Curved World (OLD) - Screen Space Curvature Shader

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Oh my god! I'm late
BTW : Merry Christmas Everyone!

 

First picture reminds me Inception.
Amazing work. Purchased and I'm totally satisfied, performance on mobile is excellent.
However I have one question, how can I manipulate bend size? I tried something like this:

Code (CSharp):

1. public VacuumShaders.CurvedWorld.CurvedWorld_GlobalController controller;
2. ...
3. controller.xAxisBendSize = 0.1f;

But aparently xAxisBendSize is not member of that class. Can you help?

 

@thoorne
Does not Visual Studio or MonoDevelop show public variables ?



You can also can get CurvedWorld_GlobalController by static variable ".get"


Variables inside GlobalController have same names as in shaders but with "_GLOBAL" suffix.



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Thanks!
I'm using Sublime Text so I don't have all those suggestions.

 

I seem to be hitting an issue on iOS (tested on iPad Air2, iPhone6) that I don't face in the Editor: When the world dimension are a bit large (~4000 units), on iOS the curved shader seems to stop curving. The camera far plane is much larger than the world dimensions. I am using the Simple demo project you provided. The issue seems to happen independently of the specific shader chosen from the baked folder or newly baked.

What I am missing?

Thanks,



In the Editor no such issue.

 

@Olivierlr
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Update v1.1 released
• Added Image Effects support (restart Unity after importing package)
• Added mobile terrain shaders (T4M)
• Added bumped shaders
• All unlit shaders support IBL, Emission and Lightmapping
• Baked shaders are about 5x smaller
• Shaders can be baked on multi-material meshes
• Fixed mesh bending on iOS
• Several micro improvements and optimizations




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Great work on the library, it's exactly what we needed on our project and works really well.

I have a suggestion though. In future releases, it would be useful to have a public API to bake the shaders so we can automate the process. It would make it so we don't miss any shader and accidentally skyrocket memory usage; and it would work nicely with build pipelines.

I managed to automate it, but my solution is pretty sketchy... An official solution would be much better.

Thanks!

 

Just a little update v1.11
Added editor API to work with Curved World shaders from custom user scripts. (Info in Readme file)



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Wow, that was fast, thanks a lot!

I noticed a tiny mistake in the doc:
Where it says "Functions are accessible from VacuumShaders.CurvedWorld", it should be "Functions are accessible from VacuumShaders.CurvedWorld.ShaderBaker".

 

wow i wantz it!

 

Everything is working great with this asset. Wondering if it works with Lens Flares Components? Since they don't have materials. Or maybe there is a different approach to get the same effect and still work with Curved World. (I'm just trying to add some punch from some of my emissive objects, where bloom isn't cutting it) Thanks so much for a great asset and any assistance!

 

@coldpizzapunk
Thanks for reminding me about lens flares, even they are hardcoded inside Unity engine I have to find some solution to implement them to the Curved World.



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So how does this work? Can I use other shaders I have to get the look of the model that I want, then use your asset to curve them? Or does the system require me to replace the shaders on my objects with your own shaders?

 

For mesh bending Curved World shaders must be used. For custom effects that can not be achieved with included shaders, package contains Curved World shaders templates, which serves as "startup" for desired effect.
Third part shaders are not supported (it's just imposible).



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Update v1.12 available
• Fixed realtime shadows for bumped and terrain shaders



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Hi!

I just bought your plugin and it works perfectly! Thank you very much for your amazing work!

I am currently working on an Oculus Rift project, and as you said earlier, your shaders are dependent on camera's orientation.
As the player can freely look around with an Oculus, it just looks weird to see the level bending.

Is there a trick to "lock" the bending effect? Or maybe you are working on an update for this?

Best Regards,
Vivien

 

@Neiviv
Hi, Curved World bends mesh in screen space, it means that bending does not depend on cameras position and rotation in world space - meshes will be bended in any case inside camera view.




What you are asking for "lock bending" and freely observe bend meshes, requires world space mesh bending, Curved World can not handle that.
The idea of screen space bending is that you have not worry about "world space" game features like: animation, physics, path-finding etc, there work normally and then shader just renders them as bended.



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I've got a quick noobish question (please be gentle, I'm a little slow but trying to learn). When you say that a static mesh needs 8 dead vertices added in a 3D package - I have some meshes made with polyworld inside the Unity editor. Is there a way to do that inside the editor? If not I would just use Blender. The 8 vertices then should be placed at the corners of the bounding box or does their location matter? Thanks.

 

@MIK3K
Curved World package contains script "Bounds corrector" that scales mesh's bounding box to avoid mesh disappearing, but it does not work with static meshes as Unity bakes static meshes into one and script just can not find initial mesh.
To avoid this you should manually add 8 "dead" vertices to the mesh at the corners of the scaled bounding box. and in Unity mesh optimization should be unchecked (Unity will remove dead/unused vertices).



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Ahh, I think I got it. I will play around with blender. Might even try probuilder inside Unity and see if that can do it because the meshes are all known square sizes. Thank you.

Edit - I did it in blender but seems to work fine on the same model with or without the 8 vertices with the models marked as static but just adding models in the nav scene. Maybe this is for longer distances or more bending? Anyway, this thing is amazing and very fun!

 

Big thanks for the cool shader!

I run into a problem, cause I have a javascript based project...
I would like to change the parameters dynamically while playing the game
(a.e. like X Axis Bend size) so I have to 'talk' to the Curved World_Global Controller...
which I assume is in Csharp.

http://www.41post.com/1935/programming/unity3d-js-cs-or-cs-js-access

So I would move the CurvedWorld_GlobalController Script into the
StandardAssets or Plugin Folder, so it is 'read' first -
but how could I access/set the variables I see in the editor from Javacript?

thanks!

 

@pepone3d
Hi,
It is not necessary to move Curved World scripts. Inside javascript add "import VacuumShaders.CurvedWorld;" thats all, now you have access to all Curved World scripts and and variables;

Code (CSharp):

1. #pragma strict
2. import VacuumShaders.CurvedWorld;
3.  
4. var xValue : float;
5.  
6. function Update () {
7.     CurvedWorld_GlobalController.get._V_CW_X_Bend_Size_GLOBAL = xValue;
8. }

Variables inside CurvedWorld_GlobalController have the same name as in shader but with "_GLOBAL" suffix.

Note: Curved World scripts are highly optimized, so even putting variables update inside Update() function have 0 impact on performance - Curved World updates variables only if they have been changed.



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Finally bought it!

 

Did it meet your expectations?



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Havent used it yet, since i'm a version lower, but i'm sure it will. Once i finish my current work, i'm updating unity and will use it. Thanks!

 

I totally love the shader, thanks for the javascript implementation help...

One thing: If I want to ship it on mobile and 'bake' the shaders I have to select all
3D models that use different versions manually each time
Is there a possibility to add a feature like "bake everything in the scene"?
(Or select a dozen assets and "bake selected")?
Would be a big plus!

I also can imagine your shader can handle matrix style ripple effects
(like in shadow gun if something explodes) and it would be cool to have some
animated texture shader, where the tex is 'scrolling' in x,y, or z or even
water FX waves?

 

hmmm... if I set the resolution to iphone portrait with a 9:16 (a.e. 640x1134) screen rect and bend the world in y-direction, the objects on the left and right side with some offset starts to clip, before they should... If I go for 3:4 everything it is getting better, but objects more far away still gets clipped... looks like the camera is culling the standard viewport and doesn't know there are more shapes 'bended' into the field of view. Can I force them to 'stay' longer or is there an other workaround?

 

@pepone3d
Solution is in Readme file, page 5



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Found it, Thanks!
Any chance to get the "bake all in scene"/ "bake selected" functionality?

 

I will try to add it in the next update.




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Update 1.2
• Added Scene Material Baker (Menu/Window/VacuumShaders/Curved World/Scene Material Baker)
• Added UV Scroll shaders.
• Added FX/Flare shader.
• Improved shader baking (unlit shaders are 2x smaller).



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Can I use Polyworld asset with that? https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/18572

 

Yes, just assign proper shaders.



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So I just bought this and am quite disappointed.

You call this a Screen Space shader, but according to your documents, I have to assign this shader to each of the objects in my scene for it to work. How is applying your shaders to each mesh exactly a screen space shader?

I have have thousands of unique materials in my scene.
I have my own custom shaders already written.

Am I missing something here?

 

@JohnRossitter

The very first line which describes the Curved World package is:
Curved World bends mesh in screen space - not world space. It is per mesh effect - not image effect.

Assign shader to mesh(material) and it will bended.
The second line of description:
Curved World shaders do not modify objects position/rotation/scale in scene - they are just rendered differently.
Screen space bending means that "bending" of the mesh will occur during rendering it on screen and its position/rotation/scale in your scene (world space) is not changed.

Custom shaders support is described in doc file inside package.

You missed reading description before buying?



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No, In fact I read the description on the Asset Store very carefully before I bought it.

It does not say that on the description on the asset store at all, which is why I'm bring it up.
Perhaps the description on your asset store itself is not current, but I purchased this under the impression it was a traditional Screen Space /Post Processing effect. There is nothing on your product description that indicates otherwise.

It was not until after the fact that I purchased it that I discovered that it has to be applied to each individual material.
Which in my case makes it un-usable to be because I'm already using custom shaders.

I'm not saying that it's a bad product, I'm sure it's great for what it does, but you have not done a great job at properly describing it, and because of that, people are going to purchase it based on your description. You need to state that this has to be applied at the object level on something other than the documentation you get after you purchase the package.

If you market something as a Screenspace shader 99% of developers are going to assume that it's post processing effect. I actually asked 10 of my Unity Developer friends to read your description today and then asked them based on what they read, do they think this is a post processing effect, and all 10 agreed and thought your description here is misleading.

 

Well, it's my fault.
Description on AS page has been updated.



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Good Deal!

Like I said, I'm sure it's a fantastic shader framework, Just have to be really careful with how we market things.
Perhaps I can use it on another project in the future.

 

This looks rad!

I have a question regarding Screenspace vs Worldspace (seems like a few of the other VR guys are similarly curious). I understand the concept of using depth to decide how to bend something. In the shader, is it possible to use a depth that is based off of a vector as opposed to the camera's forward vector? (ie, 0,0,1) and then bend based on that? Or is depth just calculated differently in the shader? I wouldn't mind diving in and trying to do some of the legwork, if this is indeed possible (still rather new ish to shaders).

cheers!

 

Hi,
Shader does not calculates vertex depth, it is taken from vertex position (z value) from view matrix, far the vertex is from camera more bended it is.
There is no problem to use different matrices/vectors to calculate bend or other mesh behavior, question is - how acceptable results will be and where/how you will use them.



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Please ad multi edit for curved world options on shader.
Or tell me how to set the global contoll on default to on.
Now i have 75 materials and have to enable global controll in each of them

 

@Elin42
Unfortunately Unity does not support material multi editing. If you select two objects with different materials(even with the same shaders), material editor just disappears. You have to change it's properties separately, one by one.



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Is it not possible to set as example in the ODL Diffuse shader Global control to on by default?

 

Currently no. But for the next update I will try to manage it somehow.



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Hi guys,

It looks like example shaders doesn't work in Unity 5 beta . Don't take me wrong I didn't have a time to experiment.

 

@AnimosusIII
Unity 5 beta is not fully supported yet.



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Thanks for reply ,

Do you have any plans when will be supported ?

 

@AnimosusIII
After final release of Unity 5. Lots of rendering and shading features is still adding/removing/changing and I can not spend time on feature update that Unity can change in the next beta.




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