Breaking

Set minimum Unity version to 2020.3.40.
Set minimum render pipeline package version to 10.10.

Changed

Add support for multiple cameras to the Underwater Renderer. One limitation is that underwater culling will be disabled when using multiple Underwater Renderers.
ShapeFFT/Gerstner can now take a mesh renderer as an input.
Add Crest/Inputs/Shape Waves/Sample Spectrum shader which samples the spectrum using a texture.
Ocean inputs provided via the Register components now sort on sibling index in addition to queue, so multiple inputs with the same queue can be organised in the hierarchy to control sort order.
Add ability to alpha blend waves (effectively an override) instead of only having additive blend waves. Set Blend Mode to Alpha Blend on the ShapeFFT or ShapeGerstner to use. It’s useful for preventing rivers and lakes from receiving ocean waves.
Add Water Tile Prefab field to Ocean Renderer to provide more control over water tile mesh renderers like reflection probes settings.
Warn users that edits in prefab mode will not be reflected in scene view until prefab is saved.
Validate that no scale can be applied to the OceanRenderer.
Viewpoint validation has been removed as it was unnecessary and spammed the logs.
Whirlpool now executes in edit mode.
Visualise Ray Trace now executes in edit mode.
Render Alpha On Surface now executes in edit mode.
Only report no Shape component validation as help boxes (ie no more console logs).
Remove outdated lighting validation.
Validate layers to warn users of potential build failures if Crest related renderers are not on the same layer as the OceanRenderer.Layer.
No longer log info level validation to the console.
Add info validation for tips on using reflection probes when found in a scene.
Set Ocean Renderer Wind Speed default value to the maxmimum to reduce UX friction for new users.
Also search Addressables and Resources for ocean materials when stripping keywords from underwater shader.
Add Ocean Renderer > Extents Size Multiplier to adjust the extents so they can be increased in size to meet the horizon in cases where they do not.
Greatly improve performance when many SphereWaterInteraction components are used by utilising GPU In- stancing.
Improve example scenes.
Improve Ocean Depth Cache capture performance by excluding all render features.

Fixed

Fix FFTs incorrectly adding extra foam.
Limit minimum phase period of flow technique applied to waves to fix objectionable phasing issues in flowing water like rivers.
Fix some components breaking in edit mode after entering/exiting prefab mode.
Fix Build Processor deprecated/obsolete warnings.
Fix spurious “headless/batch mode” error during builds.
Greatly improve spline performance in the editor.
Fix PSSL compiler errors.
Fix incompatibility with EasySave3 and similar assets where water tiles would be orphaned when exiting play mode.
Fix ocean tiles being pickable in the editor.
Fix several memory leaks.
Fix Sea Floor Depth Data disabled state as it was still attenuating waves when disabled.
No longer execute when building which caused several issues.
Fix self-intersecting polygon (and warning) on Ferry model.
Fix Examples scene UI not scaling and thus looking incorrect for non 4K resolution.
Fix build failure for main scene if reflection probe is added that excluded the Water layer.
Prevent bad values (NaN etc) from propagating in the Dynamic Waves simulation. This manifested as the water surface disappearing from a singlar point.
Fix shader include path error when moving Crest folder from the standard location.
No longer disable the Underwater Renderer if it fails validation.
Fix Underwater Curtain lighting not matching the water surface causing a visible seam at the far plane.
Fix "mismatching output texture dimension" error when using XR SPI (Single-Pass Instanced).
Fix Underwater Renderer incompatibility with SSAO (Screen-Space Ambient Occlusion).
Fix Unity 2022.2 obsolete warnings.

Please see the release notes page for complete history.

Crest Ocean System URP