ats color map ULTRA shader [RELEASED]

sorry for the late reply, i did not get any notification...

as far as your problem is concerned: i tried to reproduce it using unity 5.4.2. and the included demo terrain. turning on "precomputed realtime gi" and setting the terrain to "lightmap static" (directional mode) did not break lighting on detail texture 4 (which uses a far distance tiling value of 0.1).

maybe i am missing something... which version of unity do you use?
anything else i have to set?

this is super strange and makes any try of reproduction even more difficult.
so i more or less flooded the terrain with detail texture 4 – but the shading kept looking fine.

 

I was on unity 2017.2 now 2017.3 and still the same problem, as you see 4 and 8 textures have strange shadow behaviour, this is most visible when light is low like you see in my screen, this is prbably why I didnt noticed it before, i also downloaded your newest version od shader from asset store. Oh and I use enviro too, but I think thats not a problem because it only add dynamic light direction, it is strange that it is only on 4 and 8 texture but there have distance tiling maybe this is a problem?

 

these are mine terrain settings

 

i was able to reproduce the problem in 2017.3. and as far as i can say it is not related to gi - but the fact that unity changed the default functions how normal maps get unpacked (and scaled). so the far normal gets corrupted.
you will have to replace the included "CMU-Splatting.cginc" with the file attached and reimport the shaders to make it work properly in 2017.

 

Thank you a lot! I will test it for a moment

 

It didnt resolve problem, Maybe you send me wrong file? I will try to restart unity. I had baked realtiem gi on it so I will rebake it too and let you know.

 

@larsbertram1
Can ATS CMUS blend a mesh with a terrain like this?
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/terrain/terrain-mesh-blending-38742

I'm asking because I have photogrammetried some nature (a hill with irregularities), and I would like to blend it into my terrain.

Or do you know any other good workflow to achieve this?

Here is a photo:

 

i dropped that feature in version 3.0 – as ssao simply ruins the whole blending

 

Hi, I'm using the V3 and it's really a great asset!
But it's a bit performance heavy. I read that the V2.5 is faster, is it still possible to get it outside of the asset store? (I'm using Unity 2017.3)

Thank you,

 

version 2.5 is not maintained any more. and as you are using unity 2017 i would recommend to stay with version 3.
deactivating features like dynamic wetness and snow should give you more or less the same performance as with version 2.5.

 

Okay thank you for your answer!

Is there a way to get the free version? (with only the colormap)

 

that was written for unity 3.x?!

 

mmm okay, ^^

thanks

 

An individual tiling parameter for each detail texture would be a nice feature.

 

yes, but unfortunately pretty expensive.

 

Hello I have a question how is working CMU with unity 2018.1. Are there any known problems? Or everything is ok?

 

i haven't tried it yet.

 

OK thank you but are you going to support it yes?

Also one more thing, as your system use texture arrays can I delete textures from your system and terrain (I mean detail/ normal textures no arrays) and leave only arrays, because for now unity will be keeeping connections to all these texture in RAM that theoretically are not used, because terrain use arrays.

 

if your terrain is finished you do not need the color map ultra script component anymore as everything is stored in the material. but you have to make sure that the splat maps exist. so deleting the detail textures on the terrain needs you to export them first.

 

"so deleting the detail textures on the terrain needs you to export them firs" dont understand what you exactly mean.

 

the distribution of the 8 detail textures is controlled by 2 control or splat maps.
usually the built in terrain shader as well as cmu would point to the 2 splatmaps which are stored in the terrain asset (look at the terrain in the project tab and open its foldout to the them).
but as soon as you delete the detail textures from the terrain these maps will get wiped out.
this is the reason why you have to export them first so you can manually assign the exported splatmaps to the cmu material.

 

Thank you I understand now

 

hello Lars Do you already tested color map ultra on unity 2018.1?

 

not yet

 

I opened the demo and my terrain is purple! Anyone know how to fix this ASAP!
I'm on Unity 2018.1.0f2

 

tI'm testing in on 2018.1 but have compile errors from other system now, so when fix that, I will let you know how it work in my case

 

i would not call this purple...
so basically the shader works. simply try to regenerate the texture arrays. these were created using unity 5.4.

 

I just regenerated the texture arrays and it's still doing the same thing!

 

i can not confirm any problems with unity 2018 so far: i imported the package and the terrain showed up nicely without any bluish tinting.
tested on win 10 pro, nvidia gtx 970m.

 

I tested it on my windows machine! It works fine now. I guess it was a mac problem! Thank you.

 

Hi guys. Just chiming in to say that I'm also experiencing the same blue/purple tinting thing londydub
reported on my mac with Metal enabled.
The nearer Camera is to the terrain, the more pronounced the tint becomes basically.
It completely disappears at around 500m. It renders fine without Metal.

 

well, that is a quite important information, thanks.

 

@londydub @BigPoodle i have looked into the shader code: metal was never supported.
so in order to make it work you will have to edit the "CMU-Common.cginc" file.
find line 22:

#if defined(SHADER_API_D3D11) || defined(SHADER_API_XBOXONE) || defined(SHADER_API_GLES3) || defined(SHADER_API_GLCORE) || defined(SHADER_API_PSSL)​

and change it to:

#if defined(SHADER_API_D3D11) || defined(SHADER_API_XBOXONE) || defined(SHADER_API_GLES3) || defined(SHADER_API_GLCORE) || defined(SHADER_API_PSSL) || defined(SHADER_API_METAL)​

 

Hi!
Worked like a charm. (I had to reimport the shader folder after editing) Thanks!
The blue tint kinda looked cool though..

 

How to fix it? I can not solve this problem for several days

 

it looks as if your colormap was way off.
so check the color map and all average colors.

 

This link to the PSD texture that i used: https://yadi.sk/d/amyxNoqn3WCPFY
I changed one texture in the demo scene and got this result. I changed Color and Specular
parameters, but texture looks unnatural and dark around the edges
Can you check please my texture and tell me what's wrong

 

the textures seem to be fine.
i i do not get any dark borders around the edges.
which version of unity do you use? which graphics api?

this is unity 5.4.3 and opengelcore:

 

I found the reason. I forgot to set this parameter for normal map. Now all is well
Thanks!

 

you are welcome!

 

I'm trying this again to see if I can get better performance @larsbertram1, but I'm getting compiler errors on Unity 2018.2:

Shader error in 'Lux/Standard Lighting/Full Features': 'Lux_DynamicWeather': output parameter 'lux' not completely initialized at Features/LuxDynamicWeather.cginc(260) (on d3d11)

However, the demo scene seems to run fine and look fine so I don't know how this error is going to affect anything, but I wanted to report it.

 

thanks for reporting!
it does not effect the terrain shader. only old lux shaders which are included.
lux and lux plus meanwhile have been updated to support 2018.

 

Hello @larsbertram1

I have a question in unity 2018.3 there will be update of unity terrain

Terrain Improvements

Editor
Graphics

• GPU-instanced render path for terrain, yielding a dramatic reduction in draw calls for most cases.
• Auto-connect of adjacent terrain tiles.
• Seamless painting across multiple connected tiles
• An experimental C# API for building custom terrain tools, which can interact with newly introduced asset types for terrain materials and brushes

My question is Will you improve Color map ultra shader to work with that. I talked with Vegetation studio dev, He told me that this is just small changes but have to be done on terrain shader. There is need of include a new cginc file and call a vertex function

 

this should not affect the shader but only rendering.

this should not affect the shader but only rendering (mesh generation)

this does not affect the shader but only painting. cmu uses the built in splat maps so this should work out of the box.

i will have to look into this.
.

 

Please check it out in free time, cause when we will update our project after Release to 2018.3 and have compile error with new unity we even cant use playmode I think there could be a problem with new layer system cause for now you are taking textures directly from terrain to CMU now there will be some layer/ preset of textures if I understand well

Thank you for support!

 

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Hello. I'm an intern in a project that is using your asset and I have some bugs with version 2.0. We are using Unity 2018.2. We also have the 2.5 version imported.

What would you recommend us to do? Delete the 2.0 version? If so, is the 2.5 version is going to bug out? Should we buy the 3.0 version?

Thank you for your advise, beforehand.

 

hmm, version 2 and 2.5 haven't been updated for years - and i think they are not available any more anyway.
so you could either think about getting version 3.0 – or getting microsplat (free) and buying the needed plugins (like terrain mesh blending and things like that).

best,
lars

 

I am running v2.5 - just waiting for the right time to move Unity forward.. I am getting these errors in the log (on builds)

A script behaviour (probably MeshTerrainBlendingTool?) has a different serialization layout when loading. (Read 32 bytes but expected 272 bytes)
Did you #ifdef UNITY_EDITOR a section of your serialized properties in any of your scripts?

Shader 'Terrain/Terrain Colormap Ultra': dependency 'BaseMapShader' shader 'Terrain/Terrain Colormap Ultra' not found

I started looking at it as I get strange blocks of terrain where the lighting is not right (Its very bright). The exact amount depends on distance. It seems worse on builds than in the editor.

 

this version is pretty old... which version of unity do you use?