IndieEffects: Bringing (almost) AAA quality Post-Process FX to Unity Indie

It is incredible. Wish I had your skill when I was 12. Would be set now.

 

yes but the thing is you don't need to learn the advanced mathematical crap, I'm still learning and you don't even need to learn calculus just to learn shaders, only certain parts of shaders require calculus, for example making super advanced shaders like ssao i get help from my friend in order to complete the task. I'm still learning yet willywill (from armedunity) is teaching me shaders the right way and we both did port this ssao shader together, yet he did the most of the functions while i just did the main one. but the result is really fast and great looking ssao. yet now I can write a vertex shader (far more complex then fragment and surface shaders but more customizable which is why i chose it) from scratch now and even write image effects, well only a few. and even make my scene look better than most scenes. but this is all done by pushing your self, having the motivation and time to do it and the knowledge to do it. and no one is ever to young or to old to do what they want to do. everyone can do it.

 

when i try to load a shader, it shows a white screen and has an error message.

 

You need to enable the indie effect base, if it's a c# script enable the c# base, likewise for js.

Overlay effect is coming soon!

 

Your SSAO looks great ! How many passes does it uses ? There is a blur pass ? Is it based on the crysis method or normal hemisphere ?
You do very good for 12 years old ! (I took 1 week to have my bunell disk ssao working)

PS : A core i3 sandybridge is good enough, the problem is there is no graphic card. Also, on laptop, usually the bandwidth is low, and texture.apply use much bandwidth.

 

How do you guys come up with ways to make image effect shaders?

Overlay effect:

Currently there is only a js version.

About the screenshot: the palm trees are from Baldinoboy's awesome coconut palm tree pack, the overlay is applied w/o image so it make a fog like effect, at a relatively low performance cost.
I would highly recommend his pack!

Link: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/7888 its only $5!

Screenshot:

 

To make an image effect or a shader (for me), i first read many documentations to know how the effect works, then, i try, step by step to implement it (for example : for bloom, i first tried to see if the additive texture works, then i add the blur.)

 

Cool, nice explanations! Tu parles français?

 

Thanks Eric2241. Your overlay effect looks good but when I import it I get this:

overlay_error.jpg

Using Unity 4.5.0

Speaking of fog I do not remember where the post is but is someone still working on a height fog port.

 

Oh whoops! I had to remove something that was not implemented for the release, anyways use this version.

 

It work like a charm. Can add dirt on the edges of the screen with this. Thanks

 

No problem, glad you like it!

 

Wait, do i put the shader on Main Camera, or do I put the script on it?

 

You put the indie effect base script and image effect script on to the camera than the appropriate shader on the script where is has the shader spot.

 

the ssao doesn't need a blur pass, thats why its so fast. you can increase the amount of noise you want or decrease it. it looks better with some noise or you can make the noise have a high amount. ITs customizable boi! oh and also its actually pure depth ssao.

 

i dont have any indie effects base

 

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/need-help-making-punching-work.250068/
also need help here

id dont have an indie effects base\

 

Are you trying to make a minecraft like game?

 

For the indie effects base download the indie effects package on page 1

 

from the look of his username id say he is making a mine craft like game.

 

That's what I'm guessing too.

 

Well, I like to think of it as a "survival" game. Like The Forest without cannibals.

 

So here's the story-line. You start out with a cut scene of you on a plane. The captain says "We are expecting some high turbulence." and the lights flicker and then everything goes black. You wake up flung 20 feet from the airplane, and think you are the only one to survive, but as the story progresses, you will find up to five people that were on the plane, too.

 

Oh nice story line!

 

Ahhh Spoilers.

That is a great plan. Always been a fan for survival games. Post a link if you start a thread.

 

Looks like it's not possible to use these on mobile. Anyone knows other options? Btw, they all look great, especially SSAOtest.

 

Oui je parles français.

Ok. So it's like Crysis 1 ssao.

I think it's not the good place to talk about your project^^ open a new thread if u want to show it

 

@Frostbite23: So Frosty, can you get this to run in IndieEffects faster than 40fps?

That looks amazing actually, the bunell disk algorithm needs something like 3 or 4 passes to actually look good!

@Eric2241:

Not really, for some really messed up effects, maybe, but I pretty much learned everything I needed to know by messing around with existing shaders! Of course, doing SSAO does take some math...

 

@starkm: Sorry about that, the reason why these don't work on mobile is because of memory bandwidth: most mobile devices just don't have the grunt to render a texture every frame the way this pack does. if only Render Textures were for free too...

So basically, this pack is for PC only, as I explained above, mobile devices lack the memory bandwidth needed to use this pack

 

Yes, it needs 3-4 rings to look good, because there is no noise. I can add some noise to the shader if you want (but with noise it will look grainy).

 

Tu es canadien ou français? Je suis américain, mais je suis un élève français.

 

I'm taking ap calc in 10th grade, or something like that (alg 2 advanced 9th grade) so until then I'll just have to mess around with the shaders.

 

Français^^

 

Très bon!!

 

Will do!

 

Hey nice work, I was wondering what the performance is like when using these indie effects, I am making a heavily procedural game so I was just asking to see if I could afford to use these in my game.

 

@EBR: So long as the draw calls are lower than about 250 (or 500... ) it should be fine! There have been problems with untiy terrain engine being too expensive for these fx, but your system might be better... Could I have a look?

EDIT: Never mind, is the link to "the cave" your project?

EDIT2: WHOA! That is awesome! Please, test this with my fx, I would LOVE to see this fly with your project!

@Cyrien5100, Eric2241: What is with you guys speaking french?! What are you sayin?!

EDIT: Never mind, used Google translate on it and I take it, cyrien, that you're french?

 

@FuzzyQuills Yes that is the project, I guess I could give it to you, but is still very unoptimised. And I don't really know how to do that because I have unity free :/ How would I give the project to you?

 

Oh, check the post again, I did an edit.
I would love to see that with my fx on it, just to see how it runs!

Basically, how many draw calls does it take to draw this once?

 

To run the game at the moment it has around 50 draw calls but the frame rate is still not great on my crappy machine so i'll test it and get back to you.
EDIT: I tested it and it looks great but the performance isn't the best, so I will test again when I have fully optimised the game (which will probably be in ages).

 

How do i make a thread?

Thanks, MC7089

 

Go to the topic in which you want to make the thread (i am guessing the works in progress?) and then click the "Post new thread" button in the top right corner

 

Thank you!

 

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/gosleminer-epic-survival-game-early-beta.258094/

 

@EBR: 50 draw calls?! That should run at 100fps on my intel hd chipset just fine! (I can deal with 60fps, so that's a plus too.)

And Yes, if you can upload a build with my fx in it, that would be great. means I can compare performance on my laptop too. also, how big is the project? I can give the new IndieEffects 2.0 coming a try if you like. (Mainly for testing purposes in a real-world environment, as the IndieEffects 2.0 has one annoying bug I need to iron out, mainly related to the fact that it now generates a second camera for capturing... )

And BTW, 50 drawcalls isn't bad at all, what is your specs? if it's lower than a sandy bridge laptop, (in my case, my school lappy) or is a machine with ddr2 ram, then it might have a bit of trouble.

 

@FuzzyQuills Yes, I'm french, problem ?
@Eric2241 You saw i'm french because of my english's mistakes ?^^

If you have any performance problem, check the number of pixels light of your scene. Because Unity uses the Forward Add rendering, the cost for each light is : number of light*number of meshes*number of pixels. I don't know if Indie Effects does a second pre render, but if yes, it multiplies cost by 2.

 

@Cyrien5100:

NOPE!

 

I guessed that you were french through a post about fx4indie on a french unity forum.

 

fx4indie have now much more than post process. So the name will change.
I will be like a package of many graphics techniques (post effects, pbr, hdr, new lighting system...).

 

Wow! True HDR in indie...AMAZING!