Colorful FX | Post-Processing Effects and Photoshop-like Color Correction Tools

Great! I mean, I have it already, but still great. Just spammed it on Twitter

 

Do this package support multiple cameras with effects in a multiplayer game

 

I'm using Colorful FX 3.2 which is deprecated.
I tested Channel Mixer with Android Galaxy Note 2, built from Unity 5.3.1f1 Pro and it doesn't work. Just same as no Colorful filter at all.
Well, it is shown very well on Game scene at desktop computer.

1. Is this normal behaviour on mobile hardware? I see that Colorful is ready for production use on mobile platforms at introduction page though.
2. Will it be fixed when I purchase new version and upgrade? I would buy new one if it works.

Thanks.

 

Sorry, I made a mistake.
The Channel mixer post effect was working well, but Galaxy Note 2's AMOLED display was too bright that didn't look like working as Game Scene on Desktop. When I modified the value much, I could see the difference.

Sorry again. It works.

 

I'm getting a weird issue of uGUI screen overlay mask failing when Lens Distortion FX is enabled.
It's only happening on certain Android devices like the Nexus 5 and LG G4. As far as the player settings go, the 32-bit buffer is enabled and the game uses forward rendering only.
Any idea what could be causing the issue?

 

Yep, those blue lines are parts of the map cutting through the mask. The scene does have multiple cameras, though the UI canvas is set to screen overlay and the minimap doesn't use a render texture, just a sprite.

 

I know what you mean, I've tested it on the 8 devices I have on hand and couldn't reproduce the issue, but multiple users have sent in bug reports regarding the map glitch. I'll publish an update with the fix you sent me and let you know as soon as I get any feedback from those experiencing the glitch. Thanks!

 

Hello Chman,

I'm owner of ColorfulFX but never used it so far, but i will need it very soon and have a question, cause there is a similar package on sale today.
This other package has the possibility to create boxes in the gameworld and blend by entering or exiting these boxes from one color volume/effect to another. Is this also easy possible with Colorful FX?

Thank you for answering!

 

Thank you that is great to hear, sounds like the ultimate solution.
So i will get that too and try it out like you said. )))

 

Just to be clear ... Amplify Studio would compare more directly with Chromatica Studio, not Colorful FX, right?

 

Hi Author (Chman),

I purchased your shader (colorful FX), but I don't quite know how to use it.

I am a newbie to Unity, and saw that your shader provided some fun effects.

There's a lot of documentation detailing how to change each of the shaders, but no documentation for the simple use of it. (I guess, the thinking is that everyone knows how to use it..)

So, my two questions:

(1) How do I use the shader? (It doesn't appear in the material dropdown menu for shaders) Is it something that you apply only to the camera?

(2) I am running Unity 5.3.2. When I imported from the Unity asset store, I believe it's downloading Unity 4 files, because after importing, Unity asks to Update the scripts...

 

Hi Chman,

Thanks, it seems like it's working! (On Windows Side at least)

I have another question. I'm using the Colorful FX artistic filter Kuwahara. On my Windows PC, it works fine.

But on Mac OS X 10.10.5, it just shows a black screen. If uncheck the effect from the Camera, things will return back to normal. Is it something that the Mac is missing? (Like a gfx card shader?)

OS X
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15 inch, early 2013)
Gfx: Nvidia GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB

Let me know if you have any ideas on how to solve this black screen issue...

Thanks!

 

Hi

I'm using Lookup filter 3d and FastVignette.

I found unsupported shader warning in some android devices ( EX. Samsung Galaxy Note1 , some LG devices )

Warning message is

WARNING: Shader
Unsupported: 'Hidden/Colorful/Lookup Filter 3D' - Pass '' has no vertex shader
WARNING: Shader
Unsupported: 'Hidden/Colorful/Lookup Filter 3D' - Setting to default shader.

When I change filter to FastVignette on these devices , camera is purple.

Can I fix up this shader bug on these devices?

If these devices are not supported lookup filter 3d, can I confirm whether or not supported while runtime?

 

I found that opengl ES 2.0 does not support glTexImage3D function.

In the user manual upgrade guide,

Upgrade Guide
4.0.1 to 4.1
Lookup Filter (3D), Vintage (Fast) and LoFi Palette have been modified to run on mobile platforms as well as older GPUs without support for Texture3D. If you used one of these effects you’ll have to remove it and add it again to fix the shader reference errors you’ll get.

Additionally, make sure the default references are set by selecting each effect script in the Project panel (in /Colorful FX/Scripts/Effects/) and checking the inspector. If Shader 2D and/or Shader 3D are set toNone, populate them using the LookupFilter2D and LookupFilter3D shaders that you’ll find in/Colorful FX/Shaders/.​

Lookup Filter (3D), Vintage (Fast) and LoFi Palette can be used for mobile platforms.

I checked shader 2D and shader 3D are set up on vintage fast filter , but shader is still unsupported.

 

Hey
I have a question, probably a stupid one...
Is it possible for the comic book effect to use the normal camera view instead of the background color?
I would like to use this effect for my shadows only not the entirety of my view.

 

Thanks for the super fast reply!
And yes that's exactly what I mean =).
Ill keep my fingers crossed for a possible future update regarding this effect =P.

 

Hi, @Chman!

I'm trying to lerp Gaussian Blur amount (from 0 to 1 and after some small amount of time from 1 to 0 again) on iOS and always receive the following error, which crashes the game:

Metal: Error creating pipeline state: Fragment input(s) `xlv_TEXCOORD0` not written by vertex shader

If I don't lerp through the amount, no exception occurs.

The effect was running fine before the 4.2 version, however I don't know if the problem is directly related with Colorful or some of Unity updates.

You cant test it using the attached script on a camera that contains the Gaussian Blur and run the build on an iOS device.

Is there anything I can try to solve this problem?

I'm using Colorful FX 4.2/Unity 5.3.3p1.

Thanks in advance!

 

Thanks, @Chman! That was fast!

 

Hi!

Can you guys give me a hand on how to configure the effects to achieve the heat camera like this one?



Thanks and great asset!

 

Great!

Thank you so much!

 

Hi again!!!

The thermal effect is working great! But i have another question. Can we tweak the animated noise in some way to achieve random digital noise? those drop lines like bad cable signal or something? The point is to get them animated and random... Any idea or clue to start from?

Thanks again!

 

Yeap! That's it! Thanks a lot, and sorry to bother you whith that. I should check the documentation before asking..


Thanks a lot!

 

Hi again. I'm here with another question about the gradient ramp. could we use the gradient ramp or something similar that allows to select what color to change instead of the greyscale? I mean. Going back to the thermal vision, instead of bright things=heat, use red=heat.
To avoid areas that are bright due to ilumination to be represented as heat areas. I can't find an effect that could be used for this

Cheers and thanks!

 

Hi! Thanks a lot. I understand the idea... I will try with that!

Cheers from Spain!

 

I've been stumped on a problem for a few days now, so maybe you have some thoughts.

I'm using Blend-Soft Light to just give our levels a bit of character. It's been working really well so far. But suddenly, out of the blue, we're getting some strangeness on our iOS build. One of out Soft Light blended gradients is creating some weird artifacts (see picture).

We have other levels using different soft light blends that are working as predicted (as far as I can tell - going to test another build when it comes down the pipe), so it doesn't appear to be something systemic in our iOS Player Settings or camera setup.

The problem does not occur in the editor, and no error or warning is produced on the device. The Android build seems to be fine. I've checked all of the compression settings for the blend texture, the camera settings, etc, but haven't been able to solve it. I'm in crunchmode right now so there's been a mountain of changes lately, so it's hard to go through each to figure out what might have caused this.

Because I have to trial and error my way through it, with ~1 hour between iOS builds, I am wondering if you think there's anything in particular I should check or re-check?



And here is the gradient we are blending:



I can already see that the section that is not being blended coincides with the brighter portion, but I don't know what could be causing that unless my import settings on the texture are way off.

 

Hi Chman I'm an owner of colorful and use it quite a lot so thanks for your work. I've been a big fan of Kyprianidis' work into npr filtering and wondered if you had ever considered implementing any of his projects as an image effect (although they are admittedly quite heavy) http://www.kyprianidis.com/projects.html

I guess that would make my day, in particular the improvements in the kuwahara filter. I'm sure I asked about this before somewhere but I can't remember where

 

A thought I had was that while some of the filters really are too heavy for real-time post processing, they would be extremely useful in creating stylised stills for cinematics, specific game mechanics or to support the general art design of the game.

Of course if someone has a strong target machine then maybe they could be used in real time or if the effect was central to the game's art - npr can mean the rest of the assets can become a bit more simple as the effect is the defining influence in the appearance of the project.

Not much use in call of duty but maybe quite inspiring for some users

 

Following up on the bug I'm wrestling with: the developer got in touch with me via Twitter and email, and has been super awesome. Great package, great support!

I think that post-processing effects with heavier overhead are definitely valuable in the ways you mentioned. One of the big benefits is that you can quickly explore a variety of different looks and tones without re-working all of your lighting. Even in Production, I've found that sometimes the performance trade-off can be worth it if re-lighting everything (and fighting with Enlighten) isn't in scope.

If you're doing capture for any reason, you can definitely experiment with the likes of Adobe CC, but there's a lot of iterative power in being able to tweak post-processing and lighting at the same time.

This is incredibly valuable in creating vertical slices to establish the look, and becomes a better platform to then discuss the nuts and bolts of implementation of optimization.

Manifold Garden is a great example of this. There is a TON of post-processing going on with the notion of framerate thrown to the wind. But the look of the game is so unique and well-refined that they're finding a lot of help in making it happen. I think I heard on one of Will's streams that nVidia was going to help out.

That being said, because I use Unity for a million different purposes, I do appreciate that the Colorful package runs fairly well and I don't need to make huge performance considerations for small tweaks.

 

I'm mainly a hobbyist really so I'm more 'wouldn't that be nice' rather than 'I need that in our game' but I could probably have a working example of heavier filters suiting me quite quickly. That game looks cool but I think the post process would surely be cheaper than regular pbr shading with all that goes with it I'd have thought. Actually kind of an easy win maybe because it looks very cool while relying on the post for its look

 

Been working with these -- great work!

I was working with an Oculus and couldn't get them to function however. I may be missing something simple on how to implement these for VR / stereographic rendering etc. Does anyone have any insight for implementing on VR devices?

 

They've worked without issue with oculus dk2, are you testing with 5.4 and the single stereo pass? Last I read it didn't work with image effects I may be wrong now

 

I am in 5.3 , and Colorful FX 4.2.2 using the basic oculus support with a DK1 actually. Do you have any tips for getting these to work? When I play the scenes, it just goes black?