[Released] Cascade - Rivers, Lakes, Waterfall and more ..

I consider MapMagic the only procedural terrain generator assets currently on asset store. Great asset. I have in my todo list to evaluate what kind of approach can work in really procedural landscape . but I cannot do before 2 or 3 weeks.

 

Testing options for underwater .. that is 100% by a shader including bubble .. performance looks nice. what do you think?

https://gyazo.com/aa33400a4e52b81103790fe498fc4766

 

I think it looks great. It would be nice to be able to mess with their transparency as well to affect how much they blend.

 

yep .. I will expose a bunch of options. . now i am focused on performance and realism ..

 

In that case it seems a little jittery when you first start moving but otherwise beautiful.

 

noted

 

Yeah too jittery, in my opinion too.

 

Hi, I'm new to your asset. At first glance, it looks quite interesting.

I have two questions:

1. Suppose, in the river are different sized stones. Is it possible to deform the surface of the river so that it corresponds to the overflow of water - automatically? I speak of the model of reality. Normally, the water surface changes according to the ground, so for example stones (or other meshes, in case of a 3d world). How do you simulate actually water surface? Would it be possible to use terrain and objects (meshes), such as stones, as the basis for calculating the water surface or a "dynamic flowmap"?

2. If the river meets an obstacle, such as a rock or a river curve, the direction of the river must change accordingly. The rock must be wrapped around and in the curve the shader must also "calculate around the curve". How can I achieve that with Cascade? Is this possible?

I think, these are very important features for a "real" river tool. As far as I know, other river tools on the asset store can not handle that. Unfortunately.

 

A quick overview of new Cascade Surface Spawner

 

Good job, the underwater from above looks awkward and unrealistic for some reason though otherwise keep up the great work.

 

Yep . .underwater is just a first step on the approach ..still a lot to do .. but it will come

 

Cascade is the only asset that allows creating with easy workflow and short time a realistic river bed using a powerful terrain carving engine.
We combine a unique water effect realism with an amazing and highly performing shader, a dynamic mesh generator and terrain conform engine. What else ?

 

I just tested the river tool (haven't used it till now ^^) and found something. the mesh doesn't like my terrain or? It is only a testriver to see all the functions.

 

Congrats on the update, looks like you knocked quite a bit out.

 

That is strange, I need more details to support you ...I tried to reproduce the issue but no luck ( even in that case is more bad luck )

 

Can you test with latest version ? I see the UI is not from the latest

 

OK. The same problem with version 1.0.2, but in the other direction. ^^

 

Thanks a lot. Just trying to give a small contribute all the community with an innovative and original idea, despite who just reinvent the wheel. I hope users are going to appreciate the effort

 

Can you share the terrain transform setting? I am trying to replicate the issue.
And should be nice test in a different scene

 

Here the values:

 

I created similar size terrain ...only height 10.000 and it is working

 

OK. created a brand new terrain with my values and no scripts or anything on it and this happens:

 

Can you open the demo scene "06 Demo River Bed Design" and turn design mode on

 

ok. Reimported cascade in my project, but no difference. In "06 Demo River Bed Design" the river works as it should do. no problems there.

 

Ok.. Has the terrain collider active ?
Btw . if you join Discord we can chat and I can provide fast support

 

Collider is active. Even when I changed the terrain to normal values the problem stays. Even messing up the values in the demo and it still works there. Why do I have problems? I will try to create a new scene and try it there.

 

I would suggest to create a new scene and bring in one of the demo terrain,
Check that it works.

 

Created a new scene with my values and it works there. looks like something is wrong with my normal scene, but what?

 

It can happen,...so it works with the terrain in a new scene, doesn't it?

 

yes. it works. I will create a prefab with my current terrain and import it in a new scene and test it, if it works there.

 

ok. here a summary till now:
old scene + old terrain = problem
old scene + old terrain + new terrain = problem
new scene + new terrain = no problem
new scene + old terrain = problem (what I tested now)
new scene + old terrain + new terrain = problem (also tested it now)

looks like my terrain destroys the scene for cascade.

 

Can you zip you terrain and send me ? I would check it out

 

OK. maybe I found the error. I think it was errosion brush, that was on my parrent for the terrains. now it works. >_< I will test it more on my original scene.

 

Ok
I own Erosion Brush, I will test on Monday

 

ok. still the same problem. <_<

 

maybe cascade sees sometimes the ground and sometimes not. Here more pictures:
The blue line is the border between 2 terrains. Thought first that this was maybe a problem, but one river proved me wrong.

 

I have send you 3 terrains + prefab with WeTransfer.

 

nice. will test in next few hours

 

Found a problem. (I created a new project only with cascade in it and nothing else ^^ and used demo 6) When I create a river and click conform the other river goes back, like clicking the undo button. River 3: I click conform and river 1 and 2 go back to undo.

After a while the rivers look like this:
The terrain doesn't fit the river. It goes like /\/\/\/\ and not _____

 

Noted. I have just included that in the bug list. It looks like currently, you can have only one river per scene using terrain carving.Monday morning I will start to code a fix for that,
Also before run a conform, I would suggest running always undo.

 

And try also to increase the depth. the default is 1.5 ..

 

Here another picture of the terrain distoration. I hope everything helps that I post and I don't annoy you with that.

 

Everthing helps. In that case i think heightmap resolution is same order river width.

 

Maybe a future idea. Can we get independent from the heightmap resolution of the terrain by creating a mesh for the river and making holes into the terrain. maybe with some overlapping from the mesh into the terrain, so that there are no visible holes. Here a "professional" painting of what I mean:

 

Yes, I will try

It looks like there is a bug with multitile . that is the reason of you issue

 

I need an all in one water solution for oculus and vive VR headsets using single pass rendering and latest 2017.3.1 unity. Any solid tests in these platforms if the water works as shown in the videos for vr?

 

@antoripa would you please remove (when you release the next update) the trailing whitespace from the package filename (after the more)?
'Cascade - Rivers Lakes Waterfalls and more.unitypackage'
instead of
'Cascade - Rivers Lakes Waterfalls and more .unitypackage'

Apparently this causes the import problems (I can't import this package only if I go in the download directory in the AppData folder and rename it and double click).

 

Hi. Yes, that is the issue.
The package name is created automatically after publisher upload the package using a tool. So at publisher end, there is no way to do that.
I have also opened a ticket with Unity reporting the issue, that is also regional impacting only a few countries. So far still pending after 4 weeks.

 

Hi. Cascade is used by gRally game ( http://store.steampowered.com/app/605760/gRally/ ) in VR. It works in single pass. If you want to test before buy, kindly send me a PM. I will be happy to support you

 

I see. Okay, I have just answered to Unity Support as well. Identified the problem for them and told them the solution as well.

Thanks,
I'm not a publisher, so I wouldn't know.
Hope they will fix it soon.