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

It does add the skybox but the warning stays

 

Okay, please try following then.

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

 

Im having an issue with the Fantasy Adventure Environment cliff. The lights hitting the cliffs flicker when using enviro.



https://imgur.com/fqKsNaR

Do you notice the flickering on the cliffs behind the girl? IT seems to happen when I'm using Enviro. DO you have any idea what could be causing it?

When I disable the enviro directional light the flickering goes away

 

Actually, Lennart is adding CTI integration to Vegetation Studio Pro, so we'll use that with the forthcoming Enviro-VSP integration, which is part of 2.1, right? Would love to try that beta when it's in shape.

 

Thats because the Shadow Bias settings of your Enviro Lightning Object are different. Change them to something similar to your Direct Lightning Object where you don't have the problems.
Normally you have to experiment with it to get the best results when using different terrains etc.
Change "Bias", "Normal Bias" and "Near Plane" and you should be able to avoid those clipping.

Cheers
Ronny

 

Thanks.

Another question, how do i change the night sky color? Ive been trying to but when i change the scattering color it only affects daytime.

 

Apologies if this has been answered previously. Are there any tutorials for syncing Enviro using Photon? Would like to at least sync time of day.

 

I found this post here regarding how to link Enviro to Photon and sync weather. Please note that the scripts need to be updated. There were several errors due to changes in Photon.

 

Also of note, after fixing the errors and adding the script to the EnviroSky prefab, the weather and time of day still did not sync. I set the time of day to run 5 minutes of day and 5 minutes of night, but nothing happened. They were completely out of sync. One had clouds while the other was clear sky. One was night while the other was day. Perhaps I'm doing something incorrect.

 

yes, in the enviro sky menu...

 

In case it is useful, I'm running Unity v2018.2.19f1 and Enviro - Sky and Weather v2.0.5.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

Hi @Vondox ,
Any method in the EnviroSky can let me update the reflection probe manually?

 

Hello, thanks for your report. I have updated and fixed the photon integration for latest photon pun 2 version. Please import the package and add the component to your EnviroSky object.

 

Hi, what color do you want for night time? If you only want night to be brighter blue you can modify the left of "Sky Luminence" (higher values) and "Sky Color Power" (lower values) curves. If you need a stylized night color in another color I could send you a modified shader that got an additional color curve for this.

 

No sorry, I would deactivate the reflection updates in enviro and use your own probe for that.

 

Thanks so much @Vondox. I'll import and let you know if I have any issues.

 

@Vondox One last question: Do I need to set anything in the ObservedComponents of the PhotonView that gets automatically added when I add The EnviroPhotonIntegration component? Thanks!

 

Nevermind. I just tested and it is all working as expected without adding anything to the Observed Components. Thanks so much for your quick response and help!

 

Yes please send it. I'm looking for Stylized Skies including clouds but the sky is more important.

 

Hi, I'm having an issue with the rendering of distant volumetric clouds, and I'm wondering if it's on my end or inherent in the system. It seems that at a certain transition point, the clouds change in density and color, and become slightly misaligned.





The split point becomes very apparent when the weather map is removed.



Is there a solution to this? My project requires a clear view of distant clouds, and the split line poses a serious issue in using the volumetric clouds, which are otherwise exactly what we need. Thanks, and please let me know if you need more information.

 

Hi, I am having this problem with the sky and I can't find any solution.There are these lines which are moving in the sky, looks like they are affected by the sun light... The problem appear just recently, before everything was fine.
Is the problem connected perhaps with enviro sky rendering script?
I really hope that you can help me with this it's basically the last problem which I need to fix and my prototype is ready...
Please let me know if you need more information. Thanks !!!

 

Hello, this will be changed in 2.1.0. But you can easily change that yourself too. Please open the EnviroRaymarchClouds.shader and search for this line:

Code (CSharp):

1. if (details && dist > 0.1)

and change to:

Code (CSharp):

1. if (details)

 

Hello, what you see here is named colour banding and can be stronger or lesser be visible on some monitors. Next version will include an improved dithering to minimize this effect. I can send you a downlaod link for beta version later when I am finished the last beta test version.

 

That did it, thank you so much!

 

One more question, actually. Is there a way to mitigate the rippling effect that seems to happen when the clouds move? Turning up the raymarch seems to help, but the slider maxes out before I can get the look I need.



Thanks again!

 

This is related to samples rate of raymarching. First check your weather preset Raymarch Step modifier. You also can try to lower the maximum height or raise the minimum height of clodus a little bit, and test it with post processing later if they still are that much visible. It also will get a little bit better in 2.1.0.

Edit this is with "Raymarch Steps" = 160, Min Height = 2000 and Max Height = 45000 out of enviro 2.1.0:



Should be enough for not getting low sample artifacts.

 

Lovely, thank you! What's the timeframe on 2.1.0?

 

I only need to update the probe on game start, for I'll only read the time data when the whole scene is loaded. But the global reflection will be wrong if the time is changed too differently.
If I call EnviroSky.instance.Components.GlobalReflectionProbe.RenderProbe() after I changed the gameTime. Will it work?

 

Thank you so much @Vondox !!! Yes please send a link when you are ready, Thanks !!!

 

Yeah, should work.

 

I am not getting any type of errors that I can see. I lose alot of FPS it seems when it turns night time, but its really strange. Most of the time I will start out decent .. around 65 to 70 fps. I dont even have to move and I can sit and watch it drop fps until it gets to around 23fps or so. I can take a video and show you . There is hardly nothing in my world outside of enviro. wamp, a terrain. when I take enviro out completely the fps go to around 70fps

 

Hi, please check the profiler and send me a screenshot of it to find out what exactly eating your fps over time.

 

Hello @Vondox ,

How can we change the clouds time scale at runtime? We've tried with both

Code (CSharp):

1. EnviroInstance.cloudsSettings.cloudsTimeScale = cloudsTimeScale;
2. EnviroInstance.profile.cloudsSettings.cloudsTimeScale = cloudsTimeScale;

but neither seems to do anything at runtime. Is there any method needed to be called to "refresh" the setting?

EDIT: Nevermind, EnviroInstance.cloudsSettings.cloudsTimeScale works just fine. Just found out that I had another script of ours overriding it back to 1f on every time update. I should probably stop working late at night

 

Hi

I'm having an issue with multiple cameras. I know there's an AdditionalCamera script, but I think my use case is somewhat different.

I use two cameras to render the main view:

1. A camera that renders an LOD terrain and the Skybox ONLY
2. A camera that renders everything BUT the LOD terrain and the skybox (clear flag is depth only)

Cam 2 has a near clipping plane of 0.03 and a far clipping plane of 600.
Cam 1 has a near clipping plane of 500 and a far clipping plane of 10000.

The idea is to allow me to overlap the terrain with my LOD terrain, without the LOD terrain being visible at close ranges.

I have set cam 1 to be the Enviro render target, but that means cam 2 doesn't render fog. Adding the AdditionalCamera script to cam 2 does indeed enable fog, but also forces cam 2 to render the skybox which completely covers everything that cam 1 renders, thus defeating the whole purpose.

Is there a way to disable the skybox for additional cameras, while keeping the fog effect?

 

Good afternoon. The question is:
We have an event set once an hour. Everything works fine. But! If the time to fast forward for 3 hours, for example, the events will not work. No built-in functions to solve such problems?

 

We had a similar issue with the implementation in our game with our "sleep" and "pass time" gameplay features, which heavily uses per hour and minute events for handling player stats etc.

What we did was we developed our own controller for calculating the time manually, and whenever we add to the time x hours/minutes we invoke our own events x times.

Code (CSharp):

1. private void Add(int hours, int minutes)
2. {
3.        Minute += minutes; // Minutes from 00 to 59
4.        for (int i = 0; i < minutes; i++) timeEvents.onMinutePassed.Invoke(); // Handle minute passed event
5.  
6.        if (Minute > 59) // Handle Minute cap
7.        {
8.             Minute %= 60;
9.             Hour++; // When minute reach 60, increment hour
10.             timeEvents.onHourPassed.Invoke(); // Handle hour passed event
11.        }
12.  
13.        Hour += hours; // Hours from 00 to 23
14.        for (int i = 0; i < hours; i++) timeEvents.onHourPassed.Invoke(); // Handle hour passed event
15.  
16.        if (Hour > 23) // Handle Hour cap
17.        {
18.             Hour %= 24; // When hour reach 24 increment days
19.             Day++;
20.             timeEvents.onDayPassed.Invoke(); // Handle day passed event
21.        }
22.        //.... handle days and years caps
23. }

You could alternatively "hack in" your own code to check the difference between last time and current time in enviro events script, and invoke the events based on that difference, but I find the first solution more elegant and friendly with enviro updates.

Hope this would help you make an idea on how to handle the issue

 

Hello, yeah that is an unusal setup. I could create a script for you that only does rendering fog on scene that you could use for your secondary camera. The included AdditionalCamera component is meant to be used for multi display setups where you want all enabled enviro effects active for your other displays aswell.

 

Hello, I will have a look to add an built-in solution for that in a future update. For now @MadGoat solution looks fine. Thanks!

 

Hello!

I'm having an issue where the moon doesn't seem to render.... what would be the proper setup for this? I've read somewhere in this thread that the moon camera must be culling only the moon, and the scene camera everything but the moon. I did that, and it's still not working.
I know it's there thought, because I can see the glow that is supposed to come out of it and made my camera face towards it.

 

We absolutely also implemented, though we use only minutes, decided not to use the clock and the code less. I think this is the only adequate and easy result.

This is going to be very good.

 

Hi @XANTOMEN . Could you share what you did to get them properly integrated? Cheers!

 

Hello, do you already assigned a "moon" layer in EnviroSky -> "Rendering Setup"? Looks like it conflicts with some other asset here, so please try another layer.

However in 2.1.0 we don't need this moon camera anymore and no more moon layer setup.

 

Hi, Vondox. I am very much enjoying your asset, having previously used Silverlining and Tenkoku.

I am trying to figure out how I should approach your WeatherPreset-based control system -- my app has previously driven the other assets by setting parameters in an "a la carte" basis, e.g.: how much rain 0-1, how much snow 0-1, etc.

If I wanted to retain my previous model for specifying conditions, how might I proceed? My attempt to use the following code did not produce rain or snow (I tried this with updateWeather = true and false).

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. eSky.Weather.snowStrength = 0.5f;
3. eSky.Weather.wetness = 0.5f;
4.  

If you really don't intend it to be used that way, I can just buckle down and use your WeatherPresets, but I would want to be able to specify which one I want to be used in script, asking your updating only to provide a transition to the new weather. I am not sure I see how to do that last part from your documentation.

tone

 

Hello, please take a look into the Enviro WAPI Integration component. You could either use WAPI directly(https://github.com/adamgoodrich/WorldManager) or rewrite the component. This way you can use simple floats to control the weather of your scene. The system will translate your input to a matching weather preset that way.

 

Yup, even created a new layer just to double-check if it would fix it. Assigning a new layer doesn't fix it for me. I noticed that the camera component was unchecked on the moon camera, is that normal ? It's interferring with the main camera of the game if i turn it on, thought. Any ETA on 2.1.0 ?

 

I'm really glad to have Enviro, great asset. Have few questions.

Cloud shadows are still not %100 accurate right? Is there any way to achieve some light scattering among the clouds? Something like this:
https://i.imgur.com/EP9sTXd.png


And i need 2 solutions for this scene maybe you can guide me.
https://i.imgur.com/GyNpcYD.png
1 - I have a transparent Volumetric Fog (Volumetric Fog&Myst) for volcano smoke and want to mask Enviro clouds behind it. Normally you dont see clouds with %100 smoke alpha but i wrote a script that when player goes away it starts to be transparent for blending with scene & Enviro distant fog. Yeah it blends pretty good but also you start to see clouds & sun behind it. Actually if it would work with enviro distant fog, my issue would have been resolved and there would be no need for transparency for smoke. How can i blend Volumetric Fog smoke with enviro distant fog?
https://i.imgur.com/TW2HKWV.png


https://i.imgur.com/GyNpcYD.png
2 - Also how to mask this mountain from morning sun glare?

 

Stupid question, which probably has a very easy solution. Is there an easy way to make the sun rise in the West and set in the East (temporarily)? This is for a fly-through in which I want the sun set in the direction I'm flying, while getting some landmarks in the fustrum.

 

Hello, sorry those god rays through clouds are currently not implemented. But will be added in a later update.

About your smoke: You need to modify the volume fog shader to include the enviro fog function for that. Unfortunaly I don't have this asset, but please contact me in private chat if you need help with that.

Could you please send me your enviro profile about your mountain glare? Looks a but strange and should look different.

 

Hello, please try to rotate the EnviroSky object transform to match your scenery.

 

Hey, the Photon sync seems to be a bit broken (or at least while using the UFPS Multiplayer Photon)