Volumetric Fog & Mist - AAA realistic and animated fog, dust, low clouds and mist

[LennartJohansen]

@Alexey1B

Hi, VS shaders from mountine trees package, so VS_tree_bark_… & VS_tree_leaves… .Also i check with those prefabs without VS, just put many prefabs of trees manually and in this case all ok

Hi.

I did a test setup now. Vegetation Studio, the mountain trees and the latest volumetric fog.
tested with multi and single pass VR on an Oculus Rift. I am having trouble replicating the setup.
Fog behaviour seems ok for me.

Could you create a small demo project and send me a link in a private message?

Lennart

[Alexey1B]

@LennartJohansen

Could you create a small demo project and send me a link in a private message?

Hi, i also a long time could not reproduce on clean project, but finally i found, it is happens when OVRCameraRig (from oculus utils) - component OVRManager has checked Enable adaptive resolution, and min max render scale 0.7 - 1.2 . After return to default: ucheck & 0.7-1 this issue not appears, for me it is ok, but maybe this will help for somebody. When try to reproduce with this settings - some time issue appears in seconds, some time need almost 1 min

[Susihiisi]

Hi.

Is it possible to rotate the clouds towards a point or use the rotation of parent object instead of being locked on planes? Or is there a way to fill an area with clouds with no orientation? I’m having problems as I try to get this working on a spherical planet. I might have been a little bit too optimistic (or desperate) as I’v been searching for tutorials for volumetric clouds for a long time without success and then decided to buy this.

[Kronnect]

@Susihiisi

Hi.

Is it possible to rotate the clouds towards a point or use the rotation of parent object instead of being locked on planes? Or is there a way to fill an area with clouds with no orientation? I’m having problems as I try to get this working on a spherical planet. I might have been a little bit too optimistic (or desperate) as I’v been searching for tutorials for volumetric clouds for a long time without success and then decided to buy this.

Hello, unfortunately Volumetric Fog & Mist is optimized for “normal” (non curved) worlds. How big is your spherical world in units?

[Susihiisi]

@Kronnect

Hello, unfortunately Volumetric Fog & Mist is optimized for “normal” (non curved) worlds. How big is your spherical world in units?

I’m currently using Planetary Terrain asset for my world and it has a radius of 6371000 units.

[Kronnect]

@Susihiisi

I’m currently using Planetary Terrain asset for my world and it has a radius of 6371000 units.

Well, you could create localized fog / cloud effects with Volumetric Fog & Mist but not cover the entire world of such dimensions.

[Alexey1B]

Hi, i found what RenderTexture not work in Single pass but work in Multi & Single pass instanced (RenderTexture from demo scenes)

[tntfoz]

Hello, I’m using your Volumetric Fog asset to render very thick fog in a scene but I’m having trouble with it rendering a transparent glass material (on cars).

Although I can get the desired look with the glass by disabling “Render Before Transparency” and then setting Transparency Mode to None, this unfortunately affects other transparent objects in the scene (I have volumetric light beams as well).

If I set the Render Before Transparency back to enabled then my volumetric beams look good, but the glass material is not affected by the fog (obviously).

I’m not sure how to resolve this.

Is it possible to set the blending pass to a layer mask so as to only affect specific transparent objects in the scene? Or can you recommend a glass material/shader that works with your fog correctly without the need to for the Blending Pass?

The Volumetric Light Beam asset I’m using is here: Unity Asset Store - The Best Assets for Game Making

Thanks.

[Kronnect]

@Alexey1B

Hi, i found what RenderTexture not work in Single pass but work in Multi & Single pass instanced (RenderTexture from demo scenes)

Hi! Sorry, do you refer to demo scene #3?

[Kronnect]

@tntfoz

Hello, I’m using your Volumetric Fog asset to render very thick fog in a scene but I’m having trouble with it rendering a transparent glass material (on cars).

Hello,
What’s the problem when disabling “Render Before Transparency” and the Volumetric Light beam? Is it getting wipped by the fog? Yes, we can try a custom glass shader that renders before transparent queue and still be transparent. Can you send me an email with more details and a screenshot please?

[Alexey1B]

@Kronnect

do you refer to demo scene #3?

Yes, new clean project, scene 3, U2018.2.2f1, with single pass no effect, just as usual camera, with multi & sp instanced effect is ok

[tntfoz]

@Kronnect

Hello,
What’s the problem when disabling “Render Before Transparency” and the Volumetric Light beam? Is it getting wipped by the fog? Yes, we can try a custom glass shader that renders before transparent queue and still be transparent. Can you send me an email with more details and a screenshot please?

Hey Thrawn75, thanks for getting back so quickly.

Yeah the light beams (and other semi-transparent objects) are wiped when Render Before Transparency is disabled.

I’ve sent you an email with a couple of screenshots are requested.

Thanks!

[gecko]

I’m pruning keywords (using your excellent Shader Control tool!), but can you give me some guidance on what I can prune in Volumetric Fog and Dynamic Fog? We’re using both (VF for main fog, DF for distant/LOD fog).

Volumetric Fog: We are NOT using Point Lights, Fog of War, Fog Void, or Fog Area.

Dynamic Fog: Desktop Fog+Sky Haze shader

I think I’ve pruned the VF shader correctly, but there are a lot of DF shaders in the list in Shader Control, so any tips would be much appreciated.

thanks!
Dave

[Kronnect]

From Volumetric Fog & Mist you can prune: FOG_AREA_SPHERE, FOG_AREA_BOX, FOG_VOID_SPHERE, FOG_VOID_BOX, FOG_OF_WAR_ON, FOG_POINT_LIGHT0 FOG_POINT_LIGHT1 FOG_POINT_LIGHT2 FOG_POINT_LIGHT3 FOG_POINT_LIGHT4 FOG_POINT_LIGHT5

From Dynamic Fog & Mist: FOG_OF_WAR_ON. DITHER_ON: same if you don’t use the dithering option

In addition to this, inside Dynamic Fog & Mist Resources/Shaders folder:

• any shader starting with DFM* are material shaders which you can remove.
• also anything starting with DFO* are versions for orthographic camera (can be also removed completely).
• DFG* shaders: relate to one of the different fog variants keep DFGDesktop.shader and remove the others.

Do not remove any .cginc file

Regards.

[lo-94]

Hey am curious if it’s possible to change how fog voids are rendered? I want to use the fog voids for objects where there will be no fog that are not the player, where fog will still be rendered when not within the fog void. Currently it renders as shown if set to something other than the player. Essentially there is no fog rendered at all in front of the fog void, even when outside of it. Curious if this would be a simple fix somewhere

[Kronnect]

@lo-94

Hey am curious if it’s possible to change how fog voids are rendered? I want to use the fog voids for objects where there will be no fog that are not the player, where fog will still be rendered when not within the fog void. Currently it renders as shown if set to something other than the player. Essentially there is no fog rendered at all in front of the fog void, even when outside of it. Curious if this would be a simple fix somewhere

The void is computed outside the main loop for optimization purposes as it works fine for the original use case a top-down third person view). The alternative is to move it within the main shader loop (and compare the ray-marching position in world space with the void center).

[led_bet]

Hi! Love the asset. Having a strange issue in the editor. I’m working in a fairly large scene (using Horiz[ON] to simulate massive amounts of land), in an ultra-wide resolution. I notice that after a few seconds of camera animation, the volumetric effect begins to jitter slightly, almost as if it’s not sure where exactly it should be.

Any insight on how to remedy would be great! Thanks.

[Kronnect]

@led_bet

Hi! Love the asset. Having a strange issue in the editor. I’m working in a fairly large scene (using Horiz[ON] to simulate massive amounts of land), in an ultra-wide resolution. I notice that after a few seconds of camera animation, the volumetric effect begins to jitter slightly, almost as if it’s not sure where exactly it should be.

Any insight on how to remedy would be great! Thanks.

Hi! Could you please send us an email with a screenshot of your camera settings? Thanks!

[PDTokay]

Am I blind or is the compatible sprite materials missing from SpriteFog?

[Kronnect]

@PDTokay

Am I blind or is the compatible sprite materials missing from SpriteFog?

They should be present in VolumetricFog/Resources/Extra/Sprites folder.