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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.

1.5.0

Verified compatibility with Unity 2023.1f7. This is the last update supporting Unity 2020.

Added:

- Swamp water material

- Improved refraction (Advanced shading mode only), taking the surface curvature more accurately into account + Exposed parameter to control chromatic aberration

- Color absorption feature, darkens the underwater color based on its depth (Advanced shading mode only).

- Surface Foam now dissipates based on a base amount of foam, and that added through waves

* Base Amount parameter, previously controlled by the foam color alpha channel

* Foam Distortion parameter, distorts the foam by the amount of vertical surface displacement (such as with waves).

- Parameters to control the Tiling/Speed of the Normal Map and Surface Foam sub-layers.

- Support for Light Layers in Unity 2022.2+

- Global Illumination support when using Tessellation

Changed:

- Material UI, corrected unwanted indentation in Unity 2022.2+ due to parameter locking functionality.

- Translucency shading, Curvature Mask parameter now acts as a mask for surface slopes

- Increased maximum allowed amount of tessellation subdivisions from 16 to 32 (internally still limited to 15 on Xbox One and PS5).

- Water Mesh asset utility now has a "Bounds padding" value exposed. Previously used a fixed value of 4, to add artificial height to the mesh for improved culling.

- Improved consistency of Distance Depth (fog) appearance between perspective- and orthographic cameras.

- Caustics no longer appear on the skybox behind water geometry

- Refraction is no longer forced to be disabled if the Normals feature is.

- Distance Normals tiling parameter is now decoupled from the base normal tiling

- Updated fog integration for Atmospheric Height Fog (3.0.0).

- Shader error message is now thrown should a fog asset cause a Built-in RP shader library to be compiled into it.

- Fog shading now also applies to backfaces of the geometry used

Fixed:

- Inconsistent animation direction between Mesh UV and World Projected coordinate modes.

- Static lightmapping not having any effect in Unity 2022.3+ (GI now no longer supported in 2020.3)

- Normals being incorrect if World XZ Projected UV was used, yet the water plane was rotated on the Y-axis.

- Caustics no longer disappear when lightmaps are applied (no light was available to control the effect's intensity)

- Default Unity fog integration not taking effect, when automatic integration detection was enabled.

- Scaling a Water Grid component caused it to not create geometry correctly, nor display the grid gizmo accurately.

- Auto-setup function for DWP2 in help window not working if no Flat Water Data Provider component was present anywhere.

- Preventing Enviro (1 & 3) and Atmospheric Height Fog from shading the water if their settings are un-initialized.

- Incorrect wave normals when geometry had a rotation, causing reflections to look incorrect.

- Pre-emptive shader error fixes in Unity 2023.2+, due to API changes.

Removed:

- Surface Foam, Wave Mask Exponent parameter

1.4.0

Converted water shader to a new 'scriptable shader' framework. Integrations, extensions and version-specific hooks are now automatically incorporated.

Added:

- Material UI, added a "Toggle tooltips" button, which shows every parameter's tooltip below it.

- Surface Foam slope parameter for River Mode. Controls how much foam is automatically drawn on slopes.

- Waterfall foam texture

- Option to disable z-clipping of the water surface (Rendering tab).

- Improved performance of Buoyancy API (roughly 20% faster)

- Water Mesh + Water Grid inspector, option to preview the mesh as a wireframe in the scene view.

- Options under "GameObject/3D Object/Water" to create a water object or grid.

- Planar Reflection Renderer inspector, preview image of rendered reflection in the UI.

- Planar Reflection Renderer, option to take the component's transform rotation into account. Making an upside-down/sideways reflection possible.

Changed:

- Material UI, "Advanced" section renamed to "Rendering"

- River slope normal map now uses the same import settings as the base normal map (reduces the amount of samplers used).

- Re-authored foam/caustics textures to double their scaling size, reducing visible tiling artefacts

- Caustics are no longer disabled if the "Disable Depth Texture" is enabled. Instead, they draw on the water surface itself.

- Integration for Dynamic Water Physics 2 is now based on the "NWH_DWP2" scripting define symbol. No longer required to unlock the component.

- WaterMesh class, improvements to make parameter changes non-destructive:

* Vertex noise is now consistent at any mesh scale

* UV scale is no longer influenced by scale

* No longer uses a fixed number of subdivisions, but rather a "vertex distance" value.

Fixed:

- Warnings about obsolete code in Unity 2023.1+ regarding OpenGLES 2.0 checks (now completely unsupported).

- Reflection distortion for Planar Reflections not being equally strong as for reflection probes.

- Refraction artifacts visible for geometry in front of the water in orthographic projections.

- Refraction not working when the Disable Depth Texture option was enabled.

Removed:

- Public functions in Buoyancy class that were marked as obsolete since v1.1.4

1.3.1

Added:

- Fog integration for Buto Volumetric Fog and Lighting

Changed:

- Reduced the amount of shader variants by 22%, decreasing build times.

- Updated fog integration for SC Post Effects (v2.3.2+)

- Reduced the file size of the StreamWaves normal map file by half (no quality loss).

Fixed:

- Wave tint parameter creating negative color values (it now merely brighten wave crest as intended).

- Preemptive shader error fix for Unity 2023.1.0a26+

- Materials not receiving shadows, or showing banding artefacts, when a single shadow cascade is used. (In Unity 2021.3.15+, or versions released after December 15th 2022)

1.3.0

- If in use, this version must be updated alongside of the Underwater Rendering extension v1.0.7.

- Retired support for Unity 2019

Materials must be converted to an updated format, a pop up will appear when selecting a water material to notify you. This process is automated.

* Custom water materials may look incorrect (eg. certain features suddenly disabled) until the conversion is performed.

Added:

- Material UI now supports multi-selection and Material Variants (in Unity 2022.1+).

- Support for Forward+ rendering (in 2022.2+).

- Distortion & Strength Multiplier parameters for point/spot light reflections.

- A separate normal map texture can now be used for river slopes.

Changed:

- Translucency shading now only takes effect within the water's fog.

- Sun/Light specular reflection no longer assume the surface is flat, and will better work on curved surfaces.

- Usage of a custom time value no longer requires modifying the shader code. Instead using the Buoyancy.SetCustomTime function automatically enables this.

- URP version specific shader code is now solely based on the Unity editor version, rather than the URP package version (new standard as of 2022.1).

- Help window now shows the compatibility state of the chosen graphics API.

Fixed:

- Horizon color and Reflection Curvature Mask now behave the same for back faces as they do for front faces.

- Caustics for point/spot lights not taking the water's fog density into account.

1.2.0

Added:

- Fog integration for Enviro 3

- Planar Reflection Renderer, option to move the rendering bounds with the Transform

Fixed:

- Refraction not affecting the skybox on sloped water surfaces

- 'Assets/Create/Water mesh' action not directly creating the asset, unless the asset database was refreshed.

- Planar Reflections, realtime changes to the Field of View or Orthographic camera properties not being applied.

- Pre-emptive fixes for Unity 2022.2 beta

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

[Full changelog is included in the asset]

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