Official Book of the Dead: Environment

So in another word, i have to leave the assets published by unity and download one of the converted versions ? wow thats cool HAHA

 

I'm a bit late to the party it seems. So forgetting the actual BOTD demo and the drama of needing 2018 to run it, is it possible to just grab the plant assets and reuse them in other HDRP 10.x projects with Unity 2020.2?

 

You can use most of the assets but you'll miss things like bark peel shader and foliage wind.

 

I'm not too phased about the wind, I just need good looking still plants for offline Unity recorder rendering with raytracing...

Can I simply copy the prefabs or fbx files, together with the shaders and textures, or is it a bit more involved than that?

 

I'd just export the scene with all the assets in rows as unitypackage and let it handle the dependencies, you can omit false positives from the dependencies at that stage if you know they are incorrect (like scripts etc that are not needed). Then just import this unitypackage to newer Unity project.

 

Sounds interesting. I've never exported a scene or exported it into a Unity package, is that simple enough?

Could you give me a simple 1,2,3 step process to achive that please?

 

- Find the scene with all assets in showcase manner next to each other
- Select that scene in project explorer
- Right click it and select "export package"
- Make sure you have dependency checkbox ticked and manually filter out stuff you don't want
- Save to whatever location
- Open newer Unity version project with newer HDRP
- Drag the saved unitypackage over it
- Restart the project and if HDRP wants to upgrade the materials automatically, let it do so

 

Great, thanks for those instructions, sounds simple enough!

Now if they can only find a way to reference external files, then maybe we can start creating asset libraries and use those. If anything needs updating, you update the asset and automatically it is updated across all your projects! But I geuss with the nature of realtime projects, that will never happen :-(

 

The rendering looks good, but my god, the wind is causing the foliage to twitch in an unnatural way. Why not just do a gentle breeze that would be able to pull off a natural look? I would have just turned the wind off versus demoing that.

 

Depending on your

I believe this demo specifically was also showcasing it working on URP and web GL, so there will be differences and limitations Vs HDRP etc.

Generally the motion you can attain in TVE could certainly rival something like Koola's storm tests.

 

HDRP does not yet support stereo rendering?

 

Indeed, was always like that, use for demo purposes is the key

 

Some of you show the dragon in their run but I cant find it anywhere in the run, any help?

 

That doesn't work for me, I'm getting the same problem.

 

Has the environment been updated to work for 2019+ yet? Because i use 2019.4 and it doesn't work, i can import it but there aren't any textures and most of the scripts are said to be missing but they are there and over 100 errors, i don't know what to do

 

Hi, Can you please tell how to use the project in 2019 and hdrp please

 

It's not compatible with 2019.

 

It set the Book of the Dead, which was used in 2018, to the 2020.2.6F1 HDRP version.Wind Shader brought wind shader that is used in Fontainebleau Demo and applied it after modifying only some parts that have errors.It plays well without errors.

 

Awesome, would you consider sharing the 2020.2 project?

 

Beautiful, I’ve been searching for a workaround to use the assets with wind in my project but still can’t find anything... if you can share your work I would appreciate it very much!

 

Our recommendation:
The Vegetation Engine

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/the-vegetation-engine-159647?aid=1100l355n&gclid=CjwKCAjw47eFBhA9EiwAy8kzNFKDcWCteMBcoBAEzWT0C1dr9mDz_4IsHLMjpt3Y0Mbx4jmgvAE4DRoCUCkQAvD_BwE&pubref=UnityAssets*Dyn01*1723478829*67594162255*336254844477*g***b*c*gclid=CjwKCAjw47eFBhA9EiwAy8kzNFKDcWCteMBcoBAEzWT0C1dr9mDz_4IsHLMjpt3Y0Mbx4jmgvAE4DRoCUCkQAvD_BwE&utm_source=aff

 

Demo HDRP Build
http://naver.me/Gge1ihK4

#Unity #FontainebleauDemo #GameplayIngredients #HDRP #BlacksmithENV #Play #Characters #Flag #Cloth

 

so how can i get this project files if its no longer in asset store ?

 

This is a normal process for the tech demos and many assets to be honest.

You can only get a depreciated projects from the store you had already added to you account previously, you'll find it in your library.

If you're studying though
I recommend grabbing some of the newer assets like:
the Heretic,
Sample cinematic studio,
Lego mini game.

Just make sure you're targeting the right assets for the right pipeline.

There will likely also be more to look forward to from the unity tech team, like the book of the dead and the heretic from 2021 onwards

 

I use this to browse whatever Unity has put into asset store: https://assetstore.unity.com/?publisher=Unity Technologies&free=true&orderBy=3

 

What is the password for Demo Build?
Thank you

 

Arrrrgggg I missed the download of the BOTD assets and now they're no longer available!
Anywhere else I can get it from legally?

 

It's best Unity staff answer this one @LeonhardP

 

These often come and go. Meaning that if you ever suspect needing anything Unity puts in asset store for free, better always just add it to your account regardless if you need it at given time. You can also hide extra assets from showing up in package manager by using "hide asset" in https://assetstore.unity.com/account/assets if the asset bloat is a concern.

 

Yep, lesson learnt. I've now added a bunch of things that I was thinking of adding, just in case they get removed!

Would still be nice to get the BOTD assets as I'm sure I can modify the assets and make use of it somewhere...
:-(

 

looks like the asset store links are (being) removed from the demo landing page [https://unity.com/demos/book-dead] at least / the page was/is occasionally not available for me too /, so there will probably be less questions about its availability
the bad news is it won't get any updates in the short term most likely

 

I hope this is allowed, but I recently found this version on Github upgraded to Unity 2018 LTS -

https://github.com/Delacrowa/book-of-the-dead-environment-hdrp

 

The conversion package I had made a bit ago is still available. It does not require the original BOTD package to work, though it is meant for the standard pipeline. It can work in URP / HDRP but would require conversion once installed, and the custom shaders would need to be updated to other shaders that work. URP/HDRP is "not supported" officially though.

 

I hope you don't run into legal issues, but now that the asset is deprecated the point of view changed: you basically sell Unity's models with different skin.

 

Definitely no legal issue.

Only the licenses from the third party providers systems would technically have to be excluded there.

Model assets like the megascans would be fine, since the heavy customisation.


A little Rowlan magic is due on the store though for sure!

 

^ Adding to this: There's also the following asset (albeit free and not paid):

• https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/vegetation/trees/conifers-botd-142076

Looks like it's okay to do this?!
.

 

if your going to port this and need some shaders feel free to reach out to me on discord

 

^ man knows his stuff for sure.

 

Can you repost please? The link no longer works.

 

I found the unitypackage of Book of the Dead in my Asset Store cache and thought i'd try if I could get it to work in Unity 2022:





Not there yet. I kinda miss atmospheric scattering and a few other things. But all in all imo Unity should port it. But then again I noticed the Quixel folder. And I guess that's why we won't see a port.

 

Is this baked lighting ?

You probably also miss occlusion probes and some other things.

 

No, realtime. I still struggle with a few things. eg why my scene is lit while the directional light is set to night. Turned out i had to restart Unity. Well, it's what you get for using the latest beta. But the results are impressive nontheless

 

@Rowlan Nice shots as always, Quixel folder was there from the beginning and I guess they are already allowed to use them before Epic's acquisition and afterwards! Anyways, did you have a chance to use SSGI in latest HDRP for this scene? I don't see much about it if it can compete with non screen space solutions!

 

Those are with SSGI. But I still have some problems with the setup. Without SSGI the scene looks like Unity 5 without Post Processing, which shouldn't be the case. Gotta find the time to fiddle around some more.

 

I have been struggling for months with SSGI in HDRP and say that right now in the latest beta versions of Unity 2022.1.b3 with HDRP 13.x it is still causing many visual artifacts and other problems and bugs.

Although sometimes it seems that it has gained in performance compared to the first HDRP versions, with the same project and the same scene, other times the performance inexplicably worsens a lot. Since Unity 2022 is still in beta, I hope they will iron out all these issues. I'm not too sure though because it's a problem I've been seeing for many previous versions of HDRP.

In my humble opinion HDRP 13.x in Unity 2022 beta is still not close to having an SSGI product with enough quality and free of bugs and errors to be used.

And I totally agree with @Rowlan that when you disable SSGI the scenes look like in Unity 5 without post-processing. Unless you do 10,000 settings in different post-process effects, so that together, they come a little closer to the visual fidelity that can be displayed with SSGI.
The problem is that if you want dynamic day/night cycles, you will have to adapt those 10000 configurations at each moment of the day so that everything looks acceptable... because even so, there will be different parts of your models/materials/etc, that They won't look good and will break the visual realism of your scene.

And the problem is that the months and years go by and we still don't have a "Decent" real-time lighting solution in Unity...

Hopefully they get their batteries!!! Regards

 

Does anyone know how to apply wind to this asset in 2022? Does wind even work in the 2022 HDRP version?

 

From what I remember they were saying that the original BOTD had custom shaders to make things work and everything was heavily customized. So if you ported it to anything newer than 2018, you're probably using regular HDRP shaders, which doesnt have any vertex shading in the defaults as far I understand. Try applying nature manufacture shaders or something like that and then apply a wind and see what you get?