v1.0.0 — Initial Release

Released: September 21, 2026

Initial release of ZLZ Env Shader for the Universal Render Pipeline (URP) — an environment toolkit of surface, grass and water shaders built to sit alongside ZLZ Anime Shader.

Features — Environment Shader

Paint Mode : Blend up to 4 surface layers by painting, with custom brush support
Triplanar : UV-free texture mapping with no stretching on cliffs or sloped ground
Planar Reflection : True reflections from real scene geometry, with adjustable blur, distortion and layer filtering
Normal Map : Normal map support for added surface detail without extra polygons
Specular & Metallic : Control over glossiness and metalness, tuned for anime-style art
Stochastic Sampling : Breaks up visible texture tiling across large areas
Surface Accumulation : Adds snow, sand or dust layers that build up based on surface direction
Wind : Wind system for leaves and foliage, driven from a single global controller
Emission : Controls emissive color and intensity for glowing objects in the scene
Fog : Stylized height fog blended with the sky, adding depth to every shot

Features — Grass

Grass Grow : One click grows grass across the whole scene, following a mask texture
Grass Paint Brush : Add or remove grass by hand in the Scene view, with the automatic placement left intact
Grass Material : Grass materials with presets for color, height and blade shape
Grass Global Wind : One global wind drives every blade across the map in the same direction
Grass Optimized : GPU-instanced rendering with every blade sharing one mesh
Grass Color Camera : Grass picks up the ground color beneath it to blend with the terrain
Grass Interaction : Blades bend and part around characters or objects moving through them
Grass LOD : Distance-based detail reduction to hold framerate in large scenes
Grass Edges : Define grass boundaries to carve paths and clearings without erasing blade by blade
Grass Resolution : Renders grass color at half or quarter resolution to cut overdraw
Grass Mesh Baker : Bakes a grass texture into a real silhouette mesh

Features — Water

Water Interaction : Ripples that trail characters or objects moving across the surface
Water Waves : Surface waves with adjustable direction, height and frequency
Water Floater : Floating objects that rise, fall and tilt with the real wave motion
Water Foam : Foam along shorelines and around objects moving through the water
Water Ring Wave : Expanding ring waves from impact points, for objects dropped in or hits landing
Water Sparkle : Shimmering light on the water surface for an anime look
Water Caustics : Animated refracted light patterns projected onto the underwater floor
Underwater : A full underwater view with depth-based fog and a seamless above/below surface transition

Compatibility

Built for the Universal Render Pipeline (URP)
Supports Unity 2022.3 LTS and Unity 6 (6000.3)