Easy Water 2.0 - Mobile Compatible [RELEASED]

Hi Denko86,
It depends. Which device are you using?

 

iPad 2 and up to iPad Air

 

does this work with Unity3d free version?

 

Yes it works.

 

We are also having issues with the latest Easywater on mobile. We use EasyWater12_C2TBDO. Works great in editor, but not on the devices. We are testing on iPhone4S, 5, iPad2, iPad mini, etc.

It sounds similar to the problem Denko86 is having. At certain angles, the water seems to disappear. Rotate a bit, and it sort of fades in. Not a culling issue, but looks like the specular/gloss is being affected on the entire plane and not the normal maps.

I remember an older EasyWater (before 2.0) worked on iPhone4S with the same features we are using now.

 

+1 What's the deal on this?

 

Denko86, Rynar, MrScary,

Ok guys, you won. I'll check it out soon

 

Hi. I am looking for a mobile optimized yet good looking water asset for a project.

How well does Easy Water work on Android devices?

 

Just bought this asset and in just few minuts of tweaking have a good looking scene working on my galaxy note 2 (water 11).



But have an issue with a shadows. Is there any way to plane with your water shader receive unity shadows?

 

Grespon, any update on the iOS fixes? Thanks

 

I didn't have time to update yet, but I'm writing down all the fixes. I hope being able to do it soon.

 

Any updates ?
I´ve same problems with galaxy s2+s3 ..

 

I'm returning to my home until Feb. 18, where I have my PC. I've been trying to work on a Mac for 5 months and I hate it so much.. It makes me very unproductive.

So, I'll soon be fixing these bugs..

Navid, can you tell me the GPUs inside your tested devices? I'm aware that Mali-400 are not supporting Easy Water. I tried to fix this but it seems to be a Mali's limitation since there's a lot of similar cases around the net. Anyway I have some ideas and I'll be testing next week.

 

It´s Mali-400 :-(
look forward to next version

 

what's the latest here.. have you had a chance to look at this?

 

I need to finish another project until friday. I plan to work on Easy Water in the weekend.

 

Version 2.92 is ready.

Some News:

- Almost all shaders (15) were reworked to suppport CubeMap reflection.

- All new shaders are pragma 2.0 now. It means more compatibility with mobiles, when they don't support pragma 3.0. (I didn't test it on iOS yet because I worked on my PC. If someone test it on iOS, please let me know if some bug is spotted I'll debug on my Mac)

- All the old shaders, with reflection-by-texture style, are inside the folder Shaders_Old.

- All the new shaders need the Animate360 script to animate the waves. The speeds must be typed in the script's Inspector.

I hope you like it. Suggestions are welcome.

 

I just bought this asset, when i try to import this in unity it is not possible because i don't have the lastest version. I tried to update Unity but it tells me i have the latest version. Do you know what is wrong ?

my version : 4.3.2f1
I need version 4.3.4

i have unity pro

 

Weird. Try downloading version 4.3.4 and installing again?

 

Yeah it installs fine to 4.3.4. Download it from here (not check for updates):

http://unity3d.com/unity/download

Grespon, still haven't had a chance to test on iOS devices, but should get to it today.. thanks

 

Thanks, MrScary, no rush

 

I got it working on iOS with the latest. Thanks for your help Grespon.

For others that might run into the same problem I saw.. water fading out at certain camera angles on iOS devices/mobile.. Chances are you have the water on a quad like we did. Ours is a huge quad. It works fine on PC.. but for whatever reason the precision goes to crap on mobile. (and it's not the shader because I tried increasing the precision on everything) Subdivide your water surface (or use a Unity plane like in the EasyWater sample) and it will start working correctly.

 

Thanks for solving the mistery! Probably a common limitation on mobiles. A quad has only 4 vertices, if it's scaled too much, shaders calculations will use numbers too low for mobile GPUs.

 

Of interest to the asset. Terrain trees reflection be?

 

You're asking if it reflects the trees? You can apply a realtime reflection in the CubeMap if you have Unity PRO.

 

Hi everybody,
I just want to show this game that was just made ​​using Easy Water. Very creative. Worth playing

PlunderWorld:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/3DRJB/plunderworld?referrer=3DRJB

Developer:
http://www.3drjb.com/orbit/index.html

 

Awesome game, the globe perspective is great.
Was this globe perspective done using a shader or was it actually a globe model?

 

I don't know the details of how it was made, but It's a globe model.

 

I'm almost finishing the UNDERWATER EFFECT.

You can play a demo HERE

 

Cool! Does it compatible with mobile? When does it release?

 

I didn't test on mobiles yet, but I believe it is compatible.

I don't know exactly when I'll upload to asset store. Now I need to organize the asset and make a demo to be ready to publish. I believe next week..

 

Hi people,
I made a game for Ludum Dare Compo and used Easy Water's (to be released) Underwater effect.. Here's the link if you wanna play:



http://aruangrespan.com/within-the-blue-1-0

 

Hi Grespon.

I want to check FPS that running on the android device. (Frame rate perfomence Qaulity)

Note that My device is Galaxy-S2.

Can you provide Sample APK file for Testing Android device?

 

I've been thinking about making a running demo for android and iOS, but it's not so simple because there are about 30 different shaders in the set with different properties..

so, by now, I prefer to focus on working on the new features..

 

Was just browsing your EWater_CM.shader and came across this gem of a line..

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. float4 viewInvert=float4(float4( ViewDirection.x, ViewDirection.x, ViewDirection.x, ViewDirection.x).x, float4( ViewDirection.z, ViewDirection.z, ViewDirection.z, ViewDirection.z).y, float4( ViewDirection.y, ViewDirection.y, ViewDirection.y, ViewDirection.y).z, 0);
3.  

Well that's some insane Cg logic right there

 

Hehe, thanks for point that. It's stupid... it could be replaced by:

Code (csharp):

1. float4 viewInvert = float4(ViewDirection.x, ViewDirection.z,  ViewDirection.y, 0);

I'll do it for the next update.
Anyway, I think this shader became obsolete with the new included shaders..

 

Yeah if you're into swizzling you can also do float4 viewInvert = float4(ViewDirection.xzy, 0); but in practice it doesn't really make a difference

 

Version 2.95 is ready!

New Feature:
- UnderWater Effect (water ceiling + caustics projector)

Let me know if you have problems setting up the Underwater Effects!

 

I'm aware that the underwater effect is not working on Dx11 yet. I'm working on it!

 

Can you upload a tutorial video setup Underwater Effects? I want to know how to use before buy it! Thank you

 

Hi i purchased this EasyWater because it was really the cheap easy way to get around purchasing unity pro for such a high price, but i cant get teh underwater effect to work which is really disappointing because it was really the main reason i got it, and how did you manage to make your Water look so real mine just looks like baby rolls of the plane with a blue texture after following your tutorial even still the same result ='/ but their is 3 errors im getting

'vert': function return value missing semantics 151
'frag': input parameter 'IN' missing semantics 168
implicit truncation of vector type 181


hope this helps to resolve the issue.

 

hi i purchased Easy Water.
how to use Caustics Projector?
i need example under water scene.

 

Uh.. ok, guys.. Sorry for the troubles. I'll make a demo scene or a tutorial ASAP!
I also noticed there's a lot of bugs using Directx11 and I'm fixing.

 

I made some fixes for Dx11 and in the Caustics shader and already uploaded to Asset Store.

While I don't make a tutorial, let me try to explain how to use the underwater effects:

The Underwater_1 shader needs to be applied on an object facing down, and the underwater animation script needs to be dragged to the object. Set the speeds and it shall work.

The Caustics projector is a little more complicated. I can't make it work out of the box because it will depend on the game itself. It maybe be turned on and off if the player is in/out of the the water. Also, it must ignore some elements, for example the water object itself.

 

For anyone willing to see EasyWater in action on Android, I made a small game and can be downloaded here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.GresponApps.SeaHunt101

It uses the Underwater Ceiling effect and the highest quality EasyWater shader, which means it's not supposed to run fine on slow devices.

I'll be releasing an iPhone version when my ex-wife give me back my iPhone 4S.

 

thank you for quick answer.
I see how to use.
'm Not asking to make tutorial.
if you provide the UnderWater Effects.DIVE IN project, the better.
thank you.

 

The Easy Water shaders seem to appear over the top of billboarded trees, even if the billboarded trees are completely in front of the water. Once the trees are closer to the camera than the billboarding threshold (meaning that trees are no longer billboarded), then the trees appear in front of the water.

To get around the issue, I've found that if I comment out the line in the shader:
// "Queue"="Transparent-1"
then the billboarded trees appear in front of the water like they are supposed to.

What is the line
"Queue"="Transparent-1"
supposed to do in the shader, and is it safe to comment it out? Will it reduce performance?

I've experienced this through several Easy Water updates, and every time I have to comment out that line to make it work with my project. If that line is not necessary, then it would be nice to have it removed, so I don't have to keep commenting it out.

Thanks in advance for any responses.

Jacob

 

uniphonic,
Thanks for the information. It's weird because the reason I put this line is exactly to avoid other objects to appear in front of it.

It's doesn't change the performance. I need to check out why this happens with billboarded trees anyway.

 

Has 'EasyWater' transparency and reflections with unity3d free ?

 

Yes it has. But remember unity free doesn't support real time reflection, so it's a cubemap reflection but you can't use RenderToTexture stuff. All the demos are runnable in Unity free.