[NEW PATCH] uNature - GPU, Interactable Grass. Interactable Trees, MultiThreading and more!

Sorry for that :/ thats why I made it visible in the asset store version, you probably had a beta one :/.
Let me know how it goes!

 

Hi, bought your product last week and cannot make grass visible. It looks like UNSeeker doesn't work, because of grass is culled by default scene camera and it works fine in scene view. Moreover i can see grass in game camera what is not culled by scene camera. Very weird. I waste a lot of time to understand what i do wrong with your package. Maybe issue is in Unity version? I use 2017.1.0b10

 

Sorry didn't understand properly the problem :/
Could you send me your invoice on the support email: eeproductionssupp@gmail.com
And include a new project with uNature and with a scene with the issue, will check if maybe you just didnt set it up properly.

I am using the beta of 2017 and it does seem to work fine on my end

 

Hi,

I spent over a week trying to use your asset and I have come to a conclusion that is unusable in any shape or form.

1. The fact your package allocates a lot of game objects and increases size of the scene is ridiculous. This creates huge stutters when you press play that completely ruin the player experience.

2. Hiding of game objects in the scene hiearchy view is also a wow moment. I had to delete your asset from my repository because even though i deleted the terrain, it was using hidden gameobjects and loading random data into my build causing long build times. I actually had to manually edit the .scene file to remove the references... Please do not make hidden game objects...

3. Long build times. Have you even tested this package in a real working environment? When i build my package, it takes about 20-30 seconds, however after adding this it exploded to near 4-5 minutes because it is packing all these un-used data into the scene, every single time! This is simply un-acceptable

4. Have you ever profiled start / stop / running through the world? I had to edit the code to remove 1000ms stalls because you simply dont understand how managed C# code works. Please dont load data from the terrain at the start and never use it. If you do that, at least do it across 100 frames or something, not in one frame.

** Disclaimer, I haven't tried the new version because I simply don't believe it can really be any better if this is how this package got submitted to the asset store to begin with **

At this point, I'm not requesting a refund purely just to support you to hopefully make this work properly in the future for other people who don't know what they are doing.

 

Hey!
Thanks for your feedback!

1) That's true, that came into my attention long ago and there's a solution to that on the repository for anyone that wants it by providing me with his email and invoice (GitLab repository)

2) That was fixed with the latest asset store version that was submitted a few months ago, the hidden game object (foliage manager) was a mistake on my end and when I noticed it I submitted a fix (like I said, on the last version )

3) Was caused by the first ticket where the manager would save the maps on the scene instead of compressed files and create the issues you mentioned.

4) Correct, actually I noticed it a long time ago and it was because it was accessing the custom terrain data that required looking through resources and thus loaded the whole resources accidently. i thought I submitted the fix for that already, were you on the latest version? if so, please let me know and I will submit the fix right away!


And thanks for believing in me, I am really trying to make the asset amazing with the new version and as I said I wont promise anything about it but I am trying to push a closed beta as soon as possible. You can follow the trello here - https://trello.com/b/I4kqOpDC/unature

I am going to update the trello soon with a more organized list of what's left for the beta and once ready I will create a new repository for beta testers

 

I'm using the latest version from the asset store. I will look into this again once a new version is available publically and stable on the asset store.

I highly suggest that you stress test your changes in a real life work environment, such as making builds, iterating, constantly profiling to remove any sort of 1 frame stutters, not accessing managed c# wrong and only creating data for things that exist in the world. Visually wise your asset is great, and I would love to actually use it, it is just in need of a much bigger clean up.

Good luck in the development!

 

Agreed, been refactoring it for a few weeks now and will keep on going thanks a lot for your feedback! appreciated!

 

Does uNature support terrain mesh details like small rocks, stones etc like Unity terrain does?

 

Hey,
Not at the moment, as of now you can only use an object with 1 mesh (or more if its inside an LODGroup) and 1 material.

(note that small rocks might work, i suppose small rock pebbles, but big stones most likely won't and would look really weird)

Maybe in the future I will add support, but as of now, its not supported

 

Thanks for the quick reply. Though I can't just buy the asset to test it, It's still nice if the small details like pebbles works. You wouldn't want big mesh details anyway as they can't have colliders.

 

I would say give it a shot, if doesn't work I will gladly refund you

 

Hi,

Actually there are some issues with the MapMagic integration :

Assets/uNature/Scripts/Core/Extensions/Integrations/MapMagic/Integration/UNMapMagic_Manager.cs(10,7): error CS0246: The type or namespace name `Plugins' could not be found. Are you missing an assembly reference?

Do you plan to fix it soon ?

Except for that, great asset !

 

Hey!

Yes, that's an outdated integration and there's a new one you can get, simply message me with your invoice
To fix those issues tho (without getting the new integration) simply remove the "using Plugins;" on the top of the script and replace Tuple with TupleSet

 

Thank you for the very quick reply.

 

Anytime

 

Sorry for interrupting, but I'm very curios, will new uNature still be compatible/integrated with world streamer?

 

Yes, by default as it will be attached to an object instead of global grids. And so when streamed it will work out of the box

 

That means it would also work with tiled worlds, where the position of the tiles is known only at runtime (e.g. tile A is at position (1,1) in one game, and at (5,3) in another)?

 

Yes, can't see why not
As long as the position of the surface is modified to the tile position it should work perfectly

 

On the asset store page it says it is compatible with magic map, but when I have an empty project with just those two assets (magicmap and unature) I get a big fat
"Assets/uNature/Scripts/Core/Extensions/Integrations/MapMagic/Integration/UNMapMagic_Manager.cs(10,7): error CS0246: The type or namespace name `Plugins' could not be found. Are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?" error and can't enter playmode.

Honestly I'm kinda pissed, I can't remember the last time I managed to download and use more than 2 assets from the asset store together without having my project all messed up by them.

 

Map magic Support is sice some time broken you can write a pm to the creator He send you a test Version with working MM

But yeah this is a Big Problem on unity asset store all time ppl write have Support for other assets and After you buy dont work

 

Hey!
Like Salja said, send me your invoice and I will send you a fix

 

Thank you, I have sent you my invoice to the mail address I found on the asset store.

 

Thanks a lot for the mail, the error is gone and it seems to work, I guess? I mean, I follow the steps and have no errors but I see no change in the scene, how can I be sure that it's actually using unature's grass and not the unity default grass? I tried deactivating the UN Seeker (I think that's what's called) and I still see the grass in the Game window so I'm not sure it's working properly.

 

have you brush the grass with unature then ? i bursh my grass with unature and works fine

 

No I haven't because I think unature is supposed to convert the existing grass into unature grass, right?

 

good question i not Need thats why i have not check =(

 

Regarding MapMagic integration - it works if you pin the terrain, but if you want to convert already placed terrains, attach UNTerrain and go to the foliage tab and click on Copy Foliage.

That should copy the grass

 

Thanks, Im slowly getting somewhere, Im still not sure how to get the same look, heres a before/after comparison following your steps

EDIT
I managed to get it working, I get double the amount of fps which is great but I think it doesnt look quite like the original, am I missing something or do I have to live with that?

 

Ah I see - whats your terrain size and detail resolution set to?

 

Sorry I don't have the project here at work but I'm pretty sure size is the default MapMagic size (I believe it's 1km x 1km) and the resolution is set to 512

 

Oh I see, the issue is that if resolution is lower than the size it creates some artifacts as you have seen, but if you unpin your terrains and pin them again while the map magic integration is enabled it should fix it

 

That's what I did and I ended up with the grass2.jpg image in my post above, the grass renders correctly but it's much less dense and beautiful than the original one. I don't want to annoy you, I just want to make sure that I'm using the asset to its full potential

 

Oh absolutely not, in no way you annoy me I am here to give support

Regarding density - go to your prototypes on the foliage manager window, and on each one increase "Max Generatable Density" up to 20.

Then once all of them are 20 re-pin the map magic tiles (let it regenerate) and it should have double the density

 

Ok I'll try that as soon as I get home, in the meantime maybe you can answer this question: should it work on a macbook pro? It doesn't seem to render on the macbook pro I use at work (GPU AMD Radeon R9 M370X 2048 MB, Unity 5.4), not even in the demo scene included in the package. It renders fine when I press "P" to switch to unity grass but when I press it again, nothing.

 

Weird haven't heard any issues about it. Can you send me your skype details on PM and I will see if there are maybe shader compile issues or something like that?

 

Hi! I'm working on a big terrain and everything is working correct... But sometimes the update of sector goes a little bit wrong, loading chunk in a strange way. Moreover, I have two different cameras with keypoint. If I switch on one "car camera" to different keypoint sometimes grass disappear totally. There is a script that I can call in order to refresh grass rendering? quite urgent here, I'm in tight schedule

 

I also believe that this could be connected: in editor if I zoom out grass disappear and throw out this error:

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
uNature.Core.FoliageClasses.RenderingQueue.Render (UnityEngine.Camera camera, UnityEngine.Plane[] cameraPlanes) (at Assets/uNature/Scripts/Core/Utility/RenderingPipelineUtility.cs:367)
uNature.Core.FoliageClasses.RenderingPipielineUtility.RenderQueue (uNature.Core.FoliageClasses.RenderingQueueReceiver receiver, UnityEngine.Camera camera) (at Assets/uNature/Scripts/Core/Utility/RenderingPipelineUtility.cs:156)
uNature.Core.FoliageClasses.FoliageMeshManager.DrawEditorCameras () (at Assets/uNature/Scripts/Core/Foilage/GPU_Utilities/FoliageMeshManager.cs:509)
uNature.Core.FoliageClasses.FoliageMeshManager.Update () (at Assets/uNature/Scripts/Core/Foilage/GPU_Utilities/FoliageMeshManager.cs:497)
uNature.Core.FoliageClasses.FoliageCore_MainManager.Update () (at Assets/uNature/Scripts/Core/Foilage/GPU_Utilities/FoliageCore_MainManager.cs:317)

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
uNature.Core.FoliageClasses.RenderingPipielineUtility.CleanupQueueInstances (uNature.Core.FoliageClasses.RenderingQueue[] renderingQueueStash) (at Assets/uNature/Scripts/Core/Utility/RenderingPipelineUtility.cs:262)
uNature.Core.FoliageClasses.RenderingQueueReceiver.set_renderingQueue (uNature.Core.FoliageClasses.RenderingQueue[] value) (at Assets/uNature/Scripts/Core/Utility/RenderingPipelineUtility.cs:774)
uNature.Core.FoliageClasses.RenderingQueueReceiver.get_renderingQueue () (at Assets/uNature/Scripts/Core/Utility/RenderingPipelineUtility.cs:761)
uNature.Core.FoliageClasses.RenderingPipielineUtility.RenderQueue (uNature.Core.FoliageClasses.RenderingQueueReceiver receiver, UnityEngine.Camera camera) (at Assets/uNature/Scripts/Core/Utility/RenderingPipelineUtility.cs:145)
uNature.Core.FoliageClasses.FoliageMeshManager.DrawEditorCameras () (at Assets/uNature/Scripts/Core/Foilage/GPU_Utilities/FoliageMeshManager.cs:509)
uNature.Core.FoliageClasses.FoliageMeshManager.Update () (at Assets/uNature/Scripts/Core/Foilage/GPU_Utilities/FoliageMeshManager.cs:497)
uNature.Core.FoliageClasses.FoliageCore_MainManager.Update () (at Assets/uNature/Scripts/Core/Foilage/GPU_Utilities/FoliageCore_MainManager.cs:317)


NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
uNature.Core.FoliageClasses.RenderingQueue.UpdateDensities () (at Assets/uNature/Scripts/Core/Utility/RenderingPipelineUtility.cs:332)
uNature.Core.FoliageClasses.RenderingQueueReceiver.ResetDensity () (at Assets/uNature/Scripts/Core/Utility/RenderingPipelineUtility.cs:874)
uNature.Core.FoliageClasses.FoliageMeshManager.MarkDensitiesDirty () (at Assets/uNature/Scripts/Core/Foilage/GPU_Utilities/FoliageMeshManager.cs:447)
uNature.Core.Utility.UNBrushUtility.PaintBrush (Boolean isErase, Int32 brushSize, Byte paintDensity, Byte eraseDensity, Boolean createNewManagers, Boolean useTerrainBasedPainting, System.Collections.Generic.List`1 splats, Boolean interpolateSplatValues, System.Collections.Generic.List`1 selectedPrototypes, Vector2 position, uNature.Core.FoliageClasses.PaintBrush brush) (at Assets/uNature/Scripts/Core/Utility/UNBrushUtility.cs:354)
uNature.Core.FoliageClasses.UNFoliageEditor.PaintBrush (Boolean isErase, Vector2 position, uNature.Core.FoliageClasses.PaintBrush brush) (at Assets/uNature/Scripts/Editor/UNFoliageEditor.cs:1066)
uNature.Core.FoliageClasses.UNFoliageEditor.OnSceneGUI (UnityEditor.SceneView sView) (at Assets/uNature/Scripts/Editor/UNFoliageEditor.cs:932)
UnityEditor.SceneView.CallOnSceneGUI () (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Editor/Mono/SceneView/SceneView.cs:2419)
UnityEditor.SceneView.HandleSelectionAndOnSceneGUI () (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Editor/Mono/SceneView/SceneView.cs:1737)
UnityEditor.SceneView.OnGUI () (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Editor/Mono/SceneView/SceneView.cs:1569)
System.Reflection.MonoMethod.Invoke (System.Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object[] parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) (at /Users/builduser/buildslave/mono/build/mcs/class/corlib/System.Reflection/MonoMethod.cs:222)
Rethrow as TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
System.Reflection.MonoMethod.Invoke (System.Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object[] parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) (at /Users/builduser/buildslave/mono/build/mcs/class/corlib/System.Reflection/MonoMethod.cs:232)
System.Reflection.MethodBase.Invoke (System.Object obj, System.Object[] parameters) (at /Users/builduser/buildslave/mono/build/mcs/class/corlib/System.Reflection/MethodBase.cs:115)
UnityEditor.HostView.Invoke (System.String methodName, System.Object obj) (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Editor/Mono/HostView.cs:272)
UnityEditor.HostView.Invoke (System.String methodName) (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Editor/Mono/HostView.cs:265)
UnityEditor.HostView.InvokeOnGUI (Rect onGUIPosition) (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Editor/Mono/HostView.cs:232)

 

Both of them have UNSeeker attached?
You can call update manually by accessing the seeker component and then doing seeker.queueInstance.CreateInstances(false);

Which will update the grass on the same frame instead of a different thread

 

If I change grass type in foliage manager painter then everything restart... While playing usually I don't have problems but sometimes some sector just goes crazy and start to load far but not close grass

 

Yea, those are mainly because of my fault and I always forget to push a fix for those to the asset store. I will do that today so it never happens again.

Basically replace your RenderingPipelineUtility.cs with: https://hastebin.com/puvevujoki.cs

Let me know if what I sent above (seeker.... method) helps (Run it on the seeker of the camera you are changing to)

 

Hi Elroy, thank you, no, I have some sectors that just don't update some kind of grass (like squared sector)... There is one way to refresh in editor all the calculations of sectors and fix problems?

 

As written above, you will need to use the method above - seeker.queueInstance.CreateInstances(false);
On the seeker you want to update .

 

I'm fighting a little bit with some glitch of the system, however it's beautiful the result with grass... Here the project that I'm following

On Unity Connect
https://connect.unity.com/p/agriculture-wip






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Absolutely beautiful! Speechless

I am going to start the beta of the new uNature soon, I will make sure to put you in it. Will contact you in the next few weeks

 

Well done. It's well composed. Rather realistic. And consistent in style.

 

Hi,

Is there a way to have the feature "use color map" working on the grass when using Unature with MapMagic ?

Edit : Problem solved. I had to reimport some assets and now it works just fine.

However, it would be nice to have a control on how much the texture underneath tint the grass.

 

Hey -
This feature is currently disabled on map magic because in order to generate that map you need to take a snapshot of the surface which is very slow and so not enabled at the moment. I am researching a new approach for color maps though that will make it faster

 

Also some more news - going to submit a fix today for some issues that people have been getting, mostly the errors in console and some more small tweaks. I am mainly getting the asset ready towards a stable version and then start the beta of the remastered version

 

Will we be able to have the uNaure grass take its color from a MegaSplat terrain, because that would be great?