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Hey @eskovas, how's FPV 2.1 going? Can't wait for the update!

 

Thanks man. The more options available, the better and higher quality the asset

 

Hello @eskovas,

I just tried to implement FPV 2.0 SMS in my game.
It works great (just a little notice, you need to modify the disabled camera's FOV when changing the aspect ratio in order to be correctly displayed).
My problem however is that it seems to have problem with the Unity's motion vectors. For example, Temporal antialiasing and motion blur from the official post processing stack, making it unusable for now. Is there a fix planned or already available for that?

 

Hello,

Never noticed the issue with having to modify the FOV value for it to update to a new aspect ratio. I'll have a look at it.
Regarding temporal effects, unfortunately the asset has issues with it and it's not supported at the moment. (there's a warning about this in the asset description)

I've been asked by other developers about supporting temporal effects, but i haven't been able to find a solution for it yet. Maybe in the future, but at the moment it's not supported.

 

I understand.
Thank you for the answer!

 

Hello,

i followed the instructions in the Manual, but i ran into an issue.
After i edited the cginc file, i'm getting the following error from the FPV_StandardSpecular Shader.

undeclared identifier 'UNITY_LIGHTMODEL_AMBIENT'
Compiling Vertex program with SHADOWS_DEPTH FIRSTPERSONVIEW
Platform defines: UNITY_ENABLE_REFLECTION_BUFFERS UNITY_USE_DITHER_MASK_FOR_ALPHABLENDED_SHADOWS UNITY_PBS_USE_BRDF1 UNITY_SPECCUBE_BOX_PROJECTION UNITY_SPECCUBE_BLENDING UNITY_ENABLE_DETAIL_NORMALMAP SHADER_API_DESKTOP UNITY_COLORSPACE_GAMMA

Somehow the "Firstperson Weapon" looks kinda strange after editing the cginc file and it's still going through walls.


That's how my edited UnityShaderVariables.cginc file looks like atm.
//Deleted
I'm pretty sure i made a mistake with the
#define UNITY_LIGHTMODEL_AMBIENT (glstate_lightmodel_ambient * 2)
line, but i don't know how to fix it, since it's the first time i'm working with these kind of things, i'm using Unity3d 5.6.0 on MacOS.
kind regards

 

Hi, I would like to ask you why my custom weapon is still going through walls.
I have added my weapon on your custom weapon in example to test it out.
also added the "Object script" to the model, but when I try put the weapon next to the wall. My weapon is going trough but yours not. Also I changed shader to your shader so I really dont know. UnityShaderVariables.cginc is edited properly... Can you please help me ?

 

Sent you a PM on the forums with a possible solution. Let me know if it works for you.

 

Hello,
You will still need to enable the effect through script on the script you added to the object. Check the example on how i enable and disable the "weapon" object. It's the same process.

Let me know if it works. If not, send me a PM with more details on how you're trying to use FPV.

 

To anyone that is using or supporting MacOS, there is some issue with it in the current version of FPV on the Asset Store. I'll try to update the asset ASAP. Meanwhile, if needed, PM me for the fix.

 

Thank you for help. I already sended you PM(Started converstation)... Sorry Iam not good in this. This is my second post

 

Can anybody help setting this up with UFPS. I'm really struggling right now and i would appreciate it, if someone who already was able to get this work could assist.

 

I've never used UFPS, but can you tell what you're trying to do that's not working?
A few people have used the asset with UFPS successfully. Make sure to check the manual and example scripts on how to setup FPV and make it work.

 

I got it to work now. It was not hard at all, once i studied the example scripts and now it's working better than i expected.
Big compliment to you, for developing such a great asset. It solves pretty much every problem you will get, when you are using UFPS.

 

Hi, is this plugin works fine on mobile?
Thanks.

 

Which approach did you used? The Material / Shader approach? Using two cameras?

It is partially working, world shadows working fine but i can't have different FOV for each camera, also the "clipping thing" is not working.. i just added de FPV camera with the 2 UFPS cameras..

 

I'm using the material Setup, because it's fitting my needs more than the two camera setup. You will run into huge issues when you are using ufps with two active cameras if you are moving to far from the origin point.
You will need to modify one of the ufps scripts to change the FOV of the arms and weapon.
I also ran into issues first when i was trying to setup this system with ufps, but it's pretty easy once you get how First Person View 2 works.
If you're still stuck you can message me.

 

I've never tried it on mobile, but at first glance i don't see why it shouldn't work.
Maybe someone here has tried it and can comment on it?

Since i haven't tried it myself, i can't confirm if it will work

 

Hello everyone!

Doing some cross promotion here

My newest Asset has been released on the Asset Store, called Object Construction Kit.


This tool allows you to very efficiently create detailed and varied scenes in a very short amount of time, and generate combined geometry with LODs for use in games!
It also includes a few other tools, like an Atlas creation tool.

Go check it out on the Asset Store:
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/91477

If you have any questions, feedback or feature requests, check out the official forum page: https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/o...ailed-and-efficient-scenes-in-minutes.473139/

 

Hello everyone!

As a thank you to all of you that purchased First Person View 2, i decided to include a discount price on my new asset Object Construction Kit for those who purchased FPV2!

Object Construction Kit is currently on a limited time sale with 40% OFF, but if you have the First Person View 2 Asset, you will be able to get it with 50% OFF!

If you are interested in both assets, you can buy FPV2 first and OCKit second to have this extra discount!

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/91477

 

Hello everyone!

Just sharing some developments on FPV. This has been long overdo, but i might have a pretty nice solution to not having to edit Unity's internal .cginc file to make this work. ( @Stormy102 )

I'm still doing some testing to make sure it works correctly, but here it is:
Basically, by including the .cginc file in the same directory of your FPV shaders, the shaders will use this .cginc file instead of Unity's own.
This means all your FPV shaders must be inside the same folder of the .cginc file.

I'm still testing this to see if there are no problems with it, but if you want, you can test it and let me know if it works on your end.
I've tested on my end, in 5.5, in-editor and in a build, and everything seems to work.

What to do:
- Put all FPV shaders inside the same folder,
- Copy the edited .cginc file into that same folder,
- Reset Unity's .cginc file (save that file in case you still want/need to use it after)
- Restart Unity
- Re-import the .cginc file in the shaders folder
- Re-import all shaders
- Test it

Let me know how that works out.


By the way, for everyone that bought First Person View 2, please take some time and rate the asset. Just a little over 5% of you have rated the asset. Would be great if it could have more ratings if you think the asset is worth getting for people developing first person games.

Thank you and let me know if this solution works for you.

 

Makes it much better for developers using source control, like me. This is the only thing holding me back rn, so if this works fine, I will definitely be picking this up Keep it up @eskovas

 

I can confirm this method works and no-one will need to modify Unity's own .cginc file anymore. This should simplify setup a lot more, especially in projects with multiple people that would require that manual change in every pc.

I've tested in 5.5, 5.6 and 2017.1.

I will update the asset soon with new setup instructions.
If any of you don't want to wait for the new setup, you can just follow what i posted in the last post:

- Put all FPV shaders inside the same folder,
- Copy the edited .cginc file into that same folder,
- Reset Unity's .cginc file
- Restart Unity
- Re-import the .cginc file in the shaders folder
- Re-import all shaders
- Enjoy!

Make sure the .cginc file is in the same folder as all of your FPV shaders, and the .cginc file is the correct one for the Unity version.

This might also enable me to add a few more things that are related to V2.1. Since it did require more changes to .cginc files, i wasn't comfortable with adding that complexity for you to edit unity files, but now, since you don't have to anymore, i might be okay with doing it, allowing for better shadows and lighting on FPV models.

Btw, don't forget to rate the asset

 

Good work Eskovas! Hopefully this change will improve the workflow for other developers as well as yourself!

 

Just submitted the new update and is now pending review!

Changed the setup section of the manual with the new solution for using the CGInc file without having to edit the file in Unity's own directory. This will simplify the setup and update process.

I also decided to finally update the key images of the asset, and it's looking much better





For comparison, here's the before picture:



And i also included a new image in the screenshot section for a close-up first person view and outside view:

 

That was fast

The new update is now live on the asset store! You can check out the new setup method for FPV2

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/67929​

 

Excellent news! I can't ait to get back home to try it!

Just a little question, I know I talk about it a lot but... Does the velocity buffer works correctly now? (for official motion blur and TAA)? :-D

 

Sadly that's one thing that i haven't been able to fix yet. I was able to improve it a lot, but the problem still persisted.

 

No problem, I know you're are working on it, I was just checking how it was so far. ;-)

Keep up, you're doing a fantastic job here!

 

Hi Thiago, how are you? After updating to 2.0.5 i'm getting this error:

Code (CSharp):

1. A game object can only be in one layer. The layer needs to be in the range [0...31]
2. UnityEngine.GameObject:set_layer(Int32)
3. FirstPersonView.ShaderMaterialSolution.FPV_SM_Renderer:SetAsFirstPersonObject() (at Assets/FirstPersonView/FPV_Shader_Material_Solution (V2)/Scripts/Renderer/FPV_SM_Renderer.cs:47)
4. FirstPersonView.FPV_Object`1:SetAsFirstPersonObject() (at Assets/FirstPersonView/_Generic/Objects/FPV_Object.cs:121)

Did just what you said, all the FPV shaders are inside the same folder as my UnityShaderVariables.cginc.

I'm missing something here? Thank you in advance

 

Hi, everything going well, what about you?

That usually happens in Unity when you try to use a layer that doesn't exist. Can you check that you have the FirstPersonView layer in the layer settings?

 

Well, seems that when i re-wrote the manual, i forgot to include a couple of things that were there before.

First, You'll need to set the "FirstPersonView" Layer on the Layer Settings. Both solutions need this layer to exist, and Unity will throw an error if it's not there.

Second, the Shader-Material solution doesn't support casting first person objects shadows onto the environment, only the other way around. You'll need to disable Shadow Casting on FPV objects.

These two things were included in the past, but i forgot to include them in the updated manual. I'll update the asset with these notes asap.
Sorry for any inconvenience.

 

I just submitted the updated version to the Asset Store.

The second note in the post above is now included in the description of the asset, and everything else is now correctly included in the manual.

I'll let everyone know here when the update is live.

 

People, please, please ALWAYS read the description of assets before buying them.

Someone rated and described the asset as a scam because it didn't include my game in it, which is clearly said in the description of the asset that all content showed in the video and screenshots are NOT included with the asset, and is also clearly said that the asset is NOT a first person controller.

Please always read the description.

I'll try to have a better looking gun in the demo, but it will be a really simple weapon. this is not supposed to be an art asset or FPS controller asset.

Edit:
The Multi-Camera solution (the old one) isn't currently working with the version 2017. I'll have a look at fixing it asap.

 

Not your fault. If someone didn't read it properly, its their money wasted.

 

15$ is already such a little amount of money for such an awesome Asset.
I just saw the review, it's just rude to not read the description and complaining about it then.
You're doing great work, if someone does not know what he's buying, it's not your problem at all.

 

Hi Thiago!

I'm experiencing some weird clipping planes changes on my integration with UFPS. Right now i'm trying to figure out what is happening and elimate some possibilities..

There's anywhere on FPV changing the nearClipping from "weapon cam" ?

Somewhere in my project keeps changing the near clip to 0.1f i don't know why yet.

best regards,
Dênis Fernandes - Weendie Games

 

Your vp_FPWeapon script (which is attached to every weapon) handles your far and near clipping planes.
At line 1000 or so just remove m_WeaponCamera.nearClipPlane = 0.1f;

As i know vp_FPCamera does also controls the near clipping plane.
Just remove weaponCam.nearClipPlane = 0.01f;

regards,
Karim

 

Thank you so much, once again saving me a lot of time (Btw, I added an acknowledgment to you on my game credits page)

There's anybody facing issues with the FPV shader? My materials has only albedo and specular channels.. Using Unity 5.6.1f1

 

Sounds good

I had the same issue. Recompiling / reimporting didn't change anything.
You're probably using the Specular Shader from an older Unity Version.
Just replace your current Specular Shader with the newer build-in shader (in your case Unity 5.6.1f).
You can download it here:
https://unity3d.com/de/get-unity/download/archive

 

Sorry for the late response @Weendie-Games but seems like @Wazingoo was able to help out! Thank you very much

Yes, the Standard version included in the asset i think it's from way back, probably version 5.3 or 5.4. Although i didn't have any problem with it with every other version of Unity, it would still probably be better to update it with more recent versions.

I'm still having a look at the other issue with the Multi-Camera Solution not working in 5.6 and 2017.
Does anybody actually use this solution? I have no idea if anyone does, since the Shader-Material Solution is probably much better and more efficient, and i've been thinking of removing it in the future. No point in trying to update the solution with every change Unity does if no-one uses it

Please take 10 seconds to vote on this strawpoll, so i know the percentage of users that use each solution:
http://www.strawpoll.me/13711873

 

Hello,

Just to update on the issue with the Multi-Camera setup, i'm not having much luck in fixing it for Unity 5.6 and 2017.1. I've tried many things and can't seem to make it work, i don't really know why. Unity changed something that messes with that solution.

So, because of this, i may no longer be able to support the Multi-Camera setup for Unity 5.6+ versions for the time being.

One person voted on the Multi-Camera setup on the strawpoll. If that person sees this, can you tell me why you are using that solution instead of the Shader-Material solution?

Since the SM solution is the most used and i think it's the best, and since it seems that i can't support the MC solution past 5.5, i might just remove the MC solution from the asset.

Let me know what you think. Is anyone using that solution? And if so, why?

 

So that's the reason why my multi-camera example is blacking out? I mean I just bought it and have no idea why the camera is black , using Unity 5.6.

I followed the setup and the shader example runs good. I was trying to implement a FPS demo and every tutrial or FPS framework use duel cameras making the shadow not projected on the weapon. And people just add an extra mesh with cast shadow only option to make shadow but that apparently would cause great overkill as for dobuling the vertices, culling and light calculations for an actual game.

I tried sole camera and ask some friends how to change ZWrite in shader and it works but I can't stop guns casting shadow on the ground.(I don't know how to write shaders actually)

Just bought your asset and it's working great. Gun casts shadow on itself, gun don't cast shadow on world objects, world objects shadow on gun, gun don't clip objects, gun get shadowed outline when clip into the wall. That's wonderful beyond my expect.

Thanks dude!!

 

And hi I have some other question, the shader you provided doesn't have normal texture on it. And I'm just about to start learning shader scripting next week.

So in the future if I want to use other shaders on the gun(like outline toon shaders, and with normal textures), could I do following what you do in your shaders and make it work? It's doable right?

 

You can use any shader with fpv, also particle shaders and stuff like that

 

Hi there -- big fan of your asset, although I'm just finally really getting into using it. Getting it working with the Alloy shaders was a bear, but I do have that functioning now, which is great.

The problem I'm having, however, is that when I switch away from DX11 over to OpenGLCore (which runs as OpenGL 4.5 on my machine), everything continues to work EXCEPT the clipping protection. The actual fov adjustments and things of that nature work just fine.

This is in 2017.1p1, and I found a workaround for the problem.

Basically the problem is that it SHOULD have usesReversedZBuffer as true in this instance, but for some reason it is not. So it's running the non-inverted zbuffer matrix multiplication in FPV_SM_WorldCamera. If I manually override it to have it think that the zbuffer is reversed, then things work as expected.

I seem to recall some sort of change around this area from the patch notes from unity, but I haven't dug that up just yet. Some sort of API change on their part is likely what is breaking this, though. If you figure out what the appropriate thing is to check (instead of SystemInfo.usesReversedZBuffer), then please do let me know. I'd appreciate having that before you go through the wait time of the full asset store push.

Thanks!

 

Actually, strike the above. The inversion of the z buffer is working just fine. When actually testing this in my own scenes, doing the reversed z buffer DID fix my problem of the clipping, but also made all the other z-tests backwards. Oops!

It turns out that this line is not always going to be sufficient:

fpvProjection.m22 *= 0.7f; // Shorten the Z value of the MVP vertex position

In the non-inverted axis I notice that you're multiplying by -0.3f, so the foreshortening is very different between the two directions near as I can tell. Simply either using shorter weapons, or using the 0.3 instead of 0.7 gives a result that is not clipping and also not reversed.

 

Hello there!

Thanks for the feedback. Yes it is an issue with OpenGL that the values used for the projection are different from DX. A few users contacted me with the same issue and we managed to get better results for OpenGL by changing that m22 value.

It's still something that i haven't figured out how to make it look exactly like with DX, but you can get somewhat similar results by adjusting that value.

 

hi. i wanted to ask - there are any solution with antialliasing for this shader? i tested temporal aa and it caused some glitches at weapon, fxaa looks without glitches, but with less quality.

 

TAA uses motion vectors, which this tool doesn't support yet since it's specifically messing those up with the transformed matrices. I don't have a solution for you, but that's why TAA is having issues.