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

How far have you set the camera's far plane?

 

Hi! I found that the problem is directly related with advanced fog from enviro. When i turn it on, the water disappear in the horizon. It seems that the image effect is rendered over the water plane. Anyone knows how to solve this?

 

Hi, please update enviro. You are using a very old version.

 

Hi,

Just wanted to know if there was an enviro channel on discord?

 

I dont get it. Do I need to make own layer for enviro?

 

Enviro sky is currently layer "Ignore Raycast"?

 

Nope, I haven't created a discord channel for enviro yet.

 

Please check your Project Settings -> Physics -> Layer Collision Matrix. "Default" and "Ignore Raycasting" need to be checked. But you also could use your own layers if you wish.

 

I am having some great results with your asset in the UWS Ultimate Water System! Performance is absolutely fantastic in VR as well.




If you submerge you can still see the clouds through the water . Very happy with the ease of use of implementation as well!

 

This is very pretty! What water asset are you using?

 

UWS Ultimate Water System

 

Hi Clickmatch,

I am using UWS Ultimate Water system and NWH Coding's Dynamic Water Physics for the amazing buoyancy model.

I posted my water settings in the forum thread for that asset as well:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/ult...-water-simulation.493984/page-11#post-3458436

 

Hello,

I have an urgent situation where I am running into an OPENGL build error on Unity 2017.31f1 with the Demo Scene.
3 Different error as posted on the attached screenshot.

Please post a fix for this.

 

I'm having trouble getting rid of the yellow horizon and sunset. Any suggestions?

 

First of all: wonderful asset. I've been able to make some amazing looking lighting/skies.

I do have a tiny problem that I can't figure out. I seem to be losing the volumetric lighting when I build in 2018.1.0f2. I've tested on both Windows and Mac. Everything works and looks amazing in the editor, but as soon as I build then I lose all of the volumetric effects on the sun or, at the very least, it looks drastically different. Any ideas what might be happening?

 

I'd like to improve my night scenes, so here are some feature requests in case these would be considered

* Aurora Borealis
* comet and comet trail
* falling stars
* lightning strikes

 

Hello, OpenGLES != OpenGLCore. Please switch to OpenGLCore if you target PC or Mac. If you need a version for Android you can contact me and I could provide you with a early version of new mobile enviro that should work.

 

Please check your mails.

 

Hello, do you already have included the EnviroVolumeLight shader in "Always Included shaders" list? Please take a look into basic documentation for more information.

 

I am creating a WEB GL build and not a PC or MAC build. What is the solution for this?

 

Oh, man. That was it. Not sure why I didn't think to look.

Thanks a bunch.

 

Please try to remove WebGL 1.0 and OpenGLES from Graphics API list in your Unity settings. Keep only WebGL 2.0. (Edit -> Project Settings -> Player -> Uncheck Auto Graphic APIs).
Same for Editor Graphics Emulation. Select "WebGL 2.0" or "No Emulation". Should build and run fine then.

 

Hoping you can explain this. Not sure what I'm doing wrong as this seems simple, but..?
Everything seems to be working ok. My scene is in play mode. I go to the time controls and edit the 'UTC offset and latitude', to set a new sun position. I apply all settings and save to profile and then turn off play mode.
The sun reverts to it's original position - when pressing play the sun has also gone back to it's old position.

How can I change and keep a new Sun position?

 

HI,

Could I confirm no issues with running latest Unity Asset store Enviro package on Unity 2018. I am getting a strange error to do with ParticleSystem instance - see attached

Any help would be great.

Ta

 

Only the settings that are under "Edit Profile" section can be saved and loaded. Time and location need to be set in edit mode to nor revert.

 

Hello, do you use latest Unity 2018 version? Sorry, I am not sure whats going wrong here.. Anyone else with same issue?

 

Ha - you wouldn't believe how long I messed around with that - so obvious (maybe I need a holiday? lol)
Thanks for the quick reply.

 

Hello!! Unity 2018 support?

 

I´ll try soon, downloading 2018 now..

 

I run in 2018 with no problems.

 

Graphic emulation - No emulation?

 

@Vondox Is there a way to get cloud shadows to show on Terrain & meshes?

When I choose the cloud category to increase shadow strength the whole landscape darkens rather than little patches of light under heavy clouds with openings or smaller shadows under mostly sunny conditions with a few clouds.

 

What is your shadow cookie size at? It is working quite well for me.

 

It's at default from one of your VR demos "10000". Could you possibly show a sceenshot of just shadows on a blank terrain? Watching your videos I didn't seem to come across cloud shadows as well so I wasn't sure if this was a feature or not.

 

This is with 10000 size and full intensity.

The cloud shadows based on light cookies are not a perfect accurate shadow simulation, but therefore very cheap in rendering for your whole scene. It is more a bonus feature that could give your scene some nice atmospheric touch with minimum performance hit.

 

In VR it is hard to see.. even on my Monitor.. Is there some place where I might be able to increase the intensity by at least 2x? maybe more?

 

I think I found another bug with running as a server. Weather no longer updates. Looking through the code I think it's because the weather update logic is checking for "started == true", but that doesn't get assigned when running as a server.

 

Works Perfect!

 

Funny how the quality and effects look better in 2018 with Enviro than in Unity 5.6.. I was very skeptical about 2018 but Im glad I downloaded it. A bit faster and much prettier.

 

Really? Quite interesting to see some comparisons! I am sort of waiting out 2018.

Thanks!

 

You could change that in EnviroShadowCookie shader. Look for _shadowIntensity.

 

Thanks! Will fix that on my side for next update.

Edit: Oh should be already fixed in latest version.

 

Thanks. Do you have an upgrade guide? I haven't updated Enviro in a while because I'm worried about losing our settings.

 

Backup your working project first. Then backup your profile and weather presets as unitypackage. Delete Enviro folder and import new one. After that import your backup and assign your profile to the envirosky prefab. There should be a new button appear "Update Profile".

One note! If you update from 1.9 your weather presets need some love as the cloud system changed.

 

Okay thanks. Any ideas when you will have the next version out?

 

Hi, Vondex recently helped me to implement a street light system so that at night the street lights came on and when off again in the daytime. It works great.

However, There is a fundamental issue with this:

I have day/night cycle at 5mins each for testing and the issue is that the night time comes and it is about a minuite before the lights come on so there is a pitch black period. This is way to long when I set the day and night cycles to 45 mins or similar.

That means that there are several minutes in the pitch black at night time when the lights come on and the same in the morning.

Is there a way to set a more exact time that the streetlights come on? So they come on earlieras the sun begins to go down.

AND... to make them stay on longer in the morning?

Thanks for any assitance.

Much appreciated.

 

I've been looking for something like this myself. I think a time sheet would be great to have to add lights/emissive materials toggled on or a shader that fades in/out multiple random sources over a period of time.

 

Yeah, precision timed lights would be great I agree. I have used three methods to do the change but they all occur on enviro time which is too slow as mentioned.

I changed a few textures to emissive versions at night and back at daylight. Using Actions: CopyPropertiesFromMaterial
The street lights using the Action: LightNoghtsSwitchOne.
And CScape city which has its own texture system and again changes at night.

In short, if it begins to go dark at 6pm, lights come on at 8pm through the above methods at present.

I did discover an alternative asset if this cant be sorted out but would sooner stick with enviro.

The Developer also sent me these instructions but I don't get how they work as I am not a C# coder and so didn't like to play with something I didn't understand what was going on.:

1. To change the timing of day/night switches you have to open EnviroSky script:

Code (CSharp):

1. if (!isNight && GameTime.solarTime < 0.45f) {
2.  
3.                                                               isNight = true;
4.  
5.                                                               if (AudioSourceAmbient != null)
6.  
7.                                                                               TryPlayAmbientSFX ();
8.  
9.                                                               NotifyIsNight ();
10.  
11.                                               } else if (isNight && GameTime.solarTime >= 0.45f) {
12.  
13.                                                               isNight = false;
14.  
15.                                                               if (AudioSourceAmbient != null)
16.  
17.                                                                               TryPlayAmbientSFX ();
18.  
19.                                                               NotifyIsDay ();
20.  
21.                                               }

Change the 0.45f. Otherwise I also could provide you with a more adjustable component later.

But I havent gotten back to him as I am now taking my first steps to solve the issue.

Hope some of that helps? If you understand it please let me know. Thanks


.

 

I believe the 0.45f is about updating on the time frame (f) I use a visual frame work to "discover" properties of other game objects - an "event bridge" I'm no coder myself but using the visual scripting help make you understand how to connect things and make them work like light switches by key press or physical interactions. This case it's a bit different because you are using a system that automates the trigger.

The switch code above seems to only be about audio (sfx) You have to add the code about toggling or switching your materials for emission. You can search on the forum about code for emissive toggle and you could add it above or below the "isNight = true;" line and the toggled off code below the "isNight = false;" line.

Adding a reference to only one material to be toggled/switched will make all light's everywhere be turned on at the same time which may be undesirable.

 

Thanks for the input. I will read that again tomorrow when I am more conscious. lol.

I have only done the basic C# course and it got really heavy regarding switching my thinking around. In short I don't think as a coder so all the IF THIS THEN THAT completely goes over my head.

I just don't know what that code is saying. BUT...
It seems to be: IF it is night and Daylight hours is less than 45 minutes IT IS NIGHT. ELSE if it is night and the hour is GREATER THAN 45 Minutes it is DAY (night=false)...

And some other stuff about choosing an ambient sound...

AND... that there was so confusing to even think about I have no idea what it is saying RATHER... How to change it so that it works. lol.

I'm sure someone from Enviro can explain it.