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1.2.8

Changed:

- Removed copy-color pass from rendering for improved performance. Instead the Opaque texture is now used (and required).

Fixed:

- Transparent material sorting breaking in Unity 2023.2 when camera stacking was in use.

1.2.7

Changed:

- Refraction now uses the Opaque texture, instead of the nearest reflection probe. Generally improves visual quality and usability.

Fixed:

- Conflicting parameter name with Buto, causing its fog density value to affect underwater fog density.

1.2.6

Added:

- Scene view gizmo to display the current water level on both the Underwater Renderer and Underwater Trigger components.

Changed:

- Underwater Trigger now constantly sets the water level/material whilst inside the trigger (avoids other triggers that spawn in to interfere)

Fixed:

- Unfogged part of the underwater surface not being affected by directional light and ambient light.

1.2.5

Changed:

- Implemented proper error handling for Unity 6.

Fixed:

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

- "Speed" parameter on the water material not affecting the underwater caustics animation speed

1.2.4

Fixed:

- Right eye rendering black on Android VR in Unity 2022.3.21+

1.2.3

Added:

- A warning to the Underwater Renderer UI if rendering was disabled by an external script.

Fixed:

- Camera-space distortion not having any effect when using VR.

1.2.2

Fixed:

- Caustics and Distortion effects appearing to be sped up when passing in a custom time index to the WaterObject.CustomTime API.

1.2.1

Fixed:

- Unintentional inclusion of the Dynamic Effects namespace in a script file, causing a compile error

Changed:

- The water level padding now defaults to a value of 0.5.

1.2.0

Minimum required version of Stylized Water 2 is now 1.5.2.

Added:

- Underwater Trigger component, sets the active water material/level based on Collider and Camera trigger interactions.

- Underwater Trigger example scene, with two different water bodies.

- Custom UI for render feature.

Changed:

- Moved scripts into StylizedWater2.UnderwaterRendering namespace.

- Improved auto-setup functionality for render feature, now also sets up non-default renderers.

- Renamed the "Underwater Lightshaft" shader to "Underwater Particle".

Fixed:

- Cases where water would appear not to render if the static "Enable Rendering" boolean was set to false.

1.1.0

Minimum required version of Stylized Water 2 is now 1.5.0.

Added:

- Underwater mask node for Amplify Shader Editor

- Exposed global shader boolean called "_UnderwaterRenderingEnabled"

Changed:

- Shader Graph sub graphs are now combined into a single master node.

Fixed:

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

1.0.9

Minimum required version of Stylized Water 2 is now 1.4.0.

Added:

- Rendering now uses the RTHandles system, finalizing support for Unity 2022.2+. Resources are now only re-allocated when called for.

- Pre-emptive support for Unity 2023

Changed:

- Underwater rendering shaders are now also C# generated. Future integrations/extensions will be automatically added.

Fixed:

- Water shader not supporting the SRP Batcher when underwater rendering was active.

- Normalized Distortion Frequency so it appears almost the same between the two quality modes

- Directional Caustics quality option causing strong visual artefacts on Meta Quest/Pro

- The scale of the Directional Light transform affecting the caustics projection

1.0.8

Fixed:

- 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)

- Directional Caustics appearing to warp in Unity 2021.3.15+

1.0.7

Minimum required version of Stylized Water 2 is now 1.3.0.

Changed:

- Updated scripting functionality to reflect the material parameter changes in Stylized Water 2 v1.3.0.

- Waterline now also supports animation using networked synchronized time.

1.0.6b

Fixed:

- Regression in previous version causing transparent geometry to render over opaque geometry in Unity 2022.1.

1.0.6

Fixed:

- Preliminary fixes for Unity 2022.2 and 2023.1. Removal of now obsolete API's in 2022.1+ will be addressed in a future update.

1.0.5

Minimum supported Unity version is now 2020.3.

Added:

- Support for Single Pass Instanced VR/Multi-view rendering (requires Unity 2021.2+).

Changed:

- Optimized blur to use fewer samples.

- Minor improvements to distortion. Now also renders at 1/4th resolution without a noticeable quality loss.

- Directional Caustics no longer require an intermediary rendering step.

- Values for the Water level field in the inspector are now always updated.

Fixed:

- Directional Caustics not taking effect in Unity 2020.3, unless accurate option was enabled.

- Improvement to water mask rendering, where some times a triangle would render in front of it.

1.0.4

Minimum required version of Stylized Water 2 is now 1.1.5. Verified compatibility with 2021.2.0

Added:

- Gradient ambient lighting now affects the underwater fog as well (equator color is used).

- Parameter (component/volume) to multiply the caustics strength underwater.

- Support for cascaded shadow maps

Changed:

- Refactored shading of the underwater surface and fog:

* Surface now partially reflects the underwater color, creating a more believable appearance.

* Fog floods the water surface as the camera goes deeper, eventually covering it completely.

* Two new parameters are added to the "Underwater" tab on the water material, controlling aspects of the underwater surface.

* Underwater fog now has separate control over vertical/horizontal density. With added height fog controls.

- Performance optimization:

* A depth pre-pass for the water surfaces is no longer needed, cuts down on N number of draw calls.

* In Unity 2021.2.0+, 2 frame buffer copies can be skipped, by making use of an improved feature.

- Waves & Caustics are now also disabled if they are on the water material.

- Shader Graph node to apply fog now only modifies the Emission value. Lighting is now incorporated into the fog color. This ensures scene lighting doesn't interfere.

Fixed:

- Fog and water surface not matching entirely, when using a skybox as the ambient light source.

- Objects underwater, in front of the water surface, also being refracted (Limited to the Advanced shading mode).

- Rendering no longer takes effect for 'preview' camera's. Otherwise affects asset thumbnails generated while underwater.

- Shader error when building to PS5.

1.0.3

Added:

- Parameters to control screen distortion strength, frequency and speed. On the Underwater Renderer component and volume settings component

Fixed:

- Caustics and subsurface scattering appearing to warp in some specific URP 7.5.x versions

- Unintentional use of an absolute file path, preventing the StylizedWater2 folder from being moved

1.0.2

Fixed:

- Rendering not taking any effect in URP 7.5.2 and 7.5.3

- Waterline/meniscus rendering behind the camera on OpenGL in Unity 2020.2+

1.0.1

Added:

- Static SetCurrentWaterLevel and SetCurrentMaterial functions to the UnderwaterRenderer class.

* This can be used to switch to other water bodies via triggers or other game logic

- UnderwaterRenderer.EnableRendering static boolean. Can be toggled to disable rendering in specific cases.

- Directional Caustics support for versions older than Unity 2020.2

- Option to enable high accuracy directional caustics (using either the Depth Normals prepass, or reconstructing it from the depth texture)

Fixed:

- Underwater surface not matching up perfectly if ambient skybox lighting is used with an intensity higher than x1

- Corrected default settings for particle system prefabs

- Enabling volume settings blending, requiring to toggle the component for it to take effect.

- Rendering also taking effect when editing a prefab

Changed:

- Render feature can longer be auto-added when in playmode

Underwater Rendering for Stylized Water 2 (Extension)