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

You are welcome. You can also join our Discord Channel ( address at the bottom of first post ) where we are even faster ..and if not yet done a quick asset's review is always appreciated .. .enjoy Cascade ..

 

And I'll do it By the way I noticed the discord invitations on the first page and asset store page are not valid anymore.

 

Updated

 

Hi there. I'm looking for a water asset I (edit: the player) can place at runtime for a management simulation game. Would I be able to do that with this? Thanks so much!

 

Hi,
Cascade can do that. But currently, the API is not well defined. We are working on a better API Interface that will be ready in 2 weeks. You can join our discord channel to get updates on progress.

 

Hello.
I have successfully tested an enhancement related to the integration between Cascade and Vegetation Studio.
Below a first preview of the new UI where you will get a great automatism and flexibility to generate and update masks along the river. Synchronization is full, real-time and automatic, including the triggering of vegetation respawn after you carve the river bed digging the terrain.

 

Hello,
Cascade is going to support multi-tiles terrain bringing all the features of the procedural terrain carving engine.
Tiles in the above picture are 4096x4096 and you can see all the Cascade builders active on the scene for rivers and lakes. I hope all you guys appreciate all effort we put into creating a unique and innovative asset with the goal to make your life as a game developer easier. And more will come soon ..




Last but not least, is that with next update we will apply the first step in price rise. But it will be not more expansive of other assets that have really limited features comparing Cascade.

 

Hi,

Hope you can assist. I just bought the asset and a cannot seem to add a node, following your tutorial. I tried with both 2017 and 2018, but control + click gives no result. (I use a Mac so I tried command click as well).

Am I missing something obvious?

Interestingly when I play with one of the demo scenes, shift + click works.

Thanks
Cas

 

Hi,
below few suggestions. I apologize if they seem really obvious, but is good if we check the basic points :
1) Terrain needs a collider component. So check that is attached to the terrain and active
2) You need to create a new builder ( river or lake ) and that needs to be selected in the manager. Below a screenshot


3) I would suggest to try on one of the demo scenes.

Last suggestion is to join the discord channel, where you can get a fast answer by us or even by other users

 

Hi,

Don't mind swapping to the discord channel, what is the link?

in the meanwhile I deleted the asset and re-imported it and not it is throwing errors unfortunatley (vegetation studio and microsplat are imported):

Assets/EarthShaping/Framework v1.0/Lib/Script/Integration/IntegrationScript.cs(325,5): error CS0246: The type or namespace name `MicroSplatBlendableObject' could not be found. Are you missing an assembly reference?

Thanks
Cas

 

The error you are getting is because there are #define in the user setting but there aren't the related asset.
You can change the scripting define editing the text box with the label "Scripting Define Symbol" at the right of the below screenshot . In my case is empty. In your project you will see a string of #define concatenated by ";"
Just delete the one related to assets not anymore installed.

Discord channel is : https://discord.gg/ct6hDDv

 

May I ask if there is a road map ?

 

found your discord channel .. thanks a lot . great ..

 

Version 1.1.0 will bring multi-tiles terrain and multi rivers support for terrain carving. Faster terrain carving with multithread allow you to design larger landscapes with realistic rivers, waterfall, lakes .. and more ..
The new version will be available in next few days on Asset Store.
For the new customers, as announced, will raise the price up to 40 USD , but we still believe that price is fair for an innovative and unique asset like Cascade.

I invite all you to join our discord channel to ask questions and share experiences with a really active community

See you at https://discord.gg/ct6hDDv



64 Km2 Island, rivers, and waterfall created from scratch with river bed carving and waterfall ground shaping in 2 minutes.

 

Awesome
Are there any plans to integrate this with Map Magic?

 

yeah ..already had a quick messaging with @Wright as few users already asked about support for Cascade. So I confirmed my 100% support in developing the integration .. so MM2 / Cascade will work together. But need to patience .. in the meanwhile I have been exploring the creation of a node in MM with a partial integration based on heihtmap i can generate by Cascade .. next week I will get clear if it worths or better wait MM2

 

Excell

Excellent news. MM2 is getting closer to release so best to wait for that.

 

I would invite you to join EarthShaping discord channel, so you can get update and post question to us and to the entire community ..of course, the forum is always active and Skype Channel as well.. so feel free to use the one you prefer

 

Cascade 1.1.0 is live with more power, more realism and always the best and fastest workflow for your rivers and lakes creation

You can grab your all in one water asset on unity asset store

We added multithread to give more horsepower generating large water surfaces and riverbed carving



We support multi-tiles terrain for procedural river bed carving and the capabilities to select single or overall Cascade builders from your landscape





We added more feature out of the box to support Vegetation Studio with different masks and advanced setting




and more ..

 

Hi all ... I found a small bug .. related to a missing material used as the default for new river ....

just created a hot fix

https://we.tl/qSwBMu9ak6

 

Hey ..
New Cascade release is planned next week.
What's new ?
-Enhanced surface effect for river.
-Audio Manager
-Enhanced terrain conform approach for a faster task
-Fixed bug with multitile terrain conform
-supports for huge multitiles landscape
- Cascade Ocean Preview Scene
-Support for 2018.2.x Beta

 

Hello ...
preview for AudioManager with PerNode Setting

 

River and Lake on same mesh and same material with perfect blending

 

Just bought this asset, but water is only moving in editor, in play mode it's just frozen in all demo sceenes. Did I missed something?
Unity 2018.1.6f1 Windows 10 64 bit

 

Hi. Thank you for buying Cascade.
That is really strange, becuase shader flow is driven by the shader
But I will test with 2018.1 for end of day and in case of issue send you an hot fix.

 

The problem is only with the demos, if I try it in my project water is moving, but I have some other problems. Reflection on water are not working, neither in demo nor in my project.
Then a big problem with your undo function, I've made changes in my terrain with the Unity terrain tools, saved my screen, exit Unity and then start it again. When I build now a river, click conform and then use your undo, all changes I previously made with the terrain tools are reverted, e.g. the whole work is gone. That's very annoying

 

Hi. That is not usual. And first time someone reported such issue.
Can you join our discord channel ? So you can get the right support and help in your task
Thanks

 

OK, I found the undo problem. The terrain backup in EarthShapingTerrainCache is only generated on the first conform, when you now change the terrain manualy, then do another conform and undo, the old, first backup is used. Maybe you should generate a backup on each conform, deleting the previous one.

Regards
Frank

 

Nice.
Yes, I already have in place the proper structure in the cache system, but not active so far. next release has the capability for multiple restore points unlocked ( and more new features ...like audio manager ).
It should be live by end of next week. I will announce here and on support channel ( Skype and Discord ).
So, in case of further support just post here or on Discord EarthShaping Server

 

Any news on the update?

 

Hi, I'm very interested in this asset and would like to use it with MapMagic.
I've searched some posts in this thread and it seems it's still not integrated with MM yet.
I am a veteran MM user and the creator of Survisland (currently early access on Steam), I would like to know some basic logic of Cascade about how it creates rivers and carve terrains so I can evaluate that if it's possible for me to make a custom MM output node to diliver data into Cascade and let it generate rivers.
Does cascade use an origin point for a river's source then calculate its flow path according to terrain's height map?
Can these calculations be handled in other threads rather than main thread? (MM does almost everything multithreaded)
Is it possible for Cascade to return a set of data of the area of the river per terrain tile back into MapMagic? (in a form of MM's map node data set)
I'm searching for a solution for my game to generate rivers according to seeds with MM, hope this is the one!
Thank you for your time!

 

Will send you a pm.

 

Great, I'll wait and see

 

Have you sent the pm? I haven't recieve anything... odd

 

Quick question, HDRP support?

 

Currently HDSRP is not a stable release. But we have already explored the options to support it

 

I was on leave . just sent

 

We sent to UAS new version 1.2.0.
Change log is already published on our web site www.earthshaping.com
New tutorial will come in next few days to show how is fast and incredibly flexible Cascade to shape your landscape with any water surfaces . .

 

Hello,
new plugin for Cascade for fully procedural automatic path river creation that will work with Map Magic as well

EarthShaping is large project based of our original view, and we started in 2016. In the next months will release a set of tools to support easy creation of endless procedural world, including landscape, water surfaces, roads, railways and cities .

Join us on our Skype or Discord text chat to be part of our community and check the progress

 

Awesome

 

Hi..
we just sent to Unity Asset Store team a small update.
All customer can download here and install on top of latest presents on asset store.


https://we.tl/kAU6C0FHiu

 

Hi,

I'm trying to add water to my spherical mesh terrain. Does Cascade support this use-case?

Here is an example of the stretching that happens with most solutions:

 

I don't see reason for any issue ..
But before you buy if you can share a sample, I would be happy to test and send you back so you can check it out
in the meanwhile . take a look to the gif

https://gyazo.com/832e60038b44b369475a51486ca3b8ce

Btw . that shader from your picture has issue

 

Thanks for the fast response!
The gif looks great. It reminds me of Blitz Ball in FFX.

I'll send a PM with a sample.

 

I want to know more about how the water shaders can be edited via Cascade.

Do you have any videos showing how to change the look of the water?

 

Hi,
we are recording a full series about shader .. will publish in next few days with an online guide . .so you can take a look to all options we have implemented so far

 

I have been working to a collider system that can be used with Cascade for river and lakes of any shape.
You can create a volume and use trigger.I have added few parameters so you can tweak for your needs:
So we are going to test with main character controller and with Post Processing V2 Stack
Release in planned on next week,

 

Hello! Is there underwater effects? Is there big ocean type of prefab? combatible with Gaia?

What do you mean volume? is the water flat without it? works with latest Unity? tell me how it goes too with the pps v2 stack test.. Is there anydemo or trial I can test? I have all the water solutions, but nothing works at this point in Unity releases..

 

Hi @antoripa , Does this mean Cascade now works with Map Magic (current versions of both assets or is this coming?

Also can cascade be used to place walls, Like city walls place around terrain?