[Released] Splatter System - Stains Everywhere

Did you manage to find a fix?

 

Are there any plans to allow passing in different particle system settings that allow different particle shapes? For example, I have two items and each item needs to splatter with different shapes not only different colors, orientation, and intensities. Right now if I have one set for Circle and one set for Square the particles are drawn using whatever settings I passed in last. For now, I can make that work but it would be nice if the SplatterSystemMesh would honor all settings passed in without affecting those that were already placed in the world.

Thanks for your help and for this wonderful timesaving asset

 

Hi there, I just bought the asset for our 2-D game that is very reliant on lighting. Did anyone end up getting this to work with a Diffuse or Vertex Lit shader? I tried adding in the stencil snippet mentioned previously in the forum but there doesn't seem to be any effect. Thanks!

 

I ended up getting this to work with the recommended implementation. Thanks!

 

Yeah I'd quite like to know this too, it wasn't clear in the Asset Store that you could only use one type of splat at a time.

 

I've emailed the developer for support 4 weeks ago but no response to questions, so I guess they are busy. Right now I can't recommend anyone buy this until they fix two issues:

- the splats have a flicker glitch (Unity 2017)

- only works with sprites if you set the depth using 'order in layer' in Unity, if you set the depth using z position (for example if you are mixing sprites and other items that don't allow sorting layers), then this asset doesn't work. z position for depth, sprites always appear behind the splat mesh

I'd love to be able to use this app once it gets updated. Thanks.

 

Anyone that got this to work with lights, please share, would be a lot appreciated!

 

Hello @Dustyroom, I asked this a while ago and now I'm working on that project hehe. And I hope you're around as I read you've been absent.

I'd like to know what's the best approach for making a 4 player game where each one can color the level around (bitmap or mesh), and we need to calculate the amount of paint of each color. Also for the question 6), I'm not pretty sure how to do that and which variables should be exposed.

Thanks!

 

Hi @Dustyroom ,

Does this work with new Unity Tilemap system?

 

It works with Tilemap out of the box. To enable stain rendering, use SplatterSurface on the tilemap material.

 

Hi there! I want to use Stain System too but got a question: My sprites are not using the " Sprite-Default" shader but a "Diffuse" shader so that Unity light system works with it. However, if I use your shader for it, they are not using light anymore. Is there a way to solve this issue?

 

Will there be an update that works with the LWRP default 2D shader? We are using the new 2D lights and would really like to include stain system again.

 

Hello, with the bitmap splatter area selective i am seeing a white(ish) border around the sprites. Is there a way to eliminate this? \

NVM setting pixel snap in the shader area fixed this.

 

Do you have an example scene of 2 different areas not getting overlap of the splatter (specifically i am talking about after the splatter has been generated, so an the areas both have splatter and when a part of area A passes over area B A shows B's splatters on its sprite. I'm having issues with 2 areas where when they cross they show the splatter from the other area. I have set the Stencil layer as different on the material (even duplicated and created its own material), but no luck.

Am i doing something wrong, or is this not possible?

 

---UPDATE
I was able to get things working by adjusting the spriteSurface shader ZWrite On (and setting the Z order of the sprite i didnt want to pickup another splatter area's splatter to -1), in case anyone runs into a similar issues.

 

Does anyone know how to get the colors changed of the Settings during run-time. I changed the colors, and see the change in the editor, however it is spawning with the original colors...

 

I use sManager.defaultSettings.colors[0] = new Color(1,1,1,1); and it changes in the inspector during runtime, but the splatter color does not change.

 

Hi. has anyone been able to get this to work with URP? specifically the sprite lit shader?

 

Hi there, does it support tiles and tilemap?

 

I love this asset and have some (probably obvious) questions.

I am testing creating a splatter (on collision with the floor) :

splatter.Spawn(transform.position, Vector3.down);

What does the second parameter do? I know that there is a setting for direction in the movement mode on the SplatterSettings - does this do something similar?

 

The second parameter is the direction of the splatter. For example if you'd like the motion to go from left to right, pass Vector3.right.

 

Thanks @Dustyroom ! I am getting a warning when importing the asset ( 2019.4.8f1 ):

Shader warning in 'Splatter/StandardSurface': Keyword _DETAIL_MULX2 declared as global and local. It will be treated as local keyword.

( It's actually multiple warnings from the same path for different Keywords. )

Is there anything I can do to remedy this? I don't believe it causes any issues but there is a side of me where I don't like warnings or errors in my console and would like to address it.

 

I'm making a topdown game where the floor is using your SpriteSurface shader, but any masked sprites above it are no longer masked, as the they're getting drawn into the stencil. How would I go about solving this?

 

I would like to ask a question, I use mesh mode, static sprites are fine, but if it is dynamic sprites, such as monsters or moving platforms, the stains will be stationary somewhere, instead of moving with them, how can I solve it?

 

Unfortunately the mesh mode can't handle splatter on moving objects - it is backed by Unity's particle system, which creates a single mesh for all particles.
You can try to use the bitmap mode and move the splatter area along with the moving object.

 

Thank you for your reply. Actually, I have used this bitmap mode before and solved this problem by making the Areas area as a child of the mobile Sprite, but the dyeing effect of this mode is not very satisfactory to me.For example, a few cases in the resource demo bitmap mode demo, inside the dyeing is not very timely dyeing up, or even no reaction or far away from the place of dyeing, may setting custom is not very good?So I use mesh mode

 

Hello, there is such a requirement in our function at present. For a certain texture map, such as a heart, how can we judge that the spray paint area covers the whole heart?For effects like the following, we need to completely dye the hollow heart before we can finish the game.

 

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Hs411e7Kq?t=16 11：02s in this video

 

Has anyone get it to work with 2d light in URP?

 

I have a tilemap as a splatter surface and it's working great on desktop and mobile. But for consoles, it's causing the tilemap to be completely transparent with no splatter effects. Do you have any ideas for what might cause this?

Update: Now this is working. I'm not sure what changed. But I'm glad it did!

 

It's not working; all the links are invalid and expired, and you are not responding to emails.

 

Hi! I see your email from Saturday along with the Asset Store review, and this forum post on Sunday along with a comment on YouTube video. We replied on Monday morning, which I think is reasonable.

I've tested the asset and can't find anything not working, please provide more details.

Thanks for reporting the broken links, it has been fixed now.

 

Howdy!
I just purchased your asset. I am looking to replace my current decal solution and yours looks like it will not only replace but also upgrade it

As I am still learning how it works, I just wanted to make sure this is correct behavior:
When using Demo 1 Mesh example & 'particles shape' 'Circle', the particles are rendered behind the canvas. Like in the attached screenshot. Is this intended behavior?

I noticed that if I enable 'Multiply Blending' it will be drawn on the square (instead of behind like in the screenshot).
Also, if I change particle shape to 'square' it will be drawn in front of the square as well.

Using Demo 1 with Bitmap, particles are rendered on top of the white square.

I am using Unity 2021.3.34.f1, I loaded a blank project and only imported Stain System. I am using demo scenes.

Thanks for your assist!

 

Hi! Thank you for reporting this. It's a regression in the latest update to Stain System where we incorrectly set the Setncil Layer of the `CircleParticleAlphaBlend` material to 0, where it should be 128. We've released an update with a fix, please check it out.