Lighting Box 2 Next-Gen Lighting Solution

Palm Creating Tutorial:

 

I really suck at trees but my grass is getting real good, well... i think so, haha. 2 new grass, short and flowering. plus just a nice pic of my first grass and a flower made from the texture that comes with lightingbox. (close up shots). made with Unity tree creator + lightingbox.

 

The most important part of the foliage creation are :
1. Textures (specially leaf)
2. Material colors and tree shadows
Tutorial play list

 

Hi @aliyeredon2 , im getting an error in the editor any idea?

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
LB_LightingBoxHelper.UpdateSettings (.LB_LightingProfile profile) (at Assets/LightingBox2/Scripts/LB_LightingBoxHelper.cs:235)
LB_LightingBoxHelper.Start () (at Assets/LightingBox2/Scripts/LB_LightingBoxHelper.cs:145)

 

Try reopening editor or scene or creating a new profile or re assigning current profile into lighting box

 

It's strange because it shows a profile (my own created one) in the helper object.

A really nice tool and I would definitely support further tools that looked at different assets like prism etc...

Anyway, some images.

 

Is Lighting Box for Mobile still happening?

 

It's pending for review from 2-3 month ago !!!

 

Scriptable Render Pipeline is an advance feature but it's experimental now. I think after 1 year we can use it in Action

Visual Shader Editor is not comparable with Amplify Shader Editor. Just use Amplify Shader Editor for your shader development

 

https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/03/0...practices-making-believable-visuals-in-unity/

 

where is your stochastic SSR coming from?

 

https://github.com/cCharkes/StochasticScreenSpaceReflection
+ Settings optimization in lighting box

 

My HD Render Pipe line experiences :

Compatible :
* All Post Processing Stack 2 effects

Non-Compatible :
* Stochastic SSR
* Volumetric Light
* Sun Shaft
* All custom Shaders (Tessellation terrain, Foliage,...)

The most important part of the upgrading to the HD RP is the materials (shaders). Currently a lot of the shaders is not available in HDRP : Tree shaders,Terrain shader ...

Also most Asset Store tools will be deprecated for HD RP . For example : Amplify Shader Editor, Shader Forge, Terrain shaders ...

So all publishers must be upgrade whole tools into the new shader language. It's not too simple task or maybe it's not possible

The performance in my simple cubit test was same as Legacy rendering mode. But the quality for lights and material is much better in HD RP


Lightweight RP :
Compatible :
Some effects from Post Processing Stack 2:
* Bloom,Auto Exposure,Vignette,Chromatic Aberration ...

is not Compatible :
* All other image effects (Sun shaft,Global Fog, ...)
* Terrain shader and all other custom shaders

Finally i think new Render pipelines currently is not complete and ready to use in Action. So just focus on old render pipelines if you want to make production level games . After 1 year, i think we can switch to new render pipelines

 

Thank you for reporting on this. Please post future HD RP observations here as well, if you feel so inclined.

 

Lighting Box and HD Render Pipeline test (current Lighting Box) :

 

This is an SSS shader, refraction, or both?

 

Refraction (sample scene)

 

High quality leaf textures for Tree Creator:

 

New tutorial series:

 

Creating HD tree prefabs using Tree Creator:

 

Tree Model:
Exported using MeshIO

https://skfb.ly/6xHD9

 

Hi @aliyeredon2 , id love a tutorial on the volume blending on the post process layer. I'm not sure where to start, if I have the layer set to default or everything the effect looks great but has the warning about being slow but if I set to any other layer there seems no effect at all.

Some info/tips on this would be really useful.

 

The warning is wrong

Just use default or everything layer

 

Realistic Car Lighting Sample
+ Videos:

 

HD Render Pipeline + Lighting Box 2.7:
The new pipeline has much better color grading quality

 

I have forgotten old pipeline after touching this new HD Pipeline:

 

Awesome. Will you make a video about how to set that up?

 

HD Render Pipeline integration

Open Assets->Lighting Box Updates:

 

Spot and other light types don't support shadows yet for baking:

 

Hi I have problem with HD Render Pipeline integration. I download Beta version Unity,download new lightingbox and i download zip file with HDRP.I extract it. In Unity I open Import package and localize the HDRP package but when it's open the dialog box everything is gray and i can not import this assets.What am i do wrong?

 

I will make a video about import workflow soon

1.Download the demo from here :
https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/03/1...aking-real-world-objects-into-digital-assets/

2. Download lighting box for HDRP from : Assets->Lighting Box Updates (last link)

3. Import LB for HDRP into photogrammetry sample project

 

Lighting Box beta 2 for HD RP:
- Fixed HDR color selection for colors
- Added depth of field from post processing stack 2

 

HD RP :

 

From customers :

 

Legacy Pipeline:

 

Off-Road Truck Template 2 :

 

The github doc was updated with a lot of good additional inforomation about HDRP:

https://github.com/Unity-Technologi...derPipeline/Documentation/HDRenderPipeline.md

Most useful is "Upgrading Shaders" which allows you to automatically upgrade your shaders and materials. Well up to a certain extent. It can at least re-assign textures.

 

hello master ali yerdone please help us becase to creat trine in new render pipline is a error please cantact me to my emails very tancks
email:alimohammadlog@gmail.com

 

Yes i already touched most of them. Currently without terrain and tree shaders it's not enjoyable
Also Shader Graph is another useful tool that is not available for HDRP yet

 

will you integrate lightweight pipeline too? Could be useful to allow conversion from lw to hd for people working on multiple platform

 

Maybe in the future