WaveMaker 2

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💎 Key points of WaveMaker compared to similar assets

• This is a mesh modifier, not a visual trick done with shaders. That means it is actually simulated in 3D in the CPU, so devices with GPU support limitations are supported.
• Your shaders don't need to be specific for this asset, if your shader works with a normal mesh, it will work with WaveMaker, so it supports the same rendering pipelines as your shader.
• It is a two-way coupling system: Water can affect rigidbodies, volume occupancy is calculated and objects generate waves at the same time. If you pay attention, most buoyancy systems can't do this, allowing for a different way of interaction for your game.
• You can use the API of the interactors and surface to gather simulation data and use it for your own purposes.

✔️ What the asset CAN do...

• Create small, medium or long surfaces like pools, portals, ponds, simple river shapes...
• Generate waves reacting to selected colliders
• Apply forces to selected rigidbodies to make them float and drift while generating waves due to volume occupation. Complex rigidbody with overlapped setups supported
• Make the waves look like water, mud, cream and denser liquids at the resolution you want
• React to static objects or borders by painting the areas of the surface you want to be fixed
• Works like any other mesh with your own material (hide parts with transparency, change look using shaders, use the API to generate your own effects. etc)

✨ Current Features

• Support from Unity 2020.3.48 until 2023.2.16. and all rendering pipelines
• Heightfield-based realtime fluid simulation on CPU
• Mesh properties updated real-time to work with lighting
• Scene hierarchy agnostic
• Wave speed, damping and smoothing parameters. Substepping to avoid inestabilities
• Simple interaction mode based on relative velocity for any shape or orientation of the surface
• Advanced interaction mode based on occupancy of liquid volume for more advanced features on horizontal surfaces like Buoyancy and drifting (floating forces).
• Arbitrary surface position and rotation, length and width
• Areas can be fixed manually or automatically to ignore them and allow waves to "hit" on them
• Timestep independent
• Idle/rest status of surfaces to reduce computation to a minimum
• Many example scenes and create menu shortcuts included

❌ What the asset CAN'T do in the current version...

• No breaking waves
• Not suited for huge surfaces like oceans, complicated river shapes and waterfalls
• It is not a water shader, it's a mesh modifier. No FXs are included. You must use your own shaders / materials and use the API to gather and use the data provided
• Aerodynamics (effect of wind and such), shore slowdown and similar effects
• Different behaviour of the surface depending on water depth
• MeshColliders cannot be used as interactors. Simple colliders should be used instead