This project is an implementation of an FFT-based ocean simulation in Unity. It features an empirical frequency spectrum (JONSWAP) and Donelan-Banner directional spread with a swell factor. The project is implemented using the Universal Render Pipeline (URP), the UI Toolkit, and compute shaders.
The project was made using Unity version 6000.2.9f1 and tested on a PC with the Windows 11 operating system.
A single frame takes approximately 2.1 ms to render on a PC equipped with an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, running in the Editor with the Game tab set to a 3840x2160 (4K) resolution.
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