FogOfWar For RTS

Hi, everyone,
my package <FogOfWar For RTS> now is available on asset store : http://u3d.as/content/shallway/fog-of-war-for-rts
only $15

Features
*Supports more than 300 clients with good performance!
*Use height map to block visible area.
*Use multi thread to save performance.

needs Unity Pro, and currently is not compatible with Anti-Alias.


FAQ:
1, why the height block is not working for my game?
try to increase FOW Texture Quality. if still not work, try to add extra wider colliders to specify the block area.

 

And, currently it's not work for mobiles, but i'm trying to find a solution.

 

Hi, every one.
I have submitted version 1.1 to asset store, have fixed some bugs:
1, can use multi thread on Mac now.
2, shader performance improved.

 

Hi, does this work on mobile yet? It looks fantastic, much better than the other fog of war implementations that I see on the Asset Store

*Edit
I just wanted to add that it's difficult to find this on the asset store because you spelled the title "FogOfWar" rather than "Fog of War." I think when most people are trying to find a fog of war asset, they put the spaces in. Also, there are no screenshots showing how good it looks, which may be why people are reluctant to buy.

 

hi, seifer8ff

Thanks for your advice, I'll polish this package in next version.

about working on mobile device, Unfortunately i haven't found a solution yet. The main problem is the post process shader works really bad on mobiles.
I'm still trying to find other cheap fog of war solution for my mobile game. If i find it out, I‘d be glad to tell you.

 

seifer8ff: My fog of war works for mobiles: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/3009 Its even used in a released ios/android game "Sol Runner".

 

Hi fholm, I definitely did take a look at your fog of war implementation, but there were a couple of things that I didn't like about it..From what I could tell from your videos (and I could be wrong, because it is kind of hard to see in the videos), the fog looks a bit chunky. Also, as compared to this, I didn't see any mention of your asset including the ability to have complete fog where you haven't been, and darkened areas where you have been previously. That's not a deal breaker for me, but all in all it just doesn't look as smooth as this package. Of course, I understand I'm comparing a mobile implementation vs a desktop implementation, but that is why I had to inquire here to see if it was working this smoothly on mobiles. Also, one last thing I noticed is that your asset doesn't seem to completely darken the fog areas, so you can still see highlights and such. What I'm really looking for is a fog of war like in Sword of Fargoal for iOS. The fog is totally smooth and looks very polished.
Anyway, I may buy your fog of war in the near future, but I am still undecided. Your lack of activity on your threads is also a concern, not that I anticipate needing assistance, but you never know.

 

Hey shallwaycn, I bought your fog of war package and the example seem to work great and very easy to implement. Definitely sounds like a very good implementation.
However when I try to apply the fog of war in my game it just doesn't show any fog of war at all. I tried playing around with the FOV texture quality, set one of the actors as player and another as enemy, disabled all the image effects but no dice, playing around with the area box cube but no luck so far.
What else do you recommend to try ?

 

Did you really just advertise your product in another guys post? That is incredibly rude man.

 

Managed to make it work, but now I'm stuck again. Instanced objects won't work as fog clients, probably because they are not added to the clients list after they are created. How do I do that ?

 

@Superjayjay
Hi, sorry for the late comment, I'm in china, so I'm not able to answer your question immediately, hope u don't mind
Okay, I'm glad you've solved your first problem, and for your second question:
You need to call XftFogOfWar.AddClient(XftFowClient client) to add dynamic clients.

 

No problem, thanks a lot for the help, got it fixed.
Another question, how I would I save/load the fog of war ?

Great work btw, I recommend it to anyone who wants a good and cheap fog of war effect.

 

Thanks
The Fog is saved in "FogOfWarMap", you can read the pixels to load the fog.
if pixel.a == 0, the corresponding area has not been visited,
if pixel.a == "ShadowIntensity", then the corresponding area has been visited, but has no client in there.
if pixel.a == 1, then the corresponding area is bright, and has our clients in there.

Hope this would help

 

Hello, this looks awsome.
I have one question, why does this require unity pro?

 

@Vaniljleif
because the fog is actually a Image Effect which is not supported in unity free

 

Hate to be a bother. This looks great, but last you said, it doesn't work for mobile. Have you gotten that figured out yet? This would only be useful if it works on both desktop and mobile. Thanks for letting me know.

 

@Caliber Mengsk
Nope, still not work for mobile.
The demo scene on iphone4 has only 10-15 FPS.

 

i have tried everything and still cant get the examples to work can you please help

 

hi, can you give me some info about the problem..?

the demo scene should work properly if you are using Unity Pro..

 

Hi! I'm running into an issue with this asset when running my game in the editor. If the editor loses the focus (because I'm opening Visual Studio or doing other work outside the editor) and then I click in my game view to set the focus back on the editor, the fog of war texture turns completely black and does not seem to update anymore.

Has anyone run into this problem? Any idea where I could look in the code to solve this ?

Btw, it seems to happen only in editor mode. Using a PC build, losing the focus from the game window and setting it back did not create any problem.

 

Hi! I just bought your asset, its great! But i have question - how can i make dynamic block objects - like a door. I cannot see through it while its infront of me. And when i get closer - door is moving down, and then i need to see everything behind. But know, i understand, objects are baked, and changing their position not helps

 

Looks great ... buying.

 

Hey, I'm Korean
I buy your packge.
but, I have big problem.
This problem is packge scene error.
Do you know this error???

<Error>
NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
XftFogOfWar.CheckHeightVisible (Int32 cx, Int32 cz, Int32 gx, Int32 gz) (at Assets/FogOfWar/Scripts/XftFogOfWar.cs:343)
XftFogOfWar.GetBrightPixels (Int32 cx, Int32 cz, .XftFowClient client) (at Assets/FogOfWar/Scripts/XftFogOfWar.cs:461)
XftFogOfWar.GetPixels (.XftFowClient client) (at Assets/FogOfWar/Scripts/XftFogOfWar.cs:478)
XftFogOfWar.CalculatePixels (Int32 maxClients) (at Assets/FogOfWar/Scripts/XftFogOfWar.cs:433)
XftFogOfWar.Update () (at Assets/FogOfWar/Scripts/XftFogOfWar.cs:562)

why does happen this problem???

 

Also, I play packge scene!!
xft Fog Of war(script) is not to be enabled.
Why..... I use unity 4.5.4ver
I Not enough time. tell me how to Solution.
Please...ㅜㅜ

 

@DooDoo

First of all, you need to use unity Pro.

This plugin does not support unity free

 

@shallwaycn
Thank you
I'm college student.... so no money ㅜ.ㅜ
But I don't give up!!

 

I just bought this asset and am trying to get it to work for a 2d game. This means that I need the area box to be on the x-y plane instead of the x-z plane like it is in the examples. So far I haven't been able to get it to work. Do you know if this is supported or if support for it can be added? Thanks!