PolyBrush and the new Rendering Pipelines not working?

Hello lovely Unity-Community,

I would like to ask if it is possible to use the new Rendering Pipelines like LWRP or HDRP with PolyBrush.
Since PolyBrush requires the Polybrush specific Shaders like the Standard Blend Texture Shader, which just renders as pink with the new Pipelines and there seems to be no automatic upgrader.

And if not, when will it be available?
Nearly all new features of Unity require the Pipelines and I would hate to either miss the Visual Effects Graph or PolyBrush.

With friendly Regards
Jan aka. Sonorpearl

 

Thanks, that is very nice to hear!

So I guess it will come out pretty soon, heard 1.0 is released with Unity 2018.3 and that is already in Beta b11.
Would love to test that before the release, if there is any need for testing or chance of doing so.

 

A few quick questions…
1. Will the new release of Polybrush allow for full PBR materials to be painted?
2, Will substance materials be supported?
3. Will it be possible to blend different material types
4. How many materials/layers can be painted?
5. Will the painting features work the same for terrains and meshes?
6. Will it be possible to paint/blend terrain materials up/onto meshes upon the terrain?
7.Can we paint/blend heightmaps (eg water between stones)?

Cheers

 

Thanks for the reply - All cool - and 'a consistent UI; sounds a very good idea.

 

Unity 2018.3 seems to be out completely, any updates?

 

Thanks got latest builder, but no brush yet.

Can you outline roughly what improvements come to brush (assuming it's coming on package manager) please? In particular wondering about object scattering.

 

Thank you! The scattering stuff sounds very nice, especially being able to track it for potential indirect rendering, I guess?

 

Will PolyBrush have object placement/scattering with physics?

 

I mean I get at the list so I can use the data for rendering via https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Graphics.DrawMeshInstancedIndirect.html because that would be the best possible use (being able to actually use it due to performance) of Polybrush's scattering. Otherwise it's just a toy that gets a bit slow.

It probably should help us cull it somehow, perhaps a nice script. I feel that this will allow you to champion the tool as being something real, substantial you can use to just deeply populate scenes without the easily avoidable perf hit.

 

Hi,

Any estimate on when Polybrush with SRP support (1.0?) will be out? Is there a pre-release available?

Thanks

 

This is a fantastic idea, seconded!

Currently we are avoiding the performance hit by doing the same method @hippocoder does where we get the list of scattered objects and then actually render them using the Graphics namespace, meaning we can avoid having so many game objects in the scene, but this could also greatly help stuff and mean we dont need to do this anymore!

 

Absolutely! because code we don't have to keep alive is more time spent elsewhere doing stuff and moving forward

 

Your staff will know!

 

Hey guys, any updates on this? Im making some levels for a project on HDRp and would love to use polybrush with probuilder as main tool for level design and finalization

 

Hey @Renanmgs, sadly there is no news. Asked @gabrielw_unity in another Thread recently but no answer yet.
https://forum.unity.com/threads/polybrush-broken-in-2018-3.568819/#post-4310098

 

Hy @Sonorpearl , thanks for the update, sad to hear this. My project depends on this package =C

 

Please change CTRL+D when Polybrush is activated becuase it's already shortcut for duplicatoin in Unity.

 

I just saw the Polybrush Package being in Preview in 2019.1, but not yet in 2018.3. What is the reason for that?

 

What? it is working? If it is i can upgrade my project just now!

 

Well, i tried to upgrade my project to 2019.1, but it broke completly, all the materials went White, and everything was just a mess.
If i start a new empty project with 2019 and import HDRP, everything white again.

So i rolledback to 2018.3, and manually copied and pasted the polybrush Packages of an empty 2019 project to Packages folder of my 2018.3 project.

I managed to see the exemples and the materials seems to work, but it just wont import the packages, and if i restart the editor, the packages is just deleted.

 

Any Progress on this? I really want to use Polybrush with the new render Pipeline in Unity 2018

 

I tried to upgrade the project again, and after like 5 reimports things got normal. Apparently it was working, but i got a new problem with the new shadergraph API with CustomNodes, but apparently polybrush was working with all features.

 

Been waiting patiently on this, I really hope this hasn’t been abandoned. Everyone is going to be using the new rendering pipelines for their games, without an update allowing for Polybrush texture blending, it really weakens this amazing tool.