🌊 Stylized Kelp GPU is a lightweight and highly optimized way to bring life and motion to your underwater scenes. Add swaying, physics-enabled kelp that looks great and performs smoothly — even in large environments.
✨ Features
- 🎨 Fully customizable appearance
- Color
- Leaf color gradient (root → tip)
- Leaf width & height
- Stem segment height
- Stem & leaf gravity
- Leaves per stem segment
- 🌬️ Wind simulation
- ☀️ Subsurface scattering
- ⚡ Physics & collision support (CPU)
- 🚀 GPU-accelerated using instancing & compute shaders
- 🎛️ Adjustable performance settings — only simulate kelp near the player
- 🔗 Leverages VFX Graph and Shader Graph
- 🌱 5 preconfigured, ready-to-use kelp types
✨ Included Assets
- 2 3D Models: Kelp stem segment & kelp leaf
- 1 Leaf Texture
✅ Graph Support for Full Customization
- Kelp stem VFX Graph
- Kelp stem Shader Graph
- Kelp leaf VFX Graph
- Kelp leaf Shader Graph
⚠️ Limitations
- Individual kelp instances cannot be removed at runtime. You can remove or disable a kelp renderer to achieve a similar effect.
- Individual kelp instances cannot be added at runtime to a renderer that is already rendering kelp. However, you can create a new kelp renderer to add additional kelp.
👉 If you need runtime add/remove of individual kelp plants, this asset may not be the right fit.
