Im currently working with the unity basic trying to create a simple exploration game. I’m having trouble creating a water that doesn’t instantly break the immersion or look like a pool of jello. Does anyone have any tips? Thanks for your assistance. 
The water that comes with Unity basic is not really suited for this…It’s only really suitable if you’re looking from FAR away, and it’s a little blurred, and you can only see the top of it for a split second and you have something in your eye.
try poking around the Wiki or some older forum posts for water shaders. There are some great water shaders on the Asset store with underwater effects and things.
I poked around the forums here for a while but I didn’t dig up much. I didn’t check the wiki though. Thanks for your assistance TehWut!
Edit: I’ve been looking around, I combed the wiki, forums and asset here again but I’ve been unable to find any unity basic shaders for the water. If someone happens to have a link to one of the pages would you mind sharing it? Thanks!
Well, I’ve done some digging around and I’ve managed to find some interesting stuff. There’s a few threads on how to create transparent water, but none of them leave you with waves, its pretty barren when it comes to looking for water shaders though. I’ll link the best of what I found in case anyone else wants to continue the search, most of the older threads seem to use older versions of unity and appear to no longer work with unity 3.
Really pretty water with some depth to it, it doesn’t appear to work with unity 3.x though.
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/25294-Water-with-depth-in-Unity-Indie
A guide to making simple water turn translucent. I’ve had some trouble with it though, it seems to make my water 100% invisible.
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/106528-How-to-convert-FX-Water-(Simple)-to-be-translucent?highlight=transparent+water
There also appears to be one in the asset store called “Smart Water” but the reviews suggest its broken and its a little hard to see what it can do.
Honestly, reflections and refraction’s don’t matter to me, I would set for clear water with some waves at this point. I’m just looking to create a swamp full of shallow murky water. I seem to have exhausted pretty much every source I can think of though, if anyone’s had any better luck then me please post it here.
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