Unity 5 Mobile Water Shader

Unity 5 Mobile Water Shader, as for me enough cheap with a good set of possible effects.

Shader "Water\MobileWater" {
Properties{
_WaterContrast("Water Contrast", Range(0, 1)) = 0.3
_WaterSpeed("Water Speed", Range(0.01, 2)) = 0.4
_WaterDepth("WaterDepth", Range(0, 1)) = 0.3
_WaterTile("Water Tile", Range(1, 10)) = 2.5
_WaveNormal("Wave Normal", 2D) = "bump" {}
_SpecularGloss("Specular Gloss", Range(0.5, 20)) = 1.5
_SpecularPower("Specular Power", Range(0, 2)) = 0.5
_WaveWind("Wave Wind", Range(0, 1)) = 0.5
_WaveSpeed("Wave Speed", Range(0.01, 1)) = 0.4
_WaveHeight("Wave Height", Range(0, 50)) = 0.5
_WaveTile1("Wave Tile X", Range(10, 500)) = 400
_WaveTile2("Wave Tile Y", Range(10, 500)) = 400
_CoastColor("Coast Color", COLOR) = (0.17647, 0.76863, 0.82353, 1)
_CoastDepth("Coast Depth", COLOR) = (0, 1.0, 0.91373, 1)
_OceanColor("Ocean Color", COLOR) = (0.03529, 0.24314, 0.41961, 1)
_OceanDepth("Ocean Depth", COLOR) = (0.25098, 0.50980, 0.92549, 1)
_IslandMask("Island Mask", 2D) = "white" {}
_FoamDiffuse("Foam texture", 2D) = "white" {}
_FoamTileX("Foam Tile X", Range(0, 2.0)) = 0.5
_FoamTileY("Foam Tile Y", Range(0, 2.0)) = 0.5

}
SubShader{
Tags{ "LightMode" = "ForwardBase" }
Pass{
Blend SrcAlpha OneMinusSrcAlpha
CGPROGRAM
#include "UnityCG.cginc"
#pragma vertex vert 
#pragma fragment frag 
#pragma target 2.0

uniform sampler2D _FoamDiffuse,_IslandMask,_WaveNormal;
uniform float _WaveHeight,_WaterContrast,_WaveTile1,_WaveTile2,_WaterTile,_FoamTileX,_FoamTileY,_WaveWind,_WaterDepth,_WaveSpeed,_WaterSpeed,_SpecularGloss,_SpecularPower;
uniform float4 _Normal,_IslandFoam, _CoastColor, _CoastDepth, _OceanColor, _OceanDepth;

float4 costMaskF(float2 posUV){ return tex2Dlod(_IslandMask, float4(posUV,1.0,1.0));}

struct vertexOutput {
float4 pos : SV_POSITION;
float3 _Color : TEXCOORD0;
float3 _Depth : TEXCOORD1;
float4 _Normal : TEXCOORD2;
float4 _IslandFoam : TEXCOORD3;
};

vertexOutput vert(appdata_base a)
{
vertexOutput o;
float2 uv = a.texcoord.xy;
float4 pos = a.vertex;
// coast setup
float2 posUV = uv;
float4 coastMask = costMaskF(posUV); // mask for coast in blue channel
float animTimeX = uv.y *_WaveTile1 + _Time.w * _WaveSpeed; // add time for shore X
float animTimeY = uv.y *_WaveTile2 + _Time.w * _WaveSpeed; // add time for shore Y
float waveXCos = cos(animTimeX)+1;
float waveYCos = cos(animTimeY);
// coast waves
pos.z += (waveXCos * _WaveWind * coastMask) * coastMask;
pos.y += (waveYCos * _WaveHeight * _WaveWind * 0.25) * coastMask;
o.pos = mul(UNITY_MATRIX_MVP, pos);
// custom uv
float2 foamUV = float2(a.vertex.x *_FoamTileX, a.vertex.z *_FoamTileY);
float2 normalUV = float2(uv.x * 2.0, uv.y * 2.0) * 4.0;
// reflections
float3 lightPos = float3(-22.0, -180.0, -6.80);
float3 lightDir = float3(15.0, 1.0, 10.0);
float3 lightVec = normalize(lightPos - o.pos.xyz);
float lightRef = (1.0 - (dot(lightDir, lightVec)));
lightRef = lightRef * 0.25 + (lightRef * lightRef); // get rid of left side
// edge and depth water
float step = saturate(_WaterDepth);
float depthX = (a.vertex.x * 0.22 - 1.0); // centering depth area
float depthY = (a.vertex.z * 0.22 - 1.5); // centering depth area
float depth = pow((depthX * depthX + depthY * depthY) * 0.006,3);
float edge = saturate(step - (1.0 - depth) * 0.5);
// Vertex Custom Output
o._Color.rgb = lerp(_CoastColor.rgb, _OceanColor.rgb, edge);
o._Depth.rgb = lerp(_CoastDepth.rgb, _OceanDepth.rgb, edge);
o._IslandFoam.xy = posUV;
o._IslandFoam.zw = foamUV + float2(1-_Time.x, 1-_Time.x)*0.5;
o._Normal.xy = normalUV*_WaterTile + float2(0, _Time.x * _WaterSpeed); 
o._Normal.w = 1.0 - saturate(lightRef *(length((lightPos.x - (o.pos.z - 35.0))) * 0.002) * _SpecularGloss); // spec coeff
o._Normal.z = (sin((a.vertex.x - _Time.w) - (a.vertex.z + _Time.x) * 5) + 1.0) * 0.5; // normal coeff
return o;
}

float4 frag(vertexOutput i) : COLOR {
float4 normal = tex2D(_WaveNormal, i._Normal.xy);
float3 foam = float3(tex2D(_FoamDiffuse, float2(i._IslandFoam.z, i._IslandFoam.w - _Time.x)).r, 1.0, 1.0);
float3 mask = tex2D(_IslandMask, i._IslandFoam.xy).rgb*foam;
mask.g += _WaterContrast; // contrast point
float4 color = float4(lerp(i._Depth, i._Color, (normal.x * i._Normal.z) + (normal.y * (1.0 - i._Normal.z))), 0.5)
+ exp2(log2((((normal.z) * i._Normal.z)*(1-mask.b*0.75) // waves light
+ (normal.w * (1.0 - i._Normal.z))*(1-mask.b*0.75) // waves light
)* i._Normal.w ) * 3 ) * _SpecularPower ; // narrowing 
color = float4(lerp(color, float4(1, 1, 1, mask.x), mask.x) * mask.yyyy); // blend with foam
color.w *= mask.g; // adjust an alpha to add more colors 
return color;
} ENDCG }} Fallback "Unlit/Texture" }

Explanation:

_IslandMask – use 4 channel:

.r –  use this for select an areas where do you want to have the foam.

.g – use this for light and color information

.b – use this for select an areas where do you want to have the waves.

.a – for alpha

_WaveNormal - use this for a wave, color and specular effects.


This is an example, you can make your own texture, also you need to add foam.


Coast

Setting example

                    							
                        

15 Comments

  1. Lin

    I download the shader and find an error when I compile it in unity. The error is ” incorrect number of arguments to numeric-type constructor at line 84 (on d3d11)”.
    The line with error in shader is “o._Normal.w = 1.0 – saturate(lightRef *(length(float(lightPos – (o.pos.z – 35))) * 0.002) * _SpecularGloss);”.
    Could you help me to solve the problem?

    Reply
    1. admin Post author

      I changed the shader, you can try one more time.

      Reply
  2. Corsair

    Can you upload a unitypackage file for us who always follows you? thank a lot…

    Reply
    1. Corsair

      Or send me an Email (985379844@qq.com),Thanks a lot

      Reply
  3. Diego Andrade

    Could you please provide the mask texture?

    Reply
    1. admin Post author

      Mask texture must be unique and relay on your water area shape, it’s a simple RGBA texture, you can easily make it in Photoshop. Create the unwrap for your water plane and after make a masks for each channel depending what and where do you want to have.

      Reply
  4. arie leo

    what is a.vertex.x?
    i never see this kind of code, usually it would be vertex.x

    Reply
  5. Fran Matsusaka

    Hi,

    I don’t see the tiling property for Textures working…

    Reply
  6. Asif Naeem

    Program ‘vert’, error X4545: vs_2_0 target does not support texture lookups
    Compiling Vertex program
    It is giving me following error. Can you help me please.

    Reply
  7. Phillip Erasmus

    Hi,

    I feel silly for asking this but I am battling to create the _Islandmask based on my island in unity… could you perhaps point me to a tutorial that would help me alone with this?

    Thank you

    Reply
  8. Petar

    Hi,

    This shader works perfect on my Samsung S5 perfect quality and perfomances, but I find issue on my girlfriend’s J3 I know this is some kind of incompatibility but do you know what?

    Reply

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