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

I did have an error with the Player (the actual moving Player is a child of the parent object in the scene hierarchy root). But now I've fixed that, and the Enviro Effects do move as the player moves....but they are offset far, far away. It seem like Enviro has trouble when the Player is a child object of a stationary parent. So I have to move the Player parent object to the location I want the Player to be at, and make sure the Player is at 0,0,0 inside the parent, and then it all aligns properly. However, that's not viable in the actual game, since players can save and reload at any location in the map. Is it possible to make Enviro Effects smarter about child Players?

 

sounds like the rain might be using local space instead of global by accident. you could look at the scripts yourself =D I'm at work and can't right now.

 

Local space -- yes, that was it! Thanks so much!

 

Does the switch to world space fixed your issues? It actually should not be a problem to have player and/or camera parented under other objects.

 

yes, switching to world space fixed it, sorry that wasn't clear.

 

Sorry for the late reply, but Enviro does work with PlayWay. Here's a pic of the RTP3 beach scene with PlayWay (beta), Enviro (1.6), and a few other things. It works with 1.7 too but I've got that version of the project all torn apart at the moment. As I understand it PlayWay is about to change developers so you may want to check the forums before buying.

 

Update 1.8 was uploaded to store and is pending review!

Changelog:

Price will increase to 50$, so grab your copy now!

 

That AudioZone component sounds intriguing. Would it be possible to also add a way for it to change which audio file is playing? That would be useful in my case for changing the ambient audio to something else when in a cave versus outside.

 

Good idea! I will add a option for this

 

Woot - I've been waiting for 1.8 and it looks like you've added everything on my wish list. Thanks!

 

Looks beautiful!! Thank you for the updates.

 

@Vondox any chance you have a patreon ? Truthfully I think the tool deserves more than 50 bucks and since i cannot pay on the store, I'd rather spend on you on patreon. You deserve it

Btw would it be possible to compile a set of tutorials to mess with some of the new settings ? I am trying to specifically create a weather setting where the sky and the environment around you looks a blueish and there's a lot of fog scattering going on.

Pretty much like this screenshot on a tool I came across.

http://imgur.com/a/cOckw

 

+1 for patreon and +1 for your question regarding your screenshot. Would like to have a zone in my terrain or also a whole scene where the weather should be always so dark and foggy like in your screenshot, but anyway with Day / Night Cycle. I am gonna play with Fog and Color Settings for the Weather Prefabs this weekend also to see if I can create something similar.

Update looks amazing like always. Gonna test it this weekend.

 

Time to check for new bugs if any , will report today or next week

 

Hehe, I don't have patreon at the moment.

Will have a look to recreate the mood in your screenshot with enviro later and share settings.

Planned to add a preset system in 1.9, with scriptable objects. This way I can easily provide different setups.

 

Contact me with your findings, will try to provide fixes asap

 

Hey, Thanx for the recent update! I have played around with this for a little while, and just wondering if I can have random weather playing randomly. Kinda like Unistorm does.

Thanx Again Jim

 

Hi Jim,

Check the Enviro Zone component on the Enviro Sky prefab.



Enviro will try to change weather every "Weather Update Interval" gametime hours. It will check for current season and choosing a matching weather type based on possibily chance.

 

Awesome thank you very much!

 

Hmm I think Patreon takes a cut anyway, how about paypal ? It could be a direct transfer to you and no one will get anything extra and frankly you have no obligation to do anything for us either. It's our way of saying thank you for the best updates ever.

If you had time to look at setting that lighting for the night, let me know, I am trying to make something similar in my game and it's the color setting I would like the night to look like ^_^b

 

I will have a look at it when I am back home.

Thanks for your support!

 

I was able to recreate an atmosphere which comes pretty close to the screenshot.
The colors are not perfect and should be darker but well I think with a little bit of fine-tuning we are coming close to a good result. The sun is shining through the fog so you can see the sun disk and you also get some sun flares.Right now only at day you will get this strong "blue fog" effects not during night.

You find result and settings screenshots here:
http://imgur.com/a/Rzqff

The workflow:
- Create a new Weather Zone
- Create a new Weather Prefab for this specific zone ("Castle Zone")
- Play with the settings (See the screenshot) for sun blocking, more density, other colors etc.

Cheers
Ronny

 

Oooh that's a good place to start I'd say. Btw if you're interested, try out the Screens-space Multiple Scaterring github project for fog along with enviro fog. It's a depth of field effect that works on the fog and you can get classy fog effects with it. Here are some screenshots from the forum thread.

https://github.com/OCASM/SSMS

NO FOG


GLOBAL FOG


SSMS


Regards,
Tharindu

 

Wow didn't not know about this asset. After playing a littlebit the result looks much more amazing. You need to activate the Unity Fog in the Lightning setting though. It was disabled before that and I only was using the enviro one.

Well only issue now will be to get the fog away from the interiors. Looks pretty funny if you can't see anything in a room because of the fog XD.

 

How is it with water? So far, I am told only Playway works with Environ and now that asset is in limbo, besides being more than I want to pay for a water that is in limbo, like the previous ones.

I love the fog look above, but prefer to have it less so in near distances and more further away. Does this do that?

 

I also have checked to recreate this mood at night. But needed to do one little change and use a strong bloom effect.

For this blue foggy night you want to change the tonemapping settings in sky category to graphes, to be able to control these based on current sun position in sky. High values in night lower values on day.

I add this in next update

Here is an example shot:

 

Sorry for the delay. I will rework the aquas integration script in the next days and add this little tricky plane thing for better fog support. In most cases this should work quite well

 

Hey man, if you don't find it too hard, could you try integrating with Aquas Lite as well ?

 

@Teila Oh hell yes Here are some screenshots

Using a mix of height fog and distance fog to do it. Like I said it's an image effect utilizing better dof on the global fog.

On a mountain top



On lower areas of the map

 

@Vondox holy S*** that looks gorgeous! Incidentally, I wanted to calculate bloom intensity and such based on the time of day and such. Do you think I'll be able to do it with the current event setup for a zone ? I didn't try this before asking you, so sorry about that.

Although, I think the bloom will need to be controlled along with the tonemapping to achieve the effect. Else bloom being intense at the middle of the day can cause players blindness haha

 

Oh, I will add a OnZoneChange Event in 1.8.1. Good point.

You still can a take a look on new audiozone script. Create duplicate, rename class and add your graphes and gradients for the effects and settings you want to change. Grab the components you want to drive and apply values based on time with something like this:

Code (CSharp):

1. float value = someAnimationCurve.Evaluate(EnviroSky.instance.GameTime.solarTime);

Send me private message if you need help writing this script.

 

That sounds good. I still didn't look at the new audio zone script. Will do and let you know how it goes! : D

 

Hello. It seems that sky rendering is done via the second camera and then it blends with the main camera with command buffer. I have a problem with that. It seems like the output of a sky buffer is done in LDR. Is there a way to apply sky buffer in HDR?

 

Hmm okay, I will check that later and contact you when I found a solution.

 

Okay, I have a solution and added a new option to use hdr buffers or not in sky category. Thanks for reporting!

I will send you download information for testing on your side.

 

Thank you very much! Will definetely look forward to test it.

 

We are currently using this for a VR project. In the last version, the clouds would render differently in each eye in any other mode other than legacy. With this new update, legacy mode throws us an error because the cloudcamera is never set.

 

Hi, thanks for reporting, I will add a fix in 1.8.1 If you need it very soon, contact me with a private message and I could send you a download when it's done.

 

Would love to see your images but they are X's for me.

 

I shall pm them to you then

 

Hello,
first thanks for the update! Great work, i really like the colors now . And it also, with the new fog, it works great with playway water now for me!

I think i found a bug which is related to moon reflections. It occurs when i load the scene, an then changing the Current active weather on the EnviroZone script. In that case form clear to clody1.

It only occurs, when sun and moon are both visible, and when clouds are there.

The second thing i found is, that when the sun is setting, and the moon is visible already, the light reflection is changing instantly to the moon when the system switches to night mode (ambient sound).



br
Funkeys

 

Hi Funkeys,

about your first issue: Not seen this before, but maybe the changes in 1.8.1 on clouds could fix this.I will send you a preview of 1.8.1 in the next days, but we maybe have to meet in skype if this still persist in 1.8.1.

The second one isn't that easy to fix. I think PlayWay uses the brightest directional light and only supports one specular source at the moment.

So we only could modify the timing when switching the directional light to the moon. Open EnviroSky.cs and search for these lines:

Code (CSharp):

1. GameTime.solarTime < 0.5f
2.  
3. GameTime.solarTime >= 0.5f

Change that to maybe 0.4f.

 

The new effect cameras are totally messing with my game.. I can't get my background camera to render over anything =o= time for bed... shouldn't setting their depth lower fix it?

 

Hi Vondox,

hope 1.8.1 is fixing it! if not, the skype meeting should be no problem if we can do it in the afternoon or on the weekend.

It is good for me having only the sun as specular source, as long, as it is visible on the horizon, anyway it is the much stronger light source irl. But checking GameTime.solarTime against a specific float value, would fix it only for a specific Lat-Long-Date combination? Is it possible to do raycasting to check when the sun sets behind the horizon?

 

Okay, have done a few tests and added an optional background rendering feature. It will look like this:


Is this the effect you want to achieve?

 

The SolarTime is the remapped sun altitude and will work for all lat and longitude settings. So set this to 0.4 should work quite well. Have you tested?

 

Ok! Thank you, not yet i will do

 

Works perfect! 0.47 is the value for me, having inv ocean at y 0.

 

I was tired and grumpy =D
I have a second camera that renders the horizon which is 3d, not just a sprite. The first camera is set to clear depth only and is set to depth 0, and I had changed your code in older versions to stop it from changing that, instead changing my DistanceCamera I call it. That one is set to use Skybox (Enviro) and is on depth -1. I tried putting the clouds camera and effects camera on -2 and -3, and some other things, but they seem to always block my DistanceCamera...
I was tired and trying to fix it fast though. Will play with it when I get home, hopefully more fruitfully.

 

Have just tested a few things and created this simple shader for adding depth information without rendering anything. Working wonderful with Unity Water4 and should work with most other water assets that having issues with enviro fog.

Here screenshots to compare:

With:

Without:


Just create a material with Enviro/Depth shader assigned and add it to a plane or water mesh. Place it slightly below your water level. Would be happy to hear if this worked for you!