[Released] R.A.M River Auto Material.

Hi, I'm not an expert but I had some similar issues: https://forum.unity.com/threads/released-r-a-m-river-auto-material.499972/page-10#post-3484048. It was an issue mostly with the Shader render queue. If you follow the answers after my post maybe that'll help you

 

I think we will add 1 code line which will fix this in other way. I must test this. You have this on forward rendering?

 

Neca thank you for the link but it did not solve the issue.

NatureManufacture: Yes I tested in forward rendering

 

At deffered it behave the same?

 

Yes I also tried deferred

 

I will check this too. Tommorow morning you will get info about this from my side.

 

oh awesome thanks !

 

Change foam color from 20 20 20 into 1,1,1 or higher. You see edge because material with foam albedo power = 20 start to be emissive and really strong vissible.
Before: https://gyazo.com/da9293d1826de3e23c2b05a80b2a7e5e
After: https://gyazo.com/9a84531ee37659c7d740c28d4c8035fe

 

ok I just tried this but it did not seem to change the results.. see image I also took a small video of it, if you would like I can send it to you just let me know how you want it sent.

Thanks

 

I test in on intensivity 1, more intensivity you put more edge of transparency will be saw. Only because of foam and such features. They will start to shine and create hard edge. This are 2 different surfaces.

But water on bottom egde dont hit terrain - no blend, on top its ok?

 

Hey thanks again for continuing to look into this! I tried reducing the lights intensity but that did not appear to effect the transparency issues, that said we will be utilizing a light intensity higher than 1.0 in our game as it takes place in a dark lit space and you use a flash light to navigate, so this really needs to work with intense lights. If foam is the issue is there a way to completely turn it off? Also there is odd flickering in the water plane I will send you a video link so you can see the problem for your self

 

You use tesseled one? I probably know your setup and hehe you have to add 1 word to the shader after update we will put it as default to avoid any problems with any setup. I will send details in the morning.

I know everything now hehe no problem I will resend you this shader and should be fine. If you would send me video at the start it would be clear from first minute.

Maybe I will make hot fix tommorow just because to avoid this.

 

oh thats awesome
Did you get the link to the video I sent it through a private discussion?

 

Yes, you will get test fix in 10 min.

 

I was just checking to see if the fix had been done yet. Im very excited to try it out!!

 

You got it on priv conversation as file.

 

Any news on integrating RAM with vegetation studio?

 

Hi,
How big can the water plane be?
Can't cover the horizon? right?

 

its just a script to add and it will works. We willl pusg this with update.

You could why not? if you use tesselation just try to keep pretty good not to big cell size at water to get tesselation effect properly. Anyway.. without tesselation, no matter.

 

That fixed it!! Thank you for your support... its so refreshing to have that level support I appreciate very much.

 

This is temp solution atm. We must investigate problem to make it clean

 

thanks! will try again. To tell u the truth i tried once and it crashed...So never tried again. But i will!

Btw, i don't know anything about shaders but i'm always amazed to see the little perf cost of a big water plane!

2 fps!

 

No, basically you get crash becuase of GI bake on such shape probably.
Play with it a bit, I rather like to use few bigger planes to get nice reflections.

 

ok thanks i will try!

 

Hi @NatureManufacture I just bought RAM and it looks great but I can't seem to get it working properly on my Mac using 2018.1.3f. When I Ctrl+Click, instead of a spline point being created, the underlying terrain gets selected because the raycasting seems way off. I can only add spline points when i click outside of the actual terrain or in some distant part of the terrain. For what it's worth, I tried EasyRoads Free and the raycasting seems to be working fine with that. Am I doing something wrong?

 

This is regarding ADVANCED ROCK PACK 1 (as it has no forum), does it blend with mesh which is neither terrain nor CTS? How about MegaSplat? And how does it compare to to Rocks Pack PBR By AngryMesh?

 

@NatureManufacture I've fixed the issue by changing the following lines in RamSplineEditor:

Code (CSharp):

1. Vector3 screenPosition = Event.current.mousePosition;
2. screenPosition.y = Camera.current.pixelHeight - screenPosition.y;
3. Ray ray = Camera.current.ScreenPointToRay (screenPosition);

to this single line:

Code (CSharp):

1. Ray ray = HandleUtility.GUIPointToWorldRay (Event.current.mousePosition);

 

Thx for info we will check it!
Edit: You got right, we fixed it thx!

Rocks blend even each other.

 

Great shader. Is there anyway to apply foam to only certain objects or exclude objects in some fashion or suggestions on how I might best go about doing that. Its nice to have foam around edges of things like shore line and rocks but don't want it picked up for things like fish if they get to close to the surface. I could probably pass the fish locations into the shader as an array of points to be excluded but seems like there should be a better way.

Here is an example of how the fish are being washed out.

 

Hi
Basicly foam is based on depth of surface so it works with everything. I must thing about this a bit. Maybe offset in fish shader could modofy this. I have to try myself before I will fully answer.

Thanks for good words!

 

I've just come across a strange problem - the water no longer shows up in Game mode. I can see it no problem in Scene view, but when I press play to go to Game view the water is no longer there. It used to work so I know this is something I've done, but I have no idea what. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ben

 

Hi
Do you have compiler errors in project or errors? I had simmilar eror when for example VR throws errors for me and it blocked spline system.
Turn off r.a.m script and test if this will help means that project errors block our editor script. Ofc will will try to make workaround because we met simmilar problems very rare but,... we met. Errors could affect editor script and block it.

 

Hi,

No, there are no errors or warnings. When I turn off the RAM script, however, the water shows up again. When the script is enabled you can see a brief flash where the water is supposed to be. A workaround would be great

Ben

 

No worries we will catch everything Tommorow we start hunting (we already reproduce it in 1 project)

Btw did somone try our new Dynamic Nature Starter or Ice World with r.a.m? No? So try this

 

I didn't know about this asset, it looks awesome

But before digging too much maybe you can reply directly to my question, would make it simpler

I'd like to have dynamic snow covering but I can't replace the shaders I'm using for my Trees/Vegetation that I use with Vegetation Studio. Also Terrain is CTS and most of the props are with different shaders (I have stylized environment, I can't really use realistic shaders).

Does Dynamic Nature requires all objects to have a specific shader? Or does it works with kind of volume in world space like some other assets?

 

Not yet, but definitely will, that looks great. I have to say that the way you support your assets is awesome.

 

Yes it need a shader, so you have to replace it.

We keep all our stuff alive all the time. Thanks!

Maybe I will make speed level design or other movie today with this config.

 

Hi!
Many of you ask me does r.a.m could be really reflective? Yes, we setup something special for you in incomming update.

We also added some sliders to give you more control over reflections. We know that not all games need this but...






I hope maybe tommorow or in monday I will show something what we prepared for our users. Many of you ask about this... Whole concept is epic idea too I will try to give you what you want.

What is this? Small tip:
Fountain wasn't as epic example of R.A.M usage on mesh objects as it could be. So...
Elephants which stands on the turtle

 

Hey!

I've got the following problem with River Auto Material. I created a river and waterfall. Everything went great and it seemed to work smoothly. After working on some other stuff on the scene I suddenly noticed that the water plane is not matching to points anymore (see the screenshot). It was misplaced. I just started working on R.A.M so don't know what caused this and how to fix it without recreating the whole water path. Any idea how to fix it?

 

Why spline object have rotation and scale? make them 0 and scale =1

 

Found the solution. I had moved the spline object under an empty GameObject (to arrange waterfall files). For some reason it messed up the path. I took the spline object out and it fixed the problem. Also set rotation to 0 and scale to 1. Thanks for the advice. Problem solved.

 

Hey,
We told that:
- we made flowmap for models not only our spline
- we prepare new demo

We always want to give you something fresh and innovative so just take a look:



This image means that water always move into shore direction near our island and into waterfall near "world" border.




Water behave gif:
https://gyazo.com/16eaa75f42a815322bbd1e9b06231fe2

We will include all stuff in this update - skybox too.

 

WOW wow and more WOW!

 

Any word on having buoyancy included with this. Would be even more epic to have the forces of the flow map pushing objects along. I am really interested in this asset but looking for a buoyancy solution as well. Using Suimono at the moment which is really nice but doesn't have nearly the creation features as this but the buoyancy script included is really nice.

 

Yes we will add this but in about 1 month or a bit more. Atm there is third party solution which want to support this for us.

 

+1 for buoyancy and flow map forces!

 

its easy to do but pur coder is atm at holidays and i want push update this week. So such things will come in next up

 

Hi I am getting these two warnings in Unity 2018 1.7f1 64 bit

Shader warning in 'NatureManufacture Shaders/Standard Metallic Wet': #pragma target with unknown target: #pragma target 3.0 at line 33

SubShader
{
Tags{ "RenderType" = "Opaque" "Queue" = "Geometry+0" }
Cull Back
ZTest LEqual
CGPROGRAM
#include "UnityStandardUtils.cginc"
#pragma target 3.0
#pragma multi_compile_instancing
33 #pragma surface surf Standard keepalpha addshadow fullforwardshadows dithercrossfade
struct Input
{
fixed2 uv_texcoord;
float4 vertexColor : COLOR;
};

Shader warning in 'NatureManufacture Shaders/Standard Specular Wet': Automatically setting target of LOD_FADE_CROSSFADE to 3.0 at line 41

SubShader
{
Tags{ "RenderType" = "Opaque" "Queue" = "Geometry+0" }
Cull Back
ZTest LEqual
CGPROGRAM
#include "UnityStandardUtils.cginc"
#pragma target 3.0
#pragma multi_compile_instancing
#pragma shader_feature _SPECULARHIGHLIGHTS_OFF
#pragma shader_feature _GLOSSYREFLECTIONS_OFF
41 #pragma surface surf StandardSpecular keepalpha addshadow fullforwardshadows dithercrossfade
struct Input
{
fixed2 uv_texcoord;
float4 vertexColor : COLOR;
};


does anyone have any advice on how to fix this

 

Yes because wet shaders support cross fade, it's nothing special, it don't affect anything beside it look confusing.

 

Hi!
Finally...Ofc give us feedback, version is fresh amount of changes is pretty big.

v1.5 changes (online)

- LW SRP support (no distortion until unity side fix), ofc It could work but... it throw errors so I turned it of for a moment
- stylized textures version
- stylized shaders version
- automatic rock wetness (script performance will be improved but it works well, it don't affect anything)
- mobile demo (please adjust terrain at it and give feedback)
- flowmap painter will paint at multiple rivers network (new checkbox)
- vertex color painter at multiple rivers network (new checkbox)
- flowmap painter for models (check floating island demo)
- more advanced terrain shaping system (visualisation, more options, step by step)
- more advanced swamp shading and materials + big shader fixes
- more acurate reflections with examples (will be also upgraded in 1.6)
- option to cut river into many submeshes which is usefull for streaming
- vegetation studio support
- vegetation studio pro (biome - we show that at Unite Berlin 2018) with example biomes.
- vegetation studio instanced indarect for rocks
- floating island demo with example models and galaxy skybox
- river simulation tool (setup 1 point spline will show how will river behave)
- CSV point import panel
- API (small but will be extended)