terrain tree billboard shader

Anybody tried to modify this shader? It is not usable for any serious game, because it does not count with shadows and because of baked translucency it very often much brighter then mesh version. I spent countless hours of color tuning my scene, to achieve good visuals and these bright billboards are ruining everything.

 

Update: Problem seems only to be in tree creator shaders, standard billboards are OK.

 

Nobody tried to finish these obviously unfinished shaders?

 

I am also having the same problem. These billboards looks bright even if there is no light in the scene. Kindly let me know if you have solved this problem already..

 

Try multiplying the translucency by the ambient blue channel.

 

I tried changing the translucency color. It is black right now.

 

Actualy there is no problem to fix it, but this is out of box shader and it should work flawlessly.

 

Tree billboards are not taking the lighting information until i do " terrain> Refresh Tree and Detail Prototypes" manually.
ie. If i change light direction or light intensity, only the detailed meshes are getting updated but not billboards. What could be the problem?

 

Yes I see, but you have the option to change it, which is why you posted in the shaderlab forum and not feedback, right?

 

Yes I can buy car and fix some defect by myself too. But this is no excuse for vendor. And reaction of vendor on such defect is what will tell me, if I will buy there anything again. If they ignore it, or tell me fix it by yourself, you have tools, i will never buy there anything again.

 

This is obviously a grevious and unforgivable failure to live up to your completely reasonable standards.
It looks like your only real option is to give up and go and join another game development community.

 

Actually I second that there is a serious flaw in Unity's tree billboard shader that DOES make it unusable for certain games, for example those that have day/night cycles. The billboards don't respond to changes in ambient lighting until the camera is rotated around the Y axis, and only then when the rotation is above a certain threshold. I can only assume that the render to texture trigger that renders out the mesh tree to the billboard for the given angle is only triggered when the angle changes enough to warrant an update. And AFAIK there is no exposed API method to force this update. Needs fixing.

 

Will it work, if i do " Terrain.Flush " whenever the light properties changes ?

 

look for the advanced terrain shaders v2 – they will come very soon to the asset store ;-)

lars

 

OOOOhhh... ....*Waiting

 

first demo of the advanced terrain shaders v2 is online:

http://bit.ly/zBHqU8

lars

 

This bug is still there, IDK how to fix it

The color of the billboard won't update until I move the camera (In a day/night cycle)

 

ptf, problem still here...

 

@larsbertram1 thank you for the link, i understand the pack may be legacyised but i'm giving it a try anyway,

(i had been looking everywhere in unity trying to change the detail shader and couldnt even find a apptly named source file in the standard asset shader folders)
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/1173078/is-it-possible-to-change-shader-of-terrain-details.html

 

unfortunately that just didnt work - crashed unity