AquaReal

AquaReal Shaders

Discover a new world beneath the surface.

AquaReal gives oceans, rivers and lakes a distinct aquatic look, with flowing surface detail and blue-green depth coloration.

Water with movement and depth

• Smooth animated wave normals that respond to rain.
• Stronger reflections at shallow viewing angles.
• Depth-based absorption that keeps shallows clear and deep water richly colored.
• Guarded refraction to reduce foreground shoreline distortion.
• Underwater visibility falloff and subtle procedural caustic patterns.

Three quality profiles

Lite keeps animated water and sky reflections. Balanced adds bounded screen-space reflection sampling and underwater caustics. Ultra increases wave detail, reflection samples and caustic detail.

Screen-space reflections can show only visible scene information. Missing reflections blend into an approximate sky response. The waves and caustics are artistic approximations, not a physical ocean simulation.