Texture Forest

@Dmitry-Soldatenkov does this application support VR?

 

I've made a VR app using Texture Forest. Everything is fine.

 

Dmitry thats great, would it be possible to share a build of this in VR, would really like to see the effect, also if I get close to trees can this system swap out the forest texture for a 3D tree? would be great to have a seamless transition between the forest texture and 3D tree.

 

https://www.dropbox.com/preview/Public/ImmersionInAir.apk?role=personal
https://www.dropbox.com/preview/Public/OrniBuild.zip?role=personal

It is for Android and for Windows. But I don't have the manual. I can add it later

 

Neither folders exist for me

 

Let's try again

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4s2sywakdg686im/ImmersionInAir.apk?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wgyh8yi27t0nzus/OrniBuild.zip?dl=0

Sorry, I didn't use Dropbox for a long time

 

Hi Dmitry,
Does asset works in URP/HDRP?

 

I haven't tried it. But I think it's for other purposes.

 

hey Dmitry, Texture Forest is such a cool asset, congratulations! Did you ever had any feedback from users making use of the asset in Unity 2019 + ? My project version is 2020.1(Using URP) and I would love to know that Texture Forest works with it.

 

I have a feedback about version 2019 and the known problem is that the new standard terrain shader in version 2019 treats alpha channel as a specular. I want to fix this strange behavior of standard shader in the nearest update. For now users can use legacy shader for terrain. I don't have any response for version 2020 and for URT.

 

I saw a post earlier and hope to know if this can be applied to mesh as well like unity terrain.

 

Hi fea777, Texture Forest will work even better with mesh terrain than standard Unity terrain, but not out of the box. It only needs to change a few lines of code to adapt it to the mesh terrain. If you are an experienced game developer, this shouldn't be a big problem for you. If you are a beginner, I do not recommend starting with this, unless you are creating your mesh terrain from the standard Unity terrain using some asset. In this case, you can create a Texture Forest on a standard Unity terrain and then set it to a mesh.
I want to remind, the Texture Forest asset contains all the source code, it is quite small and easy to modify.

 

Hi @Dmitry-Soldatenkov !!! I am very interested in your tool but I would like to know some questions that I have:

How Texture Forest behaves to changes in lighting (Day / night cycles). I've been watching the videos and none of them show this ...
I work in HDRP, is it possible to have a version for HDRP 11, Unity 2021?

Greetings

 

Hi ftejada,
The asset was created for standard Unity render and the main goal was the performance keeping for very big amount of trees. You can render several million trees in frame on weak Android phone in stereo mode without performance losing. So all the lighting is baked into the Forest Texture.

I didn’t try to use Texture Forest with HDRP. Maybe it works but I want to remind that forest is a very special object for lighting. Common lighting laws don’t work on it. It is like velvet, grass or water with waves. For different lighting conditions you should create different forest textures and maybe blend them if you want to change conditions smoothly.

 

At the following link you can play a little with WebGL version of the Texture Forest app.

Controls:
Right Mouse Click + Mouse – rotation
WASD – move, EQ - up/down
Left Shift – fast move

Texture Forest WebGL

 

Hi Dmitry

I have been using Texture Forest for awhile and really like it!

I tried using on a new build in 2020.3.22f1 and it won't build the forest. I get an error:

"UnityEngine.UnityException: Creating asset at path Assets/Texture Forest/Materials/Scene010.mat failed. at (wrapper managed-to-native) UnityEditor.AssetDatabase.CreateAsset(UnityEngine.Object,string)

Any chance you can take a look and see what's up?

Thanks!

 

Hi RetroFlight,

Sorry for the long answer. I was on vacation. I'll take a look at the problem in the nearest couple of days.

Dmitry

 

Hi, I would like to know if is there a way to add the trees in more than one slice of terrain.