1.7.1

As of May 2026 the asset store no longer allows uploads for Unity 2021.3, though this asset is still compatible with it.

Fixed:

- Critical script compile errors in Unity 6.4+, preventing migration to Stylized Water 3.

1.7.0

Fixed:

- Planar Reflections: objects disappearing when occlusion culling is enabled

- Forward+: Point/spot lights no longer affecting the water surface beyond a certain distance

1.6.9

Changed:

- Minor code changes required to make upgrading to Stylized Water 3 possible.

Fixed:

- Patched critical shader errors when using APV in Unity 6 (not supported)

1.6.8

Changed:

- Shader now falls back to URP's "magenta" shader, when failing to compile, which supports DOTS

- Removed shader error workaround for MacOS added in v1.6.6. The related bug is now fixed in 2022.3.36f1+

Fixed:

- Hotfix for OUTPUT_SH4 and SAMPLE_GI shader macro errors in Unity 6000.0.9f1+

1.6.7

Fixed:

- Enviro fog shading not having any effect since version 3.1.3 due to a code change

1.6.6

Fixed:

- Workaround for shader error on Mac in Unity 2022.3.15+, regarding "_FOVEATED_RENDERING_NON_UNIFORM_RASTER" (known bug: UUM-67560)

1.6.5

Added:

- "Sample Water Normal" sub-graph, allows other shaders to read out the water surface normal

Fixed:

- Distance fading for waves not behaving correctly if an origin shifting system was in use (WaterObject.PositionOffset)

- Displacement Pre-pass unnecessarily also calculating information per-pixel

1.6.4

Changed:

- Implemented proper error handling for Unity 6.

- "Murky" water material

Fixed:

- Planar Reflections, minute changes in render scale not having an effect on resolution.

- Buoyancy API not respecting custom time value if it was exactly 0.

- Indirect lighting and reflections being black in demo scenes in Unity 2023.2+.

- Translucency for point lights being visible on backfaces (underwater scenario).

1.6.3

Added:

- Checkbox on material to enable Dynamic Effects (enabled by default).

Changed:

- Simulation space of particle effects is now World-Space by default

- Water Grid 'columns' parameter now allows for a 0 value. This covers the use case of using the component with custom geometry.

- Water Mesh creation is no longer limited to 65536 vertices.

Fixed:

- Water Grid, wireframe display not accurately representing the geometry if the Transform was scaled.

- Caustics effect not appearing correctly when the "Disable Depth Texture" option was enabled.

- Shader compile error on MacOS when using 2022.3.15+ (workaround for known URP bug)

1.6.2

Added:

- Intersection Foam distortion parameter, offsets the texture sample by the normals

- Caustics chromance parameter, allows blending between grayscale- and RGB caustics

Fixed:

- Translucency rendering not being applied with the correct strength for a 2nd+ point light.

1.6.1

Fixed:

- DWP2 integration, water level being fixed to a value of 0 in some cases.

- Atmospheric Height Fog integration, shader error when using latest version (v3.2.0+)

1.6.0

Verified compatibility with Unity 2023.2.0

Note: Unity packages cannot track moved/renamed/deleted files. It is recommended to delete the StylizedWater2 folder before updating!

Added:

- Generalized water render feature

* Screen Space Reflections (in preview)

* Water displacement prepass (advanced custom uses for the time being)

* Directional caustics option

- Public static C# parameter: WaterObject.PositionOffset. Water shading and buoyancy will be offset by this value, for use with floating-origin systems.

- Fog integration for Buto 2022 (v7.7.3+)

- Render queue -/+ buttons in material UI

- Lava flow river material

Fixed:

- Planar Reflections not composting correctly on Android when HDR was enabled

- HDR information from reflection probes not correctly being used in the water material, making emissive surfaces appear dim.

- Shader compile error when building for Android when using VR and OpenGLES (workaround for returning Unity bug).

Changed:

- Tiling parameters for Normals and Surface Foam now have an X & Y component. Allowing for width/length stretching.

- Animation speed for texture-based effects now remain consistent when altering a tiling parameter.

- "Floating Transform" component was renamed to "Align Transform To Waves", to clarify its functionality.

- Surface Foam, normal map now also influences the Distortion parameter

- Negative speed values are now allowed for Rivers

- Buoyancy.SetCustomTime function deprecated. The static WaterObject.CustomTime parameter may now be used instead.

- Dynamic effects (v1.1.0)

* Created curvature is no longer influenced by reflection distortion parameters. Effects always create visual distortions.

* Projected normals are now visible even when the Normals feature is disabled on the material.

* Vertex displacement now also applies to water materials with Tessellation disabled.

Removed:

- Obsolete buoyancy code functions

- Support for code without the Mathematics package installed (it is required with URP anyway).

1.5.5

Fixed:

- Shader error when using Curved World 2022, due to incorrect order of shader library compilation.

- Water appearing completely black when Buto 2022 is installed (temporary fix until integration is available)

1.5.4

Fixed:

- Material UI, the Dynamic Effects surface foam texture slot being linked to the regular Foam Mask slot.

1.5.3

Fixed:

- Material UI, dropdown texture selection not working if the asset was installed as a package

- Vertex color-based intersection foam not appearing if the "Disable Depth Texture" option was enabled.

- Caustics not being visible if the "Disable Depth Texture" option was enabled.

- Surface Foam added through vertex colors not contributing to river slopes

1.5.2

Added:

- River mode, parameters to control the minimum slope angle and falloff.

- Translucency, parameter to control effect from direct light, simulates glacial or morene lakes.

- Option to enable support for light cookies in the shader inspector

Changed:

- Improved calculation of light intensity for sun reflection and translucency, now more accurately responds to color.

Fixed:

- Box projected Reflection probes not appearing correctly on the water surface for orthographic cameras.

- Caustics appearing in shadows underwater when using the Advanced shading mode (regression since v1.4.0)

- Shader error when Light Probe Volumes was enabled in Unity 2023.1+

1.5.1

Minimum supported version is now Unity 2021.3.16f1 (URP 12.1.6).

Added:

- Planar Reflections UI, warning when using the default renderer. Added a button to automatically create and assign a new empty renderer.

- Planar Reflections, option to enabled default fog for the render.

- Frozen lake prefab material.

- Extended support for the Rendering Debugger. Reflections, translucency and caustics can now also be inspected.

Changed:

- Revised some demo scene content.

- Fog density is now calculated per pixel, as opposed to per vertex (standard as of Unity 2021.2).

Fixed:

- Water not rendering on Android VR if URP's "SH Evaluation" setting was set to 'Per vertex'.

- Surface Foam tiling parameter not having any effect for foam drawn on slopes (regression since v1.5.0).

- (Unity 2022.2+) Planar Reflections causing an error in URP's rendering loop when the scene hierarchy search functionality was used.

- Planar Reflections, error thrown when using the Profiler and exiting Play mode.

[Truncated! Full changelog is included in the asset]

Stylized Water 2 (for Unity 2021-2023)