[RELEASED] UniStorm 5.2 - AAA Volumetric Clouds, URP Support, Weather, Sky, Atmospheric Fog, & More!

Hi! Any further update on HDRP support? Thanks!

 

First time using the asset. Didn't do much but the problem is that other scenes were somehow changed and I don't know how to revert these changes back. Now the scene which had to be very "green" became very snowish. Tried removing the assets, didn't helped...

 

Hi,
I am trying to use the asset on empty project 2021.3.10 Builtin RP but "Playable Standard Demo"i "Procedural Lightning Strikes Example" and "Standard Demo"scenes are completely Wihte when the Android is selected as a platform. When I disable the bloom or set to 0.01 then it becomes visible but still eveything looks very washed out.

On "Mobile Example" scene there is no Post process. and sun looks really bad. When I tried to add "Post-Processing Behaviour" with the same profile the everything becomes white again.

 

New error on Unity 2021.2.17f1:

Code (CSharp):

1. Compute shader (noiseGeneration): Can't find kernel (0) variant with keywords:
2. UnityEngine.StackTraceUtility:ExtractStackTrace ()
3. UniStorm.Utility.GenerateNoise:GenerateBaseCloudNoise () (at Assets/UniStorm Weather System/Scripts/Clouds/GenerateNoise.cs:253)
4. UniStorm.Utility.UniStormClouds:GenerateInitialNoise () (at Assets/UniStorm Weather System/Scripts/Clouds/UniStormClouds.cs:73)
5. UniStorm.Utility.UniStormClouds:Start () (at Assets/UniStorm Weather System/Scripts/Clouds/UniStormClouds.cs:58)
6.  

I wish I could get a refund for this abandoned asset...

 

This is killing me. This sun is just awful! I want to fix this but don't know how...Only post processing can save my life?

 

I like the asset so far. But haven't figured out how I can use SetTime() when level reloads. I want to be able to replay a scene with different time and weather.
But when I do this

Code (CSharp):

1.  SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().name);
2.         //yield return new WaitUntil(() => UniStormSystem.Instance.UniStormInitialized);
3.         if (_UniStormSystem.CurrentTimeOfDay == UniStormSystem.CurrentTimeOfDayEnum.Evening)
4.         {
5.             UniStormManager.Instance.SetTime(3, 0);      
6.             Debug.Log("setting time 3am");
7.         }

it gets here. and seems to switch to nighttime for a second and then it goes back to default time.

Tried a coroutine with WaitUntil() , but then it stops it there, not sure what else I could try.

Using the URP setup.

 

Has anyone else had a night problem? the night is very bright. I configured the part responsible for fog in the unistorn system in any way, to no avail. I want to note that the documentation has completely different points, in the current version of the settings there are really few settings for fog. the essence of the question, is it possible to somehow transfer the work of the fog to my own script, not to the manager?
There are 311 mentions of fog in the unistorm script)

 

If I enable Unistorm fog and put the renderer feature in, I get constant errors saying:

A non-multisampled texture being bound to a multisampled sampler. Disabling in order to avoid undefined behavior. Please enable the bindMS flag on the texture.

UnityEngine.Rendering.RenderPipelineManager:DoRenderLoop_Internal (UnityEngine.Rendering.RenderPipelineAsset,intptr,System.Collections.Generic.List`1<UnityEngine.Camera/RenderRequest>,Unity.Collections.LowLevel.Unsafe.AtomicSafetyHandle)

Has anyone seen this?

 

Fixed it. Didn't like my Rendertexture having MSAA enabled on it, disabled the samples and its not erroring now

 

Hello, Having trouble with URP in non-unistorm scenes and UI. Unistorm seems to be adding Render features for Cloud, fog, sun, moon to other renderers automatically. Unable to delete! Trying to use different cameras for scenes that need it. Anyone know what's going on here or how to fix it?

Edit: URP, Unity 2021.3, Unistorm 5.2.0 From March 22

 

Hi Everyone, The Dev seems to be active on the unity store asking people who have issues to email Support@BlackHorizonStudios.com I suggest if you're not getting anywhere here to shoot an email over,

As for Support here I'm currenty testing all versions of unity and their respected SRP,URP versions, I'll report my findings over to let anyone here know which versions work and which do not. 2021.3.2f1 is very buggy and does not work

2021.3.14f1 Works fine on SRP and URP.

Render Features are not scene based they are project based, if you have it on one scene you cannot remove them for other scenes.

 

Greetings. I've encountered an issue with UniStorm that has left me scratching my head, particularly as to why no one else seems to be running into this.

After a fresh install of Unistorm and instantiation in a new scene, I noticed the Sun and Moon objects were being rendered 'through' other objects that should be occluding them.




This happens in a brand new Unity project with only UniStorm installed. I am running Unity version 2022.1.5f1

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After digging into the shader logic a bit, I saw that the 'z' coordinate in the sun and moon shaders were being set to a very small value (just above zero), which would make sense out of the situation as the Sun/Moon vertices are now sorted above all others in the scene.

Removing this assignment (specifically the line: "o.vertex.z = 1.0e-9f;") fixes the issue




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My questions are (if anyone would be so gracious to offer some insight):

- Why is the z-coordinate being set like so?
- Is there any problem with removing the assignment
- Why hasn't anyone else encountered this issue?

Thank you greatly for any advice pertaining to this matter.

 

Reporting a Strange behaviour with Version 2021.3.14f1

New Project:
Follow URP Setup readme
Import Unistorm
Import URP Files
Open URP Demo Scene
Set that as the build Scene

Run Build > Open Build > No Clouds
Close Unity > Open Unity > Build > Black Screen
Close Unity > Open Unity > Play In Editor > Close In Editor > Build > Clouds no Blackscreen

Close Unity > Open Unity > Build > Black Screen

No settings modified Unless you Play the scene it will not build correctly, This is an odd behaviour, Asking anyone to reproduce to confirm.

 

Is this forum dead?

 

@BHS: awesome stuff! I'm wondering about the difference between ChangeWeatherInstantly and
ChangeWeatherWithTransition. I'm using the API "UniStorm.UniStormManager.Instance.ChangeWeatherInstantly", but when I change the weather more than one time, the sound becomes strange.

 

Hey everyone,

For some reason I was missing notifications for this thread. My apologies for not answering all your support questions. I'll be working on responding to everything by the end of tomorrow.

If you have an issue with Unity 2021 or Unity 2022, please email me at Support@BlackHorizonStudios.com so I can send you the patch to address the current issues.

 

That looks like it's related to the Reflection Intensity. What version of Unity are you using?

 

Install the Post-Processing Stack v2+. It doesn't look like the Post-Processing Stack v1 is supported for this version of Unity (which isn't required for UniStorm). The new Post-Processing Stack can be found under Window>Package Manager>Unity Registry>Post Processing.

In order for the sun to look like it does in the demo screenshots, you need to have a bloom image effect and HDR enabled on your camera/project settings.

 

Hey there. My apologies for the delayed response. For some reason I stopped receiving notifications on this thread.

As for your issue, I haven't yet seen this or been able to recreate it. Can you please email me at: Support@BlackHorizonStudios.com and, if possible, send a barebones project with a scene and the issue present?

 

Yes, post-processing (bloom) and enabling HDR are what allows the sun shader to glow like that.

 

See the "Save UniStorm Data Example" scene for an example on how to save and load with UniStorm. It saves UniStorm's time, date, temperature, weather, and the player's position. It allows for both manual saving and autosaving.

 

Try setting the ambient colors, under Celestial>Atmosphere Settings, to darker colors. Also, set the Moonlight Color darker as it also affects how dark night can be.

 

ChangeWeatherInstantly with change the weather instantly with no transition from the current weather.

ChangeWeatherWithTransition changes the weather gradually over time from the current weather.

What do you mean by the sound becomes strange? Either option sound play the sound for that Weather Type. This is based on the sound set within the Weather Type object.

 

To implement the weather and some incidental effects like wipers, I created a new dropdown list that uses the Change Weather API.
When I use ChangeWeatherInstantly, the sound of HeavyRain and Rain will be interspersed with "tututu" sound, but the sound of HeavyFog and Foggy is normal.
When I use ChangeWeatherWithTransition, the sound of HeavyRain and Rain is normal but no raindrops.
No matter which API I use, the sound and effects of the first weather are normal.

 

I just tested this and everything is working correctly on my end. The only way I was able to get a weird sound was by repeatedly calling the ChangeWeatherInstantly API. Ensure that it is only being called once when your dropdown change happens.

What version of Unity are you using? Maybe it's a version specific issue.

 

My version is 5.2.0. The abnormal sound and effects do appear when changing the weather for the second time. Do you mean the weather change can only be used once in play mode? If I want to change the weather continuously I have to re-enter the game mode, right? Then, where can I see the code that corresponds to the original drop-down list to change the weather function? Thank you very much.

 

By the way, there are three cameras in my scene, one is the main camera, and the other two are the left and right rear-view mirrors. I set the camera tag of the three cameras to MainCamera. When I set the weather to foggy, there was no foggy effect in the left and right rear-view mirrors.

 

No, you can change the weather as much as you'd like during runtime, but it sounds like your change is happening repeatedly. I'd have to take a look at your code to see exactly what is happening.

If you want a drop-down example, see the CreateUniStormMenu function within the UniStormSystem script. It automatically populates a drop-down with all the weather types within UniStorm's Weather Type list. I also tested this with the ChangeWeatherInstantly API and I did not have the issue you were having.

 

Hello, I understand that the question was asked more than once, but is there any plans to release an HDRP version at all

 

Looks like I am getting the same problem as sthansson. URP sky is completely white but only when using the non-included camera. The included camera always renders correctly. The tutorial on the github is for a old version and uses options that appear to be missing in the URP one.

 

Hi @BHS

Auroras is not rendering in mobile its simply in black color...

Whats the fix for this...?

 

Hello Unistorm Developer. I need a help.

How can I see the lower part of the cloud as in the bottom picture. (the bottom picture is edited in photoshop)

 

Aurora shader is not working on mac, its black showing warning non of its sub shaders or fallbacks are supported on gpu.

 

Yes, but I'm finishing up Emerald AI's (my other asset) update first.

 

I'll look into this. What version of Unity are you using?

 

What version of Unity are you using? Are you using URP?

 

Hey there. Try setting the Fog Height for your Weather Types to 0 to see if that gives you the results you are looking for.

 

i just added metal keyword to shader now its work
#pragma only_renderers d3d9 d3d11 glcore gles metal

 

Thanks, I'll look into this.

 

Hello everyone!
I am doing something similar like post #5962 suggested. A driving game that needs to switch the Camera Source depending on if you are inside the vehicle or outside of it.
However ChangeCameraSource doesn't seem to do the entire job. I can see it disabling the previous camera, enabling the new camera and creating the needed containers on the PlayerTransform. I can see it even switching the internal Unistorm PlayerCamera variable to the new, correct camera. However the scripts that need to be on the Camera (Atmospheric fog) for some of the weather and fog effects to render are still missing and its not throwing any error messages from what I can see. Manually using InitializeUniStorm does add those scripts to the new camera, though.
Maybe I'm just missing something here.

My current code looks something like

Code (CSharp):

1. void getOutOfCar() {
2.  
3.          player.transform.position = car.transform.position - car.transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.right);
4.          isincar = false;
5.          vehicleController.enabled = false;
6.  
7.         //unistorm stuff
8.         UniStorm.UniStormManager.Instance.ChangeCameraSource(playertransformOut, camoutcar);
9.  
10.     }
11.  
12.     void getInCar()
13.     {
14.  
15.         isincar = true;
16.         vehicleController.enabled = true;
17.  
18.         //unistorm stuff
19.         UniStorm.UniStormManager.Instance.ChangeCameraSource(playertransformInCar, camincar);
20.  
21.  
22.     }

both Game Objects containing the trasnform and camera are active and so are its paremts. The camera inside the car starts disabled.

Cheers!
Ghost

 

yes it is. thanks alot bro. i always forget and always re-ask again.

 

Got this error when i try to upgrade Unistorm to URP supported version

 

Unity recently changed some API with Unity 2021 and 2022. Email me and I’ll send you a patch to fix it through a UnityPackage file.

 

Hi all,

Just recently started playing with UniStorm in URP and loving it. By far the easiest solution I've tried using.

Now, I have a question, as I have something of a weird blind spot when it comes to using API's and the like.

What I'd like to do, is every time my little game is run, is to have a random weather/time of day each time.

Would anyone be able to suggest a solution please? :-/

 

Here's a script that should do what you want. I hope it helps

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using UniStorm;
3.  
4. public class RandomizeTimeAndWeather : MonoBehaviour
5. {
6.     private void Start()
7.     {
8.         Invoke("Generate", 0.01f); //Give a slight delay before generating to give UniStorm time to initialize.
9.     }
10.  
11.     void Generate()
12.     {
13.         //Generate a random weather type from the UniStorm System's AllWeatherTypes list.
14.         var RandomWeatherType = UniStormSystem.Instance.AllWeatherTypes[Random.Range(0, UniStormSystem.Instance.AllWeatherTypes.Count)];
15.         UniStormManager.Instance.ChangeWeatherInstantly(RandomWeatherType); //Assign and instantly fade in the generated weather type.
16.  
17.         int RandomHour = Random.Range(0, 24); //Generate a random hour
18.         int RandomMinute = Random.Range(1, 61); //Generate a random minute
19.         UniStormManager.Instance.SetTime(RandomHour, RandomMinute); //Set the time to the RandomHour and RandomMinute variables.
20.     }
21. }

 

Amazing asset. However, I can't find the option to use climate zones. I know it was in the older videos. Would have been awesome to have different climate for each city or elevation.

 

Hello!

Unistorm is failing to light up my scene in builds.

I'm using Unity 2021.3.14f1 LTS with URP. Unistorm 5.2.0.

I've disabled the standard fog settings in the Graphics settings of the Project Settings, as that was a suggested issue. However, it didn't do anything to help.

Additionally, I had thought that perhaps it was because the Shaders were being stripped for the build, however, I notice that a split second after the game launches, when everything is unlit, I can see the materials of the objects.
The lighting kicks in and the game falls into blackness.

I've been getting by by making builds over and over and 1/100 end up building and lighting correctly. But it's a total tossup if this will happen. I haven't been able to get a successful build so far for this patch I need to put out.

I tried re-importing the URP package and it was suggesting that Unity correct API differences in this engine version, to which I've said yes. Everything runs fine in editor.

 

Did you ever find a solution to this, just came across the issue myself. Thanks.

 

Try disabling the cloud shadow feature through the UniStorm Editor. Also ensure that the cloud shadows are not enable on your render pipeline asset.

 

This is by design. A new weather type will be generated if the conditions are not met on start for the Starting Weather Type. To stop this from happening, you can disable conditions within each weather type.