FFT Ocean Water System

Hello everyone, sorry for the delay - I was very busy with some projects for the last few months.
But here comes a little update:
Though there are not many changes to be seen, but the main routines are now running with compute shaders and that's a drastic performance boost. The FFT resolution in the following video is now 512x512 points (and that's not the end). The calculation for this needs just a few milliseconds with a GTX-980TI (256x256 on the CPU I7-4790k were already not really feasible in real time anymore!).
In addition, the ocean tiles now have a (simple) LOD system. There are still some things to do, but here first is the mentioned video. Of course, the "hard" transitions between the different wave spectra are also changed into soft crossfades soon

 

That looks awesome.

 

promissing

 

wow very nice

 

Hello - first of all, I'd like to thank all of you for the positive comments (also on YouTube).
Furthermore, I always again get requests from people who would like to know how such an ocean simulation works in detail. Then I got an idea - what would you think of an online course (eg on Udemy), where exactly is explained how to develop the whole thing from the beginning to the end (indeed everything - C# scripts, compute shaders, vertex and fragment shaders - and of course: the math behind it - understandable explained for everybody)?
Please let me know how you think about it.

 

Umm, yes please

 

yes would be great

 

@Aquaminator, would be cool if you did the course in HDRP.

 

The water shaders compatible with HDRP are pretty few and far between. Would be great it this was compatible.

 

Is there single-pass stereo support for this?

 

The shader itself is not very hard to port from my experience, mostly come across depth related issues but are solvable. The major issue is there is no way to render reflection and refraction in HDRP yet, i only managed to get them in LWRP so far and got also a depth rendering using the effects stack v2.0 (which is now not working on LWRP) for shore lines.

 

Looks great @Aquaminator I skimmed over the threads, did I miss a link to the store? Would this work for underwater scenes? Either way, I would be interested in trying/purchasing.

 

Hello and a happy new year!

@demalpica It is not in the store yet as it is not ready. Some things are still missing, e.g. also underwater effects (but is definitely planned).

I was thinking about some kind of early access (if that works in the store). Would anyone be interested in it?
And of course I would also be interested in what you think is an affordable price. Just write me your expectations (but please, in a realistically range)

 

by the way, on YouTube someone called "VoodooDE VR" did a review about the VR Movie "7 Miracles" (The Movie is released from HTC VIVE and VIVE Studios, produced by Panogramma, not by me - i don't have any rights on it, only the water comes from me) in wich you can see the water system running on a HTC Vive Focus (with some special adaptations due to hardware limitations)

time ~ 7:32

 

I assume the project is dead

 

I am NOT saying this is the case here but ..... there are other forums/assets ( I won't say where ) on Unity though..

When a project has been in development for 3 years and the developer seems more intent on making money,
then what happens If/When the asset is released .. the support is sketchy to start off with almost from the start,
and when the asset has sold itself out and or sales slow to almost none... then the asset gets deprecated.

As beautiful as this looks, I would not buy it if it was one..a lot of money, and two, was prepared for it to be deprecated within one year or two. This has been my general experience with this type of looking pattern.

 

Shame, cause it had the best visuals. Any alternatives? My fav is tenkoku so far.

 

I am not suggesting you buy this, it is an asset to make things float in the water, the main idea is to look at
what water(s) ( SUPPORTED WATER ASSETS ) it supports ... the idea being that imho, an asset developer is not going to waste time and energy on unproven, unpopular assets ( BTW tenkoku ) Is one of the supported assets..
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/physics/dynamic-water-physics-2-147990

It also lists some free water for unity on Git hub that many use too.

Having been around Unity for 6 years, I have a lot of deprecated assets Soooo I have developed a kind of set rules I use to buy a new asset, of course it depends on the asset it self and how you feel about the chances.

1: I read through the developers forum... are they active ? Do they answer every question in a timely way ? Do they treat the users with respect when warranted.. How long are their reply times.. Etc ..

2: I read all the reviews, and it depends on the asset, when it was released... Does the developer have other assets on the store ? For me one red flag is a new developer with no track record.. that alone is not a reason not to buy, just to be cautious.

3: If the developer has been around a long time and has other assets out, chances are good, they will keep up with Unity versions, and maybe make new assets.

4: In general the time an asset comes out, and the reviews, and if there is an version upgrade history.. the more I trust possibility buying.

But this is just me, and I don't feel comfortable recommending any one asset. I will say I own a lot of water assets, and tenkoku was one of the first water and sky assets I got.. He has been around for a long time and has a good upgrade history..

I hope this might help newer people avoid some of the possible pit falls buying new assets.