PyroTechnix - Volumetric Explosion Framework (D3D, OGL, MOBILE)

Announcing the upcoming release of my newest plugin. A simple to use, all in one, explosion framework for Unity. Using volumetric explosions. Must play the demo!

Works on all platforms!

Supports:

• Volumetric Explosions
• Heat haze
• SDF deferred decals
• Volumetric lighting

Included in the tool set is a bunch of components to help you customize your own explosions.

• Lights
• Sounds (with spacial separation)
• Debris
• Additional particle systems
• Force
• Kinematics
• Damage Callbacks

Also included is a collection of game side integration components. Easily make your own game objects explosion aware at the drop of a component and a few tweaks in the editor

::Online Demo


::Asset Store Link


Screenshots:

 

Looks very nice! I'll test it shortly after vray stops chewing endlessly on my decent comp, BOOM,.is that your pyroclastic explosion in refined and handsome form? and I hope to say more when i see it in action! Nothing better than enormous explosions to get your eyes tingling

 

Ok had a go, looked great! Although I got this feeling i was smashing things with a searing ball of doom, rather than the pyroclastic thing seeming more part of the explosion. This, in itself in some game could be a pretty fun effect but the example given here I think perhaps slowing its ascent and speeding its fading, perhaps scaling too. In the butterfly effect demo where the effect got a lot of attention they seemed to stack a few to give the impressing of a combusting upwards volume, that could be one way to take it further, the scaling of each later growing or something. I think it would be more convincing as an explosion on its own if it stayed a tad more grounded. I personally like the idea of smashing things with a burning ball of doom though so don't take this as criticism, just me guessing at your intention

 

You're in luck, its totally configurable from the editor.

 

Shoulda guessed as much, seem's like you could use it as an effect for gods playing basketball, in fact i think there's an entire idea there behind using the system as a projectile in itself!

 

Hi,

Works on Dx9?

 

Yes

 

Thanks for the reply. Bookmarked.

ETA?

 

I've updated the demo a little bit. Regarding Fluidity and Candela, I'm not sure exactly what you mean by getting the fluid to write to depth? How would this work as fluid is transparent. SSRTR could work in theory with ray marching (the two techniques aren't too dissimilar), but I don't own Candela. It sounds more like a feature request for them, as they - in theory - have all the information they already need to get this working (AABB of fluid, and fluid volume texture).

And yes, please refrain in the future from posting about my other tools on my threads (other than the actual one you have a question about right enough )

 

You know what i'll massage that post into something more pyrotechnic

 

do you have mobile apk to test performance?

 

Any ETA please?

 

I submitted to the asset store yesterday.

 

FYI initial price will be $10! A bargin if you ask me.

 

Very cheap indeed, i'll probably grab one

Will you have support for differently shaped explosions?
For example you might not want a spherical, but a capsule shaped explosion or a cuboid shaped explosion.

Edit:
By the way, this looks incredible

 

I will initially be supporting spherical, but down the line I'll be adding more features.

I plan to include a number of primitive shapes, plus the possibility of custom shapes, and shape morphing (blending between multiple shapes during the evolution of an explosion).

 

sorry maybe if this Out of topic, but what is SDF deferred decals??

 

There's an explosion module which leave's scorch marks on the ground.

The technique is signed distance field decals.

 

wow, thanks for answering, actually i more interested with "Deffered Decals" word... if it can be used for general decals it would be great

 

I would call this a buy

 

Thanks for the reply. 10$ is a very very good price. Count me in.

Hurry up UT.

 

Great to hear that. Looking forward to it

 

On the Store...
Thanks...

 

So it is! So you're the one

 

Would this work with a VR setup?
In VR you use two cams with slighlty different positions to give two different images to the eyes. If the explosion is mapped to a plane, this would give the same image to each eye and wouldn't work in VR.

 

I saw it yesterday before going to sleep, am i the one too? ;_;
Just kidding already bought it
Looking forward to put this in my game when i start working on the visuals again

 

I spent quite a lot of time getting my other product, "Fluidity", to work with VR. I'm confident this will work as well.

If not, I'd love to make it work for you (it'd probably only be something minor if anything).

Let me know how you get on.

 

Indeed

 

FYI this has officially gone live on the store, here's the link, https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/16925

 

Do you have an ETA for these options?

 

Absolutely naff all happens when I load the webplayer here. I just see some bricks. Tried all manner of clicks and keys. Nothing.

[edit]

works now! quite nice... not sure why it's started working.

 

Lol. Good to hear

Out of interest, what's your HW/driver setup?

 

So?

BTW, got this error "Assets/Pyro Technix/Scripts/Auxilliary/Helpers.cs(222,18 ): error CS0103: The name `UnityEditorInternal' does not exist in the current context" when building an standalone project. Works well after 'comment' lines 222 to 225.

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. //if (!UnityEditorInternal.InternalEditorUtility.HasPro())
3. //{
4. //  return false;
5. //}
6.  

 

hi, is there any chance to get this working with OpenGL 2.0 for android devices?

 

Oh no, I thought it was VR compatible. I would love that, you did a great job with fluidity!
Im getting errors on my first install, any ideas?

Assets/Pyro Technix/Scripts/Explosion System/ExplosionDebris.cs(28,4: error CS0103: The name `Helpers' does not exist in the current context

Assets/Pyro Technix/Scripts/Explosion System/ExplosionDebris.cs(28,36): error CS1502: The best overloaded method match for `UnityEngine.Object.Instantiate(UnityEngine.Object , UnityEngine.Vector3, UnityEngine.Quaternion)' has some invalid arguments

Assets/Pyro Technix/Scripts/Explosion System/ExplosionDebris.cs(28,36): error CS1503: Argument `#1' cannot convert `object' expression to type `UnityEngine.Object'

 

no help? Anything? At least want to know if this is a know issue, otherwise this is unusable

 

Hmmm... I'm not sure that's fair, I've been on my Easter holidays. But I'm back!

HeadTrip, you seem to be a PRO at finding install bugs! Is this because you have Fluidity installed as well. Do you get the same issue when installing into a fresh project?

 

It works with reasonable (well, all you can expect from mobile) performance on my Tegra 3 device. Have you tried? What's your device?

 

Sorry, easter hols.

Next version will be out in the next couple weeks. They will feature different shapes... Maybe not the morphing though. I'll have to think how to best handle this.

 

FYI, for the next update, I will be bumping up the price a little bit. So get it cheap while you can.

 

I've just pushed an update to the store.

Added:
- Primitives - Sphere, Cone, Cylinder, Torus, Box.
- Rotation.

Fixed:
- Rendering artifacts when creating explosions with huge scale.
- Bug with kinematics when upward force is 0.

 

Yeah!!. Good news. Thanks.

 

The update just got accepted onto the store guys! Grab it while its hot... No pun intended

 

Out of interest has anyone made anything cool with this I could showcase?

 

Seriously? No one is using this for anything

 

Hi when I import this asset into a project on a mac it works in the editor but when I try to build it as a project I get the following error.

Assets/Pyro Technix/Scripts/Auxilliary/Helpers.cs(222,18): error CS0103: The name `UnityEditorInternal' does not exist in the current context

I also get a similar error when trying to compile it on pc with the ps vita version of unity.

any ideas how to fix this

Also do you think this would be suitable in terms of performance for use on a ps vita ?


Thanks,

 

Sounds like a bug.

You could try commenting out that line of code and seeing if it still works for you?

I'll post a fix fairly soon.

 

Hey there,

I haven't had much time to mess around with this, but i did try it once.
Could you make the explosion light ( in the shader ) compatible with SE Natural Bloom?
I think he explains how to make other shaders compatible with it in a post:
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/se-natural-bloom-dirty-lens.243430/

I'm currently messing around with animating the explosions.
I'll post a video if i have something good to show

EDIT:

Here's his post

 

This product can be used with unity3d free ?

 

Hello,

Like i said in the post i made before, when i had something to show i would show it here

I made it fairly fast, and there's missing details like debris and more smoke, but i'm really liking the results

There seems to be a problem with z-test when two volumes intersect though.
I also used 2 bloom effects in this image, for the explosion to have more impact ( the sky is too bright because of that ). I would really like this to be compatible with SE Natural Bloom if possible

Anyway, here's the image:


I made an animation using 3 volumes ( each with 20 render steps )