[RELEASED] Enviro - Sky and Weather (Dynamic Sky and Weather System)

Just bouble click to show the URP settings. Then you can assign a renderer.

 

Okay, think I got it - clouds still aren't showing up though. I have the preset set to Cloudy 2

 

Please enable "Depth Texture" in the menu you have opened in your screenshot. Then please open the "Enviro URP Renderer" and check if all effects are properly assigned like this:

 

I think we are getting somewhere... the Render Features are blank.

If I search my assets I can find the scripts from your screenshot but I cannot seem to drag them into the Render Features section of this area of the inspector, and when I click the target control on the right the pop up box is blank.

 

Do you have enabled the URP support already? Please check your Enviro Sky Manager.

 

I think so:

 

Okay, yeah looks good. Do you get any errors in console? Maybe please come over here in enviro discord channel for better communication and we can have a look whats going wrong here. Should be somehting small.

 

okay I'll swing by the discord now, thanks!!

 

Night Flight, the Aurora of Enviro is absolutely beautiful

 

Any idea when HDRP-version could be available?

 

Hi, Enviro HDRP support will be a bit delayed. Unfortunaly I have not found a lot of time to work on this the last days. But maybe join enviro discord to get your hands on the beta package?!

 

Added Enviro HDRP (beta) to my racing scene

 

How does the dynamic snow shader work? There is zero mention of it in the documentation, and searching these forums suggests to check out the sample scene, yet there is also no dynamic snow in that?

 

Hello, sorry there is no built-in dynamic snow feature in enviro at the moment. But it supports synchronization of Global Snow, LUX Shaderframework, CTS, Microsplat, UBER Shader for example to have dynamic snow in your project.

 

Ah OK. I have owned your asset for some time now, only just started implementing it. Your version history does say.

- EnviroSurface Shader! Set of shaders for dynamic snow and wetness on all your meshes!

* New Feature: EnviroWeatherShaders
* New Feature: Enviro dynamic puddles with shader and ReflectionProbe script.

Misread I guess.

 

There actually was shaders for objects included a few years back. But I removed those as there are better free alternatives in asset store.

 

This is INCREDIBLE!!!!

 

Modifying the skybox at run time has no effect
EnviroSkyMgr.instance.LightSettings.ambientMode = UnityEngine.Rendering.AmbientMode.Skybox;
EnviroSky.instance.Save();

 

Hello, yeah enviro will only set the ambient mode on enable. But you can still change it in runtime your self with those two line:

EnviroSkyMgr.instance.LightSettings.ambientMode = UnityEngine.Rendering.AmbientMode.Skybox;
RenderSettings.ambientMode = UnityEngine.Rendering.AmbientMode.Skybox;

You also don't need to call Save() here. That function will only save your current time and weather to playerprefs.

 

Hi there,
We're happily using Enviro in our application and have just updated to the latest version.
This is progressing nicely, but we've hit a snag.
The enviro instance that was created at the start was a standard one (legacy pipeline).
But our application has an optional VR mode too, and the standard instance only updates the sky in the left eye in VR.
I see that there's a different kind of enviro instance that handles VR.
What's the best way to handle this scenario ?

Thanks in advance,
Patrick

 

Hi Patrick, please try to activate the "SinglePass VR" option in your Enviro Sky Instance -> Rendering Setup.

 

Yes, that renders both eyes.
Unfortunately it also throws a number of these errors

This is regardless of the project settings' stereo render mode.
Version info: Enviro 2.3.0, Profile 2.2.1, Prefab 2.2.0, Unity 2019.3.3f1 (legacy RP, OpenVR)

 

Hello, thanks for your report! I could reproduce that error when setting the "SinglePass" option in runtime. I also have fixed it for next update now.

I will send you a hotfiy asap.

 

Thanks for the hotfix, awesome support !

The sky renders in both eyes now, but I'm seeing a dark-light vertical band across the viewport.
I checked in an empty project with just Enviro and it doesn't occur there, so it's probably something on our end.
Have you maybe seen this before ?

Left eye

Right eye

 

Hm could not reproduce that on my side. But looks like one post effect may not work correctly. Try to disable enviro effects to see if it stops with one of those disabled. Same for other post effects that you are may using in your project.

 

Thanks for the pointers, I'll dig into the post effects

 

Hi Vondox. In the manual and within 2.2.1 manager it says Get Pro if you want to use HDRP?

There isnt a pro? How do I use HDRP? Many thanks

 

apologies for cross-post, but i totally like how Enviro light settings and clouds adds to the atmosphere of the scene here

 

Hi there, I have a question about restoring the wetness and snowStrength values. When my game is exited I save the current weather profile and then restore it when the game is started again. This works nicely, but I can't get the saved wetness and snowStrength values to take affect.

For example if the current conditions are "Heavy Snow" and the snowStrength is 0.75 when restoring those values the "Heavy Snow" profile loads ok but the snowStrength kind of resets back to 0.

This is how I am attempting to set those two values:

EnviroSkyMgr.instance.ChangeWeather(lastWeatherPresetName);

EnviroSkyMgr.instance.Weather.wetness = lastWetnessAmount;

EnviroSkyMgr.instance.Weather.snowStrength = lastSnownessAmount;

Can you advise how I should do this?

Many thanks for your help and ongoing support.

John

 

Hello John,

can you please try to set these to instead or even all four:

EnviroSkyMgr.instance.Weather.curWetness = lastWetnessAmount;
EnviroSkyMgr.instance.Weather.curSnowStrength = lastSnownessAmount;

 

Thank you Vondox, curWetness and curSnowStrength did the trick.

John

 

Turned off all post-fx but saw no change.
Then we found that toggling Directional Volume Lighting removed the band artifact.
This is a usable workaround, we can toggle that when VR is active.
I tried to reproduce the problem/workaround in an empty project, but didn't succeeded.
I'll update if I find a good repro.

 

Hello I have this error when trying to save profile:
Assertion failed on expression: 'gOnDemandAssets->empty() || GetOnDemandModeV2() != AssetDatabase::OnDemandMode::Off'
UnityEditor.AssetDatabase:SaveAssets()
EnviroCore:SaveProfile() (at Assets/Enviro - Sky and Weather/Core/Scripts/EnviroCore.cs:1278)
EnviroSkyEditor:OnInspectorGUI() (at Assets/Enviro - Sky and Weather/Enviro Standard/Scripts/Editor/EnviroSkyEditor.cs:447)
UnityEngine.GUIUtilityrocessEvent(Int32, IntPtr)

Therefore I cannot save profile.
(Unity 2019.3)

 

Thanks for the update. I also will have a look into that later.

 

Hello, oh haven't seen that one yet. What Unity version do you use? Do you already tried to restart Unity? Does this also happen in a fresh project on your side?

 

This is an amazing scene.
Would you mind to share how heavy is the exported file of this scene from unity? It's absolutely beautiful!!!

 

Thanks. You mean file size? That's 1.3 GB, but I have a lot more integrated there which isn't visible.

 

Reference shot from World Creator. Terrain created with World Creator + Gaea + Gametextures.

In Unity Microsplat + First try of Enviro HDRP beta .

 

How to add planet in the sky...,typically procedural blue sky box represent flat method for atmospheric scattering in which you get to see the shadow side of a planet.
So what is typically a solution here? using already prepared skybox with alpha transparency and planet on, or using some kind of custom shader fade possibility, or usnig The Blacksmith: Atmospheric Scattering asset,... ? thx

 

today i tried using simple plane with planet image that use standard fade shader, results is great,(for time hold gameplay). Now I need to block Galaxy & Star map light going through the planet image with another mask image right behind that will work. Or is there a layer arrangment between "atmo scattering", galaxy and stars? or any other great hints? thx

 

Hello, yeah you can use the "additional satellite" feature for that. If you don't want your planet to move you also just can assign a prefab with a transform only to activate the feature. Then place your planet and assign the "Satellite Layer" to it that you choose in Enviro -> Rendering Setup.

 

Not sure if this is the best place for it but I wanted to draw attention to a potential bug relating to VR and cloud rendering.

Unity Version: 2019.2.17f1
Render Pipeline: Legacy
VR Hardware: Oculus Rift
Stereo Rendering Mode: Multi-pass
Enviro Version: 2.3.0

I ran into an issue where the cloud texture was rendering differently in the left and right eyes in VR. The left eye was working fine but in the right eye, the texture was rendering but it wasn't respecting the camera movement and was just stuck in the same spot in the viewport.

Debugging through this, I eventually found that in EnviroRaymarchClouds.shader, there is this section (mostly redacted):

Code (CSharp):

1. if (unity_StereoEyeIndex == 0)
2. {
3.     // sets rays based on inverse projection
4. }
5. else
6. {
7.     // sets rays based on inverse projection for single pass
8.  
9.     // The right eye (unity_StereoEyeIndex = 1) is being handled here with the incorrect inverse projection matrix.
10. }

Updating the if statement to check against 0 or 1 fixes the issue for my use case. Not sure what implications that has for other use cases but I at least wanted to bring it to your attention.

EDIT: I unfortunately can't post screenshots because of the spam filter(?) (probably because I don't post here very often...). I will try again later.

 

Hello, thanks for your detailed report!
I will fix that in next update. That actually got messed up with the implementation of SinglePass Instanced support.

 

hello

Can i change the daylenght (in minutes) in runntime?

thanks

 

Hello, you can do that of course. What enviro version do you use?

 

First image is a reference from World Creator. Rest are from Unity. Terrain made with World Creator + GAEA + Gametextures. In Unity i used Microsplat and Enviro HDRP.

 

I found the other way, i just erase stars and galaxy spots on the map where the planet is going to to be for the "mask". But it's a bit frustrating because those maps rotates then on its own clock rotation set, so is there an option to disable this clock travel for thouse two maps ?

 

Hi Vondox
Thank you for a great product.
I get this error in the build when turning on/off volume clouds running on a mac with opengl core. It works fine in the unity editor and on windows both build and editor. The screenshots are from the sample scene of 2.3.0 with out modifications. I've tested on different unity versions with same result. I'm also getting the error in the software I'm doing where I didn't before. I'm unsure if it's related to the new version. The earlier was working fine.
I haven't been able to find anything on the forums.

*EDIT
In my late night frustration I was maybe a bit brief on information:

• I can build on windows with no problem. Everything works.
• When I build on Mac for Mac (IL2CPP) Catalina 10.15 with opengls core 4.1 I can see clouds in the editor, but they create the below situation in the build.
• Unity versions 2019.2.18f1 and latest.
• I thought I would do barebone test with the 2.3.0 sample scene and I get the same error with volume clouds on off so it's not isolated to my custom scene.
• I'm thinking it has something to do with opengl in mac, but I can't find anything about the issue. Metal works fine, but my software is made for opengl.

Volume clouds on

Vlume clouds off

In editor

 

First image reference from World Creator. Rest are from Unity. Terrain made with World Creator + Gametextures. In Unity i used MIcrosplat and Enviro HDRP. First time i think i got better shot in Unity than in World Creator. Microsplat and Enviro FOR THE WIN!!!!

 

hello
2.1.2