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

Yep, Eric, Cyrien got HDR working!
And as for the large delay of IndieEffects release... that's a long story, but long story short, school's back for me. And trying to fit in time to work on your schoolwork, game project and indieEffects is proving to be a tad hard to do...

Basically, all I need to do now is to finish the docs, then it is ready! the doubling draw calls issue is still there, but at least it's useable with good performance!

 

Do you know if its a custom shader? Because I got a sweetfx hdr effect working in unity and its on page 14, but its not actual HDR.

 

Hello. I cant download the pack for some reason from google drive. It gives me an SSL error If you, or anyone could help me, or upload it to another mirror thatd be great!

 

Does not give me an ssl error. Try it with another browser.

 

I have used all my browsers and get errors for every single one, all different. I would love if someone could just put it on drop box or media fire or somewhere i can actualy download it

 

Try using a proxy.

 

Proxy diddnt work, wont allow me to download when im using proxy. ughhh.

 

Fine. Use this. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_BvMrm9lGoTbDFzNzdpVGRJRHM/edit?usp=sharing

 

Thank you my savior

 

@MrEllsworth: Sorry for your trouble sir! What browser do you use?

And posting your internet settings would help also.

 

Dang, was hoping to use this to get an iOS7 style blur effect. Really only need to capture one frame and blur it on a second camera as a background while the user is in the menu system. Will go with plan B of having blurred versions of the sprites will switch to based on whats in camera view.

 

@odolphie:
WAIT A MINUTE!

If you aren't doing this real-time, don't worry about pre-blur! by capturing a single frame and displaying it blurred, you only need to do it each time the game is paused, and that way, you can then flush the texture from memory after un-pausing!

If you like, I can quickly write a tiny script that does just this. and since you will be only using this for a pause screen, there would be no need to do a downscale, so the blurring would come out really nice! Unless, of course, you wish to do an animated one...

 

That would be epic if you could do something. I know others would use it too (a few pages back someone else was looking to do the same kind of thing). I'm OK with single frame, as you say the game is paused.

 

Yes, it's simple, actually!

Just use this. Basically, invoke 'capture' from a script, and a new screen capture will appear.

Code (csharp):

1. var rt : Texture2D;
2. var shader : Shader;
3. var shaderMat : Material;
4. var texSize : int;
5. var capture : boolean;
6. var dom : GameObject;
7. function Start () {
8. shaderMat = new Material(shader);
9. rt = new Texture2D(texSize, texSize, TextureFOrmat.RGB24, false);
10. dom = new GameObject("cam",Camera);
11. dom.camera.CopyFrom(camera);[/INDENT]
12. }
13. static function FullScreenQuad(renderMat : Material) {
14.    GL.PushMatrix();
15.    for (var i = 0; i < renderMat.passCount; ++i) {
16.      renderMat.SetPass(i);
17.      GL.LoadOrtho();
18.      GL.Begin(GL.QUADS); // Quad
19.      GL.Color(Color(1,1,1,1));
20.      GL.MultiTexCoord(0,Vector3(0,0,0));
21.      GL.Vertex3(0,0,0);
22.      GL.MultiTexCoord(0,Vector3(0,1,0));
23.      GL.Vertex3(0,1,0);
24.      GL.MultiTexCoord(0,Vector3(1,1,0));
25.      GL.Vertex3(1,1,0);
26.      GL.MultiTexCoord(0,Vector3(1,0,0));
27.      GL.Vertex3(1,0,0);
28.      GL.End();
29.    }
30.    GL.PopMatrix();
31. }
32.  
33. function OnPreRender () {
34. if (capture) {
35. dom.CopyFrom(camera);
36. dom.pixelRect = Rect(0,0,texSize,texSize);
37. dom.Render();
38. rt.ReadPixels(Rect(0,0,texSize,texSize),0,0);
39. rt.Apply();
40. capture = false;
41. }
42. }
43. function OnPostRender () {
44. //one thing recommended is that you set parameters for the shader here before blitting to the screen.
45. FullScreenQuad(shaderMat);
46. }

There you go. a basic screen capture and render. what IndieEffects does is do this every frame. (or lower, depending on the latency set. this is coming up in 2.0)

 

Amazing, thank you very much. Will implement that when the package is updated, no pressure I know everyone on this thread is hugely grateful for the work you've done especially between your school, game project, Indie effect and having a life that is!

 

You know that you don't need indie effects for that..

 

@odolphie: the code above... is COMPLETELY PORTABLE! You can use it anywhere you want to without IndieEffects!
I could even include this as an 'extended' script in the next release for others to use, as not all are after PP for real-time, some others, like you only use it for pause screens, etc.

 

I did not know that, even better then! I could kind of read it and see it was capturing the screen but couldn't see how it was getting blurred - figured I would need to have IndieEffects with a blur on that camera

 

You do need a blur shader.

 

I keep on getting a purple screen when I apply any shader, and the web player works fine so it cannot be my gfx card.

 

You need the indie effects script.

 

I have it.

 

Then use it.

 

I do use it, all of the shaders have errors it sais for me.

EDIT: I upgraded unity and it worked.

 

@Ryanc48:

Another one?! UT, WHY DO YOU DO THIS?!

 

You guys... I FIXED DEPTH TEXTURE CUTOUT!!!

This means your trees will no longer have "boxes" around the transparent parts when using DoF!

 

Hi guys...

It is time... the new IndieEffects 2.0 is about to land on Earth! Complete with new demo scene!

Unfortunately... a friend was lost on the way. his name was motion blur. he went when the system was upgraded. a new motion blur will take his place soon!

 

First time i write something here (becaue I can't add any value) but I am following the thread since a while. I just want to thank all of you guys who give the community these effects for free. Thanks for your efford and keep up the cool work!!!!

 

I could make a new demo scene if you want.

 

@Eric2241: feel free! I have done a basic sample already, and will post this today.

EDIT: the new google drive is giving me hosting problems! so if the new player won't show up, this is why...

 

Loaded the 2.0 webplayer. Beautiful. The SSAO made me cry. Great work. Cannot wait to try out in my scenes. Do you have the new light shafts in 2.0? Oh and also the dirty bloom?

 

Does this mean that I'll have to upgrade my effects to the 2.0 version API if so I'll just repost them here.

 

IndieEffects 2.0... *drum roll*
...IS UP! *clash of cymbals*

Main Post will be updated soon.
@Baldinoboy: I am happy you like this! the dirty lens bloom and sunshafts aren't directly integrated yet, but FrostBite23 did post both of them on this thread somewhere, i think around 10 or 12 page...
@Eric2241: yes, it means you will have to convert the other fx to new version. it should be easy to do so, as I have the example script in the docs to help you out.

 

Hi guys,

check it please, when I use the effects everything went wrong - repixelize all view

 

Its the texture size, use 512 or 1024 for a smoother picture. By the way I'd like to see more pics of your game, the environment looks real nice!

 

I used the 512 even 1024 - Its doesnt look well It's zoomed ... ? Look at pics

If you want see more check indiedb, there you are -

http://www.indiedb.com/games/wrong-path

 

Your game looks cool. Are you using just Unity Free? What water shader are you using? It is not the free basic one from Unity, or?

Thanks and good luck with the game!

 

Of course, Unity Free. Its shader created by FuzzyQuills! btw, Thank you!

 

What shader? And for one of the screenshots you had sun shafts how did you do that? Perhaps its the depth shader and depth cam and the DNRequire.

 

Water shader. Check it. I added it to post.

 

Link?

 

Wait! Is it included in shafts.rar?

 

Oh dear! I almost forgot: for those seeming to get so-called "squished" cameras, this might be because the texture res is higher in either the horizontal or vertical direction than the actual screen res. if possible, only use 512x512 with resolutions like 1280x720 or 1024x768: 640x480 has a vertical scanline res that is too small!

@Eric2241: i would be very surprised if he meant this one:
RiverWater: for Indie Users!

EDIT: OMG!!! IT IS MY WATER SHADER!!!

 

IT IS!!!!

 

It's now hosted on GitHub with FuzzyQuill's approval http://greatarcstudios.github.io/UnityIndieEffects/

 

You're contributing simply by being part of the community!

 

Very cool that the V2.0 has made it and it is now available on GitHub!

I downloaded the github version and have something to notice:
-the ssao didn't worked for me and also the DOF: both gave me a pink screen, could it be because I use the old Unity 4.3.4f1, instead of 4.5?
-Since I'm using a second camera for my HUD, IndieEffects overwrite those, so the HUD elemts are not visible. Also the GUI elements are not visible, instead it looks like they are overdrawn.
-while the low texture resolution gives a good performance boost it clearly degrades the image quality. Is it possible to scale the render texture down for the bloom effect and then multiple it on top of the screen?
-also it looks like that different camera positions on the screeen (e.g. x = 0, y = 0.25, w = 0.5, y = 0.5) doesn't work well. This means splitscreen setups are also not possible.
-some old effects are missing from the previous packages, I see when I got time to add some to the git.

Keep it up!

 

Tried downloading 2.0, and It just gives me an error when I attach bloom and enter play mode, and the screen is black.

Error
Trying to read pixels out of bounds
UnityEngine.Texture2D:ReadPixels(Rect, Int32, Int32)
IndieEffects:OnPreRender() (at Assets/IndieEffects/Classes/IndieEffects.js:106)

 

I am having some of these problems too. The DOF works but does not work with transparent cutout shaders. Just reads the leaf like the background. SSAO just gives a pick screen and the error messages Seth posted. Also if I try to import any of FrostBite23's shaders the entire Indie Effects breaks and has to be removed.

 

Frostbite has not ported scripts to 2.0 yet.