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

Hi Vondox, I was curious as to whether or not Enviro works with aerial views, or flying over/through the clouds?

 

No not out of the box, enviro clouds are designed and optimized to be viewed from lower levels. But you could use Fog Volume 3 with the enviro integration component.

 

Hello Vondox,

two questions to make it even work greater

I have "Bioms" in my game (just like in minecraft), every biom has unique Feature, for example in one biom it is always winter.
Can I set Enviro to Winter manually for my winter biom, set Fall manually for my "dryland" biom etc and so on? Instead of using your build in Season automatically passing?

When my Player is deep Underground, it should be as dark as in the night (or a bit darker). Diffuse Light is okay Underground, but how can I just lower the ambient light? Just set Rendersettings Ambient Light and Intensity to own value each Frame when Underground and do not set it "On air" or is there some Kind of reduction variable or something else in Enviro I should use to lower ambient lighting?

Thanks a lot!

 

Hello Vondox,

i'm experiencing a shadow jitter with Enviro. Seems like the sun movement are not smooth which cause a shadow jitter on scene objects. any idea how i can fix this please ?

Thanks

 

Does anyone have similar error when clicking cast shadows on cluds ?

 

You can deactivate the season calculations here: "Time And Location Controls" -> "Calc Seasons". Now you are free to change seasons with this function:

Code (CSharp):

1. EnviroSky.instance.ChangeSeason (EnviroSeasons.Seasons.Spring);

But you may also want to setup new zones for your biomes to have unique weather in eah of them. Just create a new gameobject and add the EnviroZone component. Now scale the zone and add the weather presets you would like to see in that zone.

For your underground lighting you may have to wait for next update. I will add a new option to easily modify the lighting in runtime and add a new component to smoothly switch between cave/underground -> open air lighting.

 

Hm, I don't see that on my side. What Unity version are you running? Do you have modified the unity shadow settings?

 

Thanks for reporting. I need to add a null check here. When you enable clouds shadows in runtime you have to click on "Apply Changes" button here:



This will recreate the clouds meshes and also create the clouds shadow mesh and material fixing your error.

 

Ye i noticed after applying, the error is gone . Thanks for response

Just wanted to say i love it. Though i use it less than one day and still have tons to dig in. So far i like it

 

1/ I'm using Unity 2017.1.1f1
2/ I didnt change unity shadow settings (pic attached)


3/ A made a quick video to show the issue =>

Thank you for the help

 

Okay I see. What are your camera near and far clipping planes at? Have you already tested enviro sample scene?

 

I'm working on a top-down game.

My camera is 17f (on Y) far from the ground with these clipping : near=0.1 far=50. I'm using Deffered rendering.

Thanks

 

Please try to assign your camera as player too. Sorry but I am currently not sure why shadows are jittering on your side. Do they only jitter when sun moves/time passes? Do you see this in sample scene too?

 

Hi again, what about multiple cameras script, is it possible? And one more question, how can I disable lightning flares in a buildings?

 

Sorry for the delay, but I haven't found time yet. I will work on that tomorrow and contact you as soon as possible.

 

Hi Vondox,

Thank you for your help. I managed to fix the shadow stutter by setting the camera near plan from 0.1 to 0.5 and that fix the issue.

 

Another quick setup with Enviro

Dont mind the mountains, i just like them . Its what i produced this afternoon .

 

As far as I examine, Enviro is really great!

I would use the included shaders (EnviroSurfaceShader) if they had a normal map strength slider. Right now it is too weak compared to my Standard opaque shader....

And my wish for the update would be a light Setting for Underground and In Building

Thanks. Great stuff. Love to Play around with it.

 

Okay I have it done Oh btw for your lightning issue you most likely just want to enable shadows on the "Lightning" object that is parented to EnviroSky prefab.

Here some screenshots:




Please note this is not a perfect local coop implementation with some limitation. But should be pretty much usable in limited, smaller maps.
The setup is pretty easy: Just add the "EnviroMultiCamera" component to your other cameras and set an unique player name id.



Limitations:
- Only first player can trigger zones.
- There is still only one clouds mesh that will move with first player. Other players won't notice when first player move in a decent range, but once the first player is far away the clouds viewdistance for other players will be decreased.
As workaround use a decent viewdistance + high clouds world scale. This will give you a much wider roam area before the sideeffect becomes too noticable.
- The weather particle effects are moving with first player too. Make sure to make the particle effects area big enough to have weather particle for all your players.

This is all I was able to get done quickly. For proper local coop support that will work in really big open worlds a lot of rewritting and redesigning would be needed. We would need clouds meshes for all players each with ther own layer. Same for moon / satellites. And we also would need a set of particle effects with unique layer for all player too. The trigger system would need some rewriting too of course. At the end we would need 12 unique layers for 4 local players.

I will send you the package and hope that you find it usefull for your project. Everyone else can contact me to get this too. I don't want to post it here as I needed one little change in main script to get it working.

 

I think i am stupid, where can i find wind settings in Enviro ?

 

Cloud category in profile and weatherprofiles.

 

Hi and thank you for this great asset!

I'm having an issue with EnviroSky 1.9 constantly throwing the following error:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. [Exception] UnassignedReferenceException: The variable fogMaterial of EnviroFog has not been assigned.
3. You probably need to assign the fogMaterial variable of the EnviroFog script in the inspector.
4. Material.SetTexture()    C:/buildslave/unity/build/Runtime/Export/Graphics.cs:713
5.  
6. Material.SetTexture()    C:/buildslave/unity/build/Runtime/Export/Graphics.cs:712
7.  
8. EnviroSky.UpdateAdvancedFog()    Assets/Enviro - Dynamic Enviroment/Scripts/EnviroSky.cs:1541
9. 1540:   if(cloudsCamera != null)
10. -->1541:       atmosphericFog.fogMaterial.SetTexture ("_Clouds", cloudsCamera.targetTexture);
11. 1543:   if(backgroundSettings.backgroundRendering && bgCamera != null)
12.  
13. EnviroSky.Update()    Assets/Enviro - Dynamic Enviroment/Scripts/EnviroSky.cs:1351
14. 1350:   if (Fog.AdvancedFog)
15. -->1351:       UpdateAdvancedFog ();
16. 1353:   // Update sun and fog color according to the new position of the sun
17.  

At first I though I was missing a variable assignment in the inspector, but cannot locate one called 'fogMaterial'. This doesn't seem to stop EnviroSky from working, but its perplexing nonetheless.

Thanks for any assistance.

Russ.

 

Hello I have a question because you system is creating box colider inside my player, and it makes block raycast from there, also it has rigidbody, ( I see there is ignore raycast layer but it seems dont work. ould you help me?

 

Hi Russ,

please try to remove all enviro related components from your camera. You also may want to reimport enviro if you still getting this error.

Best Regards,
Hendrik

 

Could you please show me your raycast code? You may want to use a layerMask in raycasting that exclude the ignore layer.

 

Thanks for the reply, Hendrik,

Removing the enviro objects from the camera resolved the problem.

Thanks again!

Russ.

 

Help please!


ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Argument is out of range.
Parameter name: index
System.Collections.Generic.List`1[EnviroZone].get_Item (Int32 index) (at /Users/builduser/buildslave/mono/build/mcs/class/corlib/System.Collections.Generic/List.cs:633)
EnviroSky.OnEnable () (at Assets/Enviro - Dynamic Enviroment/Scripts/EnviroSky.cs:452)
UnityEditor.DockArea:OnGUI()


NullReferenceException
UnityEngine.Object.Internal_InstantiateSingle (UnityEngine.Object data, Vector3 pos, Quaternion rot) (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/artifacts/generated/common/runtime/UnityEngineObjectBindings.gen.cs:53)
UnityEngine.Object.Instantiate (UnityEngine.Object original, Vector3 position, Quaternion rotation) (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Runtime/Export/UnityEngineObject.cs:156)
UnityEngine.Object.Instantiate[GameObject] (UnityEngine.GameObject original, Vector3 position, Quaternion rotation) (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Runtime/Export/UnityEngineObject.cs:206)
EnviroSky.CreateEffects () (at Assets/Enviro - Dynamic Enviroment/Scripts/EnviroSky.cs:972)
EnviroSky.Start () (at Assets/Enviro - Dynamic Enviroment/Scripts/EnviroSky.cs:440)

 

Please try to reimport enviro from asset store and replace the EnviroSky prefab in your scene.

 

Hello,

I want to have a dark night. So around 0 o'clock nearly black.
Except of this, lighting and Color is totally great as it is in Default Setup.

I tried to set down as suggested values a lot, but nothing happens, it is still very light/bright night:

Sky Luminence


Sky Color Power:


How can I Keep it like in the Defaults, only the night much darker, so it is nearly black at around 0 o'clock?

Thanks a lot and have a nice Weekend!

 

Hey all! Can't search this post for "ICE" because it's too short, which is the case for many assets. However, I am wondering if anybody has integrated with ICE Creature Control yet and doesn't mind sharing?

 

I got it already working. I had 2 scenes with the same prefap lol

 

These two curves are only for the sky rendering. For scene lighting you need to tweak the direct and ambient intensity curves and/or color gradients in lighting category.

 

Thanks! How can I get my Default back for the sky after I saved the Profile in the scene's editor?

 

You can create new default profiles with right click on a folder and then: Create -> Enviro -> Profile. After that you could save the curves or gradients you would like to have back to default as presets and apply them on your main profile.

 

Thanks a lot for the Support!

One more question, I think it will be the last one for a longer time:

I have a water shader. I Need a value between 0 and 1 for it's brightness.
I tried RenderSettings.ambientIntensity but it does not Change it's value.

Do I have to calculate it with the time or is there a brightness value I can use somewhere?

Thanks again

 

Hey how can i get an ingame clock .. Does anyone know this?
With enviro

 

maybe i am wrong but there is static variables to access to hour
Get current time:
int currentSecond = EnviroSky.instance.GameTime.Seconds;
int currentMinute = EnviroSky.instance.GameTime.Minutes;
int currentHour = EnviroSky.instance.GameTime.Hours;
int currentDay = EnviroSky.instance.GameTime.Days;
int currentYear = EnviroSky.instance.GameTime.Years;
float timeOfDay = EnviroSky.instance.internalHour;

them you create script to control

public class reloj : MonoBehaviour {

public short hour = 0;
public short minute;
public short second;
private GUIStyle guiStyle = new GUIStyle();

public GameObject objeto1;


void OnGUI() {

//muestro en la pantalla la hora actual del juego
hour = (short)EnviroSky.instance.GameTime.Seconds;
minute = (short)EnviroSky.instance.GameTime.Minutes;
second= (short)EnviroSky.instance.GameTime.Hours;
guiStyle.fontSize = 30; //change the font size
guiStyle.alignment = TextAnchor.LowerLeft;

GUILayout.Label(hour+" : "+minute+" ." +second+" Dia:"+ EnviroSky.instance.GameTime.Days, guiStyle);


}
}

 

Claudius_I solution should work but there are two function already implemented to get a time string.

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. string time = EnviroSky.instance.GetTimeString();
3. string timeWithSeconds = EnviroSky.instance.GetTimeStringWithSeconds();
4.  

 

I am not 100% sure if this is still the same in Unity 2017, but in Unity 5.5 and 5.6 the ambientIntensity only applies on ambient skybox mode. So you want to modify ambient lighting gradient and curve directly in enviro to tweak the ambient color in flat or tri-light mode. Check the lighting category in enviro profile.

 

No, I want to set a value of my water shader which is 0 for dark and 1 for bright.
I just ask myself, where from enviro I can get the "Overall brightness" value, I tried ambientIntensity but it does not work.

Is there a value in enviro I can use to set my water brightness depending on the daytime Overall brightness?

Thanks!

 

Ah okay sorry, please try this: EnviroSky.instance.GameTime.solarTime

 

@Vondox How's the beta coming.

 

hi Vondox

how exactly work the script Enviro Terrain Vegetation?

 

Hm that is not a real finished component for now. Didn't know that it is still included.

Currently I would not use it but if you want to test make sure to copy and backup your terrain data!

 

Still a slot of work to do. Currently working on transparent support for fog and volume lighting. Enviro 2.0 will include transparent shaders and particle shaders with proper fog support out of the box. But you also can add fog support to your own shaders with about three lines of code later.

 

Perfect! Thanks.

 

[QUOTE = "claudius_I, post: 3232184, Mitglied: 1395277"] Vielleicht bin ich falsch, aber es gibt statische Variablen, um auf die Stunde zuzugreifen
Aktuelle Uhrzeit:
int currentSecond = EnviroSky.instance.GameTime.Seconds;
int currentMinute = EnviroSky.instance.GameTime.Minutes;
int currentHour = EnviroSky.instance.GameTime.Hours;
int currentDay = EnviroSky.instance.GameTime.Days;
int currentYear = EnviroSky.instance.GameTime.Years;
float timeOfDay = EnviroSky.instance.internalHour;

Sie erstellen Skript zu kontrollieren

public class reloj: MonoBehaviour {

öffentliche kurze Stunde = 0;
öffentliche kurze Minute;
öffentliche kurze Sekunde;
private GUIStyle guiStyle = neue GUIStyle ();

öffentliches GameObject objeto1;


void OnGUI () {

// muestro en la pantalla la hora aktuelles deljuego
Stunde = (kurz) EnviroSky.instance.GameTime.Seconds;
Minute = (kurz) EnviroSky.instance.GameTime.Minutes;
second = (kurz) EnviroSky.instance.GameTime.Hours;
guiStyle.fontSize = 30; // Ändere die Schriftgröße
guiStyle.alignment = TextAnchor.LowerLeft;

GUILayout.Label (Stunde + ":" + Minute + "." + Zweite + "Dia:" + EnviroSky.instance.GameTime.Days, guiStyle);


}
}[/ZITAT]
Super hat gearbeitet .. danke

 

Hello! This looks good! A few question before buy..

Is it easy to use with other assets, like for example a variable to show time in UI in upper corner of screen? Have enemy spawn with ICE creature control? Can I use with suimono water system?

 

Hello,
there are two helper function to get a time string you could output to your UI. This is also shown in DemoUI script that is included in Enviro.

Code (CSharp):

1. string time = EnviroSky.instance.GetTimeString();
2. string timeWithSeconds = EnviroSky.instance.GetTimeStringWithSeconds();

Enviro - ICE Integration is planned for next ICE update. But I unfortunaly really don't know when this update hit the store. Oh and I know a few users using Suimono with Enviro, so it should work quite well, but currently can't test it myself.

 

DemoUI so theres a hour & seconds in UI demo? Awesome! Im really considering this.. hows the FPS? Performance..overall?