Lighting Box 2 Next-Gen Lighting Solution

using the default LB settings (EU_4) How to better control Global Fog Distance, what are some good settings for large scenes? Start Distance 0-100,000 does nothing noticeable.

 

1. Send me screenshots from your problem

2. All unity effects are designed for Linear color space (Post processing Stack etc).

Gamma is not usable for correct lighting :

A : Linear

 

The Asset is awesome, gives a good lightning. Love the 1.3 Update because of the more realistic examples.

The CarSample zipfile says its damaged, any help or something went wrong at packing/upload?

Any way to get this sample scene with the profile settings too?

Spoiler: Image from Sample Scene

 

I think car sample scene damaged during upload
Wait for a new one

The scene was from Landscape Auto Material demo
You can buy this asset and watch my videos about it

 

GlobalFog has an simple shader missing problem (fixed in 1.3.1 that is pending for release)
You must assign GlobalFog.shader manually into its components on the camera inspector

 

very, very impressive

 

The realistic preset looks very good!

 

Request regarding documentation and tutorials.

Hi Ali, a lot of us old school guys prefer reading documents rather than a video: it's all about speed - for example, it takes over a minute to show adding post-profile to project, and seconds to read it from a doc.

Next, for videos, can we please have it narrated. Right now it's hard to follow as one needs to completely focus on the video to see what you are doing. If you watch videos like the ones by Jeff for his brilliant weathermaker, you see how the narration helps understanding the settings.

 

LB + PlayWay Water
Is anyone experimenting with underwater? PlayWay has a custom underwater setting but does not work well with LightingBox.

 

After resetting Unity, the image quality recovered somewhat. Moving between scenes triggers new data reimport / calculating asset hashes though, and after opening Unity again, color space was set to gamma again. Had I known this was only really set up for linear, I would have delayed its implementation (17+ scenes in gamma to convert) - guess I missed that info. Considering the quality of the images in this thread, I know its down to my error, but I just can't get back the detail of gamma when using linear + all this post processing. I'll PM you a comparative image next time its out of reimport. Thanks for the assistance though

 

Terrain shader (only used textures)

 

maybe try megascans (?)

 

No, I didn't try it

I want to create my own customized/optimized shader.
Current test :
POM (Parallax Occlusion Map) method: 65 fps
Distance Based Tessellation method: 170fps



Also source is available for Amplify Shader Editor to easily :
- Optimize for different platforms
- Port to different platforms
- Change lighting model (Lambert,Standard,BlinnPhong,Unlit)

 

I dont have ArchViz in the window panel. please help!

 

You have some errors in console tab.
Send me your error codes

 

All the errors are attached. Build Platform is PC and post processing stack is imported.

 

1. Tell me your unity version
2. Clear console log and send me screenshot again

 

My unity is the latest 2017.2.0b8.

 

2017.2 does not supported yet.

Double click on first error code and remove entire line and save script again to fix this issue.

 

Awesome! I'm thinking of getting the lighting box too. how long is the $10 sale going to last?

 

When the sale dropped

 

New POM and Tessellation shaders for LightingBox (Based on standard shader lighting mode ) :
(Albedo,AO,Normal,Height,Specular,Metallic) :
These are POM (tessellation will be a lot better with shadow support) :

 

I love the shader ground that you are doing.

A question. Will you implement a / Script feature to get the positions of the Tessellation vertices at a point?
I think with this feature of Tessellation for the scenarios shader, it is essential to be able to adapt the feet of our Character by IK. And if we can not get the data of the vertices of the Tessellation / Displacement this characteristic is greatly impaired.

It has already happened to me with other assets, which have Tessellation, you can not use this feature in a real game without having a big problem with the feet of the character across the terrain constantly.

regards

 

Yes this is the biggest Tessellation problem.I don't have much experience in this case but I've read about it before that you can update collider in runtime to match it with tessellation generated mesh. So we cannot use this method on unity terrain component.

I will search more about the solution on net

 

Doc for v 1.3.1:

Quick Start

1. Open LightingBox from Window->Lighting Box (Ctrl + E)

2. Now you can see that unity start importing some assets again. Why ? Because lighting box has been used Linear color space by default. Because Linear has been used in the most next-gen platforms (UE only has Linear)

3. Now you can see some modified lighting looks on you current scene. Before start changing lighting box settings, you must create an empty Lighting Profile to keep LightingBox default settings untouched.
So right click on your project tab and select Lighting Profile to create a new one for your current scene.

4. Now drag your created lighting profile into Lighting Box's profile slot.

5. Now select one of the post processing profiles from LightingBox/Settings/PostEffects and drag it into post processing slot from LightingBox window

6.Now everything is OK. so you can start customizing Lighting Box window parameters :


Profile : This is the lighting box (LB) settings profile. Everything will be saved and loaded into/from here. Right Click on project tab and select Lighting Profile to create a new one

Post Processing Profile : Current LB has been used Post Processing Stack 1 profiles for post effects. Create a new one in your project files and assign it here. Or just drag my default profile from : LightingBox/Settings/PostEffects folder (name : LightingBox_UE_4_Default)

Lighting Mode :
Fully Realtime : Automatically turn off Realtime and Baked lighting settings from Lighting Window (Window->Lighting->Settings)
Realtime GI : Turn on Enlighten Realtime GI
Baked : Turn on PLM baked mode on 5.6+ and Enlighten Baked mode on 5.5 and 5.4

Color Space :
Linear : Switch to Linear color space. Best choice for next-gen games
Gamma : Only use this one for low-end or mobile targets

Render Path :
Deferred : Change all scene cameras render path to Deferred mode
Forward : Change to forward rendering mode (More optimized, SSR will be disabled in this mode)

Light's Mode : Change all lights source's type to this option

Shadow Mode :Change all lights source's shadow type to this one

Light Probes :
Blend Mode :Default light probes mode with maximum performance even on mobile devices
Proxy : Has better quality on light probes with higher performance cost. All necessary components will be automatically added with proper optimized settings

Skybox material :
Select and assign sky box material here. Never change skybox material manually from lighting window. Lighting box will automatically change it based on this material.

Ambient Source : Environment lighting source.
Color : Use a simple color as environment light
Skybox : use Skybox image color (IBL) as ambient light

Sun light : An directional light as scene's sun light
Color : sun color
Intensity : Sun light intensity
Lens flare : sun lens flare

Volumetric Light :
Only Directional : Add True Volumetric Light components with proper optimized settings into your directional light source
All Lights : Add volumetric light for every light sources on you scene.
Level : Intensity level (You can change default values from LightingBox script

Global Fog : Global fog image effect
Distance :If your scene was completely foggy or cloudy, you can use this mode. Skybox will be disappeared on this mode.
Global : Keep your sky box alive. Unity default Lighting Window fog system
Height : Height based fog
Start distance : Clear fog from near of the player

Depth Of Field : This is an easy DOF setting adjuster to fade view between too near objects and your assigned distance to the camera

Bake : Start build your lighting (baked o realtime GI)
Cancel : Cancel baking

Lighting Window : Quickly open lighting Window (Window/Lighting/Settings)right click on scene view and press Shift+F to open instantly

Debug Lighting : Debug and list lighting issue in your scene

 

It's really excellent that you're creating a shader for this package (or a separate one), for general use. So that people don't only have to rely on the standard shader. Looks great from the screenshots.

 

What is the difference between Fully Realtime and Enlighten Realtime GI?

 

Fully Realtime : Without any GI (Baked or Precomputed GI)
Realtime GI : Enlighten Precomputed Realtime GI

 

To use the new terrain shader, we make a material and assign the surface shader to it, then assign that in the terrain inspector, correct?

There are also inconsistent misspellings in 1.3.1, like Density being spelled Destiny and Desnity in the Global Fog settings.

 

The New designed shader is more simple. Just use as default terrain shader
Then you need lighting box terrain script to control Displacement,Specular and other properties for each layer

I will check Density spell

 

Unity SSR vs Stochastic
Unity Default High settings (SSR):

Modified settings (SSR):

 

question: will it works for VR? VR in forward lighting only

 

I don't know

 

Nice...will you share the scene as demo?

 

Which demo ?
Settings was default

 

I mean "share" .. the FPS demo scene ....

 

I'm not sure about fps template
Current road map :
- Adding Stochastic SSR integration(has better quality and performance compare to unity SSR)
- A set of the POM and Tessellation shaders + templates
- Terrain shader + templates
- Improving Depth of Field for fps gameplay styles (weapon model)
- Simple trigger based volume

 

Fixed car Sample download link
Now you can download it from Update 1.3 doc files

 

SSR doesn't work in forward

 

do you have an email we can contact you? Does this asset works for iPhone, mobile, iPads

 

Is there much point in setting up trigger volumes given that v2 of the official post stack already has them?

 

Quick question: I am developer for Oculus rift headset.

Will your lighting box currently work in/for VR?
Using Unity?
Is it compatible?

If not any plans for future implementation for VR?

Thankyou much, and good work on the current product!!! Will purchase soon.