3.2 Water over billboard trees

I have a graphics where the new 3.2 water is appearing over the top of trees once they turn into billboards like this screenshot:



I have a ATI 4870 running the 11.1 drivers. It does this on all of my projects except one, and I can't work out why its fine on that scene.

 

I would create a minimum sized project that recreates this issue and file a bug report. As I understand it, the new ocean shader is a work in progress, not all its features were finished in time for the release of 3.2. It could also be that something in your water shader settings is causing this, the new shader is pretty complex (I'm still a long ways from completely understanding it myself).

 

I have found out what is causing this in some projects and not others.

It only does it when deferred lighting as the rendering path. If I use forward it doesn't clip over billboards. Instead I get a strange double reflection based on where the camera is looking

 

I'm also seeing weird reflection / refraction errors when using forward rendering. I've submitted a bug report and suggest you do the same.

 

I get the same here.

deferred rendering and the bilboarded trees are displayed behind the new water.

 

I quickly created a Project scene and with default assets likewise got the same result

Filed a bug report with project folder.

 

Thanks for the replys, I think I have found another bug which is related and I am putting together a bug report / project. At least I know I am not alone with this issue

 

You can fix the issue by changing the queue order for the water. Edit FX-Water3.shader and replace all instances of:
"Queue"="Transparent"
to
"Queue"="Transparent-200"

The billboard trees use Transparent-100, and the water just needs to come first

Note that you'll probably need to restart the editor for the change to take effect, that seems like a bug as well....

 

This works perfectly, thanks

 

friendly reminder

-bump-

candidate 1 3.4 released

 

Wow thanks for this tip, the same problem still exists in the 3.5 water4 shader and this fixed it right away. Thanks!

 

Hi CodeMonkey,

I have a similar problem only with a Transparent/Bumped Specular shader which I used for a river and lake water. As you can see from the attached picture, the river/water shows through the tree in front of it, but only when the tree is billboarded.
You wrote:

Your code sounds like it would work for me, but I can't find an edit button for the Transparent/Bumped Specular shader. Is there a way to edit this shader? Thanks.

 

Hi,

I found the answer. You have to get the built-in Unity shader into your project and edit that per CodeMonkey's directions. Here's how I did it.
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/232641/transparent-shader-water-showing-over-billboard-tr.html

 

I fixed this problem by changing shader FX/Water4.

Everywhere in
Tags {"RenderType"="Transparent" "Queue"="Transparent"}
I just commented out the words "Queue"="Transparent", like this:
Tags {"RenderType"="Transparent"}// "Queue"="Transparent"}

 

The solution that maskayop provided worked great! Thank you! Unity4.6

 

This is not a solution, if I do this, a set of 9 water advanced (4) patches will not render anymore, only the closest one of the 9 will render.
I cannot believe this bug is in since Unity 3 and never fixed even in Unity 5.
At least, changing that on Water4 advanced on Unity 5.0.1 Mac
Some words about this from Unity ?

 

In Unity 2017.1.0f3 bug Water4 is corrected by the change "Render Queue" to "Geometry".

 

Worked for me, as well. Just interresting how this problem just popped for me from nowhere, after numerous create/delete terrains and water4's in the same project, this S*** happened. Oh well. Solved. Thanks.

 

Good Lord... you save me man, I was having the same issue in Unity 2020.3.1.1f the problem was solved by changing the Render Queue to geometry