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When both cameras were tagged as "maincamera".

However, just note that you may have issues even if the 2nd camera isn't tagged as "MainCamera". To duplicate the situation, just use a test scene of your own making, and use your standard WeatherMakerPlayer prefab (already has a camera on it, as you know). Create new camera object, and drop it into the prefab hierarchy. Remove the duplicate audio component.

Tagged as "MainCamera" or not, you will see that the clouds don't appear in the skybox in playmode. Adding it to allowed cameras doesn't solve it for some reason, IDK why.

I'm not at all concerned about this, now that I've found the problem. I'm past it. But you may be interested.

 

Does demo scene multiple camera work for you?

 

Looks like it:


I wouldn't worry about it if it isn't causing you [any more] support issues...it was just a dumb move on my part. I'm not asking for any changes. But you should be able to duplicate it from the above post's description. Does that not happen for you?

 

I think it was because your second camera did not have clear mode set to solid color.

 

Yep. Skybox overwrote. Makes sense.
Put it to solid color, and it works. It's interesting, though, that a solid color (alpha 1) doesn't overwrite, but the skybox does. However that works. There's WM command buffers on both cameras.

Anyway, like I said, not worried about it.

 

The clouds render after forward opaque and skybox renders after that. Why Unity decided to not render the skybox after depth buffer instead is beyond me.

 

I assume so the forward opaque can write to the depth buffer, then skybox skips those pixels. I know you know that, so I must be misunderstanding you. I also assume WM updates the depth buffer while writing clouds, since you indicate it isn't doing transparent render queue. So it is "after depth buffer" in a sense, it's a completed depth buffer, but before transparency stuffis.

You allow the queue setting in FS cloud script, might be fun for me to play with someday.

Edit: Removed link

 

The cloud shadows are written to the screen space shadow buffer, which happens after the depth buffer.

 

Interesting. Wasn't thinking about the shadows though, but it makes sense.

 

Today's package also fixes a selection issue in the editor. Apparently doing Graphics.Blit in camera pre cull brought the editor to its knees so I have switched to command buffer for the weather map of the clouds.

 

Procedural Lightning now has an upgrade to Weather Maker, if you own procedural lightning but not Weather Maker, you can upgrade minus the price you paid for procedural lightning

 

I'm pleased to announce that Weather Maker 5.6.4 is out with open weather map integration. Simply setup a few parameters and an API key and Weather Maker will sync weather with open weather map!

 

Hi, and first of all let me say thank you for your awesome work.
I need a little help though related to the water planes, especially about the ocean shader.
I have Gaia and Weather Maker set up, and the waves of the ocean shader are far too big for the Gaia terrain:


How can I "downscale" the whole ocean prefab, like adding more tiling, multiply the UV coords or something, to have the same effect of ocean, but in a smaller scale? Tried to edit the Wave parameters, but it did not solved the problem, the big waves remain still too big.

 

The water has a y depth camera script that should be reducing wave heights close to land. Are you using the water prefab? If so this should be built in and reduce wave height near land.

Other ideas are to tile the water in a 3x3 grid maybe and reduce the transform scale?

Let me know if it helps.

 

There is new lightning for Weather Maker?!

 

No new lightning, the last announcement was open weather map, which is a real-time weather api for lat/lon or place name lookup. It then sets your weather maker profile based on the weather from the api.

 

Weather Maker LWRP is blocked by this bug, please vote for it if you have the time:

https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/is...multiple-times-when-using-multi-pass-material

 

I put in my vote!

 

is there any plan integrade to Playmaker?

 

Thank you kind sir!

 

I don't have any plans, Weather Maker is fairly simple at this point. Just configure your profiles to look how you want and drag the prefab in your first scene. Activate the global weather zone for random weather.

What kinds of things were you thinking play maker might be useful for?

 

Happy Cloud Saturday Everyone!

 

Weather Maker is good asset but lacks some event handler and controls that allow me to handle it, that`s also why i cant switch from Enviro to Weather Maker

here is some event handler and Playmaker actions from Enviro

Events:


Playmaker Actions

 

I will add this tomorrow then and send an update.

 

Hi, I'm looking for a water that can render reflection in screen-space. All of the water solution out there when reflection is turned on, things starts to crawl as it has to render the whole scene twice. I know it's not as easy as it sounds but what I'm looking for is not the accurate solution but approximate solution. Please let me know if your water can support it. Thanks.

 

I’m planning on this for my water. No ETA yet.

 

Weather Maker 5.6.5 is out with PlayMaker integration and a lot of new events on WeatherMakerScript for date/time and weather profile/zone changes.

 

Thanks Jeff!
I just picked up playmaker too!

 

Awesome, I talked to one of Playmaker devs at Unite a few years ago. Super cool guy and put up with my questions for 30 minutes

 

Cool! This will make Weather Maker very special. BTW, I'm using LWRP. Thanks.

 

Yes I am using the water prefab, and set the layermask to let the depth script to work with the terrain, but no difference. I am now experimenting with the material settings related to the waves, after turned out the wind control on the water profile. Tweaking the material settings could be a solution to my problem, but the depth script still do not seems to alter anything, no difference in the waves on the deep sea and on the shoreline.

 

@jjxtra Lets see the best water Unity has ever seen for 6.0!

 

I have had multiple people suggest the water be a separate asset. So that is probably what I will do, Q4 2019 or Q1 2020 ETA on that. I will probably start with something like crest ocean (MIT license) and then do some heavy modifications to make it more like sea of thieves

 

Looks like I need to add some debugging for the water height, I will look into it.

 

On the water prefab is a depth camera script. When you start the player if you open up that script it has a property for the captured depth texture. Does that texture look correct to you?

 

Last day of madness sale is tomorrow. If you haven't already, make sure to grab Weather Maker (and some of the other great assets on sale) before midnight PST on May 15th!

 

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After checked this texture in runtime, it shows the terrain as only about an 1-2 pixel dot in the middle of the big black image, so it seems the depth camera takes a very big image of the scene relative to the terrain. How can it be narrowed down?

 

This makes sense for a large body of water with just a bit of land. Can you try shrinking your water just as a test? In the future I am planning on making a proper ocean asset to take care of this.

 

Crest Ocean + Weather Maker a beautiful combination.

 

You can make better water.... just sayin.

 

The water is barelly bigger than the terrain, it is 2048x2048 in size, this is why I do not understand. Maybe something even bigger is get into calculations by the depth camera? For example the Weather Maker skybox?

 

Interesting, ok I will have a look and get back.

 

@jjxtra

Crest integration was great idea! Thanks. Which version is yours? Releases (which is a bit older) or lastest one from their repo?

Btw shoreline detection(Ocean Depth Cache) doesnt support gpu instanced Unity Terrains (2018.3 & Draw Instanced) for rendering heights right now. But there is a workaround here: https://github.com/huwb/crest-oceanrender/commit/4af17b0418a2450ef89f9b0b77a384a0d5ddb22c

Caustics works with your cloud shadows in your fork?

 

Just bought this yesterday for a little thing I'm working on. This should be quite useful, quite enjoying the Aurora Borealis feature actually

However, seems like the temporal filter for the clouds isn't working right? I imagine (based on my understanding and old probably inferior attempt at implementing that Horizon Zero Dawn paper) if I pick Two By Two it should essentially be rendering at half resolution and sort of "filling in" one sample of every 2x2 square of pixels in the render target, so while it renders at half resolution it fills in a higher-res buffer and the reduced render resolution is practically imperceptible.

Instead, however, it appears to just downgrade the resolution and cause shaking / flickering pixels. I imagine something's going wrong with that "filling in" bit. It's rendering at reduced resolution correctly, it's adding a sort of sub-pixel offset to account for offset into the 2x2 square (thus the flickering/shaking), but then it just seems to upsample that as-is?

I can just render at reduced res without the temporal filter for now, but would be nice to get that working. Currently on Unity 2018.3.6f1 if it helps, Windows 10, DX11 (GTX 1060)

On a side note, is there any way I can check approximately how much cloud cover is obscuring the main directional light, or maybe sample cloud cover at world position from a shader?
I have a custom GI solution I've been working on for this project, and I may need to scale bounce lighting based on cloud shadows to look correct

 

I haven't tested caustics. Here is my fork: https://github.com/DigitalRuby/crest-oceanrender I'll merge in their fixes once they nail it down.

 

On the full screen cloud object, temporal reprojection material you can change from blur to sharp mode by setting the blur mode to 1. Watch out for artifacts for fast moving lights like lightning or fast day/night changes.

Blur mode 0 does a reprojection and a blur combined. It is not the same as just downsampling. You can test this by changing the performance profile and doing quarter downsample and no reprojection vs. no downsample and 4x4 reprojection. 4x4 reprojection looks much better.

Blur mode 1 does sharp reprojection with very little blurring, but it does not update every pixel every frame, which can cause some artifacts.

 

Sending a 5.6.7 refresh today with an auto bounds option for the water y depth script. You can turn this off and set the orthographic size to taste if you want a higher resolution sampling of y depth near land.