[NEW PATCH] uNature - GPU, Interactable Grass. Interactable Trees, MultiThreading and more!

[ElroyUnity]

@castor76

I found out what’s happening… There was some other trigger collider surrounding the level… Humm… Is it possible to only draw on a specific layer? ( or game object with tag? ) Can’t seem to find this option anywhere…

Yes on the foliage manager window select in the generation mask the layers you want

@castor76

Ohh… I think I needed to add UNSeeker… to the player… Darn…

Haha yep

[castor76]

after fiddling around I was able to get things going at last. However, I have noticed that there isn’t much culling going on like this one :

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At the moment I am drawing like 300k polygons for the grass, which I think it can be lower… if better culling is implemented… humm

[ElroyUnity]

@castor76

after fiddling around I was able to get things going at last. However, I have noticed that there isn’t much culling going on like this one :

https://discussions.unity.com/t/700427

At the moment I am drawing like 300k polygons for the grass, which I think it can be lower… if better culling is implemented… humm

Yep, that’s on the roadmap but basically the key issue with making the culling better is that the way uNature works is that it creates big chunks. I will add an option to reduce the size in order to get better culling

[castor76]

How big are the chunks? Do they get frustrum culling?

[ElroyUnity]

@castor76

How big are the chunks? Do they get frustrum culling?

The patches try to be as big as they can (while staying under the mesh vertex limit) and yes they are

[ElroyUnity]

@castor76

Humm… interesting, so we can somehow “save” the foliage data from each scene, (into scene data?) then use foliage manager in the main scene to populate the grass again? How about removing the grass? Also through supplying some “data” ?

– Edit –

After watching through the foliage manager and get/set detail video, I have the following questions :

1. Does it work (painting) on the mesh terrain? Over multiple meshes?

2. I can see that the manager uses chunks and texture maps to store its data. So how do I expand into a new “chunk” ? If I just start painting on the new chunk, will it create a new one and assign all the necessary texture for me?

3.This brings up some interesting issues for working with multiple scenes. How do you suppose to have managers per each scene and then perform get/set on them? Do I disable the other managers in the other scenes before saving the scene? If I destroy the manager, then will that also not get rid of all my grass settings so I can’t re-edit the grass later stages?

4. I thought of this idea : So, if I force set up my scene to have only one chunk per scene. (be it 512x512 say…) then it supposed to have that data stored as in texture right? So then when I additive load second scene for example, then would it not be easier to reuse the texture maps from the second scene’s manager and just apply it on the main manager? Would this kind of thing be possible? So like … SetChunkTexture(x,y, texture); where x and y is chunk grid position.

5. With grass data saved in the texture in 2D way, I guess it is not possible to have grass on the ground and then have a overhanging rock to not have grass right? What I mean is that we can’t have layers of grass settings?

Ok sorry for delay - here are the answers for the rest of the questions.

1. Yes, you can paint on any surface really as long as it has a collider. (Again, its a 2d height map so you can’t draw mesh ontop of a mesh) But it will be changed when I get enough time in the army to work on the next uNature.

2. Yes exactly SetDetailLayer does it automagically for you. If you wan’t to do your own logic and get a faster method that works for your needs you can do it manually (following the source code)

3-4) Yes exactly. That would probably make the most sense. You can read the texture from the chunk and then assign it to the main scene chunk

[Sam512]

Hello, what is your Email?

[ElroyUnity]

@Sam512

Hello, what is your Email?

Hello,
eeproductionssupp@gmail.com

[KingLlama]

My issue is shown here.

Fixed it by re-adding the Unseeker script to the character itself not the parent.

Ran into another issue when I try to build.

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[Sam512]

[quote=“ElroyUnity, post:1928, topic: 625617, username:ElroyUnity”]
Hello,
eeproductionssupp@gmail.com
[/quote]Hey, bro why don’t you reply me in gmail?

[ElroyUnity]

@Sam512

Hey, bro why don’t you reply me in gmail?

Not sure, can you send me your mail on PM?
I will filter my inbox

[Sam512]

@ElroyUnity

Not sure, can you send me your mail on PM?
I will filter my inbox

decsec512@gmail.com

[ElroyUnity]

@Sam512

decsec512@gmail.com

Yep, seen it now, it was in a different folder for some reason,
Will reply now

[Sam512]

Hey, EE Productions!

Everything works fine but it’s hard to control. Sometimes I can’t move around in the scene to paint grass properly unless i press play to do the trick. Grass flickering all the time sometimes it disappear I don’t know why

[ElroyUnity]

@Sam512

Hey, EE Productions!

Everything works fine but it’s hard to control. Sometimes I can’t move around in the scene to paint grass properly unless i press play to do the trick. Grass flickering all the time sometimes it disappear I don’t know why

Hey,
Regarding freeze of editor and flickering - both known bugs, will try to fix freezing this week and submit, regarding the flickering will look into it

[Sam512]

@ElroyUnity

Hey,
Regarding freeze of editor and flickering - both known bugs, will try to fix freezing this week and submit, regarding the flickering will look into it

Bought the asset several months ago to test. Now I’m starting to work on it for real this time. Can’t wait until the bug’s fixed

[ElroyUnity]

@Sam512

Bought the asset several months ago to test. Now I’m starting to work on it for real this time. Can’t wait until the bug’s fixed

Will hopefully send you a fix today

[Sam512]

@ElroyUnity

Will hopefully send you a fix today

About grass flickering during runtime… that’s the most annoying thing. But no rush, take your time. I can wait. Since the problem’s not yet fixed. I will work on other thing first for now

[ElroyUnity]

@Sam512

About grass flickering during runtime… that’s the most annoying thing. But no rush, take your time. I can wait. Since the problem’s not yet fixed. I will work on other thing first for now

Absolutely agree,
trying to get a fix asap

[ElroyUnity]

Ok guys a little update for both uConstruct and uNature -

As you have noticed updates went down during the past few months during to my military service but I plan to comeback big time.

For that - I need anyone who have used either one of the system to give some points that he would like to improve so I can make it all happen.

The first things that come to mind -

uNature:

• better performance
• less memory usage
• reduce scene size
• easier UI
• ?More Features?

uConstruct:

• better demo
• fix some batching
• improve sockets and snap points
• improve performance, memory and the save&load system

I dont have an ETA about when it will be done but I promise to make sure it will be super good before releasing.

Elroy