Shader-independent glow

Shader-independent glow provides a simple way to add per-object glow(bloom) to your project without using third-party shaders.

This comes in handy when you already use shaders with additional functionality and you need to add glow on top of that.

Asset store link

Features:

• Glow maps support.
• Several options for fine-tuning glow look.
• Per-object and per-material glow options.
• Optional negative(substractive) glow
• Works on forward and deferred rendering pipelines, perspective and orthogonal cameras, gamma and linear colorspaces.
• VR support (deferred rendering only)
• Completely shader-independent (glow is enabled by separate components, without touching your materials).

Please read manual chapter on layer optimization to avoid unnecessary performance drops.

Manual

Note that this product was created mainly with desktops in mind. It will work on mobile platforms, but additional drawcalls and blit calls it incurs means that you will be limited in amount of glowing objects due to performance considerations.

 

Version 1.1 with compatibility fixes for mobile (Unity 5.5 broke mobile functionality of SIG, this version fixes that) and linear colorspace improvements is currently awaiting review by Asset Store team, should be available in about 7 days.

 

Hello CatsPawGames,

I bought the package because of the nice reviews and indeed it works pretty well on desktop.
I'm having trouble making it work on mobile though.
I keep having this weird pink overlay...



I can't find any clue as to why this is happening.
(I updated to 1.1 and I tried deferred and forward, with and without HDR, with Metal or not, but no luck)
Any suggestions?

 

Btw I'm on 5.5.0f3

 

If anyone else is having this problem, please contact me through my support email (available in publisher profile on Asset Store).

 

I've got an issue I'm hoping you can help with. Love the glows, but it seems to be switching the view to 16 bit when the camera script is active. I see banding and crushing of the blacks. But, if I disable the script, then everything looks nice and smooth... but I don't get the really nice glows

I am attaching a couple example screen grabs to show you what we are are encountering.

 

Thanks for the examples, I'll look into it and get back to you. Can you also tell what colorspace and graphics API you're using?

Edit: Found the culprit, changes in recent version regarding Linear colorspace caused that behavior. Fix will be available on Asset Store in about 1-2 weeks(average review period by AS team), but if you need it immediately please send your invoice # to support email and I'll send you updated script.

 

Great thank you. I will email you my info this weekend.

 

Fix is already available on Asset Store, so you can just download current version from there.

 

Hello @CatsPawGames

i'm interested in the asset, how would the performance be on a 2d game on desktop machine with around 50-60 objects glowing?

 

Hello. Desktop would be no problem with that amount of objects. Mobile is another story.

 

Great, thank you, i'm off to the store

 

I'm trying to make visuals like Pin Out

Would I be able to achieve the same performance in mobile like this game ?

 

There aren't that many glowing objects in your example, if you'll be smart about combining your meshes, so it should work fine performance-wise. Although I saw some animated glow (arrows), which could pose a problem if you aren't comfortable with modifying textures on the fly through scripts.

 

How do you use this for the Vive while using the SteamVR plugin ?
I can't get it to work.

 

Hi! I'm interested in your asset. But I need it for a large number of objects in a desktop game. Something around 150.

Can it perform well in this case?

Thanks!

 

Hello. 150 objects is doable on desktop. And I have two weeks no-questions-asked refund period, so, if you encounter some problems performance-wise, you can always request full refund.

 

hi, your pack work fine on my Mac, but not work with iPhone X, I don't know why. I use the default settings.
Thanks

 

Hi @CatsPawGames,

I'm working on fast paced racing game like wipe out, Antigraviator.
As this game will be targeted on mobile devices, I have question that is this asset work smoothly on mobile platforms - Android & iOS?

 

Hello. It works on mobile platforms, but I wouldn't recommend it if you have lots of glowing objects - it can have impact on performance. It's especially critical if you have fast-pased gameplay, so I'd recommend looking for performance-oriented shader-based solution.

 

how can i set it for my mobile game? it not work fine on my iPhone X, but i don't know why. I just use it in other project and it worked good.

 

Hi @CatsPawGames
how can i set it for my mobile game? it not work fine on my iPhone X, but i don't know why. I just use it in other project and it worked good.

 

Does this asset still work with newer versions of Unity, such as 2018.3 ?

 

Yes, latest version it was tested on is 2018.3.7.

 

hi guys, how can i fix this? it works fine on my desktop but not work on my mobile

 

I would like to say that I love this asset and use it often. I am now having an issue trying to dynamically change the glow tint. It looks like you are serializing the different materials on an object where pGlowTint is set to white by default. I know this is a result of a lock of programing skill on my part but how can I access the pGlowTint Var from another script to set the Color-pGLow variable.
I usually hook into the external script with MyVariable= GameObject.GetComponent<Script>
then I change the vars with MyVariable.ExternalColorVariable = ColorVariable

This is not working and I am unable to find the external variable.
Please help.
Thanks

 

Is this asset being supported any longer?

 

Is this asset being supported any longer?

 

Hello. It's supported on bugfixing-only basis for now. For support it's better to use email designated in asset description.

 

hello hascthis been tested and does it work with unity 2019.3 ?

 

Will it works for sprites in 2D game? I am using regular sprites so they are basically quads.