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3.3.0 (September 8th 2026)

Support has been extended to Unity 6.6. This update includes many internal changes for extensions, an requires updating them as well.

< Update the Dynamic Effects and Underwater Rendering extensions the latest version as well! >

Added:

- Icons for every section in the Material UI

- Hub Window now displays all the available demo scenes (including for extensions)

- Warning to installer if a World-Space canvas has a sorting order of 0, which may cause water to render over it.

- Depth pre-pass option. Renders the depth of the water surface in a texture (_WaterDepthTexture). This may be used in custom effects and can be enabled on the Render Feature.

- "Sample Water Position" sub-graph that uses the above depth texture to sample the water surface position.

- Experimental support for Meta XR occlusion functionality + using depth from the pass-through environment (requires the 'com.meta.xr.sdk.core' package).

- Depth Offset material parameter, may be used to mitigate z-fighting (eg. rivers above a terrain surface).

Changed:

- The "Force Simple Shading On Mobile" option on the shader is now a dropdown menu that's specifies multiple platforms.

- River materials now have a "Legacy Behaviour" toggle. This should be enabled for river materials not being used with the River Modeler tool.

- Surface Foam now has a separate texture slot for slope-based foam.

- Updated particle effects to use a modified quad mesh so that they don't appear darker when facing away from the sun.

Changed:

- Material UI: Tiling parameter for distance normals is now a slider.

3.2.8 (June 22nd 2026)

Verified and extended support for Unity 6.5.

Fixed:

- Render feature not executing for the main camera in Unity 6.5+ (affects all extensions too)

3.2.7 (June 2nd 2026)

Added:

- Shader inspector: Option to force the "Simple Shading" mode on mobile platforms (now enabled by default).

- New waterfall foam texture.

- Support for SC Post Effects (for Unity 6) fog, ahead of its release.

Changed:

- Height Interface now displays the water level value actively being used.

Fixed:

- Occlusion Culling having an incorrect effect on the Ocean prefab.

- Incorrect warning about WebGL not supporting GPU Height Queries in Unity 6.1+

- Sparkles also being visible on the underwater surface.

3.2.6 (April 7th 2026)

Verified compatibility with Unity 6.4.

Fixed:

- Pre-emptive code warning fixes for Unity 6.5+

3.2.5 (February 5th 2026)

Added:

- Support for GPU Height Queries when using WebGPU in Unity 6.1 (experimental).

Fixed:

- Intersection foam cutting off at a certain height on river materials

3.2.4 (January 5th 2026)

Fixed:

- Pre-emptive fix for obsolete code warnings in Unity 6.4+ (EntityId.implicit)

- Pre-emptive fix for Unity 6.5+ due to non-Render Graph functions being obsolete.

3.2.3 (October 22nd 2025)

Minimum required version is now Unity 6000.0.60f1 to include a bug fix.

Fixed:

- Removed workaround for a bug in Unity 6.1+ (UUM-90433). This caused the scene-view to not render correctly in some setups.

- Lightmaps not taking effect if the GPU Resident Drawer was active.

Changed:

- Align To Water component now shows a warning if the GPU method is used, yet no Main camera is present.

3.2.2 (July 30th 2025)

Changed:

- Height Pre-Pass is now strictly executed for the Main Camera when in play mode.

Fixed:

- GPU Height Queries did not appear to work when more than one Base camera was present.

- Shadow Strength parameter not affecting the underwater surface.

3.2.1 (July 7th 2025)

Added:

- Align Transform To Water component, "Follow Target" transform field. Has the transform follow another on the XZ plane

- Set Custom Water Time component, added an option to use Coordinated Universal Time

- Render feature settings, added option to disable Height pre-pass for the scene view when playing.

Changed:

- Align Transform To Water, 'smoothing' is now a scalable float value, rather than a toggle

Fixed:

- GPU height queries not always firing a callback if the water didn't happen to render in the very first frame

3.2.0 (June 12th 2025)

Added:

- Support for Rendering Layers (aka Light Layers)

- Surface Foam clipping parameter, for dynamic effects foam

- Light reflections now have a "Sharp" option

- Water Decal shader, option to enable vertex color alpha fading (eg. particle effects)

- Nintendo Style + Arcade Ocean materials

Changed:

- The "Receive Dynamic Effects Foam" toggle is now a float value. Allows to scale up the foam per-material.

- Material UI, separated reflections into Light and Environment sections

Fixed:

- GPU Height Queries returning incorrect Wave animation heights if the Scene-view tab was open during Play mode

- Distance Normals flowing backwards for rivers when Advanced Shading was used

3.1.1 (June 3rd 2025)

Fixed:

- Underwater Rendering not rendering correctly when Deferred rendering was in use

- Demo scene loading in some scenes twice in Unity 6.1 when entering play mode

Changed:

- Render feature SSR settings, the "Reflect Skybox" parameter was renamed to "Reflect Everything" for clarity

3.1.0 (May 30th 2025)

This update includes some core changes, to add support for the Underwater Rendering extension, but has no functional impact on existing projects.

Added:

- Demo scene, night-time lighting scenario

- Global Wave Origin Offset component, add a Transform's position to any wave layers set to the "Radial" mode

- Screen-Space Reflections, added option to also accept skybox reflections

- Option on render feature to disable GPU Height Queries in edit-mode (avoids the scene-view always redrawing)

Changed:

- Planar Reflections Renderer, reflection will now flip if the camera goes below the plane (support for underwater rendering).

Fixed:

- Reflection probes not affecting the water surface in Unity 6.1 (requires 6000.1.3f+)

- Potential situations where the Ocean surface may be incorrectly culled.

Removed:

- Planar Reflections Renderer, "Render Range" parameter. The functionality behind this was deprecated in Unity 6.0.

3.0.5 (February 17th 2025)

Fixed:

- Camera projection being overriden in minimal rendering setups when using Dynamic Effects

Added:

- Planar Reflections Renderer, option to disable rendering in the scene-view

- Set Water Position Offset component, added "negate" option

Removed:

- Curved World 2020 support (can still be manually incorporated)

3.0.4 (January 15th 2025)

Added:

- Fog integration for Buto (v7+)

- Wave profile procedural editor, "base direction" parameter

Changed:

- Optimization to height readback GPU processing

- Improved error handling when using unsupported features on WebGL

Fixed:

- Fixed incorrect shading on slopes in some scenarios when using Dynamic Effects (requires v3.0.4 as well)

3.0.3 (December 2nd 2024)

Added:

- Installation section in asset window, provides setup warnings/errors with quick-fix buttons

- Lowpoly-style normal map

- Puddle prefabs

- Option to specify the source for the underwater fog: Depth Texture or Vertex Color

- Menu item: Window/Stylized Water 3/Create default reflection probe

- Options to toggle Dynamic Effects Height/Foam/Normals per material

- Set Custom Time component: added option for dynamic speed

- Distance Foam feature, blends in a 2nd layer of Surface Foam within a configurable range

Changed:

- "Vertex Color Depth" option has been replaced by "Vertex Color Transparency" (value automatically upgrades)

- Having Directional Caustics or Screen-Space Reflections enabled no longer forces the Depth texture to render (though still requires it)

- Water Decals now revert to their original height if not water surface was detected below them

Fixed:

- Occlusion Culling causing incorrect Planar Reflections

- Possible null-ref error stemming from render feature

- Resolved a GC-allocation

- Memory leak in destroyed Align To Water components if the CPU-method was used.

- Flat shading not having any effect if Dynamic Effects is disabled

- Water Grid, not creating any geometry if the Vertex Distance value was larger than an individual tile

- Foam Bubbles: dynamic effects foam not contributing

- Ocean prefab potentially showing as changed in a VCS, despite no apparent changes.

- Material UI: min/max slider not allowing keyboard input

3.0.2 (November 12th 2024)

Changed:

- Material UI will now show a notification if extensions or integration aren't active installed.

- Wave tint color is now applied after color absorption

Fixed:

- Enviro 3 fog not taking effect (now requires v3.2.0+)

- Shader error when using the Gamma color space

- Workaround for editor crash when using DirectX 12 and first adding the render feature (IN-88755)

3.0.1 (November 4th 2024)

This version also requires updating the Dynamic Effects extension to v3.0.1

Added:

- Intersection Foam, parameter to control the ripple speed separately

Changed:

- Render target inspector is now functional again

Fixed:

- Dynamic Effects extension not installed automatically

- Point/spot lights no longer affecting the water after a certain distance

- Incorrect configuration on Waterfall particle prefabs

[ Full changelog can be found in the package! ]