[RELEASED] Marvelous Techniques

Hi Arto,

thanks again for the great asset!

Any chance you add support for multiple light sources to this asset? So far only one directional light per scene seems to be supported for real time shadows.

Also it looks like the directional light ignores meshes that are in its way (cf screenshot where the light basically shines through the upper mesh).

Looking forward for your help

Thanks

 

I try to keep the shaders as simple as possible so there is not going to be multi light support.
The lights don't account any obstacles so shine through objects like ordinary directional lights.

-Arto

 

Thanks Arto! Could you kindly point me in the direction as to where to add multi light support and obstacles in your shaders?

 

Send me email and I'll give you customMasterShader with multi light support.

-Arto

 

Hi Arto.

Love your shader, but so far I'm unable to get what I'm after at runtime. In the editor it's perfect. Maybe I'm misunderstanding.

This is the editor shot and is essentially what I'm after. Hopefully the settings are obvious enough.



What I get at runtime is this:


It's rendering incorrectly and I'm not sure why. Am I misunderstanding layout texture?

 

Did you run the UVLayoutGeneratorEditor script on the object?
Create a empty object, place the desired object as a child. Add script to the parent object and run the script.
Some of example scenes have this setup so you can study them if you still have problems.

-Arto

 

Thanks. I'm onto it now. It still gives me unexpected results from time to time...for example, the pattern before applying the script is different to the pattern after the script is applied. I'll keep working on it.

I've used a few of the shaders and yours is very powerful. I'm very hopeful it can give me what I'm after. Thanks for your time.

 

Hi Arto and thank you for this great asset.

I have a question about the CustomLightingMaster shader:
Why the Tiling and Offset parameters of the Main Texture aren't visible in inspector, they seem to be used after-all ?

If I change the shader of my material to "Standard", set values to Tiling and Offset and then reset the shader of my material to CustomLightingMaster, the Tiling and Offset apply to the Main Texture of CustomLightingMaster, and it is what I want, but the trick is a little annoying for my workflow.

Is it possible to display Tiling and Offset in the inspector, near the "Main Texture Power" parameter?
According to the workflow you display in your videos, it should be interesting to play with Tiling and Offset for applying a different part of the texture to a model, and easier than duplicate the model and change it's UV.

EDIT: I've re-watched your video tutorial and It seems that I try to achieve a similar result with a different approach. Taking your 1st tutorial as an example, you are using 1 texture, 1 material, multiple cube models with different UV. I do something similar with 1 texture, 1 cube model UV mapped to the top left of the texture and multiple material using different offset.
Does my method have a drawback ? What about run-time performance : more models vs more materials ?
My game is primarily for WebGL (and later for mobile).

 

Arto, got a question on your awesome asset. I am trying to set the CustomLightingMaster's transparent flag ON/OFF programmatically using C#. I am using the code below and it doesn't work. Any idea?

MeshRenderer renderer = gameObject.GetComponent<MeshRenderer>();
Material material = renderer.material;
material.SetFloat("_Mode", 3f);

Edit: [RESOLVED] I dug into the code and found out that this flag is not stored but instead it sets a number of flags to different values. I simulated the setting of the flags and got it to work.

 

Different materials require one draw call(set pass) each so using many materials would be slower. This is ok if there are not many different materials.

Modern GPUs can handle very big vertex counts even in mobile.

You have to experiment to find a good balance between different methods.

 

Hello Arto
Thinking of purchasing this asset but before I do can you tell me if this works OK with the HTC Vive VR ? I just bought another shader which although it works with the Vive the frame rate drops right down to a stuttering unaceptable level. (In normal FPS camera it is fine, only when viewed with the Vive in VR). ??? (I am asking this now before I buy any new shaders!) I hope it does! Iain (PC is an 8 core i7 16GB GTX980 so it runs the Vive fine)

 

I'm sure the asset works fine with HTC Vive.
I can give you a trial version for testing so you can test the asset before the purchase.
Please send PM including your email address.

-Arto

 

That would be great. Sorry, new to this Arto - how do I contact you privately? (PM)

 

You have to click on my profile image/link -> Start a Conversation

 

@Kirnu-Interactive Is it possible to use point lights for lighting on the object using customlightingmaster ?.... Currently only the directional light can affect lighting on the material.

 

It's not possible to use 'real' lights with MT shaders.

 

For some reason the LightMaxDistance on my SimpleDistanceLightRS shader constantly is reverting to a value of 5 on play. But I need to be be a different value(15). Any idea why it might be doing this?

 

I got this error with unity 5.4.3f1

Shader error in 'Kirnu/Marvelous/TextureAnimationTransparent': invalid subscript 'main_uv' at line 76 (on d3d11)

Compiling Vertex program
Platform defines: UNITY_ENABLE_REFLECTION_BUFFERS UNITY_PBS_USE_BRDF1 UNITY_SPECCUBE_BOX_PROJECTION UNITY_SPECCUBE_BLENDING

 

Hey, I just bought the package. I cannot get shadows to work: Objects are shaded, but do not cast a shadow on the ground. I opened up the cave scene. See image: http://imgur.com/a/L7qdm

Demo scene in browser (provided by you) does have shadows: http://imgur.com/a/7G5jp

How do I get shadows? Why is it not working? Unity 5.4.2

 

You have to enable 'Receive Shadows' from Mesh Renderer and 'Realtime Shadows' from CustomLightingMaster shader

 

Sorry for this. Please send me an email and I'll send fixed version for you.

-Arto

 

That did the trick, thanks. Was confused, because I expected the cave scene to look exactly like the demo in browser. Works now, so thanks a lot.

 

Just a very quick question, now that Linear lighting is supported on Android, do you recommend using Marvelous Techniques with Gamma or Linear for best results? Thanks.

 

To be honest I don't know very well linear color space. I have newer used it. I think the linear color space is used with PBR so if you are heading that way I suggest using linear color space.

 

Hey,

I am having problems with lightmapping and shadsows both real time and baked. What to do? I tried customlight, customlightmaster, customlightsimple with lightmapping on. It doesn't work. Then for shadows I ticked recieve shadows in mesh renderer and activate shadows in the shaders but still no shadows. The only thing that I could do was change the front, right and left colors, ambient related stuff. Lightmapping and shadows that I need are being a pain.

I am building for android on a very high end PC. I doubt it is anything to with my PC. I can't figure out what the problem is. I import my meshes from 3ds max, I even put 2 UV channels. That didn't work. So I ticked generate lighmap uvs in the import settings but that didn't work either.

I need your help.

 

Another question. Did you create a second UV channel in your 3d modelling software and unwrap the model for lightmapping there? That would probably explain why I can't get to work the lightmapping with your asset.

 

When importing the model select 'Generate Lightmap UVs' from the model import settings.

-Arto

 

I have already done that. I tried everything that you have done in your sample scenes and followed your documentation but nothing was fruitful.
If I apply a unity standard material and then bake my light maps it works fine. But when I apply the custom lighting master material or anything from your asset it doesn't create any AO nor are there any shadows.
Only realtime shadows are working.

 

Can you send me minimal test scene and I'll see what's wrong there.
Do the example scenes work for you?

 

Yes they are working fine.
I have discarded light maps for now. That seems to be a very time consuming process! Lighting effects work just fine for me. But only if I could get the shadows to work .
Do you know a way I could cast shadows of an object A onto object B without receiving shadows of object B? That would simplify a lot of my troubles!

Another one, Do you know a way for me to achieve a real time point light or spot light feature?

 

Hey Arto,

Is there a way to use normal maps with your shaders ?

 

So is there anyway to cast shadow ? when complete world is made up of marvelous shaders ?

 

Yo these shaders are meant for games with minimalist art like Monument Valley, Lara Croft GO, ...Normal maps won't look good with this kind of art style so why implement it XDD

 

Hi Arto,
I have a scene quite like the sample Building scene.
I am getting good performance on my iPhone, but bad performance on iPad4 using the CustomLightingSoftFog shader. Any suggestions?
This is my Xcode output:


-------- Shader compilation failed

#version 100

#extension GL_EXT_frag_depth : enable

precision highp float;

uniform highp vec4 _ProjectionParams;

uniform highp vec4 _ZBufferParams;

uniform highp mat4 unity_CameraToWorld;

uniform highp mat4 _NonJitteredVP;

uniform highp mat4 _PreviousVP;

uniform highp sampler2D _CameraDepthTexture;

varying highp vec2 xlv_TEXCOORD0;

varying highp vec3 xlv_TEXCOORD1;

void main ()

{

highp vec4 tmpvar_1;

tmpvar_1 = texture2D (_CameraDepthTexture, xlv_TEXCOORD0);

mediump vec2 tmpvar_2;

highp vec4 tmpvar_3;

tmpvar_3.w = 1.0;

tmpvar_3.xyz = ((xlv_TEXCOORD1 * (_ProjectionParams.z / xlv_TEXCOORD1.z)) * (1.0/((

(_ZBufferParams.x * tmpvar_1.x)

+ _ZBufferParams.y))));

highp vec4 tmpvar_4;

tmpvar_4 = (unity_CameraToWorld * tmpvar_3);

highp vec4 tmpvar_5;

tmpvar_5 = (_PreviousVP * tmpvar_4);

highp vec4 tmpvar_6;

tmpvar_6 = (_NonJitteredVP * tmpvar_4);

highp vec2 tmpvar_7;

tmpvar_7 = (((tmpvar_5.xy / tmpvar_5.w) + 1.0) / 2.0);

highp vec2 tmpvar_8;

tmpvar_8 = (((tmpvar_6.xy / tmpvar_6.w) + 1.0) / 2.0);

tmpvar_2 = (tmpvar_8 - tmpvar_7);

mediump vec4 tmpvar_9;

tmpvar_9.zw = vec2(0.0, 1.0);

tmpvar_9.xy = tmpvar_2;

gl_FragDepthEXT = tmpvar_1.x;

gl_FragData[0] = tmpvar_9;

}

-------- failed compiling:

fragment evaluation shader

WARNING: 0:4: extension 'GL_EXT_frag_depth' is not supported

ERROR: 0:38: Use of undeclared identifier 'gl_FragDepthEXT'



Note: Creation of internal variant of shader 'Hidden/Internal-MotionVectors' failed.

WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Hidden/Internal-MotionVectors' - Pass '' has no vertex shader

WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Hidden/Internal-MotionVectors' - Setting to default shader.

WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Hidden/FXAA Preset 3' - Pass '' has no vertex shader

WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Hidden/FXAA Preset 2' - Pass '' has no vertex shader

WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Toon/Basic Outline' - Pass 'OUTLINE' has no vertex shader

WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Toon/Basic Outline' - All passes removed

UnloadTime: 8.386041 ms

NullReferenceException: A null value was found where an object instance was required.





(Filename: currently not available on il2cpp Line: -1)

 

Hi Arto,

Could I get some help on the "bloom shader"? I'm trying to understand how I can apply bloom selectively (i.e. on a specific sprite in the game). When I play around with the settings right now (threshold and intensity) I feel as if the bloom is added to the overall scene with pretty much everything highlighted (almost like it starts from the center of the screen).

Regards,

Farooq

 

I think your problems are caused other shader than MT shader. Are you using some image effects?
If so try to disable AA and see if that makes a difference.

 

MT bloom shader doesn't support selective bloom.

 

Hi Arto,

So I'm having a little problem using MT with Synty Studios's Simple Military pack. I've attached a screenshot below:



All the characters have MT Custom Lighting Master as the shader, but the one on the far left is showing up as pure black, but the others are fine. The character only appears black when using MT. If I switch to any other shader, it displays fine. Any ideas about what could be causing this?

I have similar issues with other Synty Studios characters, by the way. Some work properly, but some only show up as black, and only with MT. They work fine with other shaders. Any suggestions for fixing would be welcome.

 

Could be that the object vertex colors are black. You can try to comment out line 131 from Marvelous.cginc in Shaders folder to disable vertex colors.

 

Is this the right line:
o.color.rgb=v.color.rgb;

When I comment it out, all the models turn black.

Edit:

I think I got it. I commented out line 301, which is:
outColor.xyz*=v.color;

And that seems to work!

Edit2:

I did some research and created a little editor script to strip the vertex colors from the skinnedmesh, so now I can fix the problem at the source, rather than tampering with MT's code. Thanks so much for pointing me in the right direction, and for making MT in the first place

Edit3:

Spoke too soon. Looks like the changes to the vertex colors don't save permanently and are lost when I quit Unity. Guess I'll just comment out vertex colors from Marvelous.cginc and use that.

 

I'll add a property to the shader UI editor to do this more conveniently.
Please contact me via email and I'll send the new version to you.

 

Awesome! I sent you the email. Thanks!

 

Hi, first of all thanks for making this great asset!

I have a question, Im using the "CustomLightingSimpleSoftFog" shader, and the fog is working
perfect for me, but I would like to use it on a unlit texture, it that possible?

Thanks in advance!

 

I have a textured character model, with generate Lightmap UV off (if I put it ON texture placement is wrong).
Im using the customLightingMaster with a basic setup (all checkbox off).
I cant see any difference between using the texture as Main Texture and as Layout Texture, what is the difference?
And another question, can the textures be tileable? If I merge some floor quads, the final mesh has the texure stretched.

 

Hello,

It is a really cool asset

I am trying to change Tint Color, via CustomLightingMaster.
I tried accessing "_TintColor" but it wasn't found.

Inspecting Shader I found "_LightTint".
However, when I set it - the color that turns out is always pink.
It is not being set correctly.

1) How can I change the color via script?

2) Does changing the color on Update (to animate it) affect the performance?
I am changing "_MainColor" a lot via code. It looks cool, I am just curious if it affects performance?

Thank you,
Kreso

 

If you look at the included scripts you can see how to modify shader properties.
Such scripts are for example:
DistanceLight.cs, CustomLightingManager.cs and DirectionalLightManager.cs.

The correct parameter is _LightTint

-Arto

 

You are absolutely right.
My problem (with pink color always) was that I was defining color in wrong way

Thanks again!

 

Hi,

Has anyone use this shader with Mesh Baker? Is it possible to share tips and tricks on how to get these two assets working properly with each other?

Many thanks.

Cheers,

 

Why at the back of the object (like building) didn’t received light, even if I put a bright light to shine on it? Can you please tell me how to enable lighting back to normal?

 

I can seem to get the Object Rotator to center on the whole object, the rotation always goes to the side of the box? How to fix this. thanks.