Fog Volume 3

I'm a little disappointed in the Unity asset store for showing on the top a review from 2 years ago saying how the asset is buggy. How is this review helpful? The asset has been updated numerous times. I'm curious if this effects sales of many assets.

That being said, amazing asset, just remarkable stuff

 

David, good day! Any news on release? I am chomping at the bit here!!! Super psyched.

Gary

 

Sorry guys, I didn't get notified or I just didn't notice it.
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Yes, that's really unfair. Even worse when somebody just drop a really bad comment without telling you his problems privately.

Sir, hell yes!

 

OOH! Huzzah! CANNOT wait!

 

No? you will have to wait 2-3 weeks more until it gets approved '-_- (if so)

 

I know..

 

How much will the update /full package cost?

 

Hi. 30$ if you already owned the old one. 50$ if not.

 

Nice, will buy immediately!

 

Oh, so you're submitting it as a new package?

 

Yes, when you make a major and paid upgrade, it has to be a separate package.

 

Well, its been already 15 days since I submitted this to the asset store and still nothing.
I don't want to wait for so long to keep you updated with the latest version. For this reason I decided to make my own store. You will be able to get the updates with no waiting time.
I will put a programmer to manage your upgrades and discounts.
Meanwhile, a new version with VR support and many other interesting things is ready for purchase from my web page

 

Hi David,
I've been eagerly waiting for Fog Volume 3 for some time now, to use in a VR game I'm working on. I followed the link in your previous post and purchased it. However, when I finish downloading it, and I try to import it into Unity I get "Failed to import package with error: Couldn't decompress package" as if the package got corrupted in the download process.

I've tried downloading it with both Chrome and Firefox several times, and each time the final file is a different size, between 178mb to 199mb. How big is it supposed to be, so I know if I got all the data?

 

Hi I can't believe how long unity take to approve assets it's almost as if they don't want to make money. I guess I am going to have to wait for the unity store version though as I already have fog volume and so would do the upgrade instead of paying full price.

If there was a way to apply that discount on your store though I'd just buy from you on principle though so that unity learn to put more effort into their own asset store. It might also be worth putting up a demo on your site as well though so people can check if it works ok on their computer before purchase as I'm worried those clouds look good enough to make my computer cry and burst into flames shortly afterwards.

Ian

 

There's a demo download link on Slide 8 on this page http://www.davidmiranda.me/product/fog-volume-3/

 

Aha, that size is wrong indeed. It is 405mb. I changed the file, linked now a .zip instead of a .unitypackage. Try now. If your link expired, I will send you a 100% discount coupon. Sorry for the inconveniences, you are the first who bought it. But some patience, we will make it work

Cheers!

 

Yup, try the demo.

If you mail me your invoice, I will make a 20 bucks discount for you. Once published on the store I will generate a serial for you, so you can have your asset store access granted.

 

I appreciate that, but the link still seems to work, and does indeed now download a zip file instead. However, I still can't get a complete file across. It stops just above 200mb :/ Tried it on a colleague's computer too, same thing, so I'm thinking it could be our connection at the office. I'll try it tonight when I get home too and report back.

 

Same here '-_- Contacting now web master....

 

Hi David,
Congratulations on the new version of Fog Volume, it looks amazing!! I've been watching this thread for the last few days...very excited for the chance to use it in my game. However, I'm concerned about performance.

I just downloaded and ran the demo and was getting only 10 FPS on the Scotland scene. I'm not on a high-end PC, but my laptop does have a dedicated GPU (Nvidia Geforce 745M) and my game with large terrains, 220,000+ trees, high-poly models, etc - manages to run in the 75-120 FPS range.

I know this is a hard question to answer, but what is the minimum FPS drop I can expect for decent looking clouds/ground fog? For example, if I created a fog volume with a scale of approximately 1400x200x1400, and placed it around some mountain tops to create clouds/fog - approximately how many FPS could I expect to lose - 10, 20, more?

Thanks!

 

Its been a nightmare and lots of stress. It was a problem with the server secure redirection and we couldn't do anything. BUT, what I've done is to split the package into one protected and small file and 2 unprotected zips.. You will download now the small one containing only the code part and links to the big part (art). Just uncompress all of that in the same place.

 

I've tried the VR demo, and it's awesome. Judging by the Frame Timing graph it doesn't leave much space for rendering your own game but who needs content when you have clouds that awesome I spent 15 minutes just looking at them.

I've noticed some weird glitch when looking at the sun, a few black pixels flicker occasionally in the center of the sun.
A few gripes prevent me from calling it perfect:

1. outline gap - in VR the gap around solid objects appears pretty large, and can even get saw-toothy with flickering when tilting the head
2. color banding - there are very prominent stripes when looking at the distant sky
3. performance demand - outdoors scene was right on the edge on my GTX 1070, about 9-10ms. Is this demo ramped-up to be more demanding than what you would realistically use in a game, since the "other demos" (see below) worked much better? In other words, is the setup with clouds being all around you like in the outdoor scene more demanding than some more real-world regular-day weather?

I also tried the other demo - also in VR If you happen to know a trick how to force Unity not to run itself in VR do tell, it automatically launches SteamVR no matter what. I'll try with the Vive unplugged tomorrow, but it'd be nicer if one wouldn't have to unplug it .
The non-VR demos were all messed up but it's understandable, I just have one question - is the performance I was seeing in that borked-VR mode representative of what it'd be if it was working properly? Because the nature demos seemed to work pretty good, way better than I expected; when I originally saw Fog Volume I wasn't even thinking it'd be compatible with VR's high demands. This looks really promising!

 

Probably picking this up soon if I can get the performance I need - just wanted to say, that's a great trailer, maybe the best asset trailer I've seen in terms of showing the features and the product in detail. Great work!

If it's not too much to ask, could you give an estimate on an outdoor scene's performance in VR? I can probably only spare 2-3ms max for clouds, since my game is physics-based and eats performance like candy. I saw your optimization slider video and you seemed to get it under 2ms with good quality - is this realistic?

Thanks.

 

That seems like a great solution. However, when I log in and look at my Downloads, it says I don't have any. Checking my Orders, I still have the Fog Volume 3 order details, but no link for downloading it.

 

No problem, mail me your ticket to see your details and lets get you the new link.

 

Couldn't find your email, but used the contact form on your site.

 

Working on a cloudscape for VIVE right now. I will make it public too

 

Thank you for sorting everything out! Great support!

Any ETA on this? I am currently evaluating which volumetric cloud asset to use for our VR game, and the lack of support for single pass stereo means that Fog Volume 3, while more beautiful, falls behind severely in performance.

 

Thanks for your good feedback.

SUN GLITCH
That is the bloom. The sun center intensity in Unity skybox goes crazy

PERFORMANCE
I adjusted every scene to the limit of my gtx970, just trying to get the best visuals possible. You can always make it cheaper according to your needs. Check this

OUTLINE GAP
I had to mimic the generation of _CameraDepthTexture myself. I have tried to ask unity developers if they apply some kind of lens correction to the GBuffer. Nobody is helping me with this. If I had that info, I could fix that in 3 seconds. So if anyone succeed generating render textures for VR, please let me know.

COLOR BANDING
Yeah, well, that depends on the iteration distance. With unlimited power we would iterate one million times.

VR DEMO OUTDOORS
That is a very complex scene. You have there 2 layers of high quality clouds + volumetric lighting. In production you would make it more simple. I have made a new demo. 90 stable fps for me. Grab it here.

 

I have just quickly made this one

 

@David_MG : about the color banding, would the use of a blue noise for dithering be helpful ?

 

Yes, dithering is already implemented

 

Well, there is this (Vive Stereo Rendering Toolkit) https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/71255
It does things like stereo mirrors, portals, etc. It's only for SteamVR though, which is a shame.

Cheers, I'll try it out!

 

Oh, I didn't know that one. Thanks.

 

VIVE CLOUDS DEMO
I've made a quick demo for VIVE. 90fps in standalone. Download link

 

Congrats David! This looks incredible! instant buy! Waiting for it to be in the store!

 

16 days and counting.... And have in mind that you will have access to 3.0. If things goes like this, 3.1 will be live at the store by june xD

 

They had GDC recently so maybe some of the AS team had to attend and is now backlogged. Updates are also generally quicker to get through versus new submissions.

That does seem like an abnormally long wait, though. Maybe @SaraCecilia can check it out?

 

I've been playing around with this all day, and I never knew clouds could be so sexy! There are so many options, that it's a little daunting to be honest. Perhaps you could give me a few pointers?
I'm trying to make a more toony/stylized look to my clouds, with fewer colours used to shade the clouds, think Wind Waker's clouds. How would I go about this? I appreciate any help I can get!

 

Nice to hear that!
Yes, it's huge, I know. You have to take your time to learn. Gimme some time to make a coffee and try that style myself

 

Ooookay, what about something like this?

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I will explain more in detail by email.

 

So it will take 16 days for it to be at the Store?

 

No, I said that it has been 16 days since I submitted 3.0

 

That is almost exactly what I am going for! You're awesome! I'm sure I can use that as a base to get the desired effect. Thank you!

 

I was indeed working on this a bit more



I'll let you know when I finish this. You will have to update your version, I solved a bug that I found weeks ago.

 

Hi David I think there might be a bug in your lattest version. All of your scenes work perfectly for me within Unity but if I export any of them into a build the clouds disappear a split second after the scene starts. The only one that works OK for me as a build is the showroom scene. I tested the scenes in your demo to see if it would work OK on my machine and the demo works fine for me.

The only error I have in Unity is OpenVR Error! OpenVR failed initialization. I am not trying to use it with VR though. Also if you do make any updates to the version on your store it might be worth spliting up your unity package into a multipart rar if for some reason your server still needs the files to be smaller than the full package size. I would prefer the output of decompression all the rar files to be one unity package so I could easily install it into my existing unity project.

Thanks,

Ian

 

Thanks Ian. Gimme a few hours

 

@ IanStanbridge Solved, Sir. Updating the files now

 

@BinaryLegend Almost there. What do you think? I have done a few variants for you to choose.

 

Thanks for your idea. I did it like that. It's now updated in the server.