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

How to get the result like the store picture?



I open the sample project get that:

 

Hello, please check the documentation that is included in Enviro - Sky and Weather folder. Just follow the "Get Started" section for setup.

 

Hello, you should add some post processing with at least tonemapping. The store front screenshot was made using ACES tonemaping and slight bloom. I also used pretty much highest cloud quality settings. You can change that one in your Enviro Sky Instance -> Edit Profile -> Clouds category and fine tune your qualily and weather presets.

 

Hi!

I'm trying to use Enviro in URP alongside MicroSplat. The MicroSplat Trax module utilizes render textures, and the Enviro forward renderer seems to mess something up in regards to those, because I get the following warnings if either Clouds or Fog renderer feature is enabled in the Enviro renderer. This also causes a huge framerate dip.


Any idea what could cause this? I'd love to use both MicroSplat and Enviro but can't figure out what's going wrong here.

Thanks!

 

Hello, okay talked with Jason about that one.

Please try following:

Open your Universal Render Pipeline Asset where you assigned the Enviro URP Renderer.
Then add another renderer to your "Renderer List". Assign an empty renderer (or example the default "Forward Renderer") and mark that one as "Default".


Then check your main camera and make sure that it is using the Enviro URP Renderer.

Hope that may help here!

 

That fixed it, thank you very much! It's amazing to get such great support from both of you

Now I can't see fog or clouds in the Scene view any more though, but that's not a big issue.

 

Hi!

I am running into an odd MSAA issue. We're using URP (2019.4 & 7.5.1).



Above is with MSAA on (8x, although it doesnt matter which setting) - below is off.

I cant find any (Enviro) setting to avoid it but maybe I am missing a setting or this is URP 'doing its thing'.

Anyone encounter this as well?

-Pieter

 

Thank you for the great asset!
I use Enviro Lite for android. And I have strange artifacts with Flat Clouds when I use Flat Clouds and Cirrus Clouds. When I use only Flat Clouds I have no artifacts.
These artifacts look like z-fighting.
I use legacy render pipeline.
How can I fix it?

 

Hello Pieter, I will give it a try in URP after holidays. Looks like a typical issue with depth texture in MSAA, so borders are not matching the color buffers.

 

Hello, haven't seen that issue yet. Does this only happen in your builds on your phone?

 

Yes, this only happen on my phone.
I fixed it. I added "ZWrite Off" to the shader.

 

Thanks for the feedback! I will change that in next update.

 

Thanks for you reply, if there is anything I can test or help with let me know.
Enjoy your holidays!

-Pieter

 

Enviro Clouds are most awesome imo

 

How can I see the clouds from above? like parachute. thanks!!!

 

Hello, we need some modification for the particle clouds shader to view it from above as it wasn't designed for this scenario. I will send a modified shader now.

 

Hi,

Does Volume Clouds work in VR in URP?

For me it shows horizontally stretched and horizontal head movements are boosted in clouds.

I am using Unity 2018.4.17f1, Universal Render Pipeline 7.3.1 and Enviro 2.3.1.

Enviro Standard VR profile with Single Pass VR and Single Pass Instanced VR enabled.

I am using Oculus with Stereo rendering Mode set to Single Pass Instanced.

I was not able to make it work in any other setup I tried.

Thanks for provide such a great asset.

Aloha,

Rafael Sobral

 

It's worked and perfect! thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Hello Rafael, I will send you an hotfix for that issue.

 

I'm using the standard built in pipeline with Open VR and the new XR system, along with ViveInputUtility to bring it all together. However I also get stretched clouds horizontally (with rapid too fast movement when I pan my head left and right), and not moving correctly with the headset in any single pass setting. I did get it looking right in the example scene, if I set multi-pass in Unity's settings and Enviro's, but what's going on with single pass?

Would that hot fix work for me too? Same Enviro version, with Unity 2019.4.17f1.

Thank you;

Graeme

 

Hello Graeme, sent you a possible hotfix for your issue in private conversation.

 

Worked like a charm thank you.

Graeme

 

Is there any way to reduce the intensity of the light shafts? right now they're way too intense, they just turn the whole screen white most of the time

 

Hello, sounds like that you are missing some post effect tonemapping. So setup that first for example with the unity post processing package. That will help with the overall visuals! But you also can decrease the intensity of lightshafts in your Enviro Sky instance -> Edit Profile -> Lightshafts category.

 

I'd like to also give credit to Hendrik for his most awesome Enviro Clouds. Without those in combination with NatureManufacture's Meadow Environment this scene wouldn't have gotten half a Million views

Using Standard Pipeline, that's the important part worth mentioning when it comes to Unity

 

Hi, I'm just playing around with the asset for the first time. Its pretty amazing. I've got a few questions:

1)
I'm using URP in the project, I add the Enviro prefab, create lite instance and everything just works fine without ever pressing "activate URP support" export to a phone work and everything. Do I no longer need to "activate URP support" Am i missing something by not doing that (I ran in to an error in my test project is why I didn't do it in this one, but surprised its just working anyway)

2)
Using Enviro lite, sky> skybox mode LW Custom Skybox, I choose a custom "regular" skybox but nothing really happens, it still acts the same as the enviro dynamic adjusted color skybox.

https://i.ibb.co/5h0xpzf/n1.jpg


3)
This next picture is using a "regular" skybox, its very nice. How might I use this skybox along side the enviro setup. Currently I have to turn off enviro to show it.

Is there a way to use this skybox but still have all the other features layed over it? Or should I try to recreate it dynamically with enviro clouds and color picking from the original asset?

https://i.ibb.co/Nmd3Mpw/n2.jpg

thanks, again very nice work

 

I see that the ASSET DESCRIPTION includes this:

Lighting:
Enviro will realistically light your scene based on sun altitude. You have complete control over light intensity and color by modifying curves and gradients right in editor! You also can choose between different ambient light modes of course.


I have a question:

My game is set in a CASTLE.

And I'm trying to make it so that, if I make a room in the castle that has no windows (say, a dungeon underground), it will be close to black even in the middle of the day (whether Enviro is set to Midnight, Dawn, Dusk, or Midday, I want this underground dungeon to still be dark).

Currently, the way it is set up in my project, as the sun goes around, my internal castle room (completely closed off from the exterior world) will go from dark (at night) to very bright (at noon), as if the room were "out in the open and affected by the sky", even though there are now windows in the room. (I have Unity Lighting > Environment Lighting > Source set to Color, which is perhaps part of my problem?)

I'm wondering... what sort of ambient / lighting settings should I use if I want to make my castle interior (say, a dungeon cell underground) very dark, even if Enviro is set to noon daylight on a clear day...?

Now I realise that light is not simulated with ray-tracing and bounce lights.

But how would you set up your lighting settings to get the results I'm after as close as possible?

Thanks!

 

Should I have the Unity Lighting > Environment Lighting > Source set to Skybox, or Color, or something else?

Is there a general suggested approach to how to have the lighting in Unity set up, etc?

PS: I'm using the Built in Render Pipeline (kicking it old school) in Unity 2018.4.9 LTS.

 

Is there a way to stop the glow/corona/etc showing behind terrain? The light shafts seem to be working properly around hills, but I can see the obvious position of the sun through the terrain.

Many thanks;

Graeme

 

Hello!

1) For mobile lite instance you not really need to switch to URP mode in Enviro as that mode does not use any post processing at all. But once you want to activate post process fog or light shafts you need to follow the URP setup in documentations.

2) That looks like a bug. You still can use custom skyboxes but you would need to also assign the your material by hand in unity lighting settings. I will fix this in next update.

3) The clouds in enviro lite will be rendered in skybox shader additional passes. So you would need to add those to a standard skybox shader. But more of a problem would be simulate the time of day at all. :/

 

Hello, first you should activate "Realtime GI" in your Unity lighting settings. Do not use "Baked GI" here and regenerate your lighting. Also setup some baked reflection probes in your castle rooms without windows.

If you still see light coming though you maybe want to checkout the Enviro Interior Zone component and setup that one. Here you could modify the direct and ambinet light colors when entering a trigger.

 

Thank you so much for your answer. I'll attempt these things soon.

Your experience and wisdom is MUCH APPRECIATED!

- Murray

 

We just completed final editing to our latest video, "Apollo's Dream", and it will be coming soon to our YouTube channel.
Made with Enviro's AWESOME Atmosphere!

 

Looks nice!

Nice music by Teresa on your YouTube channel there, too.

 

Thanks!
The new one includes another piece of music of hers.
I am doing the final render now, if all goes well, I might have it up tonight.

 

Code (CSharp):

1. MissingReferenceException: The object of type 'Material' has been destroyed but you are still trying to access it.
2. Your script should either check if it is null or you should not destroy the object.
3. UnityEngine.Material.SetColorImpl (System.Int32 name, UnityEngine.Color value) (at <29ad182faa3f478c9310d6a2e7143c15>:0)
4. UnityEngine.Material.SetVector (System.String name, UnityEngine.Vector4 value) (at <29ad182faa3f478c9310d6a2e7143c15>:0)
5. UnityEngine.Rendering.LWRP.EnviroBlitPassShafts.Execute (UnityEngine.Rendering.ScriptableRenderContext context, UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.RenderingData& renderingData) (at Assets/Enviro - Sky and Weather/Core/URP Support/Scripts/EnviroBlitPassShafts.cs:91)
6. UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.ScriptableRenderer.ExecuteRenderPass (UnityEngine.Rendering.ScriptableRenderContext context, UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.ScriptableRenderPass renderPass, UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.RenderingData& renderingData, System.Int32 eyeIndex) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@7.3.1/Runtime/ScriptableRenderer.cs:672)
7. UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.ScriptableRenderer.ExecuteBlock (System.Int32 blockIndex, Unity.Collections.NativeArray`1[T] blockRanges, UnityEngine.Rendering.ScriptableRenderContext context, UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.RenderingData& renderingData, System.Int32 eyeIndex, System.Boolean submit) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@7.3.1/Runtime/ScriptableRenderer.cs:473)
8. UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.ScriptableRenderer.Execute (UnityEngine.Rendering.ScriptableRenderContext context, UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.RenderingData& renderingData) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@7.3.1/Runtime/ScriptableRenderer.cs:330)
9. UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.UniversalRenderPipeline.RenderSingleCamera (UnityEngine.Rendering.ScriptableRenderContext context, UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.CameraData cameraData, System.Boolean requiresBlitToBackbuffer, System.Boolean anyPostProcessingEnabled) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@7.3.1/Runtime/UniversalRenderPipeline.cs:305)
10. UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.UniversalRenderPipeline.RenderCameraStack (UnityEngine.Rendering.ScriptableRenderContext context, UnityEngine.Camera baseCamera) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@7.3.1/Runtime/UniversalRenderPipeline.cs:397)
11. UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.UniversalRenderPipeline.Render (UnityEngine.Rendering.ScriptableRenderContext renderContext, UnityEngine.Camera[] cameras) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@7.3.1/Runtime/UniversalRenderPipeline.cs:219)
12. UnityEngine.Rendering.RenderPipeline.InternalRender (UnityEngine.Rendering.ScriptableRenderContext context, UnityEngine.Camera[] cameras) (at <29ad182faa3f478c9310d6a2e7143c15>:0)
13. UnityEngine.Rendering.RenderPipelineManager.DoRenderLoop_Internal (UnityEngine.Rendering.RenderPipelineAsset pipe, System.IntPtr loopPtr, Unity.Collections.LowLevel.Unsafe.AtomicSafetyHandle safety) (at <29ad182faa3f478c9310d6a2e7143c15>:0)
14. UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent(Int32, IntPtr)
15.  

I'm wondering if there is a solution to this error I'm getting with Enviro and URP - Unity 2019.4.16

I am using the Enviro Standard URP Renderer -

When loading the scene or starting the game - Enviro works just fine and all effects work.

But once you change scenes this error starts getting spammed in the console and Enviro effects no longer work.

To reproduce -

- Set renderer to Enviro Standard

- Create a scene and add Enviro to it - setup as needed
IMPORTANT - Enable Sun shafts, Moon shafts, Distance Blur features

- Create a new scene and add Enviro to it as well AND the features above

Then simply flip back and forth between the scenes using Load Scene and Enviro will break.

Running the scene will fix the issue, but until then the console will just continually throw errors.

Seems to me the render features are not being properly setup when a scene changes ... Ive tried to make a couple code changes to address this null material issue but can't seem to nail it yet. Since no one else has posted I wanted to make you aware and I'll edit this post with a solution if I find one.


EDIT:

As promised - I managed to figure out a fix. In the ScriptableRendererFeature script which creates and manages the blitPass, you gotta check if blitPass == null || material == null

Guess when you change scenes the materials created in CreateMaterialsAndTextures are destroyed but the render feature is not reinitialized. :shrug:

I added a little == null check to the 3 feature files and everything works now

Code (CSharp):

1. public override void AddRenderPasses(UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.ScriptableRenderer renderer, ref UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.RenderingData renderingData)
2.         {
3.             if (renderingData.cameraData.camera.cameraType == CameraType.Preview || renderingData.cameraData.camera.cameraType == CameraType.SceneView || renderingData.cameraData.camera.cameraType == CameraType.Reflection)
4.                 return;
5.  
6.             myCam = renderingData.cameraData.camera;
7.  
8.             if (EnviroSkyMgr.instance != null && EnviroSkyMgr.instance.HasInstance() && EnviroSkyMgr.instance.useSunShafts)
9.             {
10.  
11.                 if (renderingData.cameraData.isSceneViewCamera)
12.                     return;
13.  
14.  
15.                 var src = renderer.cameraColorTarget;
16.                 var dest = UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.RenderTargetHandle.CameraTarget;
17.  
18.                 if (blitPass == null || shaftsMaterial == null)
19.                     Create();
20.  
21.                 blitPass.Setup(myCam, src, dest, EnviroSkyMgr.instance.Components.Sun.transform, EnviroSkyMgr.instance.LightShaftsSettings.thresholdColorSun.Evaluate(EnviroSkyMgr.instance.Time.solarTime), EnviroSkyMgr.instance.LightShaftsSettings.lightShaftsColorSun.Evaluate(EnviroSkyMgr.instance.Time.solarTime));
22.                 renderer.EnqueuePass(blitPass);
23.  
24.             }
25.         }

 

Hello, yeah I know about that issue and it is fixed on my side aswell. So will be included in next update!

Thanks for your indepth bug report! Appreciate that.

 

Video is now live!

I hope everyone enjoys it!
Music by Teresa Silverthorn

Thanks to all the Great Devs whose Assets used in this creation:

Editor
Unity 2018
Hierarchy PRO by emx
Playmaker by Hutong Games LLC
Inspector Gadgets Pro by Kybernetik
Easy Scatter by Hedgehog Team

Camera and animal control
Pegasus by Procedural Worlds

Terrain
Landscape Builder 2 by SCSM
Vegetation

Vegetations Studio Pro by Awesome Technologies
Meadow Environment by NatureManufacture
Forest Environment by NatureManufacture
Real Ivy by 3Dynamite


Environment
Aura 2 by Raphael Ernaelsten
Enviro - Sky and Weather by Hendrik Haupt
R.A.M by NatureManufacture

AI
Emerald AI 2.0 by Black Horizon Studios
Crux by Black Horizon Studios

Lifeforms
ANIMALS FULL PACK by PROTOFACTOR, INC
Bird Flock Bundle by Unluck Software
Animal pack deluxe v2 by janpec
Horse Animset Pro by Malbers Animations
Animal pack deluxe by janpec
Insect Firefly by Unluck Software
WoodLand Animals Pack by VintageSoft
Flying insects by GTox models

FX
1000+ Fast Post Processing 1K Styles Mobile and PC + LUT Export by emx
Next-Gen Soft-Shadows by Psychose Interactive Inc.
Look Animator by FImpossible Creations
Tail Animator by FImpossible Creations
Spine Animator by FImpossible Creations

Props
Magic Mirror Lite by Digital Ruby (Jeff Johnson)
Flooded Grounds by Sandro T

Recorder
Unity Recorder by Unity Technologies

 

Good morning;

I'm really loving Enviro. It's gorgeous. However I'm sure I've seen this issue before on a post somewhere, but I can't find it.

Please could someone nudge me in the right direction of a solution? it's a small sliver of what seems to be fully fogged terrain just before the clipping distance. If I unselect "use fog" in the Enviro settings, this band vanishes but I don't have any fog of course. I presume the fog rendering distance is higher than the terrain rendering distance.

Otherwise I love it, and very happy it has Mirror integration. Pictures below...

Graeme

 

hi.how to hide the moon at 12:00AM?

 

Hello, just change the date/days or activate the simple "Sun and Moon Position" mode in your Enviro Sky Instance -> Edit Profile -> Sky category.

 

Thinks！！

 

Should this work in Unity 2020.2.2, yet? I'm guessing not, since I am getting some LWRP/URP compiler errors such as "'EnviroVolumeCloudsLWRP.Create()': no suitable method found to override." Any idea when it might be supported? URP is 10.2.2. Thanks!

 

Hello, do you seen the window that ask for Auto API Update when you imported the Enviro URP support scripts? You need to allow these in order to upgrade the scripts for URP. However you may want to try following:

Delete the Enviro folder and re-import again. This time import the URP support by hand (Enviro - Sky and Weather -> Enviro Standard -> URP Support). When window opens make sure to allow the auto api upgrade.

 

Thanks for your quick reply, Vondox. I still couldn't get it to work, so I tried creating a fresh URP 2020.2.2f1 project just now and installed only Enviro 2.3.1 from the package manager. That works--I only see some minor warnings about a couple of shaders--and I see the folder structure in Assets like I expect. Next, I browsed to Enviro Standard > URP Support and double-clicked the Enviro_Standard_URP.unitypackage. That appears to partially work, and I get an "Enviro Standard URP renderer.asset" next to the unitypackage. But along with it, I get an error message saying "Enviro Standard URP Renderer is missing RendererFeatures," now. No dialog pops up to offer auto api upgrades.

I have a sneaky feeling I am missing something, but I followed the documentation pdf pretty carefully. I appreciate any help in advance. Thanks!

 

Hi, I will send you a package that with updated URP support scripts asap.

 

I got it and it appears to be working. Thanks for your help!

 

Hello, I need this URP update too. Could you send it to me too, please?

 

Quick question (hopefully)...

How do I prevent SNOW and RAIN from appearing inside buildings?

Do I set up some sort of ZONE to stop them being inside certain areas, or something?

Thanks.

 

Hello, setup some static colliders on your interior roofes to stop particles. You may also want to tweak the collision settings in Enviro weather particle system prefabs and create and assign a new layer only for particle collisions.

Another way would be using the "Enviro Interior Zone" to switch off weather effects when entering some trigger/zone. More performant but you won't be able to see weather outside with this method. Use that for example for caves or anything like that.