2D water with reflections

Highly customizable reflective 2D water.

inspired by “Kingdom Two Crowns”.

How to use:

– Add a ColorRect (make sure it is at the bottom of the scren tree).

– Add the shader to the ColorRect.

– For the parameter “noise_texture” just use a default simplex noise texture.

–  For the parameter “noise_texture2” (used for the water texture, which can be turned off) use a simplex noise texture with the parameters shown in the screenshot below.

– Tweak the parameters to your liking and that’s it.

 

After applying the shader to the ColorRect, it will, by default, be split vertically into two sections:

– the upper section: which is what will be reflected in the bottom section. *

– the bottom section: which contains the water and the reflection of the upper section.

 

* Make sure that what you want to be reflected is inside of the upper layer of the ColorRect.

Shader code
shader_type canvas_item;

uniform float level : hint_range(0.0, 1.0) = 0.5; 
uniform vec4 water_albedo : hint_color = vec4(0.26, 0.23, 0.73, 1.0);
uniform float water_opacity : hint_range(0.0, 1.0) = 0.35;
uniform float water_speed = 0.05;
uniform float wave_distortion = 0.2;
uniform int wave_multiplyer = 7;
uniform bool water_texture_on = true;
uniform float reflection_X_offset = 0.0;
uniform float reflection_Y_offset = 0.0;
uniform sampler2D noise_texture : hint_albedo;
uniform sampler2D noise_texture2 : hint_albedo;


void fragment() {
	vec2 uv = UV;
	COLOR = vec4(0.0);
	
	if (uv.y >= level) {
		COLOR.a = 1.0;
		
		// distorted reflections
		vec2 water_uv = vec2(uv.x, uv.y * float(wave_multiplyer));
		float noise = texture(noise_texture, vec2(water_uv.x + TIME * water_speed, water_uv.y)).x * wave_distortion;
		noise -= (0.5 * wave_distortion);
		
		// water texture
		if (water_texture_on) {
			float water_texture_limit = 0.35;
			vec4 water_texture = texture(noise_texture2, uv * vec2(0.5, 4.0) + vec2(noise, 0.0));
			float water_texture_value = (water_texture.x < water_texture_limit) ? 1.0 : 0.0;	
			COLOR.xyz = vec3(water_texture_value);
		}
	
		// putting everything toghether 
		vec4 current_texture = texture(SCREEN_TEXTURE, vec2(SCREEN_UV.x + noise + reflection_X_offset, 1.0 - SCREEN_UV.y - (level - 0.5) * 2.0 + reflection_Y_offset));
		COLOR = mix(COLOR, current_texture, 0.5);
		COLOR = mix(COLOR, water_albedo, water_opacity);
	}
}
Tags
2d, reflection, water
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