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Crest is a trusted water solution by many studios for its quality and performance. It has been implemented in several successful games & simulators and the subject of SIGGRAPH talks.
Crest 5 is now available. Crest 4 will still continue to be supported with bug fixes and minor improvements.
Workflow
- Add water in minutes with three components (water surface, underwater and waves)
- Sane and balanced defaults
- Several example scenes covering many use cases
- Detailed help boxes display validation errors direct in the inspector with fix buttons to guide setup
- Online documentation with embedded videos
Features
- Unity 6 ready
- State-of-the-art LOD system achieving class-leading performance
- Innovative "equalizer" style wave authoring. Both FFT and Gerstner waves supported
- Input system for modifying ocean data (like foam) using mesh, trail, line and particle renderers
- Innovative "wave spline" technology to give detailed control over water simulation including rivers, lakes and shorelines
- Simulated light transport including reflection, refraction, scattering, caustics approximation and shadowing
- Underwater effect with partial submersion and meniscus
- Query water displacement using GPU or CPU
- Unity Server support suitable for authoritative servers (like MMOs)
- Shifting Origin component provided for large/open worlds
- Dynamic wave simulation ("ripple simulation") for dynamic object-water interaction including boat wakes
- Shallow water - light scattering and wave attenuation
- Foam simulated from waves and shorelines
- Apply colour onto ocean surface similar to decals
- Water volumes which can restrict rendering of both surface and underwater to a given geometry (eg sphere of water)
- Flow to enable horizontal motion of water surface
- Physics interface with buoyancy implementations and support for Dynamic Water Physics 2
- Flexible time synchronisation to support networking and cutscene Timelines
- Surface clipping to carve hulls/caves out of water surface
- Planar reflections
- Deferred, Forward, Perspective, Orthographic and Stereo (VR/XR) rendering supported
- Much more…
To see some of these features in action, videos can be found on our YouTube channel. Furthermore, we have a Frequently Ask Questions section in our documentation.
Asset Compatibility
We avoid non-standard techniques and are not aware of any major incompatibilities. Our users also use Dynamic Water Physics 2, Enviro, Gaia, Microsplat, Nature Manufacture, Azure[Sky], Skybox Creator, Weather Maker, Vegetation Studio, and many more…
Open Source
This asset is freely available on GitHub. The benefit of purchasing Crest is being able to download it from the Unity Asset Store rather than the more involved process of using GitHub. Additionally, purchasing funds further development and allows us to provide developer support.
