[RELEASED] NexGen Planets (Shaders)

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NexGen Planets

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Now available on the Asset Store: http://u3d.as/content/nex-gen-assets/nex-gen-planets

Description:

Shaders / Materials:

Standard
With a diffuse (RGB) + specular (alpha) texture for your planet and easy controls for the specular level and glossiness. You can also control the clouds (RGBA) opacity and the night lights of the planet for the shadowed area. And a rotation controller to easily animate the rotation of the planet, which will also animate the clouds (a little bit slower) to have a really cool looking planet.
Gas
This shader will allow you to make gas planets or even stars like the sun, youā€™ll just need some procedural textures (RGBA) to do it and even tweak the tiling to get the effect that you want. Youā€™ll also be able to control the color, the speed of the gas and the power.
Halo
Every planet needs a halo to enhance it, youā€™ll just need to duplicate the planet and assign this shader to the halo sphere. You can control everything from the color tint to the power and the flickering speed.
Extras
Youā€™ll also get a star background and Particle FX to enlight your planets, stars, etc. All of the shaders are mobile-friendly. Keep in mind, however, that that the example textures are large and not optimized for mobile.

Demo Video:

Screenshots:



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Current Version: 1.1

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1.1 Version is up and running!

  • Added Galaxy shaders.
  • Small fix for the Halo material.
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Update 1.2 available!

  • Added Fog override shaders.
  • Added hologram shader.

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Update 1.2b is out!

  • Added ā€œOuter glowā€ shader for the planets and stars
  • Small fix requested by an user for a small opacity bug of the standard planet :smile:

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Iā€™m interested in your shader, though my needs arenā€™t exactly planetary.
Was just curious if the halo effect is still achievable with a solid white background?..
ā€¦ and if the surfaces needed to be convex?.. Iā€™m working with organic tubular shapes.

Thanks- itā€™s a beautiful shader regardless, and Iā€™ll prob still pick it up.

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Thanks Scott!

Please contact me through my website so you can send me the models (if you want) or similar shapes and Iā€™ll try the shader on them :smile:

Cheers.

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Hi Victor,
your work looks amazing! Iā€™m looking forward to buy this shader, but I need to know if itā€™s limited to any unity version. Is it?

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Hi!

Thanks a lot for the kind words! The asset Requires Unity 4.3 or higher.

Cheers

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Unity 5_0 ready?

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I think so, Iā€™m going to try it out and let you know!

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Thanks

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ā€œNo.ā€ and ā€œYes.ā€

Thereā€™s a missing ā€œImageEffectBaseā€ script (easily found) which used to be in the pro assets.

Also the material editors no longer work - they give warnings.

However once you fix the missing script which can be found here: https://gist.github.com/opless/dce9b6a6343fcbd30db8 things mostly work.

This is mostly because all of the ā€˜proā€™ features from the 4.x series are included in 5.x rather than a snafu by the author.

Iā€™d love to see an update for 5 however, if only to fix-up those material editors (or even a text file describing what to include to make them work)

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Hi there!

Yes, youā€™re right oPless Iā€™m thinking about updating it to Unity 5 but I donā€™t know if this will affect the Unity 4 users or if I should just make a 2.0 version for Unity 5ā€¦

What do you think is the best option here as an user?

Cheers,

Victor.

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well, assuming you are going for the 5_0 support, I will get this.

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I second the unity 5 support. Although, does that mean weā€™ll have to purchase it again? I picked it up on the off chance it might port well to unity 5 but there does appear to be problems. Its a bit more lacklustre than the screenshots, and reacts strangely to the directional light. I have faith the author knows which direction to take this, fingers crossed.

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NexGen, please update to unity5, but you can always bundle unity 4 and 5 .assetBundles in the unity store assetbundle, and you pick the one you want to actually import. Itā€™s how some authors handled the unity 3 and unity 4 bundles.

Iā€™d be a bit disappointed if I had to rebuy another pack, for obvious reasons :slight_smile:

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Would appreciate a nod either way before your sale deadline.

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Still not updated for Unity 5, I created the missing file but image effects gives errors. Think there is an execution order error. Some files are JS