AQUIS PRO - Water Tool & Shader (Orto & Perspective)

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AQUIS Pro: Advanced Water & River Generator

Create stunning, dynamic rivers and oceans in Unity URP! 🌊

AQUIS Pro is a professional, feature-rich solution for generating water bodies in Unity's Universal Render Pipeline. Built for both perspective and orthographic cameras, it combines a powerful spline-based mesh generator with a highly customizable, multi-layered Water Shader.

Whether you need a calm, winding river snapping perfectly to your terrain or a vast, stormy ocean, AQUIS Pro gives you the tools to achieve it :)

🛠️ Core Generation Tools

• Spline-Based Rivers: Easily create winding rivers with an intuitive handle system. Use the powerful Draw Mode to paint splines directly onto your terrain with automatic adjustment.
• Sector-Based Oceans: Generate massive water bodies with customizable vertex density and subdivision settings.
• Smart Flow Maps: Generate flow maps automatically based on the slopes and spline direction, or use the built-in Custom Paint Mode to manually brush water direction and speed directly in the scene view.
• Adaptive Tessellation LODs: Dynamically adjust the mesh's tessellation level based on screen space and camera distance, ensuring maximum performance at all times.
• Snap to Riverbed: Automatically align your water meshes to terrain or custom collision layers for a perfect fit.

💧 Advanced URP Water Shader

• Gerstner Waves System: Highly customizable 4-layer wave system with intuitive inspector controls (also a buoyancy script synchronized with the waves).
• Depth & Refraction: Realistic underwater distortion and color absorption based on depth.
• Dynamic Foam: Surface panning foam, flow map-driven foam, waves crest foam and intersection foam (where water meets shores and objects).
• Caustics: Beautiful, depth-based light patterns projected onto the underwater floor.
• Lighting & Reflections: Support for Point/Direccional Lights and their casted shadows, specular highlights, Realtime/Baked Reflection Probes, and environment skybox blending.
• Artistic Controls: Built-in "Caves" layer for stylized depth, and HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value) sliders for quick final color grading.

⚡ Workflow & Utilities

• Export as Prefab: Turn your generated rivers and oceans into ready-to-use prefabs with a single click.
• Material Synchronization: Easy 1-click buttons to sync materials across multiple river splines.
• Save & Load Configs: Save your perfect wave and shader settings as Data Sets to reuse them easily in other scenes.
• Scene template: Learn how water is done using AQUIS Pro taking a look at the scene template ^^

🚀 Roadmap (Coming Soon)

AQUIS Pro is actively in development! Planned future updates include:

• Planar Reflections.
• Water Decals (algae, dirt).
• Waterfall integration.
• Advanced shoreline intersections.
• World-space caustics & full Underwater effects.
• GPU compute support for performance improvements.

📌 Requirements & Setup

• Pipeline: Exclusively built for Universal Render Pipeline (URP).
• Unity Version: Recommended for Unity 6 and above.
• Settings: Depth Texture and Opaque Texture must be enabled in your URP Asset for refraction, caustics, and intersection foam to work correctly.

Need help or have a feature request? Feel free to contact me with any questions, bug reports, or ideas! Look at my other assets too :)

📧 Email: [email protected] 💬 Discord: aeris44

Credits (not included in the package, just for the screenshots and the trailer)

(TRAILER) Aquarium City-Louie Zong

Stylized Village Fatpack https://www.fab.com/listings/9c5894eb-9f40-4e8b-98be-8471ae620c8b

Free Island Collection https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/landscapes/free-island-collection-104753

Small Wooden Boat https://www.fab.com/listings/36cdede3-2dcf-4971-b29e-0137aeb795a2

Fishing Boat https://www.fab.com/listings/ecef8ba7-5115-4b72-a908-2c088caaca9b

Rustic Wooden Dock by Evant16 in Sketchfab

Lighthouse by Snrnsrk5 in Sketchfab

Cornifers https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/vegetation/trees/conifers-botd-142076