Crest Water 5 (Oceans, Rivers, Lakes)

Crest is a trusted water solution by many studios for its quality and performance. It has been implemented in several successful games and simulators and is the subject of SIGGRAPH talks. Nominated for Best Artistic Tool in the 16th Unity Awards. 📖 Documentation 📺 Made With Crest 🛟 Discord Support CREST 4 x 5 HIGHLIGHTS ————————————– - Supports all render pipelines in one package. - Re-architectured to further performance scalability. - Multiple LOD viewpoints for split-screen multiplayer etc. - WebGPU support (experimental). - Many new features and improvements. Some features (mostly deprecated) have been removed, while others have been moved to separate packages. Please refer to the Release Notes for more information. Important: The Shallow Water package is NOT required for shallow water. It is an integrated shallow water simulation - a next-generation feature. Crest 5 can still have shallow water using the same features as Crest 4 does. WORKFLOW —————— - Add water in minutes with two components (water surface and waves). - Sane and balanced defaults. - Helpful tooltips including materials properties. - Detailed help boxes display validation errors directly in the inspector with buttons to fix problems directly. - Online and offline documentation. - Fully documented scripting API. - Supports all three render pipelines in one asset. - Imports into the Packages directory as an editable UPM package. - No requirement to remove Crest before updating like other assets. FEATURES ————— Novel Level of Detail System Both mesh and data are rendered using several LODs. This allows high fidelity up close without sacrificing performance. This system has been used for several years, including multiple successful titles, thus is mature and battle-tested. More information. Multiple Level of Detail Viewpoints Crest can now have multiple LOD viewpoints to support split-screen multiplayer and multiple camera scenarios. Rich Selection of Data Due to Crest's scalable system, it can execute several data sets. These include Animated Waves (displacement), Dynamic Waves, Water Depth, Water Level, Albedo, Flow, Foam, Shadows, and Surface Clipping. The selection has been expanded since launch to now include Absorption and Scattering. Powerful Input System These data sets have accompanying inputs which can inject and manipulate data. They have different modes so you can use renderers (mesh, trail, line, and particles), textures etc as data sources - this includes Shader Graph support. We provide a waterfall sample to show what can be accomplished without any custom shaders. Query System Query water displacement, normals, and velocity (using asynchronous GPU read back) to get data to the CPU. Furthermore, other data can be queried like flow and signed-distance to the shoreline. Physically Based Rendering Simulated light transport including approximation of reflections, refractions, transmission, scattering, caustics, and shadowing. Underwater Underwater effect with pixel-perfect partial submersion. Includes a meniscus (water line), and models out-scattering (darkening with depth). Water Physics Buoyancy and drag are provided with a semi-modular floating object system. With layers, physics can be nested to allow floating objects to behave correctly inside other floating objects (eg barrel in a boat). Deterministic FFT and Gerstner Waves With innovative "equalizer" style wave authoring, create wave conditions from calm seas to monstrous waves for storms. Multiple wave sets can be blended together, including local waves with edge interpolation. This is the most powerful wave system for Unity. Shallow Water Wave Attenuation Dampens waves based on the water depth similar to how they would at shore, and importantly prevents waves from rising above the surface. Important: This is not the same thing as the shallow water simulation, which is a separate asset. Absorption & Scattering Simulation Change absorption and scattering at the texel level.