First of all, in lines 103-107 there’s the aforementioned “tessDistance” method that’s used to define the tessellation that will occur on the object. Watch the Trailer. An artist called Johannes Wide shared an advanced water shader with caustics that is perfect for such projects on his Twitter account. Just to show you how many times you can fiddle and experiment with a shader like that, every time I was changing something in the shader *while* writing this post, I increased the counter above. “smootherstep” takes a float and maps it to Ken Perlin’s “smootherstep” curve. It looks a lot right now, but most of it is the properties and fields and we’ll examine the rest together. I hope you’ll have fun with this shader as much as I did, and that you’ll make some pretty neat stuff with it, which I’d love to see! This is a really simple Unity Surface Shader that I've styled to look a little like the water from Wind Waker.. In real time graphics we don’t always have the luxury of accurate simulations, so we try to approximate an effect as well as we can by using different tricks and hacks, so the degree of fidelity can vary in all the different implementations. It’s very important to note that each vector passes itself to the “noiseOffset” as the sampling position (after it’s converted to world space coordinates). Do you want to try that shader yourself? More info See in Glossary examples on this page show you how to use the built-in lighting models. So this tutorial shouldn’t really be called “water shader” but something like “height texture-based vertex displacement on distance-based tessellated planes with some depth fading” (not as catchy), since the techniques showed here can be easily transferred for a great range of effects. Note there are two different programs for the water surface: WATER_SURFACE is used when the camera is high above the water, and WATER_SURFACE_PATCH is used when the camera is near the surface. The “foam” value is then added on top of all that, after it’s being multiplied by “sandWetness”, so that we don’t have any foam on top of the wet sand effect. A shader is a program or set of instructions used in 3D computer graphics to determine the final surface properties of an object or image. The texture for the foam for both the top of the waves and for the intersection with objects. Readme Releases No releases published. No packages published . It can be used to boost the colors of the water a bit, but it’s not really necessary. Just a thought. This value determines the point where the tessellation amount starts getting lower. The glossiness value of the water. But if you really really super enjoyed this post, consider buying me a coffee, or becoming my patron to get exciting benefits! I would recommend using Photo Shop, Paint Shop or Gimp to create a proper metallic that embeds roughness. It uses the same parameters. Consider it a freebie, even though I neglected to cover it in this post. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. The maximum intersection threshold value used for transparency when intersecting with other objects. Learn how your comment data is processed. As the water plane intersects with other objects, like the terrain, it will have a different, lighter color which is determined by this property. In lines 115-121 I have the “noiseOffset” method which takes care of calculating the displacement and sampling both noise textures using “sampleNoiseTexture”. Also, in line 46 I added two more tags: one for ignoring projectors (so if I were to add a projector for caustics for example, the water wouldn’t be affected), and one for disabling batching. And it’s not as large as one would think. See more ideas about Water, Unreal engine, Flow map. The alpha of the water is also calculated with a kinda weird way. This article will outline techniques to render the most common components of a water shader: shoreline foam, depth-based coloring and surface waves. As you can imagine, more than 50% of the magic happens right here, in the vertex shader. A 4D vector containing settings for the displacement: The value determining how large the intersection area will be with other objects, like the terrain. Then add displacement to make the wave uneven. I've got a Twitter too where I post random stuff I do. Finally there are 2 more smaller methods: “smootherstep” and “remap”. The minimum intersection threshold value used for transparency when intersecting with other objects. The Water Surface Shadow shader is the shadow version of the WaterSurface shader. Jun 28, 2020 - Explore Ben Cloward's board "Shaders Water" on Pinterest. In this shader we would be passing index of water image in u_texture and displacement image in u_texture_displacement (to randomize the movement of water surface). in your map, and in its "Water" variable, point to a water surface Blueprint instance. The asset includes two shaders, Specular and Surface. This shader is a surface shader that once again uses that depth difference technique to calculate the intersection at three levels: the shoreline, the in-between intersection and the deep-water fog. Be sure to set your uniforms on both programs. Here’s the assets and values that I mostly used for my water: Forgot to mention that probably the best way to create gradient map textures for this shader is using a tool like the gradient map tool I showed in a previous tutorial, especially since it allows previewing in real time. You can use the cutoff value to control how much foam will be shown. 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