1.1.9

Added:

- Planar Reflection Renderer, API to add/remove specific water objects

Changed:

- Updated fog integration for COZY Weather

- The distance normals texture now uses the same import settings as the regular normal map (eg. filtering settings)

Fixed:

- Horizon color appearing as a sharp circle on Mobile at large distances

- Underwater reflection not appearing entirely correct (regression since v1.1.8)

- Edge fading canceling out translucency shading when viewed from underwater

1.1.8b

Hotfixes:

- Underwater reflections not showing objects above the water surface

- Build error caused by keyword stripping under certain conditions

1.1.8

Minimum supported version is now Unity 2020.3.1 and URP 10.3.2

Added:

- Fog integration for COZY Weather.

- Sharp and Stream waves normal map.

- River mode, slope threshold parameter.

Changed:

- Updated smooth waves normal map to show less repetition.

- Alpha channels of deep/shallow colors no longer control opacity, but water depth instead. Clear water is now made possible.

- Simple shading now also masks out objects above the water for refraction.

- Advanced shading now also refracts the fog gradient (requires more calculations, hence limited to this mode).

- Reflections are now laid over translucency shading. Added a parameter to control this behaviour.

- Optimized wave shader calculations for vertex animations.

- Double-clicking a water mesh in an inspector now properly selects it, rather than the OS trying to open the file.

Fixed:

- Planar Reflection with Underwater Rendering causing a black/white image when used together.

- Blue vertex color painting not affecting horizontal wave movements.

- Horizontal displacement created by waves not affecting UV's. Normal map now also moves back and forth.

1.1.7

Added:

- Support for spot/point light shadows in Unity 2021.1+/URP v12+ (requires the "Receive shadows" option to be enabled).

Changed:

- Caustics effect is now influenced by the sun light's intensity. Spot/point lights will create a localized caustics effect.

- Improved translucency shading for point/spot lights, now visually behaves the same as it does for a directional light.

- Improved light reflection for rivers, now takes the mesh's curvature into account.

- Lighting no longer applies to the reflected image, since it is already lit. Added parameter to control this behavior.

- Warning is now displayed in the material UI if the render queue set is illegal.

Fixed:

- Specular reflection for point lights still being calculated when Light Reflection feature was disabled.

- Shadow mask used for the sun reflection/translucency did not take shadow fading into account.

* The "Receive shadows" must be now be enabled to mask these effect. Shadow strength can still be 0.

1.1.6

Added:

- Planar Reflection Renderer, option to enable shadows in the reflection render.

Fixed:

- StylizedWaterDataProvider script breaking since DWP2 v2.5.1, due to API changes (now the minimum required version)

1.1.5

Minimum supported version is now 2019.4.15 LTS and URP 7.5.3. Verified compatibility with 2021.2.0

If in use, this version must be updated alongside of the Underwater Rendering extension v1.0.4.

Added:

- Support for lightmaps and realtime GI

Changed:

- Floating Transform component now has a "Dynamic material" checkbox. If set, wave settings are fetched each frame.

- Sample positions on Floating Transform component now correctly work with prefab overrides.

- Water Grid component will now regenerate the water tile mesh if it is missing. Allowing it to be used in prefabs.

- Intersection Foam and Edge Fade effects now fade out when the camera sits extremely close on the water surface (excluded for rivers).

* This avoids them being visible through the waves, causing a horizontal line.

* Can cause slight visual warping, but this isn't noticeable for animated water

- Green vertex color channel now controls the depth color gradient, rather than Opacity. This allows all depth-based effects to be controlled through vertex colors

* This behaviour still controls opacity when river mode is used.

Fixed:

- Terrain appearing black/red in planar reflections when using more than 4 layers.

- "Screen position out of view frustum" errors being thrown when using Planar Reflections with an orthographic camera aimed completely straight.

- Sun reflection blowing out when using Gamma color space and HDR

- Unused shader variants not being stripped when Tessellation was being used, causing longer build times on older Unity versions.

1.1.4

Added:

- WaterObject.Find function. Attempts to find the WaterObject above or below the given position.

* Floating Transform component now has an "Auto-find" option

- Buoyancy.Raycast function. Given a position and direction, finds the intersection point with the water

- Planar Reflections, maximum LOD quality setting. Can be used to limit reflected objects to LOD1 or LOD2

- Caustics distortion parameter. Offsets the caustics based on the normal map.

Changed:

- Planar Reflections, standard fog no longer renders into to the reflection. This can cause artifacts where it "bleeds" over partially culled geometry

Fixed:

- Azure fog library file not being found (GUID was changed)

1.1.3

Added:

- Vertical depth parameter, controls the density of the water based on viewing angle

- Realistic water material (ocean-esque)

Changed:

- Water meshes created through the utility or Water Grid component now have some height. Avoids premature culling when using high waves.

- Water Mesh utility can now automatically apply changes when parameters are modified.

- Setup actions under Window menu now support Undo/redo actions

- Improved blending of normal maps for the Advanced shading mode

- Wave normals now distort caustics, creating a more believable effect

- Translucency shading now takes the surface curvature into account (controllable through new parameter)

- UI: translucency moved to the Lighting/Shading tab

Fixed:

- Water depth not rendering correctly when using an orthographic camera and OpenGL

- WaterMesh.Create function not taking the chosen shape into account, always creating a rectangle

- Integration for Dynamic Water Physics 2 no longer working since v2.4.2 (now the minimum required version)

- Refraction and reflection distortion appearing much stronger for orthographic camera's

1.1.2

This version includes some changes required for the Underwater Rendering extension

Added:

- Tessellation support (preview feature). Can be enabled under the "Advanced" tab.

- Added menu item to auto-setup Planar Reflections or create a Water Grid

- Hard-coded file paths for third-party fog libraries are now automatically rewritten

- Fog can now be globally disabled for the water through script (see "Third party integrations" section in docs)

- Support for reflection probe blending and box projection. Requires 2021.2.0b1+, will break in an alpha version

- (Pre-emptive) Support for rendering debug window in 2021.2.0b1

Changed:

- Menu item "Help/Stylized Water 2" moved to "Window/Stylized Water 2/Hub"

- Improved refraction, this now takes the surface curvature into account. Maximum allowed strength increased to x3

Fixed:

- Fog integration for SC Post Effects and Atmospheric Height Fog (v2.0.0+)

1.1.1

Hotfix for build-blocking error in some cases.

1.1.0

Added:

- Diorama example scene

- Exposed parameter to control the size of point/spot light specular reflections

Changed:

- Translucency shading will now also work if lighting is disabled

- Intersection- and surface foam and now appear correct when using the Gamma color-space

- Surface foam can now be painted using the Alpha channel of the painted color. Previously the Blue channel was used only if River Mode was enabled.

- Planar Reflection Renderer component now shows a warning if reflection were globally disabled by an external script

Fixed:

- Scripting build error on tvOS due to VR code being stripped for the platform

- When river mode is enabled, a second layer of foam on slopes wasn't visible.

- Planar Reflection Renderer component needing to be toggled when using multiple instances

- Buoyancy not being in sync when animation speed was higher than x1

1.0.9

Added:

- Support for SC Post Effects Pack fog rendering (activated through the Help window)

Changed:

- Material UI now has a help toggle button, with quick links to documentation

- Buoyancy.SampleWaves function now has a boolean argument, to indicate if the material's wave parameters are being changed at runtime. Version without this has been marked as obsolete.

- Floating Transform component now supports multi-selection

Fixed:

- Planar reflections failing to render if the water mesh was positioned further away than its size

- Warning about obsolete API in Unity 2021.2+ due to URP changes, package will now import without any interuptions

- Shader error when Enviro fog was enabled, due to a conflicting function name

1.0.8

Added:

- Distance normals feature, blends in a second normal map, based on a start/end distance.

- Distance fade parameter for waves. Waves can smoothly fade out between a start/end distance, to avoid tiling artifacts when viewed from afar.

- Planar Reflections, option to specify the renderer to be used for reflection. This allows a set up where certain render features aren't being applied to the reflection

Changed:

- Planar Reflections inspector now shows a warning and quick-fix button if the bounds need to be recalculated.

- Material section headers now also have tooltips

- Water Grid improvements, now only recreates tiles if the rows/columns value was changed

Fixed:

- Issues with DWP2 integration since its latest update

[Full changelog is included in the asset]