Ocean Mesh Component: 8x8km mesh with gradual vertex density.
Prefabs: Includes waterfall and puddle prefabs.
Height Pre-pass: Allows other shaders to read the water surface height.

Ideal for developers looking to create stylized and flexible water effects for games and simulations.

Shading Features

Shading Modes: Unlit, Simple, and Advanced modes for low- and high-end graphics.
Color Controls: Deep, shallow, and horizon color adjustments.
Foam Effects: Intersection foam with opaque geometry, adjustable surface foam, and slope-based river foam.
Wave Animations: GPU-driven layered waves through presets.
Caustics: Animated caustics in shallow water.
Translucency: Rendering translucency from all light types.
Flat Shading: Low-poly look for stylized art styles.
Refraction: Distorts objects behind the water surface.
Vertex Color Support: Control foam, underwater fog, and wave height via vertex colors.

Technical Features

Material UI: Clean, accordion-style interface with tooltips and notifications.
Tessellation Support: Dynamically subdivides triangles (adaptive & distance-based).
C# API: Read the water surface height and control time/world offset for synchronized waves.
Planar Reflections: Robustly designed and scalable.
Screen-Space Reflections: Implemented as a direct shader effect.
Water Grid: Creates water tiles that follow specific transforms or cameras.
Utility Tools: Create subdivided plane/circle mesh assets.

Included Assets

This package includes the following:

Demo Scene: Tropical beach demo scene.
Pre-configured Materials: Clear, Frozen, Lava, Lowpoly, Murky, Ocean, Realistic, Swamp, Toon.
Textures: Foam and normal map textures.
Particle Effects: Designed for gameplay and environment enhancement (flipbooks with normal maps).

Compatibility

Platforms: PC, macOS, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, Android/iOS, WebGL 2.0, WebGPU*.

Graphics APIs: DirectX, Metal, Vulkan, OpenGL (3.0+).

Automatic Fog Integration: Compatible with Enviro 3, Azure Sky, Atmospheric Height Fog, COZY Weather 3, and Buto.

VR Rendering: Supports Single Pass Instanced & Multiview.

Restrictions:

Not compatible with 2D Renderer or Tilemaps.
Planar reflections aren't VR-compatible.
Unsuitable for planetary rendering (texture seams unavoidable).
Not compatible with Apple Vision Pro.
*WebGPU does not support the GPU-based height query system.

Performance

Hand-written, expertly crafted shaders ensure maximum performance and flexibility. Features can be disabled to scale down for mobile platforms, from a simple colored plane to vivid animated lakes.

Additional Information

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Notes

This package is perfect for developers looking to create highly customizable and performant stylized water effects. With its extensive feature set, compatibility across multiple platforms, and focus on usability, Stylized Water 3 is a valuable tool for both beginners and experts alike.

Check out the provided images and explore the features to see how Stylized Water 3 can enhance your projects.

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