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Lower playback speed if u need to

@@snick9314 of course I've done it but it's still not slow as it should be.

Yes. It is combined with a lot other tools in the asset "Critter Environment"

Thanks! Yeah we currently looking at creating more assets for volumetric lighting and world generation.

Awesome. Do u have a discord server or anything pple building with your stuff can have a way to communicate? Cheers

@@erache100 Yeah. We currently have a discord for people who have purchased the assets to provide support and share information, the link for it is found in the asset documentation. On the other hand, I've been thinking about setting up a community discord for people interested in this art style but haven't gotten around to it yet.

@@Voyageonyt ah I might have missed it. thx!

Currently I don't use the camera above the terrain anymore. It caused some constraints on how I wanted to instance stuff. Now instead I just give the instances the normal from the sampled mesh and use that for lighting calculations.

@@Voyageonyt That's neat! I suppose you're not using Unity's built-in Terrain system any longer and are using a custom mesh to sample it for lighting... But how did you go about the challenge of including shadows from other layers in the render texture in this video?

I still use and support Unity terrains but I don't recommend using an additional camera for this. If you still want to continue, I used the Opaque Layer Mask in Universal Render instead of the camera culling. @@katkollare809

@@VoyageonytDo you sample the opaque layer mask colour at the root coordinate of every single grass instance in the grass' fragment shader? If so, how do you access this root coordinate for every single pixel of every instance? Sorry, if I misunderstood your approach

Nothing to do with the shader but just setting up a URP asset to only render objects on a single layer.

This has been something we are considering. Will probably happen but can not promise a release date.

Haha :D He is the friend I'm developing this with. You can see him linked in the description too. Cheers!

@@Voyageonyt oh lol. I was even subbed to him so I was like why is ur work there and vica versa. Makes sense

Its just a lot of work packaging everything, however, this is what we plan to do. Pixelation we released as an asset at the end of last year and water is coming as an update in the coming weeks to this environment package.

Thanks! Sorry we kept you waiting but I'm happy that we polished it up before making it public!

Finally purchased successfully, I have been waiting for this asset for months.

Currently not a priority as I have some other things I want to complete first. Cool idea though.

Hey! I currently don't have this asset for sale. But when it releases in about 1 week this will not be possible as the transparent objects are rendered after opaque or depth textures. You could look at creating a custom render order but I have not done this yet. Good luck with your project though!

The light bands controls how many "circles" additional lights generate. The even circles are generated by a custom function. github.com/Cyanilux/URP_ShaderGraphCustomLighting/tree/main here is a good reference

Thanks! Yeah I currently do it per object with materials. This just gives so much more control over it.

@@Voyageonyt how?

@@orangesoupd I would assume a camera pass? So your main camera renders your standard stuff, then anything that needs an outline you mark as a different layer, and make a secondary camera render and apply the screen pass shader onto those objects?

Hi! Great that you enjoyed the video and are looking to learn something similar! It's hard for me to recommend a strict guide as I don't now your current situation but I would recommend starting some small projects and learning on the way. This helps keep motivation up and a neat goal is always on the horizon. If you want to study something more specific, how development should be done in Unity with its tools and 3D Graphics.

That's something I haven't thought about before but now that you say it, I've seen it many times. I'll look into it. Thanks!

Thanks!

Yeah that has been something I've been thinking about myself for a while but I've come to the conclusion that there is no simple solution for these 3D worlds. The effect when rotating could be worked around with billboarding some elements but you would lose the feel of 3D models. On moving objects currently, I think one would have to do another render that would be applied on top of the one I already have fixing the effect on static objects. This is something I'm looking for answers if someone has an idea how it could be done.

Yeah. 2 Cameras that correct the movement and a render texture between them. I have a separate video on it and the one I use is for sale on the asset store as well.

Thanks :D! Abstracting elements from different tools has been satisfying.

Thanks! When I was creating the trees I ran into this problem for the first time. I ended up looking up a solution that first generated a random point on a mesh by choosing a triangle based on its area; the larger area, the larger chance it would get picked. After this it discarded some points based on if some were too cluttered. I found the name Blue Noise Sampling. For those who want more reading: www.fwilliams.info/point-cloud-utils/sections/mesh_sampling/ Currently I just have a toggle button to run this second step. It's very computationally heavy, so I just do the first step of generating random points and it gives good enough results. I only use the random points step currently.

@@Voyageonyt Ah cool! That's the same technique I finished implementing just yesterday, so I was interested if our directions aligned. I wrote it in GDScript and it was, as you describe, computationally heavy. I have a custom Godot build, so I dropped down to C++ to speed things up. I followed the paper: "Parallel Poisson Disk Sampling with Spectrum Analysis on Surfaces" - John Bowers, Rui Wang, Li-Yi Wei, David Maletz It helped deal with some of the overhead of the minimum distance sampling phase, and provided steps to multithread it better.

@@denovodavid Cool that we ended up at the same solution :D. What was your use case? Did you find the second step worth the additional computation?

@@Voyageonyt Also for leaf and vegetation placement :P I think blue-noise is quite good for natural looking distributions. For leaves, I don't think it matters too much, as the billboard textures kinda hide pure random issues, but for placing more solid elements like rocks, I think min distance is important to avoid overlapping. You could even support multiple object sizes with different radius, although the implementation will be a little more complex. I use a 3D grid to speed up radius checks of neighbouring points, but you could use an octree to support different sizes. At that point, it's basically an efficient physics collision detection structure that just deletes overlaps.

Thank you!

Hi. Great that your getting similar results! I haven't experimented that much with VFX Graph but with the render textures I could have some improvements. I have been moving away from the rendering the colors of the grass by having a camera above. I currently pass the instances a normal that gets sampled from the terrain which lets me calculate a color in the shader. This reduced my render texture amount and made the system much more modular. Hope this helps!

​@@Voyageonyt There is another problem I ran into which is that grass doesn't change it's color in Build mode (all the grass instances share the same color), while in Edit mode everything is fine. I also checked if the problem was the render texture itself by displaying it with Raw Image UI component and it appears not to be the case (all the colors are matching those that I see from my main camera) but the grass colors remain unchanged. Do you have any idea on how that could be fixed? UPD: Ok i just had to enable read/write on my terrain mesh I exported from blender, RaycastHit.textureCoord was returning 0,0 only in Build mode for some reason

Thank you!

I'll be working on this at the start of next year! Will be sure to make a video when I get everything looking pleasant.

Hi again and thanks! :D There are some annoying orderings there and when I was dabbling in this the render order didn't feel like a good way of differentiating for what gets outlines as it is a bit hard to give certain objects outlines and render everything in the correct order. I ended up making the outlines object specific and let unity handle them in their own shaders. I would recommend this. I'm not knowledgeable enough on that specific case to give a quick fix.

Your leaf shader must write into the depth buffer, this is easy with standard shader, just put addshadow to pragmas

@@pixboi already tried that, but for some reason my shader isn't writing to depth buffer... probably due to it being GPU instanced...

@@DcCoO try adding Fallback "diffuse" and draw q to opaque

@@pixboi I didnt use the fallback diffuse but I did try opaque and ztest Lequal + Zwrite on. Maybe this happens because the shader is srp batcher compatible? (even if it is gpu instanced)

Hi, great that you like the content! My project files are not public as I sell them as assets on the asset store.

Hi! This node takes in the data sent from the calculated instances. Its a way to set them up in Shader Graph. For wind movement I just followed a Brackey's tutorial where the grass moves more with higher Y values and combined it with a billboard shader.