Fog Volume 3

Well, these names are more or less descriptive, matching the inspector names. DF corresponds to primitives, that one was not descriptive. I don't like either having such big amount of variants, but that was the only way to make the plugin flexible, with many options. I wish there was a better way.
But the idea is simple, if you are not going to activate volumetric shadows, comment this line:
#pragma multi_compile _ VOLUME_SHADOWS
If you don't need lights, comment this out
#pragma multi_compile _ ATTEN_METHOD_1 ATTEN_METHOD_2 ATTEN_METHOD_3

And so on. Hopefully you will only need to remove a few.

Sorry for the inconveniences. I understand and share the nuisance.

 

Humm, yes. It was designed like that for good reasons. But it is possible to hack this. Find this function: void MoveToLayer() And comment out the layer assignation.
FogVolumeGameObject.layer = LayerMask.NameToLayer("FogVolume");

Note that some functionalities may not work such as shadows (received from another fog volume) or lowres rendering.

 

Didn't it? It always worked fine with reflection probes

 

Humm, weird. I just loaded a fresh project and created one, and it is fine. even the lowres script in the camera works correctly. Console is clear

 

Mobile is very problematic. In principle there is nothing special to do, but only Uniform Fog Volume (default setup) will work with certain guarantees. Is your volume uniform? (without noise or gradients enabled)
The type is shown at the bottom of the FV inspector

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One package that I can recommend to solve the issue of too many keywords being used is: Shader Control by Kronnect. What this does is basically give you an UI to manage shader keywords by commenting them in/out.

@DavidMiranda Have you looked into using local shader keywords? They have introduced that kind of recently (not sure if in 2018 or 2019). See also: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SL-MultipleProgramVariants.html (section "Local keywords").

 

No it didn't show up in reflection probes.

 

Hello
i have a issue on Unity 2018.3.0f2
cloud work perfectly on editor but doesn't work on built
do you have any idea ?

 

I had the same issue. The workaround I came up with was that you need to have the game window active when building. My workstation has two monitors and I have the editor window on one monitor and the game window on the other. This resulted in a faulty build. Restore the window layout with the editor and game tabbed and have the game window active.

Best of luck!

 

Hi, sorry if this has been answered before but I guess it's not possible to have primitives with different colors? I'm blanking on how to achieve this (accept for maybe with lights?). Thanks a lot in advance!

 

It works

Do the following:
1. make the FV you want to be reflected to be visible by the probe

2. Make the surrogate layer invisible for the probe


Done

 

I found the issue. Go to FogVolumeRenderer.cs and comment out lines 784 and 787

 

Yessssss!

 

Nebula 3 Volumes rotate and translate with w and e.
scale doesn't do a thing.
If I parent the cubes defining the volume then scale them, the 3D pattern doesn't follow the scaling
how do you scale such volume?

 

I'm having trouble getting the sphere primitives to work. After a lot of struggle I managed to get the desired result, I have one fog volume using a single sphere primitive and another using the max amount of 20. They are both looking fine in the editor now, but in an actual standalone build they both look like cubes, exactly the way they look in the editor if I turn off the use primitives setting. I logged the amount of primitives used with GetTotalPrimitiveCount and GetVisiblePrimitiveCount and I'm getting 1 and 20 as expected. Do you have any other idea what might be the problem?

 

I've found that this behavior only happens when you instantiate a prefab fog volume. If you have it in the scene already, it works fine.

 

Hi, is there a way to not optimize (I guess that what's going on?) FogVolume-primitives when you zoom out:



I'm trying to do an astronomy related simulation with nebulas and it would be cool if there was a way to make them look more detailed from far away. Is there a way to achieve this?

 

Hey everyone Whats the name of this method??
The transition i mean

 

@DavidMiranda

hi,
does a plan to support URP?

 

I subscribe to that. I'd definitely buy this asset if it worked on URP and kept the primitive boundaries feature functional

 

Hey, can I use this volume fog in HDRP?

 

Would love to know this too. Bought this asset a long while ago, and would love to continue using it on HDRP.

 

The scale is modified in FV inspector. Unity's transform scale didn't work well

 

Yes, that's the detail layer draw distance

 

@XANTOMEN @invictus24 @Skotrap7
At the moment I don't plan to put my hands on URP. I have spent some days studying it, but it is a giant wall. It is like starting to learn graphics again from scratch. That doesn't make anyone happy or motivated.

 

Ah that's too bad. I bought this asset a while ago but all my projects nowadays are in URP.

 

Hello.
The asset works fine in the editor but not in the build.
Unity 2019.3.05f and Volume Fog 3.2
The effect is not displayed in the build. How to solve?

 

Hello. 3.2 is an old version and that problem was solved already. You can download the latest version in Unity 2019.4

 

Hi @DavidMiranda !!! Do you plan to create Fog Volume for HDRP short / medium time?

Regards

 

humm, not for now

 

the new pipeline has problems?
and URP?

 

URP is a problem itself. Graphics programming is completely different now, extremely difficult and anything studied and learned before is useless now.

 

Is this possible with the recent version? And is it available for the cheap version? I would like to make a cloud shaped like a teddy

 

Hello. Yes, it is possible since long ago https://twitter.com/BetaVersionOfMe/status/938008564723015682
Only textured volume, because uniform doesn't use raymarch.

 

Just finished my latest project, a classical music video called "By the Brook" using Fog Volume 3 for effects.

Thought I'd share it with everyone.
This was developed throughout the pandemic as a form of relaxation.
The music and scene were both begun in February when everything was getting shut down. The music (composed by my wife) was finalized in late September and the scene was finally completed this week.

The goal was for the viewer to take a few minutes and relax and let all of the world's trouble pass you by and just have a few minutes of peace before you have to get back to reality.

I hope you enjoy the escape.

 

Thanks for posting. It makes me remember my project "The Waterfall", done in UDK 400 years ago River stream, animals, butterflies, vegetation and music.

 

I’d love to see it.
Glad to bring you a good memory.

 

Beautiful!
I love it, great work!

 

Love it!

 

So nice!

 

Hi there,

We have issue with the fog volume game object. In our project we have camera prefab.
After each run, new fog volume game object is being added to our prefab, while the initially one game object with required camera is exists (see attachment).

Thank you.

 

I agree, would be nice to use fog volume for Urp

 

These are amazing! Any insight as to your process?

 

thank you…

this is all one big cloud, and I play with the noise settings of course…. a lot.

I think the secret to these pics is when you add a Fog Volume Light, it actually adds 2 lights. Giving them different colors, brightness, and falloff creates more interesting color gradients in the clouds. Also repositioning the lights so they sit in a 'hole' in the cloud makes a dramatic focus, and offsetting the 2nd light so the shadows are different from each other makes the clouds have more 'depth'.

I am capturing to hdr cubemap to use as a skybox, so pushing the noise settings to the max is no problem.

 

Our latest video. Hope you enjoy it.

 

Great stuff. Thanks, I will give this a go.