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Hi, Sorry if this has been answered already but I have a question that I've seen come up in here but haven't seen an answer.
I am wondering what would be a good way to handle click to move or click to target or even screenToWorld raycasts for aiming.

Thanks

 

To use raycast on a collider, you have to make sure it has the same position on the screen as a mesh with CW shader.
Check Non-Shader Bending example scenes and how colliders, point lights and other objects position are updated there, to make them follow CW curvature.



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Hello, I am having an issue with shader generator. When I try to combine toony colors pro 2 and curved world, I take errors. I tried to make it manually but I could not find where to put Vertex Transformations in the hybrid shader.

 

Hi, does the Curved World shader work with the built in URP ambient occlusion effect or what way could ou suggest to have ambient occlusion in a curved world scene ? When I use the standard terrain shader, the forward renderer's "New Screen Space Ambient Occlusion" works, as soon as I drag the curved world material on the terrain, the AO effects gone

 

No problems found in the latest Unity 2020.3.33 and 2021.3.3 versions.




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Hi @Arkhivrag , I have not bought the asset yet but I was wondering if when using curved world, is there a way to do occlusion culling on anything that goes beyond the horizon (the unseen area past the curve)?

 

Package includes scrip overriding camera's default culling matrix, making objects outside camera's view frustum to be included in the rendering.



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Some clarification: I assume you mean "excluded" from rendering in that response right rather than "included"? otherwise it means that everything is being drawn whether in view or not?

If so then Fantastic, in all likeliness will purchase sometime very soon then and integrate.

Also thanks for the speedy response

 

Some clarification: Curved World works with Unity's built-in Occlusion Culling system. No changes are required here.

As for package included script overriding camera's default culling matrix, it is used to make visible those meshes that are outside of camera's view frustum (include meshes back to the rendering pipeline). Explained in the Manual file page 15.



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Perfect! Will purchase sometime in the next week or two then Thanks!

Final question:

I see its called Curved World 2020, am I right in understanding it supports latest 2021 LTS release and will continue to? Dont want to buy it if Curved World 2021 will come out as another paid asset sometime soon for example, as in that case would just wait for that to release

 

Currently asset supports Unity 2019.4, 2020.3 and 2021.3 LTS versions only.

Today I cannot answer how and if Unity 2022 and other future versions will be supported. Will it be free or paid upgrade, or completely new package. I will decide this only next year, after Unity 2022 is released as LTS version and finding out what is it capable of, what new tools and features are available and what limitations they have.



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Thats fine, we are using 2021.3 LTS and have no intention to move to 2022 anytime soon (and most likely will not until this project is released).

Thanks!

 

But that's not the terrain shader, that's "just" a lit material ?
In my test it looks like this with ambient occlusion:the terrain has the curved world terrain shader with a grass material layer , the rocks both have a curved world shader, the tree trunk too. The rocks and tree only "cast" global illumination on the standard materials, not on the curved world terrain shader


If I set the forward renderer AO effect bon Depth Normals, no effect occurs, I even got an error message that something is wrong with "DepthNormalsVertex"in the curved world shader.

 

Correction, I got another error message and it also does NOT work if the rock and plane underneath have Botha curved world shader

 

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Does the Curved World Unlit shader in the latest version supports the SRP batcher? Unity claims it doesn't because "Material property is found in another cbuffer than "UnityPerMaterial" (_MainTex_ST)

 

Hi, since updating to the latest version, I get this error:

Code (CSharp):

1. Property CurvedWorld_ClassicRunner_Z_Positive_ID1_BendMinimumRadius already exists in the property sheet with a different type: 2

I also get it for three more properties, BendAngle, BendSize, BendOffset.
Everything still works, but the error message always pops up in the console.
What's it about? How do I get rid of it?

 

Unity version? Render pipeline version?

Already fixed in v2022.3



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Unity v. 2021.3.2f1 using URP.

 

Hi, I currently have a problem with the unlit curved world shader. I'm using flat 3D meshes with textures and cutout transparency on it. For some reason if I move one of the meshes that uses the curved world shader, it suddenly renders in opaque. Sometimes it randomly jumps back to cutout again... I think this happened sometimes after we have updated our project to Unity 2021. Could it maybe have something to do with that?

 

Try new update v2022.4

Unity version?
Render pipeline?
Shader name?
Video demonstrating problem also will be helpful.



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2021.3.1f1
SRP
Amazing Assets/Curved World/Shaders/Custom/Unlit

 

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It works Thanks!

 

Prebuy question:
Does it work on mobile and webgl and how is the performance.

Cheers

 

Works on all devices with the same performance.

 

Hi, what's the easiest way to get a simple water shader working? I see on the first page it states there is a water shader but I can't seem to find?

 

Unity 4.6 and Unity 5 had their own water shader and CW included it too. It was removed after releasing Unity 2017.

 

Have you resolved this "serious jitter" ... I am losing a lot of hours trying to figure out that.
It 'shakes' when there is a curve. The camera is following the player and I am using the script "follow camera".
The jitter continues to be persistent.

Thanks

 

Unfortunately no. I think it's something in the way the shader works when the camera is being moved while also being the pivot point for the curved world controller. I hope it gets fixed.

 

@Arkhivrag can you plese help to resolve this ? This is delaying a lot the work. I am losing a lot of time behind this.

Below is the description of the issue:

1) Camera follow script attached to camera. The player is moving along a road.
2) Classic runner (z positive) configured for Curved World
3) Using Standard Shader provided by "Curved World" plugin

Issue: Jitter/shake when there is a curve. I see the walls shake a little bit. On mobile the issue is really annoying.

You can see the issue here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z_dVjgirbVuI3wb4eB0KlUfEKbR33OSW/view?usp=sharing

(in the video seems that the player is not moving, but it is moving)

Note: I have already tried to tune the smooting of the camera, but nothing. I think there is some problem with the shader itself.

Thank you

 

All files inside Example Scenes folder are designed specifically for demonstration and tutorial scenes only (including CameraFollow script) and may not be suitable for other cases. That's why there are not inside the main Scripts folder.
If those example files doesn't work in other project, you have to modify them or adjust for those needs (I can not help here).
In your case problem may be in the scripts execution order, try changing it (first CWController and after that your camera follow script). Or try modify script using smoothdamp or add additional position smoothing methods. Or even try FixedUpdate instead of used LateUpdate. There may be other solutions.

As for CW shaders, they are not affected by scripts or cameras.

 

Thanks for the response.

I tried below things without success:
1) move the camera as child of the player (so I don't use any camera follow script)
2) I wrote again the camera follow script using smoothDamp method but also in that case I noticed the shake on walls during curve.
3) changed the script execution order
4) unfortunately FixdUpdate, LateUpdate doesn't help

It is happening with "standard" shader one (the Standard provided in plugin).

Note: Don't know if it is relant but I noticed that the more the curvature is near the camera\player and the more is the "shaking".
new video here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VErTJqx8X1NxvdLs7irwbSZdjmAO-1ma/view?usp=sharing



Thank you

 

Hi I'm getting this error "Couldn't open include file 'Assets/Plugins/Amazing Assets/Curved World/Shaders/Core/CurvedWorldTransform.cginc'." on a shader I added the curved world. Even tho the path to CurvedWorldTransform.cginc is ok. Any help?

 

Does the asset support Unity 2021.3.5f1?

 

Just tested using Unity 2021.3.6. No problems found.

 

hello, when i use custom shader, just a simple shader, but nothing happen, please.........

Code (CSharp):

1. Shader "Custom/DDSf"
2. {
3.     Properties
4.     {
5.         [CurvedWorldBendSettings] _CurvedWorldBendSettings("0,1|1|1", Vector) = (0, 0, 0, 0)
6.     }
7.     SubShader
8.     {
9.         Pass
10.         {
11.             Tags
12.             {
13.                 "RenderType"="Opaque"
14.             }
15.             //Cull Off
16.  
17.             CGPROGRAM
18.             #include "UnityCG.cginc"
19.  
20. #pragma shader_feature_local CURVEDWORLD_BEND_TYPE_CLASSICRUNNER_X_POSITIVE CURVEDWORLD_BEND_TYPE_CLASSICRUNNER_X_NEGATIVE
21. #define CURVEDWORLD_BEND_ID_1
22.             #pragma shader_feature_local CURVEDWORLD_DISABLED_ON
23.             #pragma shader_feature_local CURVEDWORLD_NORMAL_TRANSFORMATION_ON
24.             #include "Assets/Amazing Assets/Curved World/Shaders/Core/CurvedWorldTransform.cginc"
25.  
26.             #pragma vertex vert
27.             #pragma fragment frag
28.  
29.             struct appdata
30.             {
31.                 float4 vertex : POSITION;
32.                 float2 uv : TEXCOORD0;
33.                 float3 normal : NORMAL;
34.                 float4 tangent : TANGENT;
35.             };
36.  
37.             struct v2f
38.             {
39.                 float2 uv : TEXCOORD0;
40.                 float4 pos : POSITION;
41.                 float3 normal:TEXCOORD2;
42.             };
43.            
44.             v2f vert(appdata v)
45.             {
46.                 v2f o;
47.  
48.                 #if defined(CURVEDWORLD_IS_INSTALLED) && !defined(CURVEDWORLD_DISABLED_ON)
49.                 #ifdef CURVEDWORLD_NORMAL_TRANSFORMATION_ON
50.       CURVEDWORLD_TRANSFORM_VERTEX_AND_NORMAL(v.vertex, v.normal, v.tangent)
51.                 #else
52.       CURVEDWORLD_TRANSFORM_VERTEX(v.vertex)
53.                 #endif
54.                 #endif
55.                 o.pos = UnityObjectToClipPos(v.vertex);
56.                 o.normal = v.normal;
57.                 o.uv = v.uv;
58.                 return o;
59.             }
60.  
61.  
62.             fixed4 frag(v2f i) : SV_Target
63.             {
64.                 return fixed4(1, 1, 1, 1);
65.             }
66.             ENDCG
67.  
68.         }
69.     }
70.     FallBack "Diffuse"
71. }
72.  

 

Is this feature not available anymore? I'm not seeing it. Is there another way to make Curved World shader support fog?

 

Shader is correct and it is working. What kind of help you need?

Fog support is built-in inside CW shader.
If you are using deferred rendering you have to use post-processing fog to make any Unity shader work with fog.

 

@Arkhivrag - Thanks but I have fog in my game and the CW particles/unlit shader seem to ignore it (and so do any other CW shaders I tried). I use forward rendering with URP and I can definitely see objects that use that shader far in the distance while all other objects disappear (because their shaders support the fog). If I create a custom shader that basically uses UNITY_TRANSFER_FOG(OUT, OUT.vertex) and UNITY_APPLY_FOG(IN.fogCoord, c) and integrate the CW shader in it, the fog is supported again (but the custom shader isn't as sophisticated as the CW shaders).

 

At my side everything works correctly.
Contact me using support e-mail (support@amazingassets.world) with more details and I'll check it. Attach asset invoice too.

 

I fixed by right clicking the shader and hit reimport, that fixed it. It is a unity bug when moving the asset's folder

 

yeah, everything is working great!

 

Hi, I need help regarding the player movement since my player doesn't stick to the ground, but moves forward floating in the air. I'm using the cylindrical roloff z

 

Hello, are there any news regarding support for Unity terrain grass (texture) detail ? It doesn't bend correctly with the terrain in our case. Should it by now, shouldn't it ? Thanks for clarifying !

 

Issues with terrain grass shaders are explained in the Manual file (page 47).

 

Maybe a shader newbie issue on my part, but from what I read below and my experimenting with shadergraph I have been having some difficulty implementing a custom shadergraph using the curved world vertex subgraph..



Trying to texture procedurally, based on the height from "sea level", but this changes aa the vertex position is updated and Im not sure if this is a caveat I cannot fix or if its a shadergraph issue?

 

hello , i want use Twisted Spiral (X Positive) on world z axis forward, but it only work on y axis, any resolution? hope get reply

 

Twisted Spiral (X Positive) works only along world X axis.
If you need it to work along Z axis, you have to use Twisted Spiral (Z Positive).