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

Ok @Vondox . I buy. I'm already in discord. Can I request access to the Enviro HDRP beta over there?

 

Ooooops thank you!!!

 

Hi @Vondox
I'm doing some testing cross platform and I'm experiencing some issues on macOS (Metal) with global reflections. (Everything is perfect in Windows).
On a build initially everything is fine (first screenshot), but when I move the time of day and the reflection map updates I get artifacts in the cube map reflection map.
I haven't done extensive testing, but was hoping I could be directed to a quick solution. It sometimes disappears and returns again when changing TOD.

Thank you very much!





Initial:


Changing time of day and triggering global reflection


Same here:

 

Hello, thanks for your report! I haven't seen those yet. Can you please try to deactivate the "Global Reflection Use Fog" option here to see if it is may related to that particular effect?

 

Thank you Vondox, I'll give it a try. I captured it in a video:

 

Hi again @Vondox that was it. I'll keep it off for now for the MacOS version. As I said, there is no problem in Windows builds.
Have a nice day.

 

Okay, thanks for the feedback. I will have a look into that later.

 

I'm using Enviro to control weather for a cinematic I'm creating in Unity. I'm using Timeline and Cinemachine and I have a bad feeling that the particle effects (like rain) don't work when using Cinemachine's Virtual Cameras.

Any ideas?

 

Maybe make sure that the assigned player transform in enviro is around your cameras as the position wil be used to move the particle effects. So maybe your cameras are just out of reach here?!

 

Seems to work now. Cinemachine's Virtual Cameras get some of their properties from the Main Camera. So the Main Camera is actually in the same place as the Virtual Cameras are.

I can hardly see the rain. It's very visible in the Scene but barely visible in the Game view.

Will tweaking the particle settings make them more visible?

 

Do you maybe use TAA here? That one also could lead to those fast small particles may be barely visible. Try to tweak the TAA effect values and tweaking the particle effect itself also could help here.

 

That helps. Still would like to increase the amount of rain visible.

I noticed that the SevereWeather setting has no rain.

 

Disregard the SevereWeather comment. My co-worker made a custom Weather preset and said not to use it.

But again, I would like to increase the amount of rain visible.

 

Hello!
What would be the best way to check via code if the aurora is currently visible?

 

World Creator Standalone PRO + Quadspinner Gaea PRO + Enviro + Microsplat

Textures from Game Textures....posting screenshots instead of the artstation link -.-, so hopefully this one not deleted XD

 

Looked at this page in this thread.

I have CTS installed but when I goto Component>CTS>

There is no option to add a CTS Weather Manager

There is an option to add this in Window>Procedural Worlds>CTS and it just adds a CTS Weather Manager to the scene

I've activated CTS support in the Enviro Sky Manager. Is the CTS shader on the Unity Terrain supposed to look wet when Rain is activated?

 

Hello, the rain effects are standard unity particle effects. You can esily tweak ot replace with your own here. You can find the prefabs that will get instantiated in Enviro - Sky and Weather -> Core -> Prefabs -> Particle Effects folder.

 

Hello, following code should work:

Code (CSharp):

1.         if (EnviroSky.instance.auroraSettings.auroraIntensity.Evaluate(EnviroSky.instance.GameTime.solarTime) * EnviroSky.instance.auroraIntensity > 0f)
2.         {
3.             //Visible
4.         }
5.         else
6.         {
7.             //not visble
8.         }

 

Yeah, it is supposed to look wet when it is raining. Please check the CTS Weather Manager does the wetness setting increase here when it is raining in Enviro, because that is the only part enviro does here -> setting the values in CTS Weather Manager.

 

Hello Vondox, sorry if I missed this but how do we emulate the old shoreline node in MM2?

 

any example ?
Say one envieonrment is snow ,
One is jungle
both will have different lighting setting and skỵ
Please share one test case or guidance how it will work.

 

You can change the weather preset easily during runtime. It's just a matter of invoking a single method which sets the preset you want

Code (CSharp):

1. EnviroSkyMgr.instance.ChangeWeather( "Heavy Snow");
2.  

You could even mix weather zones like I did here:

 

Okay so it have coding control to load profile or preset.
It can work in my case .
Thanks a lot.
Let me buy it.
Only last thing , is it good to use on mobile ?
I mean any special precaution?

 

You should use Enviro Lite on mobiles. And maybe also come over to discord (https://discord.gg/5c6kfW6) and I can send you latest test version with the new faster 2D clouds system.

 

Hi, I guess wrong thread?

 

The terrain doesn't look wet in Play mode. Am I missing a step?

 

cool let me join discord .
I have bouight the pack .

 

Hi, is HDRP supported? If it is not, is there any plan to do so?

 

Hello, HDRP support is currently in development and in open beta test on enviro discord channel. Feel free to join there when if you bought enviro and send me a message so I can give your beta tester role.

 

re: What FOG to use with Enviro?

I'm using Enviro for its great day-night cycle, and light rays and things.

In my game, I I have a set of islands dotted around in a big ocean.

I want to FOG my set of islands, to give it more mood, and also to maybe bring in the draw distance, with a dense distance fog.





Q: What sorts of FOG do people generally use with Enviro?

I see that Enviro has it's own built-in fog. Do people use that?

Or other packages? Any good / compatible free ones that people love?

Or other paid ones that work really well?

(I see "Aura 2" and "Volume Fog 3" are both mentioned as compatible on the Enviro product page. What have people found using those? Recommended? Limitations? Easy? Hard?)

 

I just modified my Enviro runtime Weather and Time switcher Script which I use for development purposes. I thought it might be of use for you guys as well.

So attached you can find the script.

Usage:

NumPad +/-: shift through predefined list of weather presets
Alpha [1..0]: directly access a weather preset from a list of weather presets
PageUp/Down: change time of day by hour

You can optionally show the current weather preset and time in the UI in a TextMesh Pro control, in my screens bottom left and bottom right. Creating such screenshots with different time and weather conditions is just a matter of a minute and pushing keys:

 

Nice, thanks!

 

Does Enviro come with some example scenes that have the Enviro FOG in them?

 

Hello, the fog is already active as default setting. Just change to a foggy weather and you should see it for example in enviro sample scene.

 

Hi,

I have a basic setup in the URP for unity, just trying out the demo scene. But it looks like my house and terrain is purple. Does it have a problem with the latest version of Unity? 2019.3.10f1

It's also complaining about relfection probes missing and some unknown on this behaviour missing what ever that is.

 

Hello, sorry there currently is no dedicated sample scene for URP, but enviro itself should work correctly. Please try to setup enviro in your own scene. I will add sample scene for urp in a later update.

 

How can I stop the Rain/Snow from going inside my buildings?
I tried this and it only partially works. Some rain still seems to get through. Not sure what to do about it.

 

Hello, please make sure that you are not running into the "Max Collision Shape" count here. Best option is creating your own layer for any colliders that should stop particle effects here. Also maybe try to lower the "Voxel Size" here too, but try to keep it as high as you can.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/PartSysCollisionModule.html

 

The characters and maps I used are enlarged. How can I adjust the size of this?

 

Hello, sorry not really understand your image here. What version of Enviro are you using? And what exactly you want to do here? Clouds seen from above view?

 

Enviro:2.3.0.
My English is not good, sorry.
As shown in the picture, the size of my character and map is enlarged ten times. So the effect in Enviro becomes smaller.
The white part of the circle around the character is the snow effect.

 

What I want to achieve is to also enlarge "Enviro Effects" ten times. However, I found that the Scale can only be modified at runtime, not could be modified in Editor.

 

Ah okay, you would need to tweak the particle effects here. For example set "Start Size" * 10 and "Radius" * 10. You can find the prefabs of the weather effects in Enviro - Sky and Weather -> Core -> Prefabs -> Particle Effects folder.



Please note that you need to restart your scene to see the changes made here, so I may would edit them outside of Enviro.

 

HI,

Always enjoying working with Enviro and I noticed on several computers i often have a too strong bloom around the sun even without post process on camera...
Sometimes when the sun is at the borders of the camera, the llight clipps with huge white light foggy thing on screen.

I know it's me! i must be missing something
thx in advance

 

most of the times this "issue" happens more when the sun is laying down at the horizon


in this case i use lux water and the issue is much much bigger, . I did all the steps for the integration on lux water manual....

 

Hello, could be related to Volume Lighting or Lightshafts maybe. Please try to deactive those effects and check if that will stop the bright fog here. Then you could tweak either the Volume Lighting intensity in your weather presets -> General config. Or the Lightshafts intensity in your Enviro Sky Instance -> Edit Profile -> Lightshafts -> Intensity.

 

(edit:half) Solved! Many thanks for your fast answer:
- it was the light shaft, the blur radius was set too high. No more sunglasses while working on unity!

 

sorry again, but even with low settings the sun can appear real big depending on camera ...

 

settings are so low that i loose the benefit of lightshaft effect but the sun remains big even with very "small settings"

 

i want the sun to be small, like far away...