[UPDATED] Introducing Amplify Bloom – Industry Level Post-Process Bloom

If it's practical, maybe at some point Amplify can release an integrated plugin (color, motion, bloom) that combines those features that work efficiently in a single pass?

 

It's just a supposition but the only effects that could be merged should be Color and Bloom, because Motion requires very different steps. But if there is space even for a small performance improvement why not

 

Nice idea, it could also include Amplify's free FXAA, I use that as well and always get good results.

 

Thank you for your purchase, we really appreciate it. It's entirely up to you, depending on your project current settings you might need to tweak them but it shouldn't be an issue; the bloom effect is applied independently. Let us know if you run into any issues, we would be happy to help.

Thanks!

 

That's a great idea, It's actually something we have been looking into for a while, we might be able to provide something along those lines in the future but at the moment we cannot guarantee it.

Thanks for using it, it's great know that you are happy with it. Due to the way assets are distributed it's best to keep it in a different package. Bundle support in the Unity Asset Store would be awesome.

 

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BAM!!! Another One....

 

Yeah, I saw that, and it looks good. I feel confident using their products.

Though once again I'm thinking some ms could be saved if these were combined ...

 

I hope you like it, as always a fully functional trial is available. Who knows, we might be able to squeeze a few ms in the future.

Thanks!

 

I can't find an official thread on the forum. I wanted to ask if Amplify Occlusion could work on high end mobile devices and smoothly disable itself when not supported.

 

Thank you for your interest, we really appreciate it. We haven't announced Amplify Occlusion yet but we will create a dedicated thread soon. It should work but we don't really recommend it for performance reasons, you can disable it at any time.

Thanks!

 

Hey there! The effects stack looks really nice, the masking caught my attention in particular, but I couldn't find a more detailed expanation on that. I am looking for a solution where I can only apply bloom to specific emissive surfaces and lights because I don't want other surfaces to be overexposed in VR, where the effect would be amplified to an uncomfortable degree. Because it's in VR, I can't simply use HDR, so I am looking for a solution where I can mask the lights only.

Could you please elaborate on if/how I could accomplish this with your software?

 

Amplify Color & Bloom are able to work with mask (render texture), Amplify provides two good sample scenes:

http://amplify.pt/wp-content/download/AmplifyColorMaskSample.zip
http://amplify.pt/wp-content/download/AmplifyBloomMaskSample.zip

Also have a look at the manual, it gives information about all features in detail:
http://amplify.pt/unity/amplify-bloom/manual/

 

Ah, thanks! So they're essentially parenting a second camera so its view is synchronized with the player camera and use culling masks. I see that approach working for individual light objects, but let's say you have a wall panel with various lit elements using a multi-material or an emissive texture. Don't see that working, or at least have no immediate idea on how to mask those components.

 

Thanks for the input

Thank you for your input, much appreciated.

 

That particular case might a bit more tricky but AB offers a comprehensive set of thresholds and Mip Weights that allow you to accurately tweak its effect. We would be happy to walk you trough the process of tweaking it to your specific needs, feel free to contact us directly at support@amplify.pt.

Thanks!

 

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Hi,
I downloaded the latest amplify bloom from store and tested on 5.3.6f1.
These produces great effects but costing a lot of extra drawcalls.Even an empty scene(only camera/skybox) with 1 drawcall when used with amplify bloom gave following results:

• Realistic setting/Only bloom activated/low precision is causing draw calls to jump from 1 to 27.
• Natural setting/Only bloom activated/low precision is causing draw calls to jump from 1 to 21.
  
• Using Unity bloom optimized caused drawcalls to jump from 1 to 5.

This drawcalls increase is causing fps drops when using amplify bloom in games on mobile devices.
Can i somehow reduce drawcalls while using amplify bloom on mobile devices?

Thanks,
DS

 

Hello,

Thank you for using Amplify Bloom, we really appreciate it. That's normal, as with other image effects, the draw call cost relates directly to the features used. To be more specific, each blit operation, treshold used, downscale, or any other feature, all contribute to the final count. You can reduce the overall draw call count by using a lower Mip value, and turning off some of the provided features.

It's a good idea to maintain a low draw call count on mobile devices but in this particular case, and with other image effects, the processing cost relates directly to actual image manipulation required to generate the effect. What's your lowest targeted mobile device?

There are a couple of things you can do to improve performance.

• Use the Natural technique.
• Take advantage of the Downscale option.[Full/Half/Quarter]
• Use the Low Precision mode.
• Disable less noticeable features(Bokeh etc), and use a smaller amount of Mips

Let us know if the information above helps, thanks!

 

Both Amplify Color and Amplify Bloom now include single-pass stereo support, try it today!

 

why do my amplify bloom/occlusion not show up under image effects. I get no errors no nothing. Confused as to why this is happening. I have the latest versions. My clients are using 5.3.5f1

 

Is this mobile friendly?

 

I really like the bloom effect and the ability to only view the bloom for fine-tuning is a very nice touch. Unfortunately the amount of garbage created each frame makes this asset unusable for my title. Garbage exceeds 1k per frame if you have all options like lens-flare etc enabled.

I fiddled around with the primary script and was able to cut the garbage down some by reusing many of the RenderTextures to avoid calling a new tempRenderTexture each frame. Unfortunately, the downsample process still generates garbage as it loops through a large number of renderTextures of various sizes.

Again I like the effect and hope the memory-side can be improved in the future. thanks

 

Hello,

Sorry for the delayed reply, something might be up with the forum notifications.
Have you tried importing it into an empty project? There might be something else preventing it from being imported correctly, check the editor console during the import process.

Looking forward for additional information, we would be happy to help.

Thanks!

 

It might be a bit performance intensive for older devices but we do provide a few optimization options that could allow you to use it on mobile. What's your minimum targeted device?

There are a couple of things you can do to improve performance.

• Use the Natural technique.
• Take advantage of the Downscale option.[Full/Half/Quarter]
• Use the Low Precision mode.
• Disable less noticeable features(Bokeh etc), and use a smaller amount of Mips

Let us know if the information above helps, thanks!

 

Hi willtrax, thank you so much for your feedback.

We decided to avoid reusing temporary render textures because it is stated on the RenderTexture.GetTemporary() documentation that it's more efficient this way, specially for mobile.

Unfortunately there was an issue with some older Unity versions where it was doing wrong allocations when fetching temporary render textures. I tested our sample project using the latest stable Unity version(5.4.1.f1) and according to the profiler has no allocations on our plugin.

What Unity version are you using and where are the allocations being made?

We would really like to help with your issue so you can use Amplify Bloom on your title.

 

I appreciate the reply. I'm actually on Unity 5.1.1. Unfortunately I have an old effect which is key to my title that prevents me from upgrading. Perhaps the memory challenge is related to some bug that was squashed in a later version of Unity. In case it helps, here's the profiler data from the demo scene included in the asset. This was a fresh import into a clean project.



As you can see the garbage is generated by calling for the temporary RT through the AmplifyUtils script.



There is garbage generated by each method calling for a temporary RT. I want to say when I fiddled with the scripts it was around 40 bytes per RT called each frame.

Thanks for taking a look at the issue. I'd certainly appreciate any suggestions, the effect looks great and I'd really like to incorporate it if the GC can be managed down some.

 

Unfortunately this is the exact bug I was referring on my previous post. It's not Amplify Bloom which is allocating memory but Unity internal RenderTexture.GetTemporary().

On our end we cannot do much about this old issue since modifying the source to decrease the amount of render textures and reuse them would compromise the plugin performance specially in mobile.

You won't like what I'll suggest, but for now the only solution is for you to modify Bloom on your end to reuse temporary render textures as much as possible and have RenderTexture.GetTemporary() called to a minimum.

Have you already tried to contact the developer of your key effect so he could update it to the latest Unity version?

The advantages of this would be far greater then any other solution.

In any case we'll try to figure something out and if we come across a solution we'll get in touch with you.

 

Thanks for taking a look at it. It sounds like this issue is specific to my version of Unity. No sense for you to spend time on an edge-case like this but I really appreciate useful feedback that helped narrow down the issue. I'll revisit the effect down the road and if I come across anything helpful I'll be sure to pass it along.

 

Not working anymore with unity 5.5b3

 

Hello,

Unfortunately, Unity beta versions are not officially supported. In any case, we will get it up and running as soon as possible. Be sure to check back in a couple of weeks.

Thanks!

 

Hello everyone,

We updated our download system, use your Unity invoice numbers to access any of your Amplify Packages. Due to Asset Store review and submission times, the version in our own site is always the most recent.

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Thanks!

 

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Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, H3VR for short, is an extremely fun to play weapon simulator that, despite its realistic weapon handling, doesn’t take it self too seriously. It’s another great example of how to take advantage of Amplify Bloom, bloom effects are a great way to enhance explosions, muzzle flashes, sparks and similar FX.

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Hi,

I tried the trial asset, and like how it looks. It doubles my draw calls (batches) though. I tried it in just a couple simple scenes, 100 batches went to 200, and another from 30 to 60. Is that expected? Will it just end up doubling however many draw calls I have already?

I am using just the Bloom and Lens Dirt features.

Thanks

 

Hello,

Depending on the features used, a small increase is expected. How many mips are you using? It would be great to know what others values were used, a screenshot of your bloom component would be very helpful.

Thanks!

 

Hey, I just installed the latest patch release (5.5.0p4) only get a pink screen with this error in the console:

Code (CSharp):

1. Invalid pass number (15) for Graphics.Blit (Material "Hidden/AmplifyBloom" with 1 passes)
2. UnityEngine.Graphics:Blit(Texture, RenderTexture, Material, Int32)
3. AmplifyBloom.AmplifyBloomBase:ApplyGaussianBlur(RenderTexture, Int32, Single, Boolean) (at Assets/Standard Assets/AmplifyBloom/Plugins/AmplifyBloomBase.cs:378)
4. AmplifyBloom.AmplifyBloomBase:OnRenderImage(RenderTexture, RenderTexture) (at Assets/Standard Assets/AmplifyBloom/Plugins/AmplifyBloomBase.cs:570)
5.  

Cheers!

 

Hey there, thank you for reporting it.

Which Amplify Bloom version do you currently use? You can check it out under Window > Amplify Bloom > About.

Looking forward to your reply.

 

Thank you for the quick reply, I am currently using 1.1.0_dev002.

 

Hello,

Thank you for your feedback, we really appreciate it. Updating Amplify Bloom should resolve the issue, be sure to let us know if that is not the case. Please download the latest package directly from the Asset Store or, alternatively, from our website using your Invoice number.

Thanks!

 

Thank you for the tip, the asset store version actually did the trick. The one from your website seems to be an older one (no updates were necessary)

 

Happy to hear it. That's odd, we will check it out asap.

Thanks!

 

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We absolutely love your effects and already use them in our games. For our next title we are evaluating the latest Unity version and we were wondering if you had any plans to release a version that integrates with the "new" post effect stack? (https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/PostProcessing)

The ability to have camera setup as a resource and save post effect blits is really awesome, but the bloom effect that comes with the effect stack is crap compared to yours. A version that integrates with the stack would therefore be awesome

 

Hello,

Thank you, really happy to know that you had a nice experience with our products. Unfortunately, although it seems like it's something that could be done, our external image effects cannot currently be integrated into the stack.

We will continue to look into possible alternatives or custom solutions, our products are still some of the most flexible and fastest image effects currently available in the Asset Store.

Thanks!

 

Hey, i was wondering how the status of integrating this asset into the PostFX Stack would look like with the new V2: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/PostProcessing/wiki/(v2)-Writing-custom-effects.

It seems like they're opening up their API quite a bit to allow custom plugins with very few lines of code.