Perfect Water Shaders (VR Ready) | Shader

I tried to make a perfect water shader for VRChat worlds, which would be VR ready, beautiful and with minimum visual refraction artifacts.

Main shader features:

• Two normal map layers

• Ripples and flow animation

• Depth fog

• Refraction

• Lots of color settings

• Depth color desaturation

• Almost no visual refraction artifacts

• Different shaders for several purposes

• Caustics projection ability

• Depth-based water foam

• VR-correct refraction

Full version also gives you:

• Underwater fog without post processing 

• Physically correct underwater surface

• Underwatercaustics projection ability 

• My everyday support in Discord

Full version is available for my Tier II patrons ($5) here:

>>> HERE YOU CAN GET A FULL VERSION <<<

Look for a FREE version at the bottom of this article! 

NOTE: To use this shader, you must make Unity to calculate the depth buffer. So, it could not work in scenes with no realtime shadows. To fix this, read a note on a very bottom of this page.

You can also test my water shaders in this VRChat world 

PS: This asset will be updating in future with new features and optimizations.

Remember I said, this shader has almost no visible refraction artifacts?

An example of really bad refraction artifacts with other shaders:

An example of less visible refraction artifacts with other shaders: 

Almost no visible refraction artifacts with my shader:

Depth fog woks with any objects:

An example scene, included in this asset:

You can make fake-geometry reflections with this shader:

Full version gives you a beautiful underwater fog:

It also gives you physically correct underwater surface shader:

Shader available parameters:

How to make this shader work in a world with no realtime shadows

To use this shader, you must make Unity to calculate the depth buffer. The easiest way is to use a special prefab I provided for you in the latest perfect shaders updates:

Just drag-an-drop it somewhere into your scene and everything will be done!