--- title: Advanced Custom Ocean Water Shader In Unity | daily.dev description: A Reddit developer shared a Gerstner wave-based ocean water shader built in Unity URP, running at ~300 FPS on an RTX 5060. Features include tessellation for a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/advanced-custom-ocean-water-shader-in-unity-i3fglxvv1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Advanced Custom Ocean Water Shader In Unity | daily.dev og:description: A Reddit developer shared a Gerstner wave-based ocean water shader built in Unity URP, running at ~300 FPS on an RTX 5060. 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The developer recommends The Unity Shaders Bible and YouTube channels like Acerola and Sebastian Lague for those looking to learn shader development. Related resources include a new real-time water course by Fabrizio Espindola and Eugatnom Studios' FFT-based Tidal asset. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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