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Hi everyome, having problem with error

just wondering what should I do to fix this error.

 

@osider
Hi, don't worry about this "warning". It's just a obsolete warning in Unity4.
Thanks for your feedback, I'll remove it in next version

 

Hi,

heat destrotion sheder always remain front how to send back . because My many objects get problem with this sheder and i'll need this sheder please help me.or pm me.and can you solved this problem in update version
Xffect Editor Pro..per objects glow is always remain front.how to send back of the objects glow.

 

@Play_Edu
Hi, sorry for the late respond.

about the heat destrotion shader, you can edit the xf_heat_distortion.shader, change the 'ZTest Always' to 'ZTest LEqual'.

and for the per obj glow, I'm planing to fix the problem in next version.

 

Thanks for the help.

 

@Play_Edu

Hi, I just submitted the version 3.3.0 which have fixed the 'Glow Per Obj' issue. It should be available on assetstore soon.

Please check it later

 

Thanks for the help.

 

Hi I just bought the package and all, its great, but the glow per object materials don't show anything. Is there a way to fix this? (I'm working on unity 4.0).

 

Also...none of the events systems work.

 

@juanlink.perez10

Hi, the Camera Effect Event need Unity Pro. I remembered that i had noted this somewhere.

If you are using unity pro, can you send me some detailed info here(screenshot, effect settings, etc.)

 

I bought this a few months ago and just now am really playing with it. Xffect is cool! I recently upgraded to Unity Pro, so I'm getting the cool distortion effects now. NICE!

So I have a very easy (I think) enhancement request for a future version. I'd like to have a "Game Object Shake" event that works like "Camera Shake", but will take any GameObject. I tried coding that myself and got pretty far, but it doesn't work yet. I may keep at it; I'm still learning a lot about Unity, so I'm quite up to speed on wiring up custom inspectors and all that.

In my current game, it'll work much better to mostly shake the vehicle that is my camera's parent, like after an explosion. That, plus a *little* camera shake to simulate the pilot getting jostled around a bit should work well.


UPDATE: OK, I just got it to work. So definitely no rush, but might be a quick feature to add at some point.

 

hi shallway
i got an error and can t build for ios with the latest unity 4.2, but working fine on 4.1.5
Assets/Xffect/Script/Component/XffectComponent.cs(156,17): error CS0103: The name `oldMesh' does not exist in the current context

any idea?

thanks

 

@Steve Tack
Hi, glad you have got it to work by yourself, but I suggest you to use iTween to shake game object instead of using Xffect Event

@toto2003
Hi, sorry about that, I forgot to replace this variable in version 3.3.0, you can fix it by replacing line of XffectComponent.cs(156,17) to this:
Destroy(obj);

 

OK, can you elaborate? Sorry for being such a noob, but I've never used iTween. I did notice that the camera shake code isn't ideal for a vehicle, since it looks like it directly changes position and rotation, so it messes up the player's control of the vehicle while the shake is happening. So ideally I think I need to have it affect the rigidbody of the vehicle (I think). I do like the convenience of having things like sound effects as events on the particle effects, but I'm certainly open to different/better ideas.

 

@Steve Tack
I'm afraid iTween will also changes the position and rotation directly, but it's more easier to use, just one simple line of code can shake the game object:
iTween.ShakePosition(obj, amount, duration);
you can check the documentation here:http://itween.pixelplacement.com/documentation.php

If you want to shake a vehicle, I think the only solution is to write your own code to shake the position with ‘vector addition’, I guess

 

@Steve Tack
try gokit it has a shake position and rotation on object. and it s free

 

hello shallway
i encounter a weird bug, i ve made a prefab from xffect, and drop it into my scene, for some reason it didn t work anymore and throw me these error
UnassignedReferenceException: The variable MyCamera of 'EffectLayer' has not been assigned.
You probably need to assign the MyCamera variable of the EffectLayer script in the inspector.
UnityEngine.Component.get_transform () (at C:/BuildAgent/work/cac08d8a5e25d4cb/Runtime/ExportGenerated/Editor/UnityEngineComponent.cs:21)
Xft.Sprite.Transform () (at Assets/Xffect/Script/Sprite.cs:308)
Xft.Sprite.Update (Boolean force, Single deltaTime) (at Assets/Xffect/Script/Sprite.cs:417)
Xft.EffectNode.UpdateSprite (Single deltaTime) (at Assets/Xffect/Script/EffectNode.cs:446)
Xft.EffectNode.Update (Single deltaTime) (at Assets/Xffect/Script/EffectNode.cs:615)
EffectLayer.FixedUpdateCustom (Single deltaTime) (at Assets/Xffect/Script/Component/EffectLayer.cs:847)
XffectComponent.Update () (at Assets/Xffect/Script/Component/XffectComponent.cs:362)
UnityEditor.EditorApplication.Internal_CallUpdateFunctions () (at C:/BuildAgent/work/cac08d8a5e25d4cb/Editor/MonoGenerated/Editor/EditorApplication.cs:227)


i m using unity 4.2 targeting android and have multiple camera in my scene... but what is strange is i drop the same prefab in a new scene or the xffect demo scene, and i dont got these error. any idea? i can t see where a could drop this myCamera variable.

thanks for your help

 

ah nevermind, i just deactivate all my cam for some reason... ouch
work all fine now

any chance to get an AWESOME fireball effect?

 

Yeah, I think I can code something myself to get the effect I want. In practice, it's a little bit more involved than I thought. In terms of the vehicle, I might try a rigidbody.AddForce() from the direction of the blast and then a random rigidbody.AddTorque() to give the vehicle a bit of spin. Combine that with a little bit of regular camera shake, and it could be interesting.

 

Hello, It's me again, I´m using Unity 4.2 PRO, also running on xffect 3.3.0 but the glow_per_object still renders in front of everything on the scene.


On a side note, I'm developing for the PS vita PS3, do you know if the particle effects work properly on these plataforms, or is there any issue I should know about or be careful of when using the particles?

Thank you in advance

 

@toto2003
Hi, I'll try to make a cool fireball in next version
@juanlink.perez10
That's weird, I remember that i had tested glow_per_object of last version very well..anyway, I'm preparing for the next big update now, I'll check it again

and about the PS platform, I didn't test it yet, but it should works fine because i have fixed every warnings about platform compatibility in Xffect

 

hi, everyone

I have just submitted version 3.4.0, a new render type has been added, please check it later

 

I'm using Xffect on mobile, and I've noticed that XffectComponent.LateUpdate() creates garbage every frame. I took a look and replaced all the foreach loops with for loops, and the allocations disappeared. It might be a good idea to go through the code and replace all the foreach loops with for loops, since foreach loops seem to cause garbage.

 

@Simie
Thanks for your advice, I'll take a look at that.

 

Version 4.0.0 is available

 

There is a major bug:
If you are using multiple cameras your script only picks up on the first current camera. And then when other cameras are enabled you dont have a way to manually assign a camera to an effect.

What should I DO???

What I mean is for the sprites they are facing the first camera but dont face the second or third cameras.

My setus is I am disabling the other two cameras on start and then once that character becomes active his camera is enabled. Your effects dont look for the active camera.

What should I do???

 

Hi! projectskillz

Sorry, I didn't check here very often, you can leave this issue at here: http://shallway.net/xffect/forum/

I haven't thought of this situation, very sorry for that.

Try to modify this script: EffectLayer.cs

at line 605, you should see:

Code (csharp):

1.         public Camera MyCamera
2.         {
3.             get
4.             {
5.                 if (mCamera == null)
6.                     FindMyCamera();
7.                 return mCamera;
8.             }
9.         }

change the above code to:

Code (csharp):

1.         public Camera MyCamera
2.         {
3.             get
4.             {
5.                 if (mCamera == null || !mCamera.gameObject.activeInHierarchy || !mCamera.enabled)
6.                     FindMyCamera();
7.                 return mCamera;
8.             }
9.         }

I think this hot fix should solve the problem, if don't, please tell me...

And by the way, I will fix this bug in the next version, current version is 4.1.0

 

@projectskillz

good news, I just submitted version 4.1.1 which has fixed the camera bug you mentioned.

please check it later

 

Does this output shuriken particle affects or is it some sort of custom script solution? I really would prefer to just use shuriken, but a neat tool to easily create the effects I could see being a huge help.

 

Any idea regarding this? Can't seam to find any information on exactly what Xffect Editor outputs.

 

It does not use Shuriken; it's a completely custom particle system with its own settings.

 

Ok, thank you!

 

Is there any problems with your support forum? I can't enter it.

 

@PanCotzky
Hi, can you enter it now? the web hosting is in US, there should be no problem if i can enter it..i'm in china

@Steve Tack
Thanks very much for the reply to @Krileon, i haven't been there for a long time, sorry.

 

@shallwaycn
That is interesting. I can't enter your website normally, but I can if I use anonymizer. That's realy odd.

 

I'm very interested in buying Xffect, but I need to know if it offers this functionality specified here.

I need for a trail to leave behind particles/effects based only the parent position (local). I can't use Unity's trail renderer effects since the particles are located in world space it seems.

(exact same visual effect as #5 in your demo with it moving around in world space)

 

Hi,
I had an issue using the GlowPerObj effect with the 4.2.0 version of Xffect. For some reason when my camera moved under some value in the Y axis the rendered texture in the Game window view was inverted. I traced the problem to OnRenderImage member function of XftCamereEffectComp script and the problem dissipated when I changed the depth parameter in the creation of buffer1 and buffer2 from source.depth (with 24) to 0 (with 16 works too). I made that change because buffers were created with 0 depth in GlowPerObjEvent script.



I would like to know if this change is ok, Is there a problem using depth of 24 ?, Why does creation of buffers in GlowPerObjEvent script use 0 depth and XftCamereEffectComp script use source.depth ?

 

Hello,

My antivirus software won't allow me to access the tutorial website:


High Risk Website Blocked
Location: http://shallway.net/xffect/doku.php?id=en:main
Access has been blocked as the threat Mal/HTMLGen-A has been found on this website.
Return to the page you were previously viewing.


Please fix it!

Peter.

 

@gtotoy
You are brilliant! Thanks for your feedback, this strange problem has confused me for a very long time, and you just solved that, Thanks!

@Peter
That's very strange.. this url is just a dokuwiki site, there shouldn't has any risk..

I'll contact the host manager try to fix it, thanks for the feedback

And, If you guys can't wait for the reply, please email me, Thanks!

 

Hello, Im really interested in this tool, mainly because of the ribbon trail option, What Im looking for is something like this;


Dont need to be exact same, but can your tool provide this kind of effects? If so will there be any documentation for how its made ?

加我q 1283021796

Thanks

 

Xffect的Ribbon Trail不适合做刀光。

这种效果一般都需要专门的插件，比如3dmax的 Ghost Trail插件。

可惜Unity貌似目前还没有这种插件，我也想做一个，但是担心会耗费太多时间，而实际市场需求很少，哈、

 

.....

 

@ZJP

Thanks for the translation

I thought nobody will come to this thread anymore, so i used chinese in that reply

About the Weapon Trail effect, actually Xffect's Ribbon Trail can make it, but it's not a perfect solution.

Maybe I'll consider to make a specific weapon trail plugin in the feature.

 

Is there a way to make a particle stick with a moving parent object or once the particle is emitted, it can't be moved except by the predetermined settings?

 

Hello,
I use the shader "xft_displacement_screen" in xffect to creat heat distortion effect, but when i turn the camera hdr on the effect gose wierd.
when the distortion happens on the outline of the mesh it remains dark pixels at the origin place.
this problem shows when using built-in shader and particles. It works fine whith shader created by shader forge.
Is there anything I can do to solve that ?
thanks~

 

I noticed this problem before, but unfortunately I didn't find out what causes this problem.

However, you can try this modified shader, if it still doesn't work, maybe you can upload the two shaders that your mesh used to me, I'll try to figure it out.

 

I tried this new custom shader. It will bring some of the mask color into the graphic but at least the dark pixels went away that really helps a lot .
Thaks again man~That's very nice of u~

 

By the way , I notice there is another bug today is that when I put some solid mesh between the distort particles and the camera, the distortion effect is still rendered.
that will be odd if I was in a room and I can still see the heat distortion in another room.

 

The "screen-distort" shader means it will always distort the screen part which is always on top of other objects

I'm sorry this known issue can't be fixed

 

Hi,

Probably I'm the only one here still using unity4 but I have some projects half-way I'm working on I started with unity4. I purchased xffect log ago. Is there any way I can get the last release you posted supporting unity4?

Thank you