Crest Water 5 - CPU Queries

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Crest already provides GPU queries, using async readback requests, to read data from the GPU to the CPU which is very efficient. The purpose of this package is to provide queries for authorative servers or where a GPU is not available by performing all operations on the CPU. Computations use Burst and Jobs.

Sample scene selection may not include ones shown in marketing materials and screenshots.

Features

• Bake FFT waves for CPU queries
• Computations use Burst and Jobs

Limitations

• Properties like wind speed are static, but multiple wave sets can be baked and blended to achieve similar results
• Does not support wave attenuation (ie Depth Probe not supported)
• Varied water level is not supported. Limited to a fixed sea level

These known limitations may be solved in future versions.

Requirements

• Unity Mathematics package
• Unity Burst package (optional)

Requires Crest 5 and must meet same requirements.