Hello
I’m sure I saw a post about this a long time ago but can’t for the life of me find it now and I only vaguely remember it. I think one of the Unity team explained how you can optimize the water reflections to bring down the draw calls. I think it was in relation to having lots of trees/vegetation near a body of water.
I’d appreciate it if anyone could point me in the right direction if it rings a bell.
Thanks
Boxy
You can take a look at what is done by water script in the Island Demo.
Basically, it uses a modified version of the water script, where it lowers all terrain detail while rendering reflection/refraction. There’s no reason to render grass for 100 meters in the reflection, for example (maybe you can turn it off completely even).
Ah yes thank you Aras. That is ringing the right bells now.
Boxy