[RELEASED] Super Fast Soft Shadows

Hello, I have this errors in the console when I click "undo" command or change other component after exiting play mode. Unity 2018.1.0f2 on Mac.

 

Thank you. It works perfectly.

 

Hi there!

I'm desperately looking for some sort of directional light (shafts+shadows) system, sprite based (that is, the sprite may have holes through which the light could bleed) and I was wondering if SFSS could possibly add such feature.
This:



is sort of the effect I'm looking for, but I'd need it to apply it to something more like the profile of a bridge, in a slanted orthographic setting (cavialier perspective). The light is supposed to be bleeding everywhere, shadowcasting only based on the bridge profile (and maybe some other foreground elements.

I bought SFSS a while ago but never had such need. Do you think it what I'd need could be attainable with SFSS, now, or in the near feature?

Best,
Alex

 

You can easily make the first image.
This is my current game with SFSS
https://twitter.com/BenBasic/status/997870782465413125

If I make the shadows thicker, that would be something like your first image.

 

[OT] That's dope, thanks for making me discover it

Are you suggesting to use a very far spotlight to fake a directional light?

 

That's the way we suggest to do it in the docs. SFSS doesn't have a dedicated directional light type.

 

Hello. Got here such a problem (in the screenshots) on Samsung Galaxy Note 8.
Gaps in the shadows occur not only between individual objects, but also between the vertices of one object. On other devices everything works as it should.
Screenshot of the rendering settings in PlayerSettings I attach too (I do not know how important it is).

 

@Ortan I've had a couple people tell me that there are issues on the S8, but never got back to me when I asked for more info. Since that's the only hardware that has problems it seems likely it's a driver bug. I'm sure we can find a workaround, but can you send me some more info in a private message? (SFSS version, Unity version, Andriod version, etc)

 

Hi there,
I recently purchased this gorgeous plugin, but I ran into a problem.
The "SFSample" script does not work as I would like, in the "FancyTreeExample" scene any value set to "Sample Position" results in this:



The "Line Sample" is not displayed correctly, but if I change "Sample Position" at runtime (with the gizmo or from the inspector), it is displayed as desired:



what am I doing wrong?

 

SFSample works by duplicating the material when the scene starts. Making things live preview correctly in edit mode can be really tricky for a number of reasons, and I was never able to make WYSIWYG editing work for SFSample. You have to run to preview it. :-\

 

I'm sorry, I forgot to mention it, both screens were taken during play mode u.u

 

Yeah, that's the way I'm using it. This game is now close to completion and the way I utilized SFSS was the day the game became more lively. I have changed little code and applied my system to create dynamic shadows.

Shoutout to @Andy-Korth for creating this asset. It made a huge difference for our game.

 

Hello, is any way can make Sprite Renderer overlay SF Light? Because I have foreground in my 2d game, I use SF Light as Player's flashlight. But I don't want to use shadow, I just want to overlay on top of SF Light.

 

I was also wondering about the ability to order the lights in a specific layer so that it´s possible to have overlayed objects not effected by it.

 

agree

 

I'd like to know, if there's a possibility to rotate the plane which projects the shadows on the sprites. I know the feature is being asked a few times. But I don't know if it's added yet. Because my isometric game uses a diagonal camera angle :/ And I can't change that. My sorting algorithm is based on the angle and I use native 3D collider. So I really can't use another angle for this approach. Thanks in advance =)

edit: I tried to play around with the perspective example, but I move my objects on the other two axes. So I have to try rewrite the SFLight.cs to accomplish this behavior. Or is this feature on the todo list and will get implemented the next months?

 

Seems like the shadows are broken in Unity 2018.2.0f1. Anyone else having problems with that Unity version?

My light masks seem to be clipping somehow causing the lights to be clipped. Everything was okay in Unity 2018.1.0f2.

 

Textures stop shading when they touch the bottom of screen. Some objects at the bottom of the screen look raw (some without shadows, some without lights). Unity 2018.2.0f1. Please, fix it.

 

Yep. Still having problems with Unity 2018.2.0f2. No response from the developers. What's up?

We are really close to our planned release date and wish to use 2018.2.0f2 + SFSS.

I am using an orthographic camera with size 15 (occl. culling and MSAA allowed).

SFSS uses Linear light blending, light map scale 8, shadow map scale 1.

Here you can clearly see the clipping on the right side of the image:


Also here you can see a weird rectangular artifact that wasn't there before (and both of these move with the camera):

 

I confirm the presence of the same bugs in my project.

 

Hello @Haapavuo and @Derwish-pro
I'm using the same unity version as you and using SFSS as well, but my project is not having the same issues as your project is.
So, I'd like to say that maybe, you should create a sample project replicating the issue and send it to the asset developer.
Also, try checking your camera culling mask, parallax light on the SfLight Component and maybe the clear flags on your main camera/UI camera.

 

Hi there. I am trying to use unity's shader graph as well as this asset, but i as soon as i applied the scriptable render pipeline settings the demo scenes no longer work. Is there going to be support in future?

Thanks

 

I'm curious about this as well. It seems like Unity is phasing out the built-in rendering pipeline.

 

I'm using Unity 2018.1.3f1 and point sample is not working. I tested this in the tree demo scene by comparing with the same scene in Unity 5.6.4 (which seem to be working properly.) Is there an ETA for a 2018 update?

 

Have you found a solution to this?

 

I have not. I'm just not using the new pipeline now. which is a shame because i really wanted to use shader graph in my project as well. but its not a massive set back right now. hopefully it will be supported in near future

 

You're not the person I asked the question to and I'm not sure it's even the same problem but ok

 

Is this plugin dead?

 

Don't know if they're still updating it but it works with the latest version of Unity.

 

Hey I've just started to implement the lighting system in our game but there is a weird oddity with where the lighting is being rendered. It seems that its not full screen and even the texture cookies are cutting off on the left and right sides which differ from the texture which has a nice gradient fall off.
I am using Unity 2018.2.2f1. Everything else is working quite fine though, it just seems to be the rendering script on the camera that needs to be updated. You can see what I mean in this video

 

Hi guys !

I wanted to know if it is working with Lightweight rendering pipeline or if I would have to modify lots of things to be operationnal ?

Thanks !

 

It doesn't work with the Lightweird Rendering Pipeline yet, unfortunately. I'm hoping for an update as well.

 

My understanding at the moment is that supporting the new rendering systems would require a total rewrite of SFSS, and at this point, that's not feasible. There's still a lot of people using it in their current projects, but the income from the project definitely doesn't justify a rewrite. If anyone else can chime in with successful experiences of SFSS on the new rendering pipelines, that info would be really helpful! For now, stick to the legacy system.

It looks like it's working pretty well in Brogan's video. Support in the scene view has always been a bit problematic, I believe there's a checkbox to turn off scene view rendering if the rendering effects are troublesome. It's probably better to stick to the game view for a sense of what it will actually look like. It does look like it's just the cookie that's messed up in 2018.2.2f1

 

I can confirm that every works as expected in a build. However, game view in play mode isn't always accurate and the scene view is even worse (using 2018.2.8f1). It looks like a caching issue or something I'm not sure, I've tried deleting and Library folder but it didn't help so its probably not caching. On the up side, everything looks really good in a build and helps my scenes come to life, so I don't mind putting up with the inconsistencies, and I would still recommend this asset to others as long as you are happy not using the new scriptable render pipeline.

 

Hi, Instead of a light I want to create a sun. Is it possible with this asset?

EDIT: And ehm... is this working with tilemap? How can I add the material to a tilemap for cast shadow?

 

@Andy-Korth

Would you like to see how your great asset helped us shape up this game?

Dynamic shadows in this game was achieved thanks to Super Fast Soft Shadows.

 

@Andy-Korth I can live with Scene view inconsistencies, but I'm getting clipping in Game view as well, similar to @Brogan89's video. Game view screenshot: https://my.mixtape.moe/ptdrtd.png

This is with the RadialFalloff texture that came with the asset, and I double checked that the pixels at the edge of the texture are indeed #000000. I'm on 2018.2.8f1. Perhaps it will render correctly in the build, but the clipping is not ideal, to say the least. It's fine when you're sketching out a scene, but it would probably make fine-tuning difficult because you can't properly preview what the scene will look like.

 

I'm looking for a shadow solution for 2D projects, I see you can fake directional with a far away point light. But I'm curious, can you set the shadow length? Or will they always stretch all the way to edge when the light source ends?

Thanks in advance!

 

Sorry for the late reply, I gave up on the package. Maybe this 30 euro package will pay off in a future project. If not, I know not to ever buy anything from the creators ever again.

My game is pretty abstract/cartoony, so i created the light as a semi-transparent png and removed the package from my game.

It means I don’t have the shadows, but for my game it worked.

 

How sad that this is likely abandoned. I would have loved to see this in action.

 

Hi, I want to make a global light with shadows that are not too much big. Any suggestion?

 

Ok, what I really need is a "sun"
Can you help me? I have seen you helped someone out with making a sun!
The only problem I have is that my map is big... so maybe far away object will have a too much big shadow?

 

I would like to buy this asset, does it work with the latest unity beta ? Or are there any problems, i need all features to work perfectly.

 

@zh4r0naX It hasn't been tested with the latest beta yet. If it doesn't work, then it would be because of Unity bug(s) that we would neither be able to fix or take responsibility for. We already have workarounds for shader compiler bugs or specific platforms on older release versions. It's impractical to start making workarounds for betas too.

 

Seems to be working fine.

 

Hey, is there a way to make this work for BoxCollider2D? I'm using Tilemaps and I don't have an option to copy/paste the shadow polygons, unless I use several SF Polygon scripts.

 

@Saijmon I think it wouldn't be too bad. It's been floating around on the todo list for a while, but we've never quite gotten around to it. I think I'll have some time to look into it next week after new year's.

 

Do you have a stand-alone copy of this that works in Cocos2DX?

Sorry, this thread is huge and I didn't read it all to see if this has been asked

 

Hi - just pre-sales checking: is this asset working with 2018.3? And is it still live and being supported? I've noticed few people asking this, and want to check before purchase.. Thanks

 

Yup. The latest version became available a little over a week ago even.