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

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So here is the static cubemap that I am using for my game levels. With enviro, what I can do is render a cubemap with just the sun in it (the sun spot is FP16) and expose it in such a way that I can light my entire level with just this cubemap with no light whatsoever. And then I can add enviro on top, such as match the sun position and add cloud layers. With the stock skybox shaders, you can't get the full HDR range without some tricks... so I am glad I will be able to do this

 

Is anyone getting flickering clouds when you set the cloud mode to Both? I am testing out flat clouds and they are flickering like mad.

 

A mix of the HDR cube map and Enviro... perfect for overcast scenes. And the lightning is a nice touch too...

 

@Vondox You sir have created a KICK ass asset! And it works with UFE with NO modification ... look out for a VERY FAVOURABLE review.

 

Great. Thanks!

 

Edit: FIXED

First want to say Eniro looks great! Just bought it yesterday and already like it a lot.
Now for my question, i want to make some more profiles->weather (types) and I saw your video and read the instuction but when i want to edit the clouds and more in runtime it does not seem to save the changes.

(link to your tutorial)

And outside runtime i don't see the clouds so i don't see what i change
Any idea what the problem is?


Edit:
A found it... I want really slow transfers form one weather type to the other. So it took a reaaaaaally long time before the changes began to show up

 

Hello Vondox,

I think the interior skybox Color does not work?



I have it turned on, Color set to extreme dark green (as in light modification).
But it is still visible in the distance, while the rest is dark.
And when I manipulate the time it gets light and dark...

By the way: What was again the value to completly turn off ambient and weather Audio in the interior?

Thanks a lot

 

Hi,

How do I get clouds to appear when I set my own weather settings. They dont appear for me no matter what I enter

 

I'm having trouble with Enviro when loading scenes additively. I can set the EnviroSky prefab to persist using DontDestroyOnLoad, but when I set the same on the "Enviro Effects" game object, it persists after the new scene is loaded, but then EnviroSky deletes it and fails to create a new one.

For now, I'm putting Enviro in every new scene and have it "overwrite" the previous one, but I'd prefer to keep it in my base scene and just change the profile as needed. How can I do this?

 

Hi, I've recently encountered a bug (seemingly) where the sky is pink after building for Mac.



^Above is a simple scene I made to test this. As seen, in the editor the Envirosky is working perfectly.



^However, as seen above, upon building the project and running it on Mac, the Envirosky is pink instead. The sounds in the Enviro zone are still playing and I did not make any modifications whatsoever to anything.

Is this a bug or are there some graphics settings I got wrong?

 

Ah okay, I think it is the skyfog! I will add another option to handle that too. Sorry :/
You want to set them to -1 to turn off sounds.

 

Do you alredy have added your own weatherpreset to the enviro zone component and changed the weather to your new preset?

 

Thank for your report! I will investigate and improve that in next update.

 

Hello,

yea looks like a bug. There were issues with volume clouds on some macs with metal. I also added a notification on store page and currently investigating/created a unity bug report as no errors are shown.
I need a few more information to check whats going wrong on your side. Do you use OpenGLor Metal api? Do you have volume clouds activated? Do you already added the Enviro/VolumeLight shader to the always included shader list unity graphic settings?

 

HI,
I have 2 white flashes that appear after the moon disapeared from horizon few seconds later...My time is 1mn for day and night....Didin't notice it before...Is it from a setting ?looks like an intensity that goes up and down real quick..
Thanks

 

If an update would be possible without having to set up Enviro completly again by exchanging some file(s) please let me know.

Thanks a lot!

 

Seems like the new shadows option is using a traditional shadowmapping. I don't really like how it behaves. First, it's way too big and fast, the whole place turns dark for some time and then quickly back to normal. They are tied to clouds themselves and can't really be tweaked without tweaking clouds themselves. But more importantly they are running on Shadowmapping rather than directional light's cookie.

These are the reasons why I think having cloud shadows on Directional Light's cookie will be better:
-Easily configurable
-Cast shadows beyond shadow distance (important)
-Cheaper

I would really like to have cloud shadows rendered through cookies. I don't think it'll be too much of a hassle to plug Weather Map there and apply offsets to directional light so that shadows won't move with the player.

 

Do you see those flashes only in sky or is it the scene lighting?

 

Yea, already noted in update notes, that current cloud shadow implemtation is bad and will be dropped for a better solution.

I also thought about light cookies as a good solution, but need to fix a few issue I ran into when trying to implement shadows that way. I don't wanted to delay the 2.0.1 update anymore and stopped working on that front for now. So better cloud shadows will be added to 2.1.

 

where has the fixed altitude button gone for the clouds, i can't seem to find it.

 

How do you get rid of all of the ambient audio? Following the instructions I only find a section for Thunder audio, not the rest of the stuff that comes along for the ride.

 

After using Enviro for the past week with little issue, I am suddenly unable to see the rain particles. Everything seems to working correctly (changing presets at runtime...), but the rain is no longer visible.

I am integrating with Gaia and CTS.

Any suggestions, or advice is greatly appreciated!

 

Hi Vondox,

I'm using OpenGL on my Mac, so it shouldn't be a problem with metal. I'm using the direct light and not the volume light. I tested out what you said with the volume clouds by changing the clouds to flat and yes, the sky is normal-coloured. So I guess the problem is with the volume clouds.

Yes, I did include the enviro shaders under the always included settings and the volume clouds are still pink. However, the lighting and fog etc. are still rendering find.

Thanks for your help!

 

Hi, I am getting the following errors upon importing Enviro in Unity 2017.2

Shader error in 'Enviro/Particles/WeatherParticles': failed to open source file: '../../Resources/Shaders/Core/EnviroFogCore.cginc' at line 26 (on d3d11)
Compiling Vertex program
Platform defines: UNITY_ENABLE_REFLECTION_BUFFERS UNITY_USE_DITHER_MASK_FOR_ALPHABLENDED_SHADOWS UNITY_PBS_USE_BRDF1 UNITY_SPECCUBE_BOX_PROJECTION UNITY_SPECCUBE_BLENDING UNITY_ENABLE_DETAIL_NORMALMAP SHADER_API_DESKTOP UNITY_LIGHT_PROBE_PROXY_VOLUME

Shader error in 'Enviro/Puddles_HQ': failed to open source file: '../../Resources/Shaders/Core/EnviroFogCore.cginc' at line 35 (on d3d11)
Compiling Vertex program with DIRECTIONAL LIGHTMAP_OFF DIRLIGHTMAP_OFF DYNAMICLIGHTMAP_OFF
Platform defines: UNITY_ENABLE_REFLECTION_BUFFERS UNITY_USE_DITHER_MASK_FOR_ALPHABLENDED_SHADOWS UNITY_PBS_USE_BRDF1 UNITY_SPECCUBE_BOX_PROJECTION UNITY_SPECCUBE_BLENDING UNITY_ENABLE_DETAIL_NORMALMAP SHADER_API_DESKTOP UNITY_LIGHT_PROBE_PROXY_VOLUME

Is there a way to resolve them? I might mention that I have Gaia, LightingBox and CTS in the project.

 

Awesome work. Bought this from sale and totally enjoying using Enviro with latest MicroSplat-modules .

 

Is there some way to set the fog center point ? I thought the 'focused player' would be that but it does not seems to change anything at all, the fog center is always the camera.

 

To me they appear behind the horizon so i would say it seems local ...

 

Greetings... I have multiple scenes in my project, each one either has unique Enviro settings or no Enviro settings (such as transit levels). All work fine on their own, but if I am in an enviro scene and transit to a scene without enviro.. enviro carries across the settings in EnviroEffects in a DontDestroyOnLoad scene component which then errors out in the transition scene.

Is there an easy way to kill the DontDestroyOnLoad function so that each scene picks up only the settings for that scene, or none if Enviro is not used in that scene?

M

 

This is a known issue, we're waiting on a fix; hopefully in the next update.

 

Ahh sorry my fault for not reading back far enough.

I HATE upgrading assets, it usually breaks something important, but in this case, not an option

Hopefully theres an upgrade path document produced to go with it

M

 

Sorry, currently not implemented for volume clouds. But I can add that option back in next update.

 

The ambient sounds are in each weather preset. Go though all of them and just set them to "none".

 

Hm please check if you have assigned the correct player. Mybe also check the position of the Enviro Effects object in runtime. It should be at your player position.

 

Please reimport enviro and make sure that all files in "Ressources" folder are correctly imported. There is a folder "Shaders" -> "Core". Your error sounds like that EnviroFogCore.cginc file is missing in your project.

 

Fog is an image effect and always uses the camera as "central point". Maybe we can change that, but haven't tested for now. It would need some modifications in shader.

 

Do you already updated to 2.0.1? That version has an option for DontDestroyOnLoad in "Rendering Setup". If you disable that you should be fine. Just update Enviro by importing over your current installation. Profiles can be updated. Once you assign a older version profile you get a new button to update profile to recent version and won't loose your settings.

 

phew. OK done and all seems fine.

TY again

M

 

@Vondox
I just updated to 2.0.1, and I found two issues. Quite easy to work around, thankfully

If I set Weather Update Interval to 0, the clouds have trouble updating. I plan on controlling weather manually, but I just set it to a high value for now.

The galaxy cube map seems to be a bit low res, or at least it appears that way. Is there some way to tweak this?

 

Hello Vondox,

how can I set the day and night length in minutes dynamically with the script?
I plan a Option for "frightmode" with a Long night.

And is there already a way to turn the skybox off at daytime when in an interior / Underground?

Thanks a lot

 

Hey!

When I import Enviro 2.0.1 into an otherwise blank 2017.2.0f3 project I get the following error spammed in console :

Assertion failed: Assertion failed on expression: 'scriptParameterClass != NULL'

It happens even if Enviro is not used in the scene (just imported) and unfortunately has quite an impact on editor performance.

Best regards
Alex

 

You can disable auto weather updates in "Weather Controls" section on EnviroSky Inspector. Just disable "Update Weather".

Here is a link for a free high resolution milky way cubemap. https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/94001

Just swap the default one with the highres one in "Edit Profile" -> "Sky" category.

 

You can control the day and night length in your script with these lines:

Code (CSharp):

1. EnviroSky.instance.GameTime.DayLengthInMinutes = 1f;
2. EnviroSky.instance.GameTime.NightLengthInMinutes = 1f;

Haven't checked but you may could set your camera to "solid color" clear flag when underground.

 

Sorry, hat error looks like it is a unity bug.

https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/is...ntaining-onterrainchanged-api?page=2#comments

 

Hi, I'm replacing my evironment module with enviro. It's really nice that enviro supports other assets, like megasplat, AQUAS and so on. The weather effects (especially the snow particles) doesn't looks good, but they can be replaced. What I'am missing is the current temperature, that was available in the old environment solution. Is this small feature maybe in sight? If not, then I would implement it myself.

 

Hi,

I'm trying to use the Fog Volume integration. I'm aware that it is WIP but I'm getting 4 compile errors as soon as I unzip the package. The integration is trying to access variables that don't exist within EnviroSky.

If it's because it's still WIP then thats fine. Was just wondering. I assumed it was WIP because it needs improvement rather than doesn't work at all.

Cheers (p.s. Enviro is amazing thanks for making it)

 

Hello, I just bought enviro and I have two bugs and a question.

First bug, in your main script :

Code (CSharp):

1.    public void CreateEffects ()
2.    {
3.        GameObject old = GameObject.Find ("Enviro Effects");
4.  
5.        if (old != null)
6.            DestroyImmediate (old);
7.  
8.        EffectsHolder = new GameObject ();
9.        EffectsHolder.name = "Enviro Effects";
10.  
11.                 if (Application.isPlaying)
12.                   DontDestroyOnLoad(EffectsHolder);

What is the point of this ? You set DontDestroyOnLoad but you create a new instance when reloading the scene.
The only interest of using DontDestroyOnLoad is to keep the same instance when reloading.

And GameObject.Find does not work because the object you search for is no longer in the active scene.
The result is having two instances of the effects.
I removed the last two lines, it seems to be working fine.

Second bug :

I have this error when using SetWeatherOverwrite :

MissingReferenceException: The object of type 'AudioSource' has been destroyed but you are still trying to access it.

Your script should either check if it is null or you should not destroy the object.

EnviroSky.UpdateAudioSource (.EnviroWeatherPreset i) (at Assets/Enviro - Dynamic Enviroment/Scripts/EnviroSky.cs:2179)

EnviroSky.UpdateWeather () (at Assets/Enviro - Dynamic Enviroment/Scripts/EnviroSky.cs:2397)

EnviroSky.Update () (at Assets/Enviro - Dynamic Enviroment/Scripts/EnviroSky.cs:1327)

I am loading a new scene at the same time so maybe the bug is caused by a heavy load on processor and you have an update while changing weather ?
( loading is additive and enviro is in my manager scene )


And the question :
I have enviro in my manager scene.
I have separate scenes for exteriors and interiors
What is the best way to stop enviro when loading interior scene ? ( lighting, weather and sounds )

 

Do you already updated to 2.0.1? Should be already fixed. Maybe try to delete the archive and reimport from latest version.

 

I also had to turn off EnviroSkyRendering. Now it works perfect.
You do not have to add a sky box Color for me for interior.
Thanks!

 

Hello,

please update to 2.0.1. You got an option in "Rendering Setup" to enable/disable DontDestroyOnLoad feature and that also will apply on all enviro objects except your camera and player.

The EnviroEffects object will be created once in Start(). In order to keep the instance when loading scenes not additive you have to keep/enable the DontDestroy flag. If you see two instances of EnviroEffects you most likely have two insatnces of EnviroSky that isn't supported.

Your second error is because of missing EnviroEffects object(Loading new scene without dontdestroy on EnviroEffects object). I will add an null check and a debug error in next update, thanks for mentioning.

On first look you need to update to 2.0.1 and enable the dontdestroy feature in Enviro. You also need make sure that you only load the scene that includes enviro once! I will have a detailed look into that for next update 2.0.2 and may add a few things to prevent errors related to scene loading.

About you question:
Do you want to have time still progressing when in an interior scene or a full stop of everything?

 

I want to refine the weather parameters/system in 2.1 update to make the system more realistic and better work with shaders like LUX, UBER or Mega/Microsplat. I also will add a temperature system then.