Feature Request About the Improved Smoke Lighting

I've just seen that Unity will be working on "Improved Smoke Lighting"



https://portal.productboard.com/8ufdwj59ehtmsvxenjumxo82/c/774-improved-smoke-lighting

It would be really super awesome if Unity would consider Embergen right from the start for that. Embergen has export possibilities for 6 Point Lighting:

https://jangafx.com/software/embergen/

This would be a very powerful VFX combination.

 

I like Embergen a lot. They've taken a very complex topic and made it accessible and straightforward, and are providing a purpose-built tool that does one thing well for a low price instead of a TON of things for a very high price. Which is totally awesome.

But... what would the business model here be? You can already export from Embergen including motion vectors so you can drastically lower the frame count without ruining the effect. Is there any additional support Unity needs?

 

6 Point Lighting would be an example

 

This is a very pleasant news.

How many years are we going to wait for it ?

 

I heard rumors that this will work with Embergen, so fingers crossed

 

It's available on Unity's github if you dig about. It's basically just baking lighting into the texture sheet, and sampling it. It's cheap and cheerful and works with anything you'd like. Pretty old school if I'm honest and I've rolled my own of this a few times.

 

Thanks! After you posted that I asked on discord. INovaeJan knew the link. Thomas Iché published it:

https://github.com/peeweek/Unity-URP-SmokeLighting

That's super awesome stuff:



Gotta combine it now with Embergen exports