Easy Decal - Decals everywhere

It currently works on dynamic/moving objects but not on skinned meshes. The skinned mesh support will be added in a future release.

 

does this have a pooling feature?

If no then do you plan on it?

Are you still working on the atlas feature?

Thanks

 

We have a lot of performance helpers on our to-do-list and pooling is one of them. The atlas feature has high priority. We will start implementing short after the Unity 5 port is ready to get shipped. Unfortunately the developer responsible for Easy Decal has been away from the project for the last few weeks. So we have a big delay on the dev time line.

 

Ok thanks Wittwism.

 

Hi,

When I duplicate a decal and rotate the new one, the old decal also rotates. Is that a known issue? Or is there something we can do to fix it?

 

Remenber the debate about sources? ...

 

It's not an issue, it's a feature.

If you are using the 1.4.3 RC version there are several ways the get a duplicate

Ctrl + D (OSX: CMD + D)
The decal gets duplicated with shared geometry (shallow copy)

Alt + D
The decal duplicate is a deep clone of the original (new geometry).

Alt + C
The decal gets converted to a mesh.

Hope that helps.

 

@ZJP Argument valid...
After an internal ballot we decided to release a sourced version... Somewhere in the near future.

 

It is a good decision although i fully understand your desire not to see your techonologie used by competitors.

 

Thanks, I have sent a pm to get the 1.4.3 RC.

 

Is there a performance/memory difference between a decal with "baked geometry" and decal mesh saved as asset (using the extras menu) ?

 

The performance is better when the decal is converted to a "regular" asset/game object. That's because you can benefit from the static batching and internal mesh optimizations.

The bake option has a slightly bigger overhead (cpu and memoy).

 

The competitors are not the main problem. I mean if someone really wants to get the source, there are ways to get it. And in addition the math behind is reproducible, well known and not as bad-ass as it might seems (Orthogonal Projections, Plane Intersections, Triangulation, etc)

Ok, the algorithms are developed by our mathematician but every engineer will come to same result after some mental work.

Initially we had concerns about creating a "code-support-monster", but instead we created a "no-source-monster"
The result is basically the same: A lot to write, less time to develop...

 

Does this asset support Unity 5.1.x yet?

 

Unfortunately the current version (1.3.6) available in the Assets Store does not officially support Unity 5.
The 1.4.x version will be fully supported by U5 and comes with tons of new features and improvements. So stay tuned!

 

You can now download the beta of 1.5.x from our website. It's fully supported by Unity 5.2.2.
Just register, add your order number to your account and start downloading.

Download Here

 

Hi,

IF the 1.5x is NOT compatible with Unity 4.X do not forget to add the two versions in the Asset Store package.
I lost many of old versions of stuff because of this : older and new stuff have the same name
It's really important when you works on Unity 4 AND Unity 5.

I think it is important to distinguish the latest 4.x version of a product before it is overwritten by the next. This should be a general rule of the Store.

 

We will add both versions to the store and will keep the versions in sync at least until Unity will officially drop the support for U4!
In the next few days we will also make the U4 1.5.x beta version available for download.

 

When you download from our website plaese look at the version icons on the right. They indicate for what Unity version they were packed.

 

Thanks.

 

@ZJP The Unity 4 version is ready for download.

 

@nu-assets

Does the latest beta of easy decal now includes full source code?

 

Thanks.

 

No. The beta has no source code included as it changes weekly. Currently we are hammering out a solution for source code question.

 

Hi how is it going with the performance optimization, and the atlas feature?

 

Will there be support for deferred decals at some point?

 

Sorry for the late reply! For some reasons we didn't get notifications for this thread.
The atlas feature is currently in development. Did you already update to 1.5.x?

 

Sorry for the late reply! Yes. But this feature will only be available for Unity 5.

 

Yeah I did, though I have not really started using decals in my project yet, I was just curious about the atlas feature and the previously mentioned optimization. Though as I said I have not started using it a lot yet, so the performance optimization may be done already?

 

Dozens of optimizations were done since version 1.3.6. E.g. the projection is about 250% faster and a new projector has also been added.

 

Version 1.5.4 available for download.

Changelog

Features

• Decal Animator: New linear tween modes added

Fixes

• Static Mesh Proxy List: Candidate intersection crash fixed
• Decal Animator: Wrong frame selection fixed (non-rectangular sheets)

Changes

• Triangulator: Small performance improvements

 

Sounds good any ETA when this will come?

Also is there anyway of batching decals together as one mesh, had a look at the demo scene in 1.5 and for the dynamic decals the drawcalls goes up quite fast otherwise

 

Hard to say. We are currently working on this feature. Of course I could make a guess, but you probably know the famous accuracy of the devs guesses.

The first improvement will be a static mesh combiner. You place all your environmental decals and at a button's click all decals sharing the same material get statically baked into a mesh.

 

When it´s done then..

Will there be something for dynamic decals also, like bulletholes. Having one drawcall for each bullet hole is a big drawback

 

We plan to implement this feature too, but this will take more time than the static mesh combiner.

 

Hi,
I am evaluating to buy your amazing software. I have just a question : How it works with Unity Terrains?

Thanks in advance,

Dom

 

Hi Dom,
You can project on every piece of geometry that has either a MeshCollider, TerrainCollider or a tight fitting BoxCollider.
Even projection to collider-less geometry is possible, but at a lower performance.



Hope that helps!

 

You convinced me!
Another copy sold!

 

Glad to hear
Let us know if need help to get started.
Don't forget to take a look at the manual, to get aware of the most important key shortcuts (duplication, mesh conversion, smart placement, etc). Those will help speeding things up.

 

Tried to use these for some dirt decals, and the material doesn't receive a shadow! I did some googling an found out that fade/transparent shaders don't receive shadows... I guess can't really use these for terrain details because of that, they look too funky.
Is there something I'm missing? Is there some kind of workaround for this?

 

Unfortunately, semi-tranparent standard shaders don't support shadows. It's a quiet complicated thingy, and not as trivial as it might seem at a first glance. But as far as I know the cutout shaders should support shadows, as they are basically the same as the opaque one, with some pixels skipped.

Hope that helped!

 

Version 1.5.7 available for download.

Changelog


Features

• Event: OnFadeOutStarted event added.
• Event: OnFadedOut event added.
• Event: OnProjectionFinished event added.
• UI: Decal manager window added
• UI: Decal atlas creator added.
• General: Texture atlas support added.
• General: Global decal manager added.
• General: Added +80 decals textures.
• Projector: New processor pipeline added.

Changes

• UI: Changed visual styles.
• UI: Tangets checkbox gets automatically disabled when normals are not calculated.
• Projector: Projection performance slightly increased (~5%).

 

Nice update. Thanks.

Edit :
Saw the difference between your site web and the store.
The store is stuck with the 1.5.4(!!!) version, but your site talk about a 1.5.5, 1.5.6 and the last 1.5.7 !!!!

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1.5.7
1 May 2016

Features

• Event: OnFadeOutStarted event added.
• Event: OnFadedOut event added.
• Event: OnProjectionFinished event added.
• UI: Decal manager window added
• UI: Decal atlas creator added.
• General: Texture atlas support added.
• General: Global decal manager added.
• General: Added +80 decals textures.
• Projector: New processor pipeline added.

Changes

• UI: Changed visual styles.
• UI: Tangets checkbox gets automatically disabled when normals are not calculated.
• Projector: Projection performance slightly increased (~5%).

1.5.6
31 March 2016

Features

• Unity 5.4 support added.

Changes

• Updated the shared Sycoforge libraries.

1.5.5
24 January 2016

Features

• Recursive mesh lookup.
• Decal Animator: Support for non-standard input textures.
• Decal Animator: More tween modes added.

 

We usually release some of the experimental versions and hotfixes only on our website. But you can link your Asset Store order number to your account and download them all.

The 1.5.7 version is still pending for review, but it's already downloadable from our website.

 

Thanks for the tip.

 

Version 1.5.8 available for download.

Changelog

Fixes

• Atlas: Fixed that Material gets not changed properly when set on prefab.
• Atlas: Fixed invalid index selection when assigning an empty atlas.

Changes

• Atlas: Removed random index selection when decal is baked.

 

Im looking for a way to render blood and bullet holes (at runtime) beautifully and efficiently and Easy Decal looks like the best solution by far. One question before I buy in, how are the current version(s) as far as performance goes? My team is working on a old school shooter with a lot of these, so this is a big concern for us.

 

It's hard to estimate the performance as it depends on many different things. But roughly said it depends on the following points:

1. The complexity of the decal receiving geometry (How many polygons have to be cut?)
2. The collider setup (Does the projector have to recursively search for geometry?)
3. The settings you use in on the Easy Decal component. (See images below for some of the settings that can affect performance)

Per-object draw call groups and skinned decals are currently under development. These features will also give a performance boost on some (weaker) platforms.

Hope that helped!

 

Just wondering if anyone has used Easy Decals for character footsteps and whether it would be a good system for that.

Thanks

 

I have used it to place splatters at impact points of some falling objects and had great looking results in a jiffy. The static API comes with two major methods Project(..) and ProjectAt(..) and a lot of overloadings that take care of the time consuming orientation stuff.