Occlusion Culling in 4.3

As of 4.3, Occlusion Culling seems to be generating false positives when it comes to culling lights.

Our character has a flashlight, and depending on the angle of the character, the spot light simply flickers on and off as if its being culled.

Any help or advice on integrating occlusion culling to 4.3 would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

I'm having light problems too. They'll suddenly turn on or off, depending on how close the player is to them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT:
Turning all the light's GO's off, then turning them back on seemed to fix it. For now.

EDIT2: Nope. Still broken.

 

Same problem. Objects seem to appear and disappear depending on the distance, even if they are supposed to be hidden. Visibility lines seem to cross objects strangely

 

Water4 reflections disappear and reappear when the camera starts to point upwards...

 

Computing the occlusion data here sometimes never ends and stops at 'computing occlusion' with the blue bar to 100%. For some reason I hear my HDD running non stop.
If I click cancel unity will just freeze, same when I tried to change scene.
Stragely enough I managed to bake data just before.

 

Same here, some strange light behaviour going on. I upped the Smallest Occluder size and that imrpoved things, but its still not perfect.

 

Well.. same here. Lights are heavily flickering even while within FOV and not set to static..

 

Same. Lights are turning on and off. I have an animation on my camera which is slightly moving it. The lights are turning on and of depending on my animations state.

Edit:
It seem to have something to do with the main camera and how it is placed at baking time or at game start time. I observed that the occlusion only fails for objects, which have been visible at baking time from my main camera. For the rest of the scene the occlusion works perfectly.

 

I have the same problem, sometime a dynamic character don't appear when it's visible. I move a little bit my controler and i can see it appear.
Dynamic object appear and disappear for me.

 

Maybe this can help: http://blogs.unity3d.com/2013/12/02/occlusion-culling-in-unity-4-3-the-basics/

 

I've had the same problem where the blue bar finishes, but the process never stops and then I hit cancel and Unity crashes. I had the smallest occluder set to 50 and the smallest hole set to 1 and the same thing happened. It takes no time to bake, but it never finishes....

 

Lights are still randomly culling despite reading that article and playing with any values. I have attached a video, hopefully this can be resolved soon.

 

We have the same problem here. We tried deleting the lights, baking, then putting the lights back in, which seems to work, but it's not really a viable solution if you have lights inside prefabs. Hoping for a fix soon.

 

Did some more testing on this; removing the lights before the occlusion baking, doesn't work, nor does baking, then removing the lights and adding them back.

 

I also tried this workaround to no avail. We're unfortunately forced to stay on 4.2 unless this is fixed.

 

Can I get confirmation that this has been seen? It is not on the known issues list so either this thread has not been read or we are doing something wrong.

 

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how are you guys even using Umbra OC anyway? do you just happen to be creating a game where you can have all of your Unity scenes in one massive master scene in order to bake all OC data?

 

Our game is divided into levels. Some of them have interior sections where OC is very useful for reducing overdraw. OC bakes just fine on a scene by scene basis.

 

Do you switch scene completely? How do you handle scene composition?

 

Yes it is a complete switch via Application.LoadLevel. We have a single persistent object that does basic things such as drawing a load screen and containing level loading logic.

I don't think that should be relevant, but I'd be happy to answer any further questions. This problem occurs if I work directly in any level, build the OC and play that level straight up from the editor (no level loading). I'm not sure what you mean by scene composition.

The problem here is that OC is generating false positives when it comes to culling lights. This is a new feature of 4.3 since OC has been entirely rebuilt. The controls on setting up OC are very limited, and I have tried every combination. Only my main camera has occlusion culling checked.

 

Have you tried moving the spot light a bit more forward, so that the emitter is always just in view of the camera? Do you get the same culling in that setup?

 

Hi DSebJ, --Yes I have tried that, you'll notice in the video that the point lights on the house are flickering as well.

 

I'm also facing the blinking lights here, tried many different baking combinations but nothing fixed it besides removing the culling data alltogether eh.

Here's a GIF showing my issue;



Has anyone already reported the bug?

*edit*
Well I just did though I don't have time to make a repro project so right now I only have that GIF attached to the case.

 

Having exactly the same issues at the minute with lights being culled. Clearing the occlusion data fixes it but obviously that's not an acceptable fix. Using 4.3.2f1.

 

I would love to hear some sort of official response on this. The issue has been present for a long time now without so much as an acknowledgement.

 

We're having the same issues as you Brenden, would be good to hear the offical stand on this and if they suggest any work arounds/fixes.

We're currently taken all OC out, luckily we at a point we're we can but thats not going to last much longer as development continues

 

Following my bug report I've got a message from Unity asking for a repro project. I haven't had time to prepare it but I hope I can next week.

Submit a bug report with a project on your end too, the more they get the faster it can get resolved.

My case is #582516

 

@bigzer sounds like the best approach, I'll have to prepare a project too, rebake the occulsion data and submit.

 

Hi, I sent yesterday a bug report with a scene attached with this OC lighting issue and I got a response from Unity saying that they managed to reproduce the bug and that they are taking a look into it. My case is #584968

 

@anborn awesome! look forward to hearing what they come up with....

 

I got an email yesterday from Unity saying that they have fixed this issue so the problem won't be there in the next major update. Hopefully they'll release soon the fixed version.
http://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/lights-flickering-after-using-occlusion-culling

 

@anborn

awesome! i wonder if this has made it to 4.3.3 - can't seem to see it in the release notes. Might be in the next release.

Thanks for the update

 

Awesome! Has anyone checked to see whether or not it's in 4.33?

 

I'm almost sure it's not, but haven't checked since 4.3.1 to be honest. Since it's not listed in the current notes and if they say major release.. maybe 4.4?! Whatever, hopefully pretty soon, it is so annoying though I really appreciate the new culling system. At least it has been recognized. Thanks to anyone who took the time to recreate and report..

 

We have the same problem with the unity 4.3.3
Now with or without OC... it's very strange, and we can't find any solution :/

Someone has the same problem?!

 

nothing but problems here with occlusion culling
on 4.3.3. In fact ever since 4.1 seems pretty broken to me. it used to work so well before, i mean really well... and now its terrible.
Its just unpredictable.
It ignores all the static marking of occludee and occluder and everything is occluded
makes sunshine shader go wrong
I have had to implement a different culling method in my game.
I fear updating unity these days something always seems to break.

 

Still wishing we had the old 4.2 PVS system back for our mobile project.

That gave us at least a small performance boost. The new system can eat a *lot* of CPU time, so it's only likely to be a performance gain if it manages to cull a lot of geometry. But our levels are fairly small, and in some cases turning the new system on can result in a significant overall drop in performance.

 

I'd highly recommend building your own culling solution. Or get something like InstantOC off the asset store..

 

problem with instant OC is its too processor intensive with all the ray casting for our uses.

i have cut out occlusion completely, for now, in favour of another approach to maximise performance... meh

 

Much appreciated on the official response.

 

Awesome, thanks for that, will look forward to 4.4! Time for a coffee then?

 

Just saw that 4.4 is out, but it appears to only fix 2 issues.

This one could be undocumented -Anyone seen if the issue is fixed?
I'll report back when I get a chance to try it out.

 

I think that's 4.3.4 that's just released. I'm sure the fix is in 4.4.x ?

 

Oh, that's right. Thanks for stopping me before I wasted my time!

 

I was just gonna say, i can't find 4.4! Phew! Hopefully wont be too long now...

 

did I miss something ? are we still waiting on this? it wasn't in 4.3.4 right? or at least thats what I understand

I'll keep checking

 

Still waiting for 4.4, yea. When that will be, though, nobody knows.