[RELEASED] World Streamer ! Forget about your game memory usage and create big world!

We're trying WorldStreamer now; our world has been split into 12x12 = 144 scenes.

Now I'm wondering: how do I handle baking occlusion & lighting for all those scenes? Opening each one and manually baking them every time we do a build really isn't practical. Is there some way to script it?

 

To bake occ and light you should load most scenes via local area updater and bake everything. Specialy for occ where it's important what is in neighbour scenes. Light - unity bake during build, but you can bake it in same way - loaded many scenes and bake.

 

Hmmm.....


Not to put anyone "on the spot" here but...

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Soon??....

 

Bug fixing take time whole system works now. We rebuild ui and functionality. Now we fix small bugs. General shape, functionality is done, now we only fix all minor things

 

That is exciting! Do you have a list of features?

 

We will publish info when we put asset into pending review. It's worth waiting, no more external tools for terrain managment etc Clear and simple fast streaming.

 

I'm heavy interestet buying this tool and read already some parts of the doc and watched some vids.
Just one question: As I understand the player is the center of all, sure, and the world is build around him. But needs to be applied in a WS component. In my VR experience the user (gamer) can jump out of the player avatar, for lets say a tour outside the player. So he sees the world from different cameras, which works currently fine.
Will this work with WS somehow?

 

You can decide if player or camera is source of position or any other object. You can change it at runtime

 

Hey,
First of all amazing asset, I haven't worked with Unity large scale terrains in a while and just watching the videos it solves a lot of the problems inherent to the memory usage
I've renamed a bunch of game objects ( generated in real world terrain) and when I click on Split Scene into Virtual Grid, nothing happens.
Works fine with renamed unity terrains, but not the objects.
In case nomenclature is important, the prefix is InstancedBuildings, and each GO is InstancedBuildings_XXXXX.
I have created a layer for Buildings, using the prefix.

Not sure what Im doing wrong?

 

Screens from hierarchy and scene spliter please.

 

That was super fast!
https://i.imgur.com/rC7zihf.png
I've also tried with InstancedBuildings_ as the prefix.

 

You forgot about object parent script at parent where you hold this objects. Check our catalogue demo scene.

 

Got it! Thanks.

 

2.0?

 

Here's a question that may have been asked before:
Im seeing profiler spikes every time cells are being loaded / unloaded. Probably due to the terrains Im streaming in ( right now in the lightest scene, its a 10x10 terrain grid, 2500 meters on x and z. Base textures at 2k. Would having more cells lessen the impact ( as the textures loaded in memory would be technically less)?

 

More cells slowdown game. i suggest to use 3x3 cells with player in the middle and rest low poly meshes of terrain. Check build, check if you turn on incremental gc which speed up gc alot.

 

What's the latest unity version this works with? I couldnt remember why I didnt upgrade and now I'm thinking this doesnt work for anything past 2019.2 or something like that

 

@tredpro I have working on .3, and I'm currently porting over a project to 2020 to use Graphite, so I'll report on that too

 

That sounds relieving. I was just trying to upgrade to LTS

 

Pausing on 2020 since texture streaming doesnt support URP.
Also confirmed working on 2019.4.4f1.

 

It will work with all latest versions too

 

I'm having an issue,

I've got a 3x3 100m Grid in which I am loading each grid space has a Terrain and some low poly buildings.

Every time a scene loads in. The game stutters for a second. Not big but if my character is walking it's noticeable.

Is there something special I need to do, or is it the Terrain and I need to switch to mesh maybe?

 

Depends on your terrain data , also auto connect get spikes each time you load terrain and it stitch edges. In latest version our faster terrain neighbour script doesnt work (issue tracker since few engine versions) so only auto connect left. Check at profiler what takes ms during loading.

 

v 2.0?

 

Pending review

 

Woot woot !

Can you give us a little overview of the new features ?

 

Look at batches (saved by batching) and fps, number of shadow casters. Btw demo scene included. WS 2 is not only for streaming, it can create background for your scene aswell.
Huge amount of trees and 4k terrain now take only few batches.

 

What about fully mesh-based terrains? (i.e. sculpted terrains) -- No love for those?

 

They work as before, you can create such mesh via ws2 now.

 

I'd really like to see this process -- it would definitely be the key selling point for me and many others I might recommend WS to in the future. In fact, this feature is exactly the reason I bought WS1 and yet is the exact same reason I have never used WS in a single project.

 

Do we have any rough timeline when World Streamer 2 can be expected to be released? I am VERY interested in this version

 

On pending review by Unity Store since last Tuesday. I'm anxious too to see it in action !

 

Review is done. We wait for small fix before release.

 

lets see the trailer! also an in depth tutorial which explains new stuff and workflow would be good.

 

Any update ?

 

Its almost there...but crickets

 

Last test if it's passed I release

 

I know the feeling. Always had some last minute changes, tweaks when I released my games. At one point you think you'll never ever push it live lolll

 

It's about remove bugs not add features

 

Here is me trying to figure it out what they did in FS2020 while waiting for WS2

 

How did you do this? Is it handled entirely in the shader?

 

I found a crack and landed there, those tiles are higher ground so we can see them beneath. I think its because when higher lod tiles wont load because of bandwidth and sometimes that leads differences of tile meshes on edges (my guess).

 

You could build same grid with ws2

 

WS2 is online. Later I will create new thread for it

 

For the last weeks i have looked every day not only once for the new version in the store and finaly i just have updated and downloading it now

Now you have to fulfill my expectations

Edit:
Have first questions so hope to ask them soon in the new World Streamer 2 thread.

 

Is there going to be an upgrade price for ws1 owners ?

 

it is 25$ for upgrade and 90 grace days

 

New ws2 thread: https://forum.unity.com/threads/world-streamer-2.962709/