Feedback Wanted: Visual Effect Graph

I can't get the lines output context to display any color other than black. Is there a secret to it?

 

I just wanted to say that VFX graph on LWRP is the bomb. Been waiting to mess with it for so long and now I can for my current project! Loving that it works on the oculus go when OpenGL ES 3.1 is enabled!

 

I've been trying to run it on Daydream and got stuck on the fact that LWRP seems to insist on Vulkan which isn't compatible with VR/XR on Android.

I'm going to try it with OpenGL again...

 

Can you tell me your precise Unity version, LWRP version and VFX Graph version?

 

2019.1.0b10 Latest LWRP available for that version from package manager, and latest VFX graph available for that version from package manager

I am on the Oculus Go however, not Daydream so unsure whether it will work the same for you. Certainly vulkan is not required. You have to enable OpenGL ES 3.1 from your player settings, its an additional checkbox. You also need to remove "auto graphics API" and select Open GL ES 3

EDIT: @andybak from here https://forum.unity.com/threads/lwrp-4-6-0-preview-18-3-5-2-1-19-1-are-out.562291/page-10

"Yes, we now have support for unlit VFX graphs in LWRP in >5.8.x(19.1) and >6.6.x(19.2) this has only just been put in so expect some issues, I have seen it running on both android and iOS though with my own eyes " that was from unity staff, I followed that and used a version above 5.8 (5.10.0 was available to me) and its working with the additional options I mentioned above enabled

 

That will be different depending if "preview packages" is ticked. It will also be different if someone reads this post in week ;-)

Any chance you could post the actual version you've got installed? I want to reproduce your setup precisely.

 

I posted above?

LWRP 5.10.0.

Unsure about VFX graph and wont have access to personal PC until much later this evening, but I have preview packages ticked always so just tick it and go for the latest VFX graph and you should be fine.

 

Sorry - my bad. Thanks for clarifying anyway.

 

Are there the way to put shader in the VEG particle? Like material in Shuriken.

 

No problem, let me know how you got on and if you have any problems I can always give you some more pointers, have access to my LWRP project now so can load it up and go through any differences should you need

 

Maybe I'm blind, but is it actually possible to let lit output nodes emit light? Cranking the color up to HDR ranged does not achieve this effect.

 

Wasn't one of the samples emissive?

 

yes, but not lit as well. I want to emit spheres, where only a random number of them are emissive, without having to hookup a second output and randomly kill particles.

 

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Oh man, there's something changing in the inspector when editing Visual Effects as well
Sorry to bother and thanks.

 

Seems like the latest version of Visual Effect Graph does support LWRP with OpenGL 3.1 on Android. But most output nodes (if not all) are using StructuredBuffers within the Vertex Shader. Are there any plans to add output nodes which support OpenGL 3.1 devices who don't support StructuredBuffers (eg. Samsung S8)? Vulkan is running fine on this device but isn't supported by ARCore yet.

 

The new blog post about VFX Graph in FPS sample is really fascinating and useful, nice work!

https://blogs.unity3d.com/2019/04/10/upgrading-vfx-in-the-fps-sample-with-visual-effect-graph/

 

this might get lost in the thread but I released my in-Unity SDF baker as open source (I use signed distance fields extensively on my project). I get the sense Unity may release some SDF tools for VFX Graph eventually, but hope this is helpful for now:
https://github.com/xraxra/SDFr

It outputs RHalf Texture3D's with -1 to +1 values that are normalized to the baker's bounding box magnitude (max distance). There are a couple quick and dirty examples showing it working with VFX Graph and also basic raymarching.

 

Anyone have luck getting world space particles to work? I've got a particle emitter attached to a moving game object. Would be great to get worldspace emission. Changing the setting to "world" in visual effects graph isn't working. VFXBasicInitialize also has space set to world and the particles aren't adhering to this setting. Currently in 2018.3.11 and 4.10.0 for the visual effect graph.

Perhaps I'm missing something here??

 

Figured that one out. Apologies for maybe the obvious answer. Perhaps I need to wait for documentation before jumping into HDRP and Visual Effects Graph. For now, those interested, this will do the trick. VFX is attached to a game object.

LocaltoWorld piped into Initialize block...

 

Has anyone used the Decal Output? I'm having troubles when setting the soace world and usong a Decal OitpOu

 

Hi, I'm having issues getting LWRP and VFX Graph working under Single Pass Instanced rendering in VR.

I've updated the shader passes inline with the single pass instancing guide here: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SinglePassInstancing.html but I'm only getting rendering in the left eye. Is this supported? Thanks for any pointers

 

Is it possible to create a for loop inside VFX Graph, for example, I need to check the distance from each particle to 10-30 objects and create a spherical mask around each of them?

Also, a second question - is it possible to make Vertex offset of each particle, like in regular shaders? Lately, I check the butterflies sample and I thought that it would be better to keep the animation of butterflies in texture and use this texture for vertex offset. It can be achieved with standard shaders but just wanted to ask about the VFX Graph.

 

I'm trying to upgrade to VFX 5.13 via the package manager in 2019.1.0f2, but it is giving me a shasum error. I'm not sure if the error is on my machine or if something is wrong with the package?

Edit:
It seems to work now.

 

Hello,

Is there a way to get particle attribute by specific Id as a Node outside contexts ?
I want to get get the position of particle N+x but didn't find anything.

 

Hello!
How can I add custom attribute to my VFX graph, and enable creation of nodes "set custom attribute"/"get custom attribute"? See it in example "SpaceshipHoloTable" from VisualEffectGraph-samples project, cannot reproduce in my own.

Also, cannot create block "Add position from map" in "Initialize" context (by "create block" context menu), but if it copied from "portal" sample (ctrl+c, ctrl+v) - works fine. Looks like some features locked now, how it can be unlocked?

Thanks in advance!

 

In the latest blog post about FpsSample, they extended with custom stuff.
But apparently with the latest version of VEG we cannot accces VFXOperator or VFXBlock.

When we'll be able to create custom stuff with the latest VEG ?

Thanks

 

Have a look at the VFXExtras directory in some recent Keijiro repos: https://github.com/keijiro/Vdn8

He's using an .asmdef to get access to internals.

 

Hello !
Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask.
I am trying to make VFX work with LWRP on Android.
I am using this test project from Keijiro repos: https://github.com/keijiro/LwrpVfxTest
When I build on Android, instead of seeing this: https://twitter.com/i/status/1111987916908036096
I see this:
I tried to replace the graph with a Simple Particle Effect and again something weird is happening:


I am using Unity 2019.1 with LWRP and Visual Graph package version 5.10.0 (tried upgrading to 5.13 and it didn't solve anything). Maybe I am doing something wrong in the build settings ?
If anyone has an idea on how to solve this I would be really grateful.

 

Is there a way to rotate a pcache input so I can place it better in a scene. I have the Transform setup to feed into the Position Driven by Map / Bias, but it only moves the position it doesn't seem to change rotation when I rotate the transform. I would like to use a Proxy object in scene to drive both position and rotation of the initial particle Pcache that is setting the initial position of particles.

 

Hey could anyone help me please. I want to recreate something like this

in the visual effects graph. Mainly I want to make a subemitter that follow the main particle movement while they emit what I want, Like how in the video he has sparkles spawning from the main firework. Any help would be great thank you

 

Check out the unity VFX graph samples. I think the one you want to look at is the one with the genie. It has multiple emitters in the same graph. You want to kick off the explosion with an event from the first effect. I think it can be done the same way as the smoke -> genie transition with a gpu event.

 

Ok thank you I will check it out

 

Seconding @adamchild 's question above - VFX Graph currently seems to default to multipass and only render to the left eye when the rendering mode is single pass instanced (as is my case on the Magic Leap One). This has been repro'd by a bunch of folks, and someone has been able to fix it by manually converting the VFX Shaders to support SPI (forum post is gated behind a login, sorry).
Any ETA on SPI support for VFX on the LWRP? I think a lot of XR devs are going to run into this.

 

I'm trying to get conform to sdf to work, but I'm having some issues with wide shapes like text. Particles seem to be always attracted to the center of my SDFs, making it hard to spread them out side ways to fill the whole shape. Is there a good way to evenly fill text from like the top or bottom?

 

I figured out this trick recently but it does bring home the slightly odd distinction between nodes and blocks. There seems to be very little reason why some things are one and not the other. What was the thinking behind the original design decision?

 

Another question/update: running into really anomalous behavior on Android and the Magic Leap One, w/LWRP and ARFoundation or Lumin respectively (yes, lots of moving pieces here) - the coordinate space seems to be all over the place; compare the simple scene:
https://ibb.co/qD3WtD4

with the result.

I experienced a very similar bug building on the Magic Leap One... Something is completely wrong in the worldspace/scale transform, I suspect LWRP is to blame. This is w/varying versions of everything (so, all the way up to the latest preview of LWRP/VFX, coming from the first LWRP-compatible VFX package - 5.10 or so?), on both ARFoundation (Pixel 3) and Lumin as build targets.

Seems pretty consistently buggy/wrong - all thoughts appreciated!

 

Hello, I was wondering if anyone could help me with this part of my vfx. I am trying to get my particle to be attracted to a gameobject over their lifetime, so it can loop. But I am not sure what I can do for the time to get it so I can have it loop, such that the attractive force increase as the particle age, and not just the runtime of the scene.

here is reference of what I have so far, I just want to add some building up, by making the missle spawn then wait a second or two before being attracted my gameobject

 

Thanks! I hope this will be solved soon.

 

Possible feature request or help: I'm trying conform to different signed Distance Fields, based on ParticleID modulo and notice I can't branch or switch Texture3D Nodes.

 

Is it possible to sample a regular UV of each mesh particle? Or World Space position of each pixel?

 

Seconded. Lerping between maps, in particular, would be amazing.

 

However, you can calculate position from both maps and lerp between that.

 

Thanks @andybak - can you please explain how you might go about that? I'm currently "setting position from map", and am unable to connect a lerp node to as an input:



I'm sure I'm doing something dumb, but documentation is scarce to notexistent. How would you lerp between positions from two (or, ideally, more) maps?

 

I think you just have to plug in second map and that use time from 0 to 1 to lerp it.

What is Position texture?

 

With the new HDRP bloom only blooming things that are actually overexposed, there is a new slider on lit and a new node in shader graph to make things bloom regardless of exposure (exposure weight). However, I cannot find anything similar in VFX Graph and now none of my particles bloom at all.

It is spring now and in spring stuff should bloom - please help!

How do i make VFX Graph particles bloom in HDRP now?