Simple stylized water

Simple Water Stylized Water Shader for URP

One-click water creation. Lightweight, stylized shader built for URP with animated waves, depth-based color, ripples, reflections, specular highlights, and shoreline foam.

Features

• One-click setup: GameObject → 3D Object → Add Simple Water.
• Animated waves — vertex-based, no tessellation
• World-space depth-based shallow/deep color blending
• Panning normal-map ripples
• Fresnel reflections (skybox / reflection probes)
• Automatic shoreline 
• Independent material per water object multiple lakes/ponds, no shared settings
• Single efficient forward pass, no Opaque Texture required

Requirements

• Universal Render Pipeline (URP)
• Depth Texture enabled in URP Asset (Rendering settings)

Setup

1. Enable Depth Texture in your URP Asset
2. Add water via the GameObject menu
3. Assign a normal map and foam noise texture
4. Adjust wave, color, reflection, and foam settings on the material

Link to documentation