[Released] Vegetation Studio Pro

This is amazing!

Do your solution work with MapMagic 2 or it is only made for the first one?
Edit: Found the answer in the video's title. Good job again .

 

@jimmygladfelter

Hello, I have been trying to make your system work on my project. I don't have any compile error so this is good sign but I can't manage to really make it work.

Do you use the persistent vegetation storage? (probably)
And in the end of your explanation you say that we need to call system.EnableCacheModels(), where should I put this function call? Because I only get those errors when I hit play and no vegetation at all.

 

@LennartJohansen HI,I just bought this great plugin, I cannot found a editor feature or a API for hide specify plant at playtime, or close some plants without close there prefab generated by spawner.
What I need is that switch rendered trees to my prefab trees when camera goes near them, is that possible?
regards

 

I have an existing terrain, with trees, textures and grass already placed semi manually and can't lose them. How do setup Vegetation Studio Pro to make use of the renderer system without having to do everything again from scratch?

 

Another question, billboards don't seem to be rendering at all. I tried with several different types of trees, regenerated the billboards, but no luck so far. In addition it seems LODS are not working at all either. Any idea what could be causing this? Im on 2020.2 if it helps. Thanks!

 

Look into masks for areas and objects such as trees. Use an area mask to keep VSP from populating those areas or if you have a tree in a spot and want VSP to fill in around it, put a mask on it. You can set up what VSP will add or not. Such as you can have VSP add rocks or things in areas that already have trees and grass but checking off which will be masked.

 

https://www.awesometech.no/index.ph...onents/vegetation-masks/vegetation-mask-area/
The mask area works the same in standard or pro.
It is attached to a game object, you can remove colliders and material to use it to clear areas for this purpose. Kind of the opposite of a biome, you will use it to not add any of the parts you already have in the area.

You could use a biome to do the same and just add a few items if that works better for you.

 

Doubt, if I buy this pro version will I have access to the new vsp 2020? or will it be a third version?
I ask why I want to buy this asset with the piperline rendering working and it looks like this 2020 version is bringing it.

 

Hi, I just bought vegetation studio, and working with it since a week. I think it is a great product but I have a problem with SSAO (from Thomas Hourdel and aswell same with Amplify Occlusion): When I have SSAO on my main camera, I get artifects because of the vegetation, which is really a shame - black ugly looking stripes on objects, when I lower the global LOD levels it is less and less obvious, but still not good enough. Since I see all kinds of examples above from HBO, I am really surprised about this problem. I am using Unity 2018.4.12f1. Please help me! See the images, one with and one without artifects (the black stripes on the brick wall)

 

I had a similar issue a long time ago. Not sure if it’s the same but I had shadows of grass on the trees.

anyway, check your plant settings. If you are using instanced indirect when you should have instanced only it will give artifacts.

check those settings and good luck!

 

Thanks a lot for answering! I will try that and report back later

 

Thanks a lot, I checked it and it appeared to be the problem! 1000 x thanks!!

 

I remember when it happened to me I went crazy for days trying to figure it out. I had several devs looking into it and it finally came down to that setting being off.

Very glad it worked! I know what you were going through.

 

I updated the my Vegetation Studio Pro Extensions in order to support Train Controller. In short: You can take the railtrack spline and have line masks for Vegetation Studio Pro generated for it. At 00:50 is the relevant part:

I modified the code a bit so that it's easier for everyone to add their own support for other assets.

 

I am a long time user of this amazing product. Something tragic has happened with 2020.2.0f1 -- all the grass textures in the biomes give error "Shader 'Standard' doesn't have a color property '_AG_ColorNoiseArea' ". It asks you to delete them and reimport them: when you do then there is this error when you drop the grass on to the 2D Texture item -- you get this "NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object". I thought was maybe something in my big project so I created a brand new project and just imported Veg Studio Pro. Same errors occur in both circumstances. It is pointing to MeshUtils.cs line 70 (in the static SelectNormalMesh(Gameobject, LODLevel).

Clearly this is some major change in 2020.2.0f1 -- any way to work around this or fix it ? (and I should have said this is the default render pipeline with Linear and Mono 4.x)

 

I confirm problems with _AG_ColorNoiseArea in 2020.2.0f1.
If you try your DownloadedDemo you see a bunch of errors (120) almost all related with _AG_ColorNoiseArea
The vegetation prefab of item: Dune Grass_01 is missing. Please replace or delete VegetationItem.
Removing references to missing Turboscalpeur prefabs solves issues.
what is the reason of this change?

 

Seems very odd actually. Trees work, but I tried all sorts of grass textures and errors errors errors. And if you try and click the Debug tab in the panel it kills the VSP UI.

 

I sent an email with this info on the VSP website - hopefully we will hear something soon.

 

I checked it with Lennart. Seems that Unity changed the way resources are loaded in 2020.2, or it's a Unity bug. The error you see is a side-effect. The cause is this for example:

GameObject vegetationPrefab = Resources.Load("DefaultGrassPatch") as GameObject;

which has to be changed to this:

GameObject vegetationPrefab = Resources.Load<GameObject>("DefaultGrassPatch");

@LennartJohansen said he'll test and push an update

 

@Rowlan Excellent ! TY for the response. Gonna make those changes and try that right now.

**EDIT: Made the changes - fixes all the errors. YAY! Back in business heh! And FYI there are a number of other apps/plugins that I have found with the same issue(s). Seems like this type change could be handled much better by UNITY than just break all the projects and leave people with no info about it. At lease there should be a warning during compilation or something. Wow!

 

Does this support DOTS physics out of the box already? If not, how feasible would it be to add in DOTS physics support?

 

Hover Racer Prototype

 

General Questions from a prospective customer
My unanswered post from discord:

 

Seconded here: works a treat. Thank you!

 

You're welcome. Btw I filed a bug report and Unity acknowledged it:

https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/is...ad-as-gameobject-and-2-same-name-assets-exist

 

Having an issue with (i think) tree culling. The primary issue is that trees are culled the second the base of the tree leaves the camera frame. So -- looking up at the top of the tree, the tree disappears the second its base leaves the frame. The (probably related) issue is that shadow culling doesn't seem to work at all. Trees behind the player, out of the frustum, are always culled.

The only way I can fix both of these issues is by changing the camera setting to 360 instead of Frustum. But it's killing my perf! Any ideas? Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XDgvxsoUpfsa9giTY-fiOHfq0FBk2h2W/view?usp=sharing

I'm using mapmagic 2 to populate tree positions and supply the models to VSPro, and i'm using URP. Not sure if that matters...

 

Hi, I encountered an issue with the Quality Manager. When I add it to my Vegetation Studio Pro object it looks alright. But once I click on Create quality levels button, I can no longer see and configure the component properly. Am I adding the script to the correct object?



I'm using Unity 2020.2.1f1, but iirc I had the issue on 2019 as well.

 

I'm facing a similar issue, and specialy when moved the project to 2020.2.1f1, same thing...

 

We just completed final editing to our latest video, "Apollo's Dream", and it will be coming soon to our YouTube channel.
Using VSP as usual.

 

Video is now live!

I hope everyone enjoys it!
Music by Teresa Silverthorn

Thanks to all the Great Devs whose Assets used in this creation:

Editor
Unity 2018
Hierarchy PRO by emx
Playmaker by Hutong Games LLC
Inspector Gadgets Pro by Kybernetik
Easy Scatter by Hedgehog Team

Camera and animal control
Pegasus by Procedural Worlds

Terrain
Landscape Builder 2 by SCSM
Vegetation

Vegetations Studio Pro by Awesome Technologies
Meadow Environment by NatureManufacture
Forest Environment by NatureManufacture
Real Ivy by 3Dynamite


Environment
Aura 2 by Raphael Ernaelsten
Enviro - Sky and Weather by Hendrik Haupt
R.A.M by NatureManufacture

AI
Emerald AI 2.0 by Black Horizon Studios
Crux by Black Horizon Studios

Lifeforms
ANIMALS FULL PACK by PROTOFACTOR, INC
Bird Flock Bundle by Unluck Software
Animal pack deluxe v2 by janpec
Horse Animset Pro by Malbers Animations
Animal pack deluxe by janpec
Insect Firefly by Unluck Software
WoodLand Animals Pack by VintageSoft
Flying insects by GTox models

FX
1000+ Fast Post Processing 1K Styles Mobile and PC + LUT Export by emx
Next-Gen Soft-Shadows by Psychose Interactive Inc.
Look Animator by FImpossible Creations
Tail Animator by FImpossible Creations
Spine Animator by FImpossible Creations

Props
Magic Mirror Lite by Digital Ruby (Jeff Johnson)
Flooded Grounds by Sandro T

Recorder
Unity Recorder by Unity Technologies

 

Beautifully rendered, well done!

 

Thank you!

 

Beautiful work!!! Thank you for sharing this!

 

Thank you! Very glad that you liked it!

 

I am getting a very weird issue. The vegetation is working fine in the editor but not in the Build (windows). Remember I am using a floating origin as the environment is pretty large. But My biome object is under the EnvironmentParent object while I have assigned my EnvironmentParent object in Floating Origin Achor variable inside Vegetation System Pro. What I am doing wrong. ? Remember My EnvironmentParent object moves as my camera goes far away from the origin.

 

Hi,

Can you update your documentation please, and also explain here on how to setup Veg Pro with unity 2020+

The packages have now mostly changed, so I really don't know what todo with the below list from your setup page:

 

The packages have been hidden in 2020.1 and up. You can install them by going to the package manager, click the add button, add git url and put in the pacakge name (e.g. com.unity.mathematics).

 

Thanks, perfect.

FWI for other, this is only needed on new projects, not when you update from older project.

 

I have come across an issue that I have seen mentioned in this thread however I have not seen a solution or workaround, does anyone have information on this? (Asked on discord as well)

1. The tree colliders are set to "wake" ~25 units away, however if I have a NPC > 25 units away from me, it can walk through trees as the colliders near it are not active, correct? Any ideas on how to get past this, or I am misunderstanding something?

 

Look at the component "Collider System Pro (script)"
Select under "Navmesh" tab it has an option to bake your colliders.
Do this after setting up you colliders and the navmesh will build around them preventing your AI from spawning and walking through trees.

 

Thanks. I actually should have added more to my question..

Using A* pathfinding.
Scanning pathfinding graph at runtime.
Using magic map to generate infinite terrain.

So scanning at runtime is easy, works well with MM.
Veg pro studio works well with MM.

and it seems Veg Pro and A* is more of a challenge due to veg pro handling of colliders.

 

Ah... sorry I can't help you there, I've never used A*. I see your issue and look forward to hearing a solution.

 

Hi!

I have ldier through Vegetation Studio Pro some performance problems. In the profiler I have VegetationStudioProUpdate() (3.49ms), VegetationSystemPro.LateUpdate (3.37ms), Prepare render list jobs (3.10 ms) and Draw billboards (2.87 ms). This degrades my frame from 150 FPS to 50 FPS. Does anyone have a solution to improve this?

Second problem, I have billboards enabled but they are not showing.

Thanks a lot already!

 

Billboard problem I could eliminate with the update to the latest version. Nevertheless, the performance loss due to the Vegetation Studio Pro remains.
I lost almost 120 frames with it.

 

I made a new vid with the latest beta of VS Pro which supports HDRP (billboards, instanced indirect, etc):

 

Why does vegetation shadow disappear when it is behind the camera? I am using 2020.2.6f1 hdrp 10.3.1

 

New Video coming tomorrow. "Apollo's Dream II" Using tons of assets, as usual.
Hope everyone enjoys it, the scene and music has been in the works for a long time. We are glad we are finally coming to a final product.

Keep an eye on our YouTube for the new video.
https://www.youtube.com/user/silverthorndavid/videos
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Apollo's Dream II is now live!
A ton of work went into this one, I hope everyone will enjoy it.
Creating beauty with Unity for a Virtual Experience with an original soundtrack is a lot of fun and I hope it shows in the video.

VSP helps create a wonderful living environment for this old west experience.
Using Veg Studio has given Unity a real look and once you use it, there is no turning back. A MUST have!!

 

Has anyone used VS Pro with a terrain larger than 4km x 4km? If I go larger than that, then I get a crash with the standalone build.

 

Hello guys,

I am using VS Pro and suddently everthing started to get rendered on top of my camera when I hit play. Like that:




When in edit mode, it looks like this:



I already double checked the Cameras config in VSPRO script and it is exactly the same as when everything was just working fine: yesterday when I turned my computer off.

Any hints on how to make this work again????