@HaBe2305 Yeah, they must be cursed! Water/Ocean shaders are just so hard to make properly and the cost of performance to have it as jack of all trades is too troublesome. My goal is to release it with several features that you can easily turn off to gain that extra performance when it is needed, even if thats for a few (0.2 ms value in average saved in 10 features turned off is just 2ms saved overall). Since in about to release several other assets, I had to hold this for while for others projects I am almost about to release in the marketplace (I do work on several projects at once because I get tired/bored working on the same thing for hours).
The Community Ocean is likely to receive the free portion of this project (there will be a free and a premium version), but there will be other contributions on that project aswel that would make it pure beauty, but with less features, while mine would actually be pretty but with more features.
Since the engine is undergoing huge modifications on the rendering module, it is expected that this causes for now many changes on my project, which I will anticipate before releasing it, otherwise it might be just too chocking for the users, which I know will get crazy with bugs, so better avoid it. I would really like to have it released this year, but the engine changes that actually will impact it might come sometime near January/February, so rush now won’t be good at all.