SE Natural Bloom Dirty Lens

Made some tests. It's actually a Unity issue. Mac 10.11.6, Unity 5.6.0f3.
No post processing works at all in scene view, except some effects from the post-processing stack like Ambient Occlusion & Screen Space Reflections…

 

Are you sure image effects are enabled in the scene view? You can enable them under Gizmos i think...

 

I'm also in MacOS 10.12.24 and Unity 5.6.0f3 and SE Natural bloom & Dirty lens is not working at all, no editor or iOS platform. It was working in 5.3.2 but now shows up "The camera is either not HDR enabled or has an effect that converts to LDR" warning. There are no other effects in this or other cameras, and HDR is enabled, also MSAA is disabled.

Any news about this problem? I'm trying to get RenderTexture format forced somehow, but any help would be great on this

 

Make sure that Anti-Aliasing is disabled in Quality Settings... Also make sure you are in Linear lighting, not gamma and deferred settings (Graphics) is recommended

 

Disabled MSAA, used linear lighting and metal support only (no OpenGLES 2 or 3) but still having this issue, deferred lighting was also legacy in 5.6. I rollbacked again to 5.3.2 and works fine though, so I'll stay with it a little longer

 

This only happens on OSX? How about 5.5?

 

I've just tested it in 5.5 in MacOS and it's working both in platform and editor, so it must be a Unity issue.

 

Ok cool maybe report it as a bug?

 

Since Unity 5.6 support HDR with MSAA. I tested SENBDL with that set up, but it gave me strange flickering. I also test other Bloom such as in PRISM and Post Processing Stack, and the result was same. It probably is a Unity issue again.




EDIT: This seems to only happened on Legacy Specular Shader.

 

Found out the problem with any post process not working in 5.6.1f1, there's this new bizarro graphic setup page in edit -> project settings -> graphics:



As you can see all the tier settings have "Use HDR" disabled by default. Just don't use defaults and manually set it to true and HDR seems to work like a charm again. To add some confusion, our other developer has it enabled by default, because "thanks Unity"

 

Does anyone know of if dust is included to SE bloom now?

 

Hi.This asset is a blast.
is basically 3 in one. But the epic part to me is the per object glow.

I just have one request. I want to also use it for a termal cam. The issue is that I use an invert filter so the White turns out to be black and I find no way to get a black glow. Even if I put the SEN filtere after the inversión in teh stack.

Any tips? If not posible as is could you please add an "invert" checkbox/bool that can be accesed via script?

 

In order to get the "black glow" you're looking for, you'll want to make sure your "color invert" image effect is rendered after SENBDL. So, make sure your invert effect script is below SENBDL in the scripts stack on your camera.

 

Is that fog blur effect going to be added to SENBDL anytime soon? It looks really good

 

Thanks for your quick answer, I think I explained myself poorly.

Here is the actual image of the environment in thermal (ground is wrong). It is not meant to be realistic or anything but like somwhat termal-ish environment. like the base, probalby will darken further.
https://1drv.ms/i/s!AuliwwO_siw1hzCriwhI9SVWJaFr

On top of this I need White glow for hot stuf like bullets of vehicles. For the glow to be White, as the image is already inverted, I would need the glow to be black beforehand so it tourns out to be White. So I would need a way to invert just the SEN output. I tried to invert the objets shader color and it renders just black before invert without glow. If I invert SEN shader whole image gets inverted :\

 

Hi @sonicether

I just saw that you can plug custom effects into Unity Post Processing Stack v2:
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/PostProcessing/wiki/(v2)-Writing-custom-effects

I haven't looked into this in detail, but it seems this would make it easier to use SENBDL in conjuction with the Post Processing Stack. At least it would integrate it neatly. Is this anything you would consider adding to the asset store package?

 

Hello again, today I did again test moving the invert filter ahead the SENDBL one and while I can see other camera effects be affected by this, the glow keeps invertir no matter where the invert is. Any clues?

 

I'm trying to find a camera filter fx that inverts, like the one I use but different to see if that one does not invert SENDBL independently of its poosition in the camera filter stack like this one does.
Avobe image is the same no mater where I put the invert filter. I did modify SENDBL script and also the shader to invert color but in both cases got same issue. May be is SENDBL applying the effect after all teh filters are applied?

 

Ended up doing a glow based on threshold :\

 

...and now I want to play War Thunder. >.> I blame you!

--IronDuke

 

After updating from Unity 5.x to 2017.2 I just get a white image. Even the demo scene from the SE Bloom download does not work anymore. Does this asset need some update for 2017.2?

 

It would certainly cool to have an upgrade and please support for single pass stereo

 

2025

 

Hi! I just bought your asset to test for using in sandbox universe Anyland, but the screen turns up black when the component is added and it shows the message "The camera is either not HDR enabled or there is an image effect before this one that converts from HDR to LDR. HDR is not compatible with MSAA; ensure that anti-aliasing is disabled in the project quality settings. This image effect is dependant an HDR input to function properly." (i.e. !instance.inputIsHDR).

However, I have HDR enabled on the camera, and it's enabled in the Graphics settings too, and it also doesn't work when anti-aliasing is off. I am using SteamVR though as it's a VR project. (I've heard of the asset through SoundStageVR which uses it, so I figure it can work in VR.) We're using Windows 10 - Unity 2017.2.0f3 - Vive.

Help please? Thanks!

 

Please update to Unity 2018, This asset was a blast, we can´t let it go!

 

Ok I was having issues yet decided to try again in a blanc project. Tested on 2018.2.0f2 Seems to be working!

 

Yes there is so jitter in teh central cube but it does not feel totally broken, It looks like I could still use for the bullet glows!!!

edit: Hitter was due to MSAA!!! its working fine!!!

 

Ok more good, indeed AWESOME NEWS!!- --->It's working on Xbox One!!!

 

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Since the update from Unity 2017.2.x to Unity 2018.2.1 (and then 2018.2.6) I get his error message in the Unity editor when I have the SENaturalBloomAndDirtyLens script on my camera and the editor renders a frame:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
3. Parameter name: shader
4. UnityEngine.Material..ctor (UnityEngine.Shader shader) (at /Users/builduser/buildslave/unity/build/Runtime/Export/Shader.bindings.cs:104)
5. SENaturalBloomAndDirtyLens.OnRenderImage (UnityEngine.RenderTexture source, UnityEngine.RenderTexture destination) (at Assets/Plugins/Sonic Ether/Natural Bloom/Scripts/SENaturalBloomAndDirtyLens.cs:53)
6.  

 

I had these heavy jitters, they seem to be caused by spotlights with shadows.
It produces heavily dark pixels, maybe the lowest value available. Without HDR they are white.

Now math errors might turn these to heavy white when adding them together, the result are these heavy flashes.
The best fix seems to be to clamp these to black. Therefore simply add this line to the fragClamp function in SENaturalBloomAndDirtyLens.shader. Add it before the maximum clamp is being applied.

Code (CSharp):

1. half4 source = tex2D(_MainTex, coord.xy);
2. source.rgb = max(source.rgb, 0);

 

@McDev02 check out this reply from a couple of years ago : https://forum.unity.com/threads/se-natural-bloom-dirty-lens.243430/page-7#post-2497998

 

I see Btw I filed a bug report, still not fixed? mhm

 

Nope but been using this asset all they way to the latest 2018 version with the suggested fix. Working like a charm.

 

Hi there, I've just started playing around with this asset and can't seem to get the demo scene to work correctly. Objects are appearing in pure white instead of how they appear on the main asset page. I noticed some warnings and prompts from the camera and asset components and have tried to follow them but the demo results have stayed the same.

I also played around with effect similar to what was posted here but couldn't get similar results (please see below)

Unfortunately this users posts are quite old so I haven't attempted to contact them and the setup tutorial that was posted to achieve the effect above no longer exists.

If any of you have any tips on how to learn how to use the asset that would be appreciated as I'd love to use it in my game. Thanks!

 

Looks like it's been Depreciated on the Asset Store. This asset is well and truly dead.

 

I've decided to open-source the project. You can find it here: https://github.com/sonicether/SE-Natural-Bloom-Dirty-Lens

 

Thank you! I appreciate it when store devs take care of their customers like this.

 

Whoa, from left field!
Are there any revisions from the App store version? I'd bought it ages ago and won't bother replacing it if not.

 

Nope, it's the same version from the Asset Store. I did have an experimental version that had a low-quality mode and depth-based blending, but I never uploaded it. If I can find it, I'll put it on a different branch and upload it to the github page.

EDIT: Oh, looks like I actually did upload the latest development version (newer than what was on the Asset Store with depth blending and LQ options). This version, if I recall correctly, also has slightly better bloom distribution with tighter "fine scale" bloom. Looks like there are some issues to fix, I'll work on those.

 

Alright, I've fixed some issues and cleaned the code up a bit, for anyone who wants to fork and work on it themselves.

 

Great! Thanks for the upload.. 2019.1.1f1
- Unfortunately one script camera is missing.
- It's not possible to change any values at run time and they are not serialized by SENaturalBloomAndDirtyLensEditor. Slider stuck and you can not change values for any reason.
- Cube mesh and others are missing.. (not important)

// Some fixes:

Fix_#1
08,05,2019 // Class SENaturalBloomAndDirtyLens cause a Null exeption : rtWidth, rtHeight < 0
RenderTexture rt = RenderTexture.GetTemporary(rtWidth, rtHeight, 0, source.format);
Redertexture below a octave, cause RT null.

Code (CSharp):

1. for (int i = 0; i < octaves; i++) {
2.    // 08,05,2019 :  start_fix_01#
3.    if (rtWidth <= 0 || rtHeight <= 0) break;
4.    // 08,05,2019 :  end_fix_01#

 

Found the reason because not able to change the Main.Camera bloom values. The demo SENBDLMainCube overrides ShaderValue.bloomIntensity with another value. They can changed by keyboard commands. curLeft/curRight etc only. Without SENBDLMainCube all works well as expected.

* SEBloom now supports multiple camera instances.

 

hey @sonicether a quick question here , i noticed if i use color grading in my cinemachine post extension your effect will not work , how to reorder them to work properly since the senbdl is not present as a postprocess effect and its attached to main camera directly?