Cinematic Image Effects (Pre Release) package

Awesome, looking forward to trying this out!

 

Are you guys planning on adding velocity buffers to SMAA? In other words will this be the basis for Temporal AA?

 

looking forward to try the ssrr

 

Great! Going to try it now! Thanks Unity!

 

I've downloaded it, and screen space reflections are not working. It says it's not supported on this platform (DX11), and the SSR shader is missing. After a little investigation, I've found out that the ScreenSpaceRaytrace.cginc is completely missing from the package.

 

Yes, the asset store package didn't work too, but the opensource repository has a working version. It looks great, and thank you for making it opensource.

 

Regarding post FX, I suggest that for PSVR, Rift and Vive, Unity implement a close-fit mesh around the eye parts so that post costs considerably less in VR mode. This is best implemented on Unity's side and should see a significant gain especially on PS4. Please consider these optimisations as most users will be unaware of them, and the shapes are different per VR device.

Other than this I'm super pleased with how things are going! Please keep it up

 

Does this work properly on mobile? or there will be mobile optimized version available in future?

 

The new effects are great. Was pleasantly surprised by the tonemapping stuff. A couple of questions/feedback though.

1) White Balance is a bit .... weird. I think it should be renamed to something like "Tint". I was expecting it needed a color to act as a white point, but it just seems it just tints the scene instead. It should either be renamed or maybe the functionality changed.

2) F-Stop works as it should, meaning lower values means more blur, yay!

3) The historigram in the tonemapper is so cool! Awesome! The only thing that hinders it, is the general slowness of the Unity GUI :/

4) Is there any work being done so that the filters can share resources? I was sort of expecting the "cinematic" effects to be one big filter, with mutlicompile defines to turn effects on off, so the can share resources.

5) Are you going to implement some sort of Motion Vector buffer? Please do. It seems every filter (Unity authored, or otherwise) has some sort of temporal filtering and each one creates its own buffer. Soon if you want to use multiple effects, you will also be generating multiple motion vectors. And everyone's games will be going slowly because the engine will spend 50% of the time generating motion vectors (I'm exaggerating a bit...). You can spare us all from such a fate by implementing a motion vector buffer in Unity. Please. Think of all those poor CPU and GPU cycles you'll be saving.

 

Point 5 is the important part, it should probably be a quality setting define as it kind of needs to run when vertex shaders run if I'm not mistaken or in deferred part of MRT, I don't know what method Unity is deciding on, but yes it's one of those things lots of things use including motion blur

 

With Temporal AA on the roadmap they'll probably have to make one. Certainly with Temporal SMAA you need to construct such a buffer in the vertex shader phase of rendering.

 

@theprotonfactor

The SMAA and their DOF that is in this package, already do temporal stuff.

I'm guessing they each generate their own buffer, even if you use them together. <- It's already happening.

 

Ah, I see. I thought it was SMAA without temporal filtering. I was looking into making my own temporal based AA but I decided against it for the reason of multiple buffers. I was hoping Unity's implementation wouldn't have this limitation.

 

I agree, the white balance is a tinting tool. To get white balance from it, you have to sample your "white" add 180-degrees to the hue value (or subtract) and then drop the saturation by about 50%. A bit of a hack, but it makes it work more like a WB control than a tint function. I'd like to have both. Tint and WB.

 

Hey any clues on how to get the screen space refections working? I've created a test project but I cant seem to get it working. Do you have to have a specific material on objects or something?

 

Have plan to make this support for mobile platforms ?

 

Really, you want to run SSR on mobile...

 

SSR does not want to work, got this warnings in console after adding SSR to camera:

Win 8.1 x64, Unity 5.3.0f4, DX11, deferred/linear render...

 

What platform is the project type/platform?

" has been disabled as it's not supported on the current platform."

 

Was on "Web player" (forgot about this, thanks!) but switching back to "PC, Mac & Linux standalone" & restart also did not help, same warning appears in console...

 

I get a warning SSR is unsupported on my 460 card (dx11 / win 10 / 64 bit) which seems unusual.

 

Got it: SSR from Cinematic Image Effects can't co-exist with Standard image effects. On clean project SSR works just fine
http://www.techkind.org/Unity5/SSR.jpg weeee

 

Hey looks nice!

 

Has some1 tried the SSR on WebGL ?

 

nice! what kind of grass are you using!? shader based!?

 

I've just built a webGL build with SSRR effect, but it's not working (tested in Safari, Chrome and Mozilla). All reflections are gone my rendering path is setup on Deferred. What do you mean by "support from image effects"?

 

Just wrap the line with #if UNITY_EDITOR to fix.

 

SSR Seems to work pretty nice, it has a tendency to spin up my computer fans quite noticeably but it doesn't seem to affect the overall fps much (compared to some other SSR solutions I've tried).

 

After I created a new project and imported both the standard image effects as well as the cinematic, I get an error:
"The image effect Main Camera has been disabled and it's not supported on the current platform." My build setting is PC with deferred. Is it Pro only?

 

There is no pro only effect, only services.

 

Thoughts on what I'm missing then?

 

No idea, I'm busy at work but I get the same thing. Try it on a new project on the off chance that Unity's postfx helper is wrongly reporting (it's a bug but don't have time atm to file it)

 

Still no luck. Oh well...

 

Excellent!
I was very much looking forward to this, and most of it actually seems to be pretty solid.

A few observations that I'm experiencing in my machine:
the Temporal antialiasing on SMAA x2 is very jittery, might be fixed with the mentioned vector data.
When set to Standard x2 - x16 in my machine, it all goes black, however if I disable and enable the component in runtime, it works (and it looks really nice).

As far as SSRR goes, nice going! some shadows are slightly artifacted, but it appears to work very well with less impact on performance than our own implementation and Candela's solution.
One thing though, I couldn't manage to get it enabled in most of my projects, made sure the build target was PC, and that DX11 - deferred was turned on. I cleaned all the effects and re imported with no success.

Win 10, DX11, Nvidia 680M x 2 (SLI, but non SLI had the same issue).

Anyhow, hope that's helpful. You guys are doing a great job.

 

There appears to be an issue with enabling HDR on a camera and using the new AA script. The runtime (play-mode or standalone exe {Win 32/64}) will simply display black. If in play mode, toggling either HDR or the AA script on/off will correct the issue, but doing this in a standalone would not be ideal. Is this a known or issue or a limitation of deferred rendering that I am unaware of?

 

That happens for me too.

They do say that SMAA is in development and buggy atm though, so I don't know why you would use it on a standalone build right now.

 

Surely not, but certainly worth bringing up in the event they did not know of this limitation going forward.

 

It is AWESOME!
Only new / kiro (jp - for indi)

It worked on my notebook - Intel Core I3 4000M + Nvidia 840M.

 

Got it all installed and working. Looking for things to put it on. Thanks much.

 

Amazing work!!! The Screen Space Reflections looks and performs great. This was my most anticipated feature in 5.3, as it really improves realism in indoor scenes.

However, I also encountered the "not supported on the current platform" error. For me, it initially worked when adding it to a project I just upgraded to 5.3. However, after re-importing the default Unity "Effects" package (in case it had also recieved some updates in 5.3), Unity disabled the SSRR-effect with the above error message. So I imported the Cinematic Image Effects asset again, and now it works.

 

Great addition to our collection of effects!
The SSRR adds an extra spark to the realism in our scenes. We just finished our first project using SSRR and the results were very satisfying. Nice soft reflections bring the scenes to life.

Here is the final test presentation using SSAA. It's in the test phase so there may be some bugs to iron out.
http://http://www.notiondynamics.com/notionscape2/

Douglas Tocco - Notion Dynamics
www.notiondynamics.com

 

@willgoldstone Thanks to you and the Unity team. I appreciate the open-source strategy and the new effects. Looking forward to testing them. Rock on.

 

these are looking good so far.