Reflection presets — 2D Water Reflection Pro

Presets store reusable appearance and performance groups while retaining each surface's scene bindings and geometry.

Apply a built-in look#

Preset	Starting look
Calm Lake	Gentle primary wave, subtle tint and vertical fade.
Flowing River	Faster primary wave for moving water.
Ocean	Larger primary wave and a secondary wave.
Small Puddle	Soft edges and a slower capture schedule.
Wet Floor	Lower opacity with blur and fade.
Clean Mirror	Mirror mode, full strength/opacity and optional effects off.

Select a Reflection Surface and assign a built-in/custom Reflection Preset to Apply preset.
Inspect its mode and effects. Source Camera, size, shape, capture region, renderer selections and layer filters stay scene-specific.
Tune your scene, choose Save custom preset, and save into your own project folder.
Apply the saved asset to another surface or use ApplyReflectionPreset at runtime.

Presets copy values; applied surfaces do not share one mutable Effects object. Changing Surface Type alone does not apply a preset. Clean Mirror uses its saved orientation, so inspect it when you need a vertical mirror.

What stays with the scene#

Camera, enabled state, position/size/shape, Capture Region, selected renderers, object/sorting layers, output sorting and Advanced bindings remain intact. Hybrid Dynamic Layers and Editor Preview are retained.

Mode, orientation, visual style, surface category, effects, quality and reusable optimization settings are copied. Keep custom preset assets outside the bundled Presets folder when updating the package.

Create a preset asset#

Create a folder such as Assets/Game/ReflectionPresets.
Right-click and choose Create > ERAGANX > 2D Water Reflection > Reflection Preset.
Give it a useful name, then configure Mode, Visual Style, Surface Type and Mirror Orientation.
Expand Effects, Quality and Optimization. Enable Visual Effects when optional effects are intended.
Apply to a test surface, inspect its actual image and save. Alternatively save a custom preset from a configured surface.

A preset is a ScriptableObject settings asset. It does not contain scene cameras, exact Renderer selections, water geometry or a scene/texture.

Preset Effects#

The Effects group stores strength, opacity, color/tint, brightness, saturation, offset, both waves, ripples, blur, fades and edge softness. Visual Effects Enabled must be checked for optional controls to apply. In the supplied screenshot it is unchecked, so visible stored values are not all active.

Individual Enabled flags retain a configuration without applying it. Tint Strength zero preserves source color even if Tint Enabled is checked. Mode rules still apply: Mirror suppresses waves/ripples, Pixel Safe Distortion suppresses blur, and Lightweight requires compatible sources.

Preset Quality and Optimization#

Field	Preset behavior
Quality values	Store numeric tier, resolution scale, texture cap, PPU and pixel flags.
Tier label	Does not automatically replace numbers in a preset. Set matching values or save a surface after applying a tier.
Optimization	Update rate, off-screen skipping, sharing, cache policy and interval are copied.
Editor Preview	Receiving surface keeps its own value.
Dynamic Layers	Receiving Hybrid surface keeps its mask; `CaptureFrom` clears the preset's stored mask because project layer indices vary.

For a performance preset, apply a tier on a surface, inspect its actual values/effects, then save. Reapply to a second surface and verify its own camera and Hybrid layers remain assigned.