4.17.3

Fixed

Fix OnEnable being triggered twice for Crest components in play mode in the editor when Scene Reload is enabled. This potentially caused problems with some components.

4.17.2

Fixed

4.17

Changed

Reorganise documentation to make things easier to find.
Reduce Water Body material override feature leaking outside of water bodies.
No longer execute when editor is inactive (ie out of focus) to prevent edge cases where memory leaks can occur and to save energy.
Improve Water Body gizmo by adding a wireframe.
Use Register Height Input in Boat scene instead of Register Animated Waves Input.
Rate limit shadow simulation to Ocean Renderer > Editor Mode FPS.
Move Ocean Renderer debug options into foldout.
Release Ocean Renderer resources in OnDestroy instead of OnDisable to prevent performance penality of re- building the system. The option Debug > Destroy Resources In On Disable will revert this behaviour if needed.
Make Ocean Depth Cache depth relative. This benefits baked depth caches by allowing them to be moved after baking providing the contents are moved with it.
Add Update Saved Cache File button to Ocean Depth Cache.
Automatically set Ocean Depth Cache to Baked and set texture after baking.
Show Crest version on Ocean Renderer.
Add helpbox to Floating Origin directing users to documentation for solving potential popping issues.
Improve spacing for spectrum power slider labels.
Ramp planar reflection distortion with distance using the new Planar Reflections Distortion Distance Factor material property.

Fixed

Reduce GC (Garbage Collector) allocations when using ShapeFFT or ShapeGerstner. To not have per frame GC allocations, ensure Spectrum Fixed At Runtime is enabled.
Remove or reduce several runtime GC allocations.
Remove several editor GC allocations.
Fix culling and performance issues in edit mode when using RegisterHeightInput, RegisterAnimWavesInput or Whirlpool.
Fix gizmos not drawing for inputs when using an attached renderer.
Fix potential cases where water tiles were being culled incorrectly.
Fix Sphere Water Interaction not working in builds.
Fix larger waves not blending out when using wave blending.
Fix Underwater Renderer compatibility with depth prepass.
Fix Underwater Renderer not working with multiple cameras in certain cases.
Fix rendering artifacts when Windows Graphics API is set to Direct3D11 and the Android Graphics API is set to Vulkan.
Fix Ocean Planar Reflections capturing reflections from only one viewpoint when used with multiple cameras in builds.
Fix shadow simulation breaking cameras that use StereoTargetEyeMask when XR SPI (Single-Pass Instanced) is enabled.
Check correct URP asset when doing validation to prevent possible exceptions or erroneous validation.
Fix shader compilation errors from BIRP (Built-in Render Pipeline) shaders being previously included in package.
Fix Ocean material texture properties not binding on some platforms (PS5).

Performance

Improve water tile culling significantly.
The bounds for each tile are normally expanded to accommodate mesh displacement (to prevent culling), but they were much larger than required in many cases leading to reduced culling hits which is no longer the case.
Reduce the amount of displacement queries LOD inputs make significantly making performance more scalable. Optimise LOD inputs cost per frame when used with a Renderer.
Minor performance optimisations.

Please see the release notes page for complete history.

Crest Ocean System URP