Unity making me feel stupid today (trying to use Image Effects)

Unity Engine
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I’m trying to use Image Effects for the first time. Per the docs and this blog post, it sounds easy: import 'em and attach to a camera. No.

I used Assets > Import Package > Effects, and selected the Editor and Standard Assets folders (skipping a Plugins folder which contains stuff from Vectrosity, which I don’t want in this project). Click Import.

Now I have 42 compiler errors like this one:

Similar errors were found for in BloomAndFlaresEditor, BloomEditor, CameraMotionBlurEditor, and basically all the other editor scripts. I searched the googles, but apparently nobody else has run into this. And the documentation is no help either.

These scripts do appear to be part of the image effects, though:

using System;
using UnityEditor;
using UnityEngine;

namespace UnityStandardAssets.ImageEffects
{
    [CustomEditor (typeof(BloomAndFlares))]
    class BloomAndFlaresEditor : Editor
    {
...

And the blog post says that I should have a bunch of new scripts in Standard Assets/Effects/Image Effects. But nope, there is no such folder. I’ve just double-checked the import, and it really isn’t there:

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Other effects, apparently, but no Image Effects.

What am I doing wrong here? How do I get these mythical image effects in my project?

Thanks,

  • Joe
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Really? Nobody has any idea?

I guess I’m the first to ever run into this issue… lucky me! :stuck_out_tongue:

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No ideas, but have you tried importing the new post effect stack instead to see if it works?

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No… I didn’t realize that there was a new one, or some other way to import it. Is this something I download from somewhere?

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The image effects all rely on many other scripts/shaders/ etc. that need to be imported at the same time. Anytime you delete the Image Effects folder out of the Standard Assets you’ll get many errors on scripts from the plug-ins folder that rely on these.

As @Gametyme states above, go ahead and skip the Image Effects and use the new post processing stack. They are superior in every way and more performant. I have found even with VR the new stack effects work quite well.

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Right, but I didn’t do that. I imported what was available (and took a screen shot of it). The scripts that are supposed to be there, simply aren’t there to import.

Cool, trying that now. Those do import without errors. Thanks for the advice!