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Fog Volume 3

Discussion in 'Assets and Asset Store' started by DavidMiranda, Jan 30, 2014.

  1. dhuang

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    the softness is already set to 1.
     
  2. DavidMiranda

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    Use the RT_Viewer and check that the depth buffer is showing coherent values
     
  3. dhuang

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    I turned on the RT_viewer, not sure what you mean by showing coherent values.
     

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  4. sadicus

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    Looking to update to Fogv3. Anyone using this with PlayWay Water system or Ceto?
    I've used CETO, and NUAJ They look great as stand alone but when trying to use both in a project the water + volume cloud weather systems seem to always have conflicts.
     
  5. laurentlavigne

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    In your example the base fog which is orange doesn't appear in the horizon of your refprobe, instead there is a blue fog that your refprobe lies inside is ignored.

    Then why do you need premult or normal transparency and parameters which are typically 2D compositing concepts?

    This doesn't help, neither does your snide attitude which is a constant on your thread. So how about you put away your ego for once and stop referring to your poorly written documentation. Instead explain things verbosely assuming we don't understand the inner functioning of your asset - I certainly don't. This will help.
     
  6. No0B25

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    I think he's been pretty patient with your questions up until now. I mean the man also has other things to do, like doing the stuff that stops him from implementing the shadow casting objects inside the fog volume feature that many of us are waiting for. :D
     
  7. laurentlavigne

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    You're right man, I'm just super frustrated because I've spent so much time trying to coax it into working and can't. I'll keep an eye out because it looks stunning but for now I pulled it out and asked David for a refund.
     
  8. DavidMiranda

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    We happy?
    2017-04-25_23-35-56.jpg

    Let me show you some screens. There are new scenes and one more feature: density blur (WIP!). Its a camera effect that reads the Fog Volume opacity and uses it to blur the screen.

    2017-04-25_16-10-02.jpg 2017-04-25_23-39-11.jpg 2017-04-25_23-38-58.jpg 2017-04-25_21-57-55.jpg
     
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  9. DavidMiranda

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    Hey! I have just bought PlayWay Water to check compatibility. Good news :D
    2017-04-26_11-42-35.jpg

    Very bright clouds to see those reflections in action:
    2017-04-26_11-47-36.jpg
     
  10. DavidMiranda

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    @sadicus Here is my scene, if you want to test
    Unity 2017-04-26 12-00-07-44.jpg
     

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  11. Bartolomeus755

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    Looks great, is FogVolume also suitable for larger sceneries (50kmx50km)?

    Marko
     
  12. DavidMiranda

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    Absolutely. There are no limits. And large size doesn't mean more expensive.
     
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  13. Bartolomeus755

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    That sound's great! I think I need it for my sim. ;)
     
  14. DavidMiranda

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    Nice. Read carefully the limitations before buying. In short:
    • Transparencies not allowed inside of the volume
    • Depth issues with VR
     
  15. Bartolomeus755

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    Thank you for the info David. I would use it for my ship simulation project. And the sim is not a VR project but I use also PlayWay's water asset. It looks like Fog Volume can create a very realistic look of the sim.
     
  16. DavidMiranda

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    Ah, then you have an ideal situation. You won't need to render depth, which is pretty cool. Background clouds is indeed the best scenery for this asset. If you get it contact me, I can set up it for you if you want.
     
  17. Bartolomeus755

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    Thank you for the offer David, I will buy FogVolume next month. ;)
     
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    Hello... Sorry if this is a noob issue, but I just purchased and am using to create sea mist in an Oculus OVR scene. Some camera motions expose a "tear" in the mist, as shown.... Changing fog dimensions sometimes reduces this... but I have never been abl;e to eliminate... What am I doing wrong? But the options thus far have been fantastic....
     

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  20. DavidMiranda

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    Maybe the camera far clip plane is too low?
     
  21. rcgauer

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    Ummmm... yes. Thanks
     
  22. DavidMiranda

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    Nice. Trying to render underwater? Humm, maybe I should provide an example of that. It will be quite nice to use the new camera effect for that.
     
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    Your tools are absolutely the most accessible option I have found to do so... and I would welcome all comments. I will post whatever we end up with. The camera is OVR, so I am learning my way around how to deliver good underwater stuff, and will tackle light rays and caustics if time allows.
     
  24. rcgauer

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    Which effect?
     
  25. DavidMiranda

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    Oh, sadly you are using transparent shaders there :/
     
  26. DavidMiranda

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    This
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  27. rcgauer

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    Yeah... I saw that earlier and will definitely use for terrestrial dinos....
     
  28. vice39

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    Hey!

    Is this asset usable in VR?

    I want to add rolling clouds with light shafts to my VR scene. Using the HTC Vive and running on windows desktop.
    Thanks.
     
  29. rcgauer

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    For my part, I am using it on a (powerful) laptop with Oculus Rift and get great mist and clouds... FWIW. I am still learning... sure there is more to it than I have found.

     
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    I can not yet :) I've been without my vive for several weeks now. UPS lost my vive cable somewhere. I ordered a new one last week. I will get it in 15-20 days. Sorry
     
  32. vice39

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    @DavidMiranda ok, I am willing to buy and test, will you honor a refund if I find it's wonky or broken in VR?
     
  33. DavidMiranda

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    Maybe it would be better to wait?
    afaik, the only issue has to do with depth at close distances when we have a textured fog volume. This is: downsampling + scene collision + noise or gradients. In the case of background clouds, where we don't compute depth, there are no issues.
     
  34. vice39

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    I can't wait 3-4 weeks, this project is due before that.
     
  35. dhuang

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    Vice, I have been using it for VR with Vive. The clouds work in VR, but if you have landscape amongst the cloud and turn on collision, where the cloud and landscape meets, you will see jagged edges if you downsample the textures. But if you keep the highest quality of textures the framerate will drop below 40 (tested on 1070 and 1080) and makes it not usable.

    also if you have objects intersecting the cloud plane, with collision turned on, sometimes there some weird residual voids that is visible as you turn the head.

    both of these issues you can see in my posts earlier on this thread a couple weeks ago.

    As long as you don't have landscape intersecting with the cloud plane, this asset works fine in VR. So use it above or below your scene, but don't try to get the clouds to collide with your scene, it still have issues at this point.
     
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  36. dhuang

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    Hi David,
    I am trying o do the uniform Fog, and I am making a fog volume to cover large area, around 600 x 600 x 600. I noticed that when I make it that big, the fog doesn't really work any more when that fog volume start to encapsulate objects inside. there would be no fog in front of objects that are inside this fog volume. Please see the video attached here (ignore my mumbling in the video). How do I setup the uniform fog correctly?
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2AQDFCvVYI8TVJhN0xiWGF4Y0E/view?usp=sharing
     
  37. DavidMiranda

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    Hi.
    First, sorry the late reply. The forum doesn't notify me more than once.
    Well, I believe that your camera is not generating depth. Just make sure that your camera is building _CameraDepthTexture. Check this slide
     
  38. DavidMiranda

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    Yeah, totally agree. Maybe there is a better method to do the "depth-aware" trick. Im not specially happy with the results. I need time to investigate. Thanks for replying regarding this imperfections.
    Textured fog colliding with world is not always giving good results. The very best situation for noise usage is when we render clouds in the sky. We can turn Depth off and use a high downscale value. Then we set Ztest to "Less Equal" and voilà
     
  39. DavidMiranda

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    Humm, if I were working in a company I wouldn't recommend to implement such a big/complex plugin just before the deadline.
     
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  40. vice39

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    If only we lived in a perfect world.
     
  41. Psycho-Designs

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    Is it possible to use this plugin with a mesh to define the volume of the fog?
     
  42. DavidMiranda

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    nope
     
  43. Evanion

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    CIG had a huge fog special in their latest weekly video.
    I think you would find it interesting, and it might give you some ideas.



    It might be a different engine (cry engine/lumberyard), but the theory is the same after all.
     
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  44. DavidMiranda

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    Yes, thanks. I wish I had more time for this!
     
  45. KarelA

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    Hi.

    Loving the Fog Volume plugin. Played around with it a bit.

    Two questions. Does the shadowcaster work on Unity terrain? Currently the demoscene terrains are all meshes. Another question, can the fog color be changed at runtime?

    Thanks.
     

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    Hi, I just bought FV3 and I've got big problems working with it. I'm trying to make distinct clouds with Fog Volume Primitives, but what I have now is only this:
    upload_2017-5-26_17-50-5.png

    (The clouds beside are just the skybox)
    Two questions here:
    1. My clouds are rippling, and it gets faster as I come near the clouds.
    2. In your Nebula example scene the clouds don't seem to be restricted by the primitive cubes. I mean behind the scenes they are, but they don't appear to be.

    How do I fix these two problems? Thanks!
     
  48. Harekelas

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    Hi, I'm very interested in this asset's cloud effects. May I ask that if I can twist some options the asset provides to create several different cloud types? Say not only cumulus, but also very thin cirrus or veil-like altostratus?
    And is it possible to integrate with other sky systems?, like Tenkoku or Time of Day that can provide their own sunlight and moonlight. And I just close their cloud renderings then set fog volume as clouds?
     
  49. wetcircuit

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    You can have more than one fog volume overlapping, each with different settings.

    Getting it working with a TOD system will take some work, YMMV. Easy to link the assets to a common "sun" light, but changing sky gradients, ambient colors, and the sun setting behind the horizon will all cause you some headache.
     
  50. DavidMiranda

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    What do you mean with rippling? Here is an example that may fit your needs
    It looks like this
    2017-05-30_11-25-53.jpg
    For a game like yours, where the camera travels fast and in straight line I recommend you to do the following:
    Open the shader and uncomment this line:
    2017-05-30_11-26-17.jpg
    Now go to the tab Renderer and do this:
    2017-05-30_11-26-09.jpg
    It will sample the noise tex with view aligned planes.

    Sorry? :) Maybe you found that the shape was too large compared to the given primitive. We can overwrite the given primitives size here:
    2017-05-30_11-31-57.jpg

    Fog Volume is not a cloud renderer or atmospheric tool.
    All of these real-time changes has to be done by the user to meet their needs. You can write scripts to send data to FV or animate them as I did here
     

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