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True Volumetric Lights (Now Open Source)

Discussion in 'Shaders' started by Michal_, Mar 10, 2016.

  1. konsic

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    But, only in HDRP, not in default renderer.
     
  2. SamRock

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    Hey no problem. You should be proud that your work became widely used and accepted. Just shows how great the contribution is :)

    I managed to get it to work, thanks to a comment few pages above.
    Thanks again for the amazing asset. You should try to monetize it though.. even if its for a very less price :)
     
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  3. belamessex

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    hi michal! I love your asset a lot and used it heavily in my upcoming game Little Bug https://store.steampowered.com/app/822190/Little_Bug/
    I saw that you have a copyright line that needs to be reproduced, and I'm happy to include that in the credits. Would that work for you?

    Thanks!
     
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  4. SamRock

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    Hey your game looks beautiful! :eek:
    Love the artstyle.
    I am working on a 2.5D game too.. and I must say this is a great looking game I have seem in long time. :)
     
  5. belamessex

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    <333 thanks so much, I'm really proud of it.
     
  6. SamRock

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    You are welcome! Do you have a team or you worked Solo!
    Would love to have a team member like you :D
     
  7. Michal_

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    Hi, your game looks really nice. Thanks for sharing.
    You're only required to keep the copyright in the source code. There's no need to put it in credits or anywhere else.
    But feel free to mention it in credits if you think it deserves a mention. That is up to you ;)

    Best of luck with your game
     
  8. o-san

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    First I'd like to say that this is an awesome asset, great job!

    However, I am struggling to get spotlights to work. I am using the default settings on my volumetric light but for some reason the fog flickers back and forth.

    A clip showing the problem:


    I can get the spotlight fog to always show if I lower the Shadow Distance in the quality settings panel but that also removes the volumetric properties of the fog - it passes through everything. I am using no cascades atm but I have tried both two cascades and up to four cascades with the same results.



    Any help appreciated.
     
  9. o-san

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    I've managed to fix some of the problems I have with the flickering fog. I found a few posts up mentioning that shadows won't render if there is no shadow caster visible (unity limitation)... So I made a large bounding box with its sides pointing inwards surrounding my scene. I set the color mask to zero and z-writing to off to prevent it from rendering the cube. I also set the mesh renderer component to cast shadows (important). Now the fog effect is visible all of the time :)

    However there is still a problem with the shadow volume flickering, not the whole spotlight fog.



    You can see the dark/shadowy areas sometimes flickers brightly. I tried maxing the Volumetric Light Sample Count and Volumetric Light Renderer Resolution to Full but the problem prevails. Is this expected behavior, can I work around it somehow?
     
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  10. Zuntatos

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    I'm not really familiar with how this asset works, but I ran into a thing similar to this in my own game - unity wouldn't execute an AfterLighting commandbuffer if there is no unity default lighting. But that's where my custom lights were being rendered :/
     
  11. belamessex

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    Thanks! and thanks for the great Asset, it really brought together the look of the game.
     
  12. belamessex

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    I directed the game, did programming, lighting, level design, some 3D and 2D art and some sound. I had a team of friends and contractors that helped out with lots of parts here and there (mostly with writing and music) and I put it all together in Unity. I really need to get my "roll" on the team better defined lol.
     
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  13. 747423517

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    Ohhh, I got it, because I didn't build the quoted Shader into EXE
     
  14. l21zxib8tr0f33v3

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    Just wanted to thank you for making such a good asset.
    I made the mistake of purchasing multiple lighting solutions (which I doubt I'll get a refund for.)
    Some didn't work with Linux: Aura & Aura 2
    Some didn't do everything I wanted: "Volumetric Light Beams"
    Some were too simple, causing them to be unusable: Funly's SunRays (Has a "Color Threshhold" which causes it to be unusable with scene that have lots of color/light variations.)
    Should've looked up an open-source alternative first, because this works perfectly and is exactly what I want.
    Thank you very much for making such an amazing asset and thank you for keeping it opensource so people can update it if you ever can't do it anymore.

    Seriously Thank You.
     
  15. sebakujawski

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    Im joining into thanking you for open sourcing this asset. It's super performant on Linux and OSX compared to Aura2.
    I've been battling with Aura2 for last year waiting for updates / fixes / better performance. I should have just straight on download and test this.

    Thank you so much!
     
  16. Rodolfo-Rubens

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    Hey @Michal_, thanks for this incredible asset, the perfomance is amazing, it is easy to use and it looks stunning.

    I'd like to know if there is a way to control the draw order of it, I'm using Crest ocean renderer and Tekoku sky and could make it draw over the Tenkoku fog by simple adding the VolumetricLightRenderer after the tenkoku fog component on camera, but it is still drawing before the tenkoku clouds and the ocean... is there anything I could do on the volumetric light shaders to achieve this?

    Again, thanks a lot for this asset!

    Edit.: also, it would be cool to have a FAQ :p
     
  17. Michal_

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    Hey. You can try to delete [ImageEffectOpaque] in VolumetricLightRenderer:322. The line above OnRenderImage method. That will apply the effect after transparent geometry (which is not ideal but maybe you don't have transparent geometry?) I'm afraid that's the only easy change you can make.

    You can rewrite OnRenderImage method with CommandBuffer. That would give you more options when to render it (https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rendering.CommandBuffer.html and https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rendering.CameraEvent.html)

    I agree about the FAQ but this isn't really a proper asset. It is just an experiment I dumped to GitHub. I honestly didn't expect people will actually use it.
     
  18. belamessex

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    Hey Michal, I was able to build my game for Mac, PC and Linux using your incredible asset and I'm very grateful. I'm now building for Switch, but the build stalls when compiling your shader. I know switch isn't supported, so if there is no fix I was wondering if there is a paid or free volumetric lighting solution for Unity 2018 LTS that you would recommend? My game relies on your asset heavily for its atmosphere, so if you know of something that is similar to your system in look and function, I'd appreciate it a lot. Thanks for your hard work!
     
  19. Michal_

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    Sorry, I never used any third party assets. I don't know what's out there.

    Are there any errors on Switch? Something to tell us why it doesn't work? Or is there any list of shader features that don't work on Switch? I'd consider fixing it but I have no idea what is wrong with it and I don't have Switch.
     
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  20. Fulanogamer

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    Helloou im pretty new here, i wonder if there is a way to make this asset work with UPR, because there is no option in there and the ones that have are really expansive, the dolar is on sky rigth now
     
  21. Lethn

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    I realise this is a necro but you technically don't need this asset anymore @Fulanogamer as you can switch to HDPR and enable volumetric lighting through there instead. I recommend getting into it as fast as possible instead of limiting yourself graphics wise with the default engine and getting frustrated.
     
  22. roundyyy

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    Hi there :) any chance for single pass stereo version for VR? I've tried to modify your shaders, but have no luck with it. Maybe someone else figured this out?
     
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  23. cratica

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    Resurrecting this old thread because.... it's the only volumetric light/fog that achieves the effect I am looking for. BUT... I need it to work on VR (Quest 2/3). Is there anyway this has been updated to support VR?