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AQUIS Pro: Advanced Water & River Generator
Create stunning, dynamic rivers and oceans in Unity URP! 🌊
AQUIS Pro is a professional, feature-rich solution for generating water bodies in Unity's Universal Render Pipeline. Built for both perspective and orthographic cameras, it combines a powerful spline-based mesh generator with a highly customizable, multi-layered Water Shader.
Whether you need a calm, winding river snapping perfectly to your terrain or a vast, stormy ocean, AQUIS Pro gives you the tools to achieve it :)
🛠️ Core Generation Tools
- Spline-Based Rivers: Easily create winding rivers with an intuitive handle system. Use the powerful Draw Mode to paint splines directly onto your terrain with automatic adjustment.
- Sector-Based Oceans: Generate massive water bodies with customizable vertex density and subdivision settings.
- Smart Flow Maps: Generate flow maps automatically based on the slopes and spline direction, or use the built-in Custom Paint Mode to manually brush water direction and speed directly in the scene view.
- Adaptive Tessellation LODs: Dynamically adjust the mesh's tessellation level based on screen space and camera distance, ensuring maximum performance at all times.
- Snap to Riverbed: Automatically align your water meshes to terrain or custom collision layers for a perfect fit.
💧 Advanced URP Water Shader
- Gerstner Waves System: Highly customizable 4-layer wave system with intuitive inspector controls (also a buoyancy script synchronized with the waves).
- Depth & Refraction: Realistic underwater distortion and color absorption based on depth.
- Dynamic Foam: Surface panning foam, flow map-driven foam, waves crest foam and intersection foam (where water meets shores and objects).
- Caustics: Beautiful, depth-based light patterns projected onto the underwater floor.
- Lighting & Reflections: Support for Point/Direccional Lights and their casted shadows, specular highlights, Realtime/Baked Reflection Probes, and environment skybox blending.
- Artistic Controls: Built-in "Caves" layer for stylized depth, and HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value) sliders for quick final color grading.
⚡ Workflow & Utilities
- Export as Prefab: Turn your generated rivers and oceans into ready-to-use prefabs with a single click.
- Material Synchronization: Easy 1-click buttons to sync materials across multiple river splines.
- Save & Load Configs: Save your perfect wave and shader settings as Data Sets to reuse them easily in other scenes.
- Scene template: Learn how water is done using AQUIS Pro taking a look at the scene template ^^
🚀 Roadmap (Coming Soon)
AQUIS Pro is actively in development! Planned future updates include:
- Planar Reflections.
- Water Decals (algae, dirt).
- Waterfall integration.
- Advanced shoreline intersections.
- World-space caustics & full Underwater effects.
- GPU compute support for performance improvements.
📌 Requirements & Setup
- Pipeline: Exclusively built for Universal Render Pipeline (URP).
- Unity Version: Recommended for Unity 6 and above.
- Settings: Depth Texture and Opaque Texture must be enabled in your URP Asset for refraction, caustics, and intersection foam to work correctly.
Need help or have a feature request? Feel free to contact me with any questions, bug reports, or ideas! Look at my other assets too :)
📧 Email: auredevgames@gmail.com 💬 Discord: aeris44
Credits (not included in the package, just for the screenshots and the trailer)
(TRAILER) Aquarium City-Louie Zong
Stylized Village Fatpack https://www.fab.com/listings/9c5894eb-9f40-4e8b-98be-8471ae620c8b
Free Island Collection https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/landscapes/free-island-collection-104753
Small Wooden Boat https://www.fab.com/listings/36cdede3-2dcf-4971-b29e-0137aeb795a2
Fishing Boat https://www.fab.com/listings/ecef8ba7-5115-4b72-a908-2c088caaca9b
Rustic Wooden Dock by Evant16 in Sketchfab
Lighthouse by Snrnsrk5 in Sketchfab
Cornifers https:
Description sourced from the Unity Asset Store listing.
