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

Thank you very much!!

 

Hello, I have send you a private message as we may have to take a look into your setup in a screenshare.

 

So, the thing here is that the sun does not glow behind the clouds when it is obscured. I've messed with the scattering parameters and found some approximations of this effect, but I think in reality we'd see a rough shape of the sun behind them.

The shot below is from our setup with Enviro (which looks great btw, this is just a detail I'm interested in)



This is an actual photo.Depending on the thickness of the clouds, a certain amount of the sun shines through.



Let me know if you have ideas for achieving this effect. Cheers

 

Hello, sorry such rough shape of the sun disc like in your photo currently is not possible. I may will add another setting to allow for that later. Currently you could raise the "HG Phase" setting to allow for more directional sun scattering.

For example with less dense clouds and HG Phase set to 0.75 instead of 0.4:



These screenshots also from next update 2.1.2 with some improved clouds lighting I worked on for 2.2.0 update.

 

Hi, will the Aura 2 integration be part of the 2.2 update ?
Thanks.

 

Hi, yes. Aura 2 integration will be added in one of the next updates.

 

@Vondox that new shot looks great!

I'm seeing a bunch of LWRP and HDRP stuff in the codebase. Have you announced a release window for those?

Also, I have to tell you that I was planning on stacking HX Volumetric Lighting on top of Enviro, but your Volumetric solution actually works very well for us.This was a happy surprise, as I only bought Enviro for the clouds and sky stuff. I wonder, how do you rate the performance of your volumetrics? I haven't done a thorough analysis yet and just curious what you figure I should expect.

 

I'm finding that in the latest version 2.1.1 any attempt to set the progressTime setting to .None will revert to .Simulated when we enter play mode. Looking at the code this appears to happen in EnviroSky.cs:1378 in Play(). Suggest sending the inspector value in as that param instead of always .Simulated.

 

Ok got another one for you @Vondox.

When EnviroSkyMgr is in a separate scene from a volume light, the volume light is getting enabled = false when entering play mode. Looks like EnviroVolumeLight.cs:118 is where it's happening. If I comment out that line, the Volume Light is enabled but does not render. If I flip it enabled = false then true in editor, it renders.

Like I said, EnviroSkyMgr is present in the game, but it is in another scene that is loaded concurrently. This doesn't strike me as an uncommon setup. If I move EnviroSkyMgr into the same scene as the volume lights, they are enabled properly and render.

Looks like a race condition. I have a local fix that looks like this (around that line)

Code (CSharp):

1.    
2.     IEnumerator TryEnableNextFrame()
3.     {
4.         yield return null;
5.         this.enabled = true;
6.     }
7.  
8.     /// <summary>
9.     ///
10.     /// </summary>
11.     void OnEnable()
12.     {
13.         if (EnviroSkyMgr.instance == null)
14.         {
15.             StartCoroutine(TryEnableNextFrame());
16.             this.enabled = false;
17.             return;
18.         }
19.     }
20.  

 

Hello,

sorry no release window for srp support yet. But it won't be that far away. As I don't have any third party volume light assets right now, it is hard to compare.

Thank, already fixed that one on my side and will be in included in 2.1.2 that should be released in the next days.

Thanks again! I will have a look into this and add it to 2.1.2.

 

Hey @Vondox , from script is possible to sync the time / weather between the HDInstance and LWInstance before activating one of them? Or i have to copy all values manually?

Thanks

 

I updated to 2.1.1, but the moon still isn't right -- I checked the young crescent (screenshot) and quarter phase, same issue with both. Are these the tricky ones that aren't fixed yet?

 

Hello, currently you need to sync those yourself. But I will add a function for that.

 

Hello, I have further worked on this for 2.1.2 and could send you a modified shader to test. I will contact you in skype.

 

Hey @Vondox , observing an issue with 2.1.0 when using Distance Blur in combination with Volumetric clouds.

When moving the camera, there is a flickering around the sun which seems to be a result of the blur operation. It seems worse when "High Quality" is checked. Without that, the flickering is reduced (but a black spot appears in the centre of the sun at the point of flicker)... does that point to NaN results from the shader ?

Whilst playing around with the various settings to try and see what influences it, I increased the blur radius from 7 to 10, and the editor game window flood filled, crashed Unity, locked the graphics driver and the whole machine - the only way out was a hard reset !! Something doesn't seem right with this.. maybe you've seen it already ?

Distance Blur config that produces the flickering:
Anti Flicker = ON
High Quality = ON
Radius = 7
Blur Distance = 2000
Blur Intensity = 0.5
Sky Blur Intensity = 2.5

On Unity 2017.4.21f1, Windows platform, Deferred setup

 

I have not updated Enviro for a while, I like the new switch to desktop/mobile. So I'm trying...

How could I instantiate and enable everything in runtime? I cannot find the functions on the included PDF (I'm still reading this forum, btw).

My game has lots of settings, I don't include Enviro or any other heavy package in my scenes to allow it to be executed in low end PCs. So I need a way to:

* Load Enviro Manager from a resource prefab (it maybe an empty prefab with Enviro prefab inside)
* Load and activate PC or Mobile versions (also with resources, so they won't be loaded in a blank scene)

On old versions I just put the Enviro prefab inside a Resources folder and it worked very well, I load it with Resources.Load depending on user settings, but now with these changes I'm stuck hehe.

I hope that it continue working this way, it's an amazing asset.

 

Hello, thanks for your report! I could reproce the black screen when setting blur radius to 10. Need to limit that in next update. But I could not get any black pixel with your settings on my side. Could you please send me your profile and weather preset for debugging?

 

Hello, you would need to create the manager prfab yourself and add both versions and save that as prefab in your resources folder. It should look like this:


Now you can instantiate and switch between enviro version like this:

Code (CSharp):

1.     void Start ()
2.     {
3.        //Instatiate the Manager prefab that have both version already setup
4.        Instantiate(Resources.Load("Enviro Sky Manager", typeof(GameObject)));
5.     }
6.    
7.     void Update ()
8.     {
9.         if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Alpha1))
10.         {
11.             //Activate and assign/start lite version
12.             EnviroSkyMgr.instance.ActivateLWInstance();
13.             EnviroSkyMgr.instance.AssignAndStart(Camera.main.gameObject, Camera.main);
14.         }
15.  
16.         if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Alpha2))
17.         {
18.             //Activate and assign/start standard version
19.             EnviroSkyMgr.instance.ActivateHDInstance();
20.             EnviroSkyMgr.instance.AssignAndStart(Camera.main.gameObject, Camera.main);
21.         }
22.  
23.     }

 

That's an interesting Point for my next game that should run on PC and Android and maybe iOS.

Can I use Enviro this way for having a game that runs the Low Instance für Smartphones, and the HD for PC?
Smartphones should be not too old and need some good performance in my case anyway...

 

Is there a function or variable I could check within Enviro to come up with a 0->1 measure of the degree of light in the scene, such as 0 == darkest night and 1 == noon on a cloudless day?

I'm trying to calculate when an AI person might choose to use a searchlight.

tone

 

My characters carry torches depending on the daytime

 

Also -- is "date and time" always in UTC in Enviro?

If I assume DateAndTime dateTime is in UTC, why is there a utcOffset variable in addition to the longitude? Isn't utcOffset derived from longitude?

tone

 

Sure will do at the next opportunity... glad you found half of the issue already...

 

Hello, you could use EnviroSkyMgr.instance.Time.solarTime for that. It has exactly the range you are looking for.

Enviro currently does not auto detect correct utcOffset for your location. So you can set it yourself and will have correct times.

 

Hello, short: Yes!

 

Great, thanks

 

i have the wierd problem, the progress time set evrytime, i reload the scene back to Simulated. how can i prevent this?
using Units2018.3.13f1

 

Hello, will be fixed in 2.1.2 that I will upload tomorrow. I also can send you an hotfix if you need asap.

 

Profiles dispatched to you...

 

Thanks a lot, it worked! I just created two prefabs, so on mobile it won't even load the desktop version (otherwise I think that its assets are loaded in memory since they are referenced by an object in the scene).

One little problem: the time progress when canvas is shown goes so fast (I think that it is the same problem related by Noa3). Is this a bug or something went wrong just here?

Also a short question, where can I find the option for shadow intensity? I was using 0.7 before but I have not seen it in this version (to get a soft color for shadows). Or maybe I just missed it, hehe.

Enviro is amazing, great visuals and quality, it completely changes the scene. Love it!

 

thx for your hard work!

 

Hey @Vondox I have an error after import into an empty project..


Assets\Enviro - Sky and Weather\Enviro Standard\Scripts\EnviroVolumeLight.cs(290,8): error CS0619: 'VRSettings' is obsolete: 'VRSettings has been moved and renamed. Use UnityEngine.XR.XRSettings instead (UnityUpgradable)'

 

Hello, please click on "Assets" -> "Run API Updater". I will fix this in next update to use new api for newer Unity version. So you won't need to auto update when importing.

 

My Enviro 2.0.2 setup has gotten corrupted somehow. The component links were lost.

The sequence of failure I see now is this:

1. Argument is out of range (index) in this line: Weather.currentActiveWeatherPreset = Weather.zones[0].currentActiveZoneWeatherPreset;
2. a NullReferenceException occurs two calls after this last line in EnviroSky: GameObject SFX = (GameObject)Instantiate (Audio.SFXHolderPrefab, Vector3.zero, Quaternion.identity);
3. Then, I get continual complaints that SunTransform is not set, even though I have faithfully assigned the Sun GameObject to the field in EnviroSky's Component Setup section.

edit: I am on my way back to sanity after updating Enviro and recreating my scene.

tone

 

When choosing presets with high wind, such as Storm, the trees whip around like crazy, but the details such as grass and flowers wave back and forth very serenely. I know the trees use a wind zone, and the details use terrain settings, so I'm not sure there's anything you could do about it. My only thought for a work-around is to use SpeedTree's tree-based grass assets, but I'm not sure what impact that would have on performance.

 

Hello, easiest way would be to replace prefab or update enviro and use the new manager to setup. Please note that you have to delete enviro and cleanup you scene before using latest enviro version.

 

Hello, yeah the terrain grass system unfortunaly not work with windzones. You would need to set the wind for grass directly in terrain. I will have a look and send you some code for that after weekend.

 

Hello Hendrik,

I am using the grass shader from vegetation studio for my grass, but I have no Terrain, but am using own dynamically created chunks and voxels.
I hoped the wind from enviro in the scene animates my Vegetation Studio grass, but I never got it working.

If that Maybe the same Problem as you mentioned, I am also interested in that Code Thanks!

 

Brilliant! Sorry for the late reply but yeah, I use the Assign On Runtime option. It looks like 2.1.2 isn't online yet, it'd be great to get hold of that hotfix though please!

 

Hello, I have send you a private message with hotfix.

 

hi just wondering, i messed around with fog lately, and seems like enviro does not have a volumetric fog solution, is this correct? is there something planned in this direction? or am i missing something?

 

Can you please update the product documentation with information on how to increase night time minimum light intensity independent of seasons. Each time I have to remove and add Enviro to my project again I forget how to do this.

Keep up the good work...

 

Hi @Vondox

First, congrats on 2.X release, I played with it for the first time recently and I'm having some issues

I've set it up quite basically, actually just disabled most of the features (the game is top-down, so I mostly just need the weather and night&day system)

Let me go directly to the problem. When times run, it's perfect, sun is rotating as it should and shadows all move very well.
But the catastrophe happens at the curse time of 16:46

Here is a screenshot on how it looks at 16:45 (no issue)


And here is the issue at 16:46


I'm thinking that the issue is mostly with shadows (they all disappeared if you check both screenshots) my grass became totally black (It's a specific shader so that might explain why the other plants are still "lit")

I'm really having a hard time troubleshooting that one. If you have any idea I'm taking anything

Thanks a lot, keep up the great work (looking forward for Aura 2 integration as well ^^)

 

Hello, I planned improvements for fog rendering for update 2.2.

 

Hello, I will update and improve documentation from time to time.

You can increase the moon light intensity here:



Please note: There are times/days where no moon is visible in night, when using realistic moon position in "Sky" settings. Use the "Simple" mode to have always have a moon in night.

 

Hello, that is strange... I can't reproduce that jump in direct light intensity on my side. Could you please check your "direct light intensity" curve by clicking in it and check if there is something wrong?
Also could you please check if disabling NGSS actually bring shadows back?

 

do you have any date range when this’ll be available?

 

Hello,

i am a happy customer of Enviro - great Package!
Currently i encounter a transition problem as the fog seems to jump between weather changes. Can someone confirm this ? I cant really say which parameter it is :/ But you can see it in the Sample scene aswell - just switch between Clearsky and Cloudy1.
happy day

 

Hello,

I fixed the first issue with the time and the weird jump in intensity by reinstalling Enviro from scratch
But I found out that I still have an issue making my grass goes all black when I enable the Cloud shadows
I've just set the weather to Cloudy 3 and set the cloud shadow intensity to 1 and the cookie size to 1000 (the minimum)

Without cloud shadows:



With Cloud shadows:



Even setting the cloud shadows intensity to the very very minimum the grass turns black instantly. It's only if that intensity is at 0 that the grass is green

If you have any idea about that?

 

Hi, update is planned in late May.