Feature Request Occlusion probes or a similar feature - Forest/trees comparison inside

Hi, may i ask are these trees placed as gameobjects or they are trees in the terrain system?
in my test the trees in terrain don't contribute to globe illumination.
the check box "contribute to globe illumination" in the terrain tree setting is gray out for years.

 

Gameobject, I'm not sure what's with terrain trees/details and how they are rendered but lightmapper apparently cannot use gpu instanced mesh to contribute into GI

 

Thank you! i figured it out that i have to mark the tree root gameobject to contribute globe illumination too.

 

Hmm as terrain trees or gameobject?

 

As terrain trees.

 

Wait, that works? i cannot make it works though, Can you post a screenshot of the terrain trees settings?

 

1.Select the root gameobject and set it as "Contribute GI".





2.Select the children contain mesh renderer which you want to influence the light baking, set them as "Contribute GI" and receive globe illumination from "Light Probes".
(if you are lazy you could simply click the "Static" check box for the root gameobject and apply to all children.
but you still need to set mesh renderers to receive globe illumination from "light probes".)





3.now you can add your trees in terrain trees list and paint them on terrain.

4.place a probe volume on your trees.

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Be careful, APVs is kinda buggy for now when you use it for terrain trees.

if you want the probe volume have same density on tree leaves and tree bark you have to set the highest subdivision as same the lowest subdivision.

but you don't have this problem when you are using gameobject trees.

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Oh,sure! i was going to talk about it in that APVs feedback thread too.
but i'm using Unity2022.1.0.b8,i will download the newest one b11 and try to reproduce it.
if the issue is still in the new version i will file a bug report.
i will let you know the result tomorrow.

 

Ah so that's why i'm getting weird cutoff of the APV Bricks, somehow it doesn't cover the entire tree heights
@dongliang28 i can confirm the issue also happened on b11

 

I will post it here and tag you!

you could put a huge probe volume with lowest subdivision over those small probe volumes.
this will slightly fix the dark cutoff problem.
but i greedily ask a much lower lowest subdivision value for us to use this method for faster baking.

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Hi,@francescoc_unity ,i have send the bug report file.
(Case 1411097) Probe Volume subdivision bug with Terrain trees
the unity version is 2022.1.0.b11 + HDRP 13.1.7
thank you for your hard work!