Shader Pack: Cartoon water & environment

Bring the charm of a hand-painted ocean to your game. Cartoon Shader Pack delivers the iconic stylized water look inspired by The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker — a flat, saturated sea with animated hand-drawn foam — built as a single, highly optimized shader for the Universal Render Pipeline and fully compatible with Unity 6.

FEATURES

• Depth-based colour gradient — shallow and deep water colours blend smoothly using the camera depth texture
• Animated intersection foam — a crisp cartoon foam outline appears around islands, rocks and any object touching the surface
• Two-layer foam pattern — overlapping scrolling noise recreates the signature Wind Waker ocean pattern
• Environment reflections — stylized reflections from reflection probes or the skybox, blended with a fresnel term; no planar cameras, no extra render passes
• Toon sun glint — a crisp, cel-shaded specular band from the main directional light
• Vertex waves — a gentle ocean swell computed entirely in the vertex stage
• Horizon tint — the surface brightens towards the horizon, just like a real flat cartoon sea

PERFORMANCE FIRST

Every feature is optional and stripped from the build when disabled. The full effect costs just 3 texture fetches and 1 cubemap sample per pixel. SRP Batcher compatible, GPU instancing and XR ready, works with perspective and orthographic cameras. Perfect for mobile, desktop and console.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• Cartoon Water shader (clean, documented URP HLSL source)
• Ready-to-use water material plus a set of flat-shaded island materials
• Demo scene: a stylized archipelago with an orbit camera
• Preconfigured URP pipeline assets (Low / Medium / High quality)
• Noise and distortion textures

No third-party dependencies. Clear documentation with a property reference and troubleshooting guide included.

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