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

Thanks, for your report. I will have a look into this before I upload 2.1.2 now. Besides this 2.1.2 is pretty much ready for release.

 

Hello, looks like that your grass shader does not work with directional light cookies. Please send me your shader in a private message and I can have a look into this.

 

Hey, the star twinkling effect in 2.1 is neat, but I'd actually like to disable it. I can set the twinkle rate to 0, but there still seems to be a spleckled-black overlay in front of the Stars cube map. Is there a way to remove that?

 

Hello, thanks for your suggestion. I will add an option to disable stars twinkling in 2.1.2.

 

@Vondox I’m a bit behind with the Enviro roadmap. I know I saw in some of your posts that you are working on hdrp version. Is it out already?

I would like to upgrade my project to hdrp and enviro is driving some core ai mechanics (based on time of day).

 

Is there a way of making the weather map pan in the direction of the wind zone? I mainly want Cloud shadows on the ground to go in the same direction as my fog.

 

Hello, sorry srp support isn't out yet.

 

Hello, it does as when you use the "Use WindZone Direction" option in "Edit Profile" -> "Cloud Settings" -> "Wind Settings". Also make sure to set a positive "Weather Anim Speed Scale".

 

Hello, folks!
Anyone can tell me why I get fps drop from 4 PM to 6:30 PM in the evening and 6 AM to 9 AM in the morning?

 

Would it be possible to get a fog speed multiplier so I can crank the wind force for my trees and avoid having fog being incredibly fast

 

@Vondox Can you please check the Volumetric Light in Single Pass Stereo ... It looks like the right eye got a slight offset.
Happy Weather

 

Hello, sounds like it is related to raising shadow casters at dawn/dusk, You naturally will see more shadow casters when sun stays low.

 

Hello, thanks for your feature request. I will add this in next update.

 

Hello, what Unity version do you tested and what VR SDK you use? Single-pass rendering sometimes tend to break with Unity updates. I will take a look and provide a fix, once I know your version.

 

Yeah sure , sry for not thinking on that Its 2018.3.12f1 .
I am thinking to use Nvidias VRWorks ... did you tested it with enviro ?
yours
Damir

 

Just Update 2.10 to 2.11 and get some problems
Same profile and time , the moon light(different rotation angles??Why?)is gone.
How can I fix it?

(Same time)
Ver2.10
Ver2.11

 

Hello, sorry for that one. Please open the EnviroCore.cs and search and for this line and remove the "//":

Code (CSharp):

1. Components.DirectLight.rotation = Components.Moon.transform.rotation;

I will finish 2.1.2 now and upload it to the asset store today.

Code (CSharp):

1. Changelog 2.1.2:
2.  
3. ---- Fixes
4. * Fixed issue that resets the "progress time" mode.
5. * Fixed issue that destroys the weather effects causing a null reference error.
6. * Fixed incorrect moon phases finally.
7. * Fixed moon light rotation.
8. ---- Volume Clouds:
9. * Greatly improved volume clouds performance.
10. * Greatly improved lighting and visuals of volume clouds.
11. * Greatly improved weather map generation speed.
12. * Added more control over weather map generation. This brings more different cloud formations.  
13. * Added mip levels to volume clouds 3D textures.  
14. * Added new slider to control the clouds height.
15. * Added new options for clouds formation control in weather presets.
16. * Minor changes in volume clouds interface.
17. ---- General
18. * Reworked all standard weather profiles.
19. * Reworked standard profiles sky and lighting settings.
20. * Some code rework in EnviroSkyRendering script.
21. * Added a post effect stack v2 profile I used while developing.
22. * Added a new setting to define a temperature when snow starts to melt.
23. * Disabled stars twinkling when setting stars twinkling rate to "0".

 

Changes look great!

> Reworked all standard weather profiles.
So if I've tweaked the weather profiles quite a bit, should I not update them....but then would I be missing some good improvements?

 

You can keep them. But as there changed a lot you have to go through your weather presets and set the volume clouds settings.

 

Vondox, I was going to just start using the script to control the time and weather preset settings (to get around the reset of the progress time item) but I couldn't correctly figure out how to change to a specific weather preset. When I try to read the current active it comes back null, and I can't seem to output the list of available. Is there a full C# example that someone could point me to on how to change the current weather preset? Thanks!

 

Hi,
Just downloaded the latest version.
Got this compile error.
Assets/Enviro - Sky and Weather/Enviro Standard/Scripts/EnviroVolumeLight.cs(423,8): error CS0619: 'VRSettings' is obsolete: 'VRSettings has been moved and renamed. Use UnityEngine.XR.XRSettings instead (UnityUpgradable)'

Any solution for this?

Thx.

 

Hi @Vondox

A couple of sky materials are being written to when we enter play mode. Could you consider cloning them? They're showing up as changed in source control.

/Assets/Enviro - Sky and Weather/Core/Materials/Enviro_CloudsLayer_1.mat
/Assets/Enviro - Sky and Weather/Core/Materials/Enviro_CloudsLayer_2.mat

Thanks

 

Hello, please check the documentation.

To change weather:

Code (CSharp):

1. EnviroSkyMgr.instance.ChangeWeather(int weatherID);
2. EnviroSkyMgr.instance.ChangeWeather(EnviroWeatherPreset weatherPreset);
3. EnviroSkyMgr.instance.ChangeWeather(string weathername);

To get a list of all weather presets (Please note that weather list will be generated based on all your zones in first frame after start. So you may need to use a coroutine with "yield return null" when you want to get weather list at start.)

Code (CSharp):

1. List<EnviroWeatherPreset> presets = EnviroSkyMgr.instance.Weather.weatherPresets;

 

Hello, please run the "API Updater" ("Assets" -> "Run API Update...") This also wil be fixed with 2.1.2 that should be online on monday.

 

Hi, thanks for your suggestion. I will implement that in next update.

 

@Vondox hello I use the manager and when I uncheck dont destroy on load in edit mode in play mode he is reactive .
if I remove it in the script it will still directionnal light and enviro effect

 

Thanks. Fixed.

is there a demo scene in a folder somewhere that shows the weather effects right out of the box, by just hitting play, or do we have to build one?

I'm new to this asset. The Enviro-Sample Scene demo appears to need to be built up a bit, before seeing clouds and other effects,.... unless i'm misunderstanding how this works.
thx.

 

Hello, sounds like that you have saved the Enviro Sky Manager as prefab. Please either don't make it a prefab or make sure to "Apply" changes you made to your prefab, then it won't reset those in play mode.

 

Hello, please click on the "Enviro Sky Manager" object in sample scene and then click -> "Create Standard Instance" -> "Activate" -> "Auto Assign". Then everything is ready to go. Please read through documentation for more information.

 

In Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, they have flocks of birds flying around in the sky. I am pretty sure they are not individual birds (at least in the distance) but some sort of particle effect, or sky overlay. Please consider this as a feature to add to Enviro sometime in the future.

 

I'm struggling a little with the night to day and day to night jump

With the slider "day night switch" set by default, I have a clear jump of Directional intensity from 0.XX to 1.4/1.5
If I set the slider all the way to the left, the transition from Night to day is smooth but the Day to Night is a big jump from very low luminosity to high one (moon)
If I set the slider all the way to the right, it's the opposite (day to night transition is smooth, the other one is not)

When setting it in the middle, they both have a clear cut and I can't find a way to have both day to night and night to day to transition smoothly

EDIT: Actually the jump is all the time whatever the slider is. It's just that it happens earlier or later. But this jump from ~0.0XXX light intensity to 0.8 or 1.x is really huge

Also I just noticed that it's not only the light intensity that changes a lot. But also the light rotation that completely change.

I thought this could be a 2 directional lights solution with the sun and the moon but as it's a one light solution, there might be something wrong here

This is with the default settings (Enviro 2.1.2)

6:59AM


A minute later:

 

Hi, yeah in your case with a late switch to sun at 0.55 sun altitude and that day where no moon is around at that time you will see such big jump.

If you set "DayNight Switch" back to default of around 0.45 you won't see that big jump, as it switches to the sun the moment it shows up at horizon and will start with a way lower intensity.

If you check both intensity curve, sun is based on sun altitude and moon curve is based on moon altitude to make sure that it won't "backlight" your scene at night where moon is not visible (under your terrain).



If you really need such late switches I only can imagine a fast solution would be using a lerp to have a smoother transition. I will implement that in 2.1.2 now. I also can send you an hotfix.

The other and most realistic solution would be using two directional lights like you already mentioned. Enviro currently only uses one for obvious performance reason. You can test that in your scene by adding another directional light. If the performance lost is not a problem for your project that would be the way to go. I also can implement that as an option, but it will be in 2.1.3 then.

Hope that helped you!

 

Thanks for all those explanation
The hotfix with the lerp is very interesting to me

And for the longer shot, I do think a dual light system could be very neat, the second directional would be totally off at night (and vice versa) while their position/rotation would be way more accurate, I'm totally for that for the Enviro Standard version targeting desktop, performance seems ok with a dirty non optimized test

 

I've updated to 2.1.2, but getting an error at runtime -- but I sure can't find where to assign the cloudShadowMap....where is it?

UnassignedReferenceException: The variable cloudShadowMap of EnviroSky has not been assigned.
You probably need to assign the cloudShadowMap variable of the EnviroSky script in the inspector.
EnviroSky.UpdateCloudShadows () (at Assets/Enviro - Sky and Weather/Enviro Standard/Scripts/EnviroSky.cs:749)
EnviroSky.Update () (at Assets/Enviro - Sky and Weather/Enviro Standard/Scripts/EnviroSky.cs:689)

 

Hi, please try to click on "Apply all Settings" in your Enviro Sky instance. This will regenerate the clouds shadow render texture. If you still getting errors take a look in top of your console you may got another error. You also could just delete your instance and re-create it.

 

that fixed it, thanks!

 

Well, spoke too soon. Now I get a lot (like 30,000) of this error -- any idea?

NullReferenceException
UnityEngine.Object.Instantiate (UnityEngine.Object original, UnityEngine.Transform parent, System.Boolean instantiateInWorldSpace) (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Runtime/Export/UnityEngineObject.bindings.cs:264)
UnityEngine.Object.Instantiate[T] (T original, UnityEngine.Transform parent, System.Boolean worldPositionStays) (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Runtime/Export/UnityEngineObject.bindings.cs:300)
UnityEngine.Object.Instantiate[T] (T original, UnityEngine.Transform parent) (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Runtime/Export/UnityEngineObject.bindings.cs:295)
EnviroSky.PreInit () (at Assets/Enviro - Sky and Weather/Enviro Standard/Scripts/EnviroSky.cs:194)
EnviroSky.OnEnable () (at Assets/Enviro - Sky and Weather/Enviro Standard/Scripts/EnviroSky.cs:160)

 

Oh yeah, thanks for your report. There is a small typo... I will re-upload 2.1.2 with a fix now. Also looks like that you may haven't assigned the lightning prefab in your Profile -> "Weather Settings".

I will send you an hotfix now.

 

Hi - quick question about custom sky. Client is requesting a custom sky box during the day, but wants the default stars at night. Is there still no way to do this in Enviro without handling the stars at night on our own? Any way to edit the default sky box to include our sky during the day? Can we transition between the custom sky box and the default night stars sky box? Could our sky simply be some sort of card in the background? If we do need to handle stars on our own - any examples of how to go about doing it? Thank you!

 

Is the hotfix useful for those who not have seen that error yet?
Then I would like to have, too thanks.

Since I got Lightshafts running, too, my game Looks so Beautiful, great

 

Hello, please send me a private message with some further information what you actually need in your skybox. For example do you need moon with phases and a dynamic sun disc? What's about atmospheric scattering. Do you want a mix of the default sky and your skybox texture on day or only your skybox texture on day that will get darker until night with stars.

 

Hello Friends of Enviro,

did ever anybody try enviro for a 3D space arcade game? Like using it's lighting of Course, but Maybe it's volume Clouds and stars combines or something like that? Just changing Colors and see how it Looks or some better ideas or any experiences?

I want to create a 2D sytle arcade shooter with Player flying upwards, but with 3D GFX.
Maybe there are Presets already ?

Thanks

 

I saw earlier in the thread that you would be looking into Amplify shader editor to add the fog support for unlit or transparent material. Has there been any progress on that end? We have a pretty big piece of unlit shader in our project and it's really punching through the fog.

 

Hi, haven't tried something like that yet. Enviro isn't really designed for this genre, so you may have to modify some parts to make it work.

 

Hello, sorry no custom node for amplify shader editor yet. Could you please send me one of your unlit shaders?

 

Hi there, I don't know if this is an Enviro problem or Volume 3 problem or both lol but I'm getting a compile error when I try to go in to play mode....

Assets\Enviro - Sky and Weather\Core\Scripts\3rd Party Integrations\FogVolume3 Integration\EnviroFogVolumeIntegration.cs(376,29): error CS1061: 'EnviroSkyMgr' does not contain a definition for 'GetCamera' and no accessible extension method 'GetCamera' accepting a first argument of type 'EnviroSkyMgr' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

I've tried clicking the activate Volume Fog 3 in Enviro Sky Manager but it doesn't work giving the error above.

Hope someone can offer up a solution thanks in advance.

 

Hello,

like descriped a side earlier, I made a prefab and want to use Enviro on both PC Standalone build and Android build.

Code (CSharp):

1.         Instantiate(Resources.Load("Enviro Sky Manager", typeof(GameObject)));
2.         if (Application.platform == RuntimePlatform.Android || Application.platform == RuntimePlatform.IPhonePlayer) //#if UNITY_IPHONE  #if UNITY_ANDROID
3.         {
4.             //Activate and assign/start lite version
5.             EnviroSkyMgr.instance.ActivateLWInstance();
6.             EnviroSkyMgr.instance.AssignAndStart(Camera.main.gameObject, Camera.main);
7.         }
8.         else
9.         {
10.             //Activate and assign/start standard version
11.             EnviroSkyMgr.instance.ActivateHDInstance();
12.             EnviroSkyMgr.instance.AssignAndStart(Camera.main.gameObject, Camera.main);
13.         }

Works fine in PC standalone.
When in Android I get the following two Errors:

Assets\Scripts\GameManager.cs(173,35): error CS1061: 'EnviroSkyMgr' does not contain a definition for 'ActivateLWInstance' and no accessible extension method 'ActivateLWInstance' accepting a first argument of type 'EnviroSkyMgr' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Assets\Scripts\GameManager.cs(179,35): error CS1061: 'EnviroSkyMgr' does not contain a definition for 'ActivateHDInstance' and no accessible extension method 'ActivateHDInstance' accepting a first argument of type 'EnviroSkyMgr' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Any idea? Thanks

 

Hey Vondox,

I was wondering if there's currently a way to shut off the time-based interpolation of values in Enviro. At runtime I like the interpolation, but when I'm editing I find it makes it more difficult to get feedback on values as I change them. Thanks.

 

Hello, thanks for your issue report. I wil send you an hotifx for that one and include fix in next update.

 

Hi, thanks for your report! Currently Enviro only sets the scripting define symbols for your currently selected target platform. I have a fix for that ready for 2.1.3. I will send you an hotfix package now.