Stylized Water 3 – Underwater Rendering Documentation

At this time, the minimum version requirement of the Stylized Water 3 base asset is v3.2.0. Using an older version will likely cause console errors.

What’s new with Stylized Water 3?

• Completely rewritten for Unity 6’s Render Graph
• Redesigned to work exclusively with defined underwater areas (box collider triggers)
• Particle Effect controller, makes effects follow the camera underwater up to a specific depth (eg. sunshafts)
• Easier integration for transparent materials. The render queue of the effect can now be set
• Revised shader for transparency, used for particle effects underwater.
• Optimized technical design, no longer uses full-screen post-processing.
• Support for mobile hardware.

Note

• Blur/distortion effects have not been ported over (not implemented in any AAA games either, will be reconsidered based number of request over time)
• Volume-based settings blending was not ported. Over the years this feature was rarely ever mentioned, thus assumed to be unused by the majority of users.