[RELEASED] Marvelous Techniques

Hi there, I'm looking for a way to have a simple 2-color linear gradient for my game's background. Sometimes during the game, one or both colors will change dynamically. I was wondering if this asset would work for this.

 

Yes, Marvelous Techniques has a dedicated shader for this.

-Arto

 

Hi all,

Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to combine the shader with baked ambient occlusion? I've emailed Arto but haven't got a reply so I thought I might be able to get some information on how to do it here.

Thanks.

Cheers,

 

@Kirnu-Interactive, I am getting some artifacts while using the CustomLightingMaster.
It doesnt happen if I switch to Standard Shader.

Any clue?

 

Is there a changelog for the package updates, in case I want to take a look?

 

@Kirnu-Interactive I am using your plugin for about a year now, and thoroughly enjoying it. Thank you for creating it!

I have a question about adding a texture in a specific way. My level is a simple arcade level consisting of few meshes (cubes only). Imagine a simple platform, made of 3 cubes for example.
If I use color only, it will look like 1 solid object. If I add Main texture to it, you will see where 1 cube starts, and another one ends (especially since cube is scaled, so texture is scaled on that cube).
My question is - would it be possible to add texture as projection onto surface only. I don't need fancy parameters, just for example 40% of texture projected onto all surfaces with certain shader/material. Maybe I can set scale in the material - but it would certainly ignore the scale of objects. And also, ideally, projection would be onto only 1 side (front).

I hope this makes sense, and you can help me in some way.

Kind regards,
Kreso

 

Hi,
You can try to use UVLayoutGenerator to generate texture UVs for all cubes.
You can see an example how to use it in the building scene.
Look at the UVGenerator object under the _ROOT_ object.

 

This is quite neat! Almost completely what I need. Great!
Unfortunately it doesn't work with the cubes that are built inside Unity Editor.
If you have any ideas or clues how to make it work, please let me know.

 

You didn't say how it didn't work.
You can try to combine the meshes first using Tools->Marvelous->Combine Meshes script to combine the cubes

 

Hello, I am terribly sorry for not saying more about the problem.
I have tried combining meshes but had no success. The results are different if I use a mesh created by ProBuilder for example (UV Layout script works), but when I use Unity's cube (Game Objects->3D->Cube), the texture is scaled funny.
I attached a screenshot here, that might help understand what I see on my end.
So the 3 triangles (prisms) work exactly as I would expect, but the 4 squares (left, right, top, bottom) show like they are scaled.
Does this help?

Kind regards,
Kreso

 

The script is meant to be used in situations where the texture is more subtle like seamless rock texture.
I think the answer to your problem is to model the level with blender or some Unity modeling asset. This way you can make the level look as you like and map the UVs the way they are supposed to be.

 

I hear what you are saying. It would solve my problem if I used models from outside modeling tools or ProBuilder etc - as long as it's not Unity Editor's plain cube.

The thing is I have hundreds of levels and this method does work. For example, if I swap meshes (in the MeshFilter component, via Inspector); from UnityEditor's cubes to meshes created by modeling tools, this will work. But I have a lot of cubes.

I was just curious if you know why that UVLayout script handles Unity Editor's cube differently from modeling tool's cubes. And ideally a way around it.
I really appreciate your time. I understand if my questions are outside the scope of support for this plugin.

Kind regards,
Kreso

 

@Kirnu-Interactive Has this been tested on any of the 2018 betas yet? I tried it and I am getting really terrible results. Switched to 2017.4 and it works great.

 

I haven't tested it with 2018 versions yet.

-Arto

 

Turned out this issue was related to the fact that 2018 HQ render profile automatically sets the colorspace to linear. Setting back to gamma fixed it. However, on the lightweight render profile, this does not work at all. Its all black no matter what settings I change.

 

Hi,

I'm trying to use the bloom shader for the windows/details on a model using the custom lighting master shader. The problem is that the lit objects are visible from behind the faces.
Is there something I can turn off to get it to stop doing this?

Thanks

 

The bloom shader is meant to be used as image effect not as ordinary material shader. You can take look at example scenes about how the bloom shader is used.

-Arto

 

How can i use the Unity fog with this?

 

You can't because custom lighting shader doesn't use Unity's fog.

 

hi, what is new in update, version 1.3.2 ?

 

The main change was to fix ocean shader so it works also in Direct X.
There might have been some minor fixes which I don't remember.

-Arto

 

Hey Guys, I have such question, I'm taking color from image, and using RGB, but marvellous is addind tint to any material, so my color is changing with tint effect, how to turn off tint effect ?

 

Are these deferred shaders? Will this work with amplify impostors?

 

The shaders are forward rendering shaders.
I don't know how amplify impostors work so I can't say if the shaders work with it

 

Getting this error in 2018.3.2f1 :
Shader error in 'Kirnu/Marvelous/CustomLightingMasterInstanced': not enough actual parameters for macro 'UNITY_ACCESS_INSTANCED_PROP' undeclared identifier 'UNITY_ACCESS_INSTANCED_PROP' at line 247 (on d3d11)

Compiling Vertex program with UNITY_PASS_FORWARDBASE DIRECTIONAL LIGHTPROBE_SH USE_FOG
Platform defines: UNITY_NO_DXT5nm UNITY_ENABLE_REFLECTION_BUFFERS UNITY_NO_CUBEMAP_ARRAY UNITY_NO_SCREENSPACE_SHADOWS UNITY_PBS_USE_BRDF2 SHADER_API_DESKTOP UNITY_HARDWARE_TIER3 UNITY_COLORSPACE_GAMMA UNITY_LIGHTMAP_DLDR_ENCODING

@Kirnu-Interactive

 

Hi,
Can you contact me via email so I can give you a new version for testing.

-Arto

 

Hello, a new user here.
May I ask if there is a shader which allows making world space gradient similar to screenshot?
All those cubes are separate meshes.
I have found a fog shader (CustomLightingSoftFog), but the result is not exactly what I am looking for.
Thank you.

 

Sent you an email regarding unity 2019

 

Hi, I've just bought it, but I have issues with 2018 versions. Have these versions been tested and is this asset 'alive', for me to estimate the effort to continue with ? Regards

 

Hi, I've got a patch from the developer over the email. And seems no issues in the latest Unity. Try to write an email to them. I don't know why they didn't post an updated version to the store.


@Kirnu-Interactive is there any way to change the direction of directional light in your shader?
Also, localUV for whatever reason is creating not a vertical gradient on my model but based on depth.

 

As @Almakos said I have new unreleased version available. You can get it by sending me an email.

 

There is a directional light test in the Test folder. There's a setup you can use to change the direction.
There is also gradient test in the test folder where you can see you have to generate Height UVs with the UVHeightGenerator script.

-Arto

 

Hey @Kirnu-Interactive, does this asset support distance shadow masking for light baking? I was trying out a similar asset which claimed it supports light mapping, but I would consider it partial support as distance shadow masking doesn't work i.e.) the model will pop back to full lighting outside the shadow render distance.

 

Hello @Kirnu-Interactive, Is any way to change "Real time shadow color" ?
If it can be, it would be great!

 

Hello @Kirnu-Interactive, made an app with marvelous shaders, it's really great. On Android version the game looks perfect but on iOS on some devices it has black/white parts:

i checked the mesh but it looks ok, do you have any idea why this happens? Regarding the blinking in the video the bug depends on the angle?

 

Hi, i'm contemplating purchasing this tool but i need to know if it makes use of the lightweight render pipeline

 

I changed my project to URP (Universal RP a.k.a. Lightweight RP) and Marvelous shader does not seem to work unfortunately.

 

oh, thanks for the info!

 

I have new version available for test which includes LWRP main lighting shader. Please contact me via email with your purchase info and I'll send the new version for you.

 

Hi Guliz,
I'm experiencing the same issue, also on some iOs devices only (all fine on other platforms). Have you figured out what is the problem?

 

@Kirnu-Interactive hi,

I've been using this asset for few years now (same game).
Redoing another polish pass I wanted to add some elements to my background. Some mountaintops. I'd like these mountain tops to have each it's own gradient (fog like) so they look scattered around (different scale even perhaps).
I like to hide the mountain's base, and discover toward the top of the mountain. Since there is quite a few mountain tops I'd like to use the same material. I tried using it as Gradient (with local UV), or with Fog (setting the Y).

example:

I am curious - is there currently a way to use game objects local position to calc the colors?
All this in the interest of saving some draw calls.
I hope this makes sense

Thanks!

P.S. I noticed a new option using the Master shader, under Distance light ('Multi'). Once 'Multi' is ticked - it can't be unticked. Unticking it will remove the 'use local' under 'gradient' option instead of itself).

 

Hi!

I'm having some trouble trying out the shaders (probably me doing something wrong). I'm opening your scenes in my standard "3D" project and many of the scenes look weird. Some looks better after a minute or so, others dont. The lighthouse also seems to totally kill my macbook pro performance wise. See attached images.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5b0rteny8yovzsg/Screenshot 2020-06-22 23.38.16.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qgnorfq0uukd7z1/Screenshot 2020-06-22 23.43.02.png?dl=0

Also, are there no example scenes for URP included?

All the best!

Emil

 

Hi. I Have strange problem with flickering when using Kirnu/Marvelous/CustomLighting shader
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-9WZ6UMTbq0NY1x6ChBCwe6kt2PTjf3b/view?usp=sharing
Can You help solve it? I checked with standard shader and excluded any issues with model geometry itself.

 

I use the plugin in my VR project. I used the CustomLightingMaster shader for mountains and stones in my scene. I found there are always some cracks and flickers on the models here and there, and I change the shader to unity standard shader, the cracks and flickers go away. Is this because of the rendering process of the plugin? How can I fix this problem.

ps: Even not in VR, in the scene view I can see the cracks from some angle as it shows in the pic.
I have tried to modify models, but not get any result.​

 

@Carrmichaelll @ibrahimpenekli
I ported each shader so it is URP compatible, not sure if other people might get excited about that - I tried to jam some info about what gets changed in each shader into a review, but after realizing that you can keep the shaders as-is and just add the "LightMode" = "LightweightForward" tag to them and see them work without additional changes, I just put that in the review. I tend to assume that everybody wants to use URP if they can since I tend to think that way.

That alone will get the shaders working, however if you actually go through the trouble of replacing 'UnityCG.cginc' with these
#include "Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal/ShaderLibrary/Core.hlsl"
#include "MarvelousLWRP.cginc"
and make the edits listed below, you're using the newer shader library and lighting.
1. add "LightMode" = "LightweightForward" tag inside of the 'Pass' block as previously mentioned.
2. replace CGPROGRAM and ENDCG with HLSLPROGRAM and ENDHLSL
3. replace #include "Marvelous.cginc" or 'UnityCG.cginc' with the two includes mentioned above
4. replace any use of UnityObjectToClipPos with TransformObjectToHClip
5. replace any use of flixed4 with float4
6. for the Ocean shaders, replace the line in the getColorDepth function where sceneZ variable is set to this
float sceneZ = LinearEyeDepth(tex2Dproj(_CameraDepthTexture, i.projPos).r, _ZBufferParams);

That's it for the most part, and like I said, just following step 1 is really all that's needed to see the shader work on URP. It's still not clear to me exactly what advantages you get in using Core.hlsl and Lighting.hlsl instead of UnityCG.cinc are, but I thought some other people might be trying to do this and running into errors.

 

How to modify the CustomLightingMaster shader to expose the tiling ?

 

Did you solve the white line problem? I met too, lots of in many scenes.

 

This might happen because of a precision problem in the shader. Please contact me and I'll provide you the modified shader for testing

 

Hey,

i just imported the latest version in a URP project and i got plenty of errors... can't find info on how to import it for URP projects, also the errors seems related to the Post Processing which seems to be required but as far as i know it does not work with URP projects which come with it's own post processing.

How to properly import the latest version in a URP project !?

 

Did you forget to add Universal RP package to the project?