Thanks! Glad it helped

Thank you!

You're welcome, glad you liked it!

thank youuu!!!!!!!

On 2021.1.16f1 After switching on depth texture for URP it disappears for the game window. Scene is still rendering fine. This is on a MacBook Pro 16. At first I thought it was because I was targeting WebGL but after switching to Standalone it still happens. Not sure if it’s not supported on certain hardware or not.

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Thank you! I'm not sure there will be much more on Unity. I was thinking about switching back to it from unreal since they're adding the new render pipelines and I find C# to be quicker to work with than blueprint/c++, but I just don't feel as comfortable about using it on a longer project as I do unreal.

@@MrTriPie alright, well it's always a big step to switch the tool. i anyway follow you and i see if something turns up :)

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Its likely an issue with sorting the order to render the objects (multiple transparent objects tend to have this issue). I'm not really sure if there is a great solution for this, one thing that might improved be to force it to always render it on top (maybe by putting it in a different layer and setting up the cameras to render that layer on top (I think you need 2 cameras, 1 rendering all other layers, and the other only your volumetric one). But that isn't a perfect solution. Avoiding transparent objects when possible helps.

I exported the smoothed mesh, still having hard edges, maybe the smothness is ignored when rendering transparent emission?

@@arsizhifenerprozhod You might have forgotten to auto smooth, which makes every angle below a certain threshhold smooth. It's also worth noting that when you shade something smooth, the otuline of the object will not change, only the way thil filling looks if you think of it as 2d

Thank you! I'll try to explain things better next time. For reversing things, doing a 1 - whatever you're trying to reverse usually does the trick (for example, white is 1, so 1-1=0 black, and vice versa)

@@MrTriPie Thanks for the reply!

Thank you! Simply, it's the modeling program I'm most used to, and I have blender videos on my channel already. It's as simple as models get, so it should be easy to convert to your favorite program, and if someone isn't already used to any modeling program, it's free.

Same to me, I currently try to figure out what happens...

If you removed the gradient going from top to bottom it should. Although it sounds like something might have changed since there's comments saying they had trouble getting it to work in newer versions

Assuming you have a spot light in the same position, regular cast shadows, yes. But unlike more complex volumetric effects, there won't be a volumetric shadow (the light you can see in the air won't be blocked). So this effect should be placed carefully to make sure that kind of issue isn't too noticable.

Do you have universal render pipeline installed (used to be LWRP)? docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@7.1/manual/InstallURPIntoAProject.html#installing-urp

@@MrTriPie it says, URP only works in 2019. My package manager doesn't have it. I don't want to upgrade to 2019 because the camera panning is terrible, I mean 100 mile pan terrible. This is the reason I am currently using 2018, but my current project doesn't have a rendering pipeline and I can't find one.

I think you could probably find the old beta versions of the LWRP, but it may have some issues. If you want to stick to 2018 and the standard pipeline I don't know very much about writing shaders in text code. One option might be to get Amplify Shader Editor add-on as it has support for the standard pipeline, luckily it's on sale now: assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/visual-scripting/amplify-shader-editor-68570

I haven't tried it. I've been using Unreal for a while now, when Unity had the LWRP taken out of preview I tried it a bit to see if I wanted to switch and made this video. My opinion of it at the time was that it should have been in preview still, I had multiple times in the course of a few days playing with it where the shader editor wasn't working properly (I think one of the problems was it sometimes wouldn't open certain shaders until I restarted Unity). There were also things that didnt seem to work the way I expected it too and I couldn't figure out, not sure if they weren't working correctly or I just couldn't find any documentation that would explain them to me yet. Anyway, between those problems, changes that users would want, and maybe changes that had to do with the HDRP, I wouldn't be surprised if the URP has changed a lot and broken some stuff. If you figure out what parts seem to break the shader, maybe we could figure out how to fix it.

I managed to get some results here under URP today (Unity 2019.3) by setting AlphaClipThreshold in the Unlit Master node to zero. Also, had to go check in the Inspector for Project > Settings > Universal RP - High Quality that Depth Texture was set (it wasn't)

@@sixdegreesofcrispybacon Thanks, fixed my problem.

@@petermartin9394 I'm glad I decided to post then. Nice one. (Y) Now, make sure you show us what you get up to, eh? ;-)

@@sixdegreesofcrispybacon Thanks six! By the way, new user like me or others might be confused as it is at Inspect panel window after locating and clicking on the project's UniversalRenderPipelineAsset file, click on it then toggle on Generate->Depth Texture. Thanks btw.

Maybe. One guy was saying this doesn't seem to work in the newest version, so if he did it right, that may be it

I may have a solution, my problem was I could see it fine in the scene view, but not in play/build. Hope this helps: Looking at the nodes FresnelEffect>Clamp>Lerp, the Lerp(output) goes into a multiply node on input B. the output of this multiply goes into another multiply node, also on Input B. Again, the output goes into another multiply node on Input B. The full path im looking at goes FresnelEffect>Clamp>Lerp>Multi>Multi>Multi I took the Lerp output, skipped the first 2 multiply nodes, and put it straight into the 3rd multiply node's input B. That's it (Save asset) I don't know exactly how scene depth works, but I reckon this was the problem in my use of the shader. This was left out by skipping the first multiply. I also skipped the second multiply becuase my camera would never reach the shader to clip it, if you still wanted this effect then only skip the first multiply. My version of Unity is 2019.2.17f1

Probably, but I believe HDRP would support volumetric lighting/fog, which should give better results

I don't think the player is likely to be paying enough attention to it to notice, and lots of games have things such as fake volumeric Godrays, fog clouds and other particles fade out when approaching them so they don't clip with the camera. Some games even have more solid things do it to get out of the way the camera, such as the Witcher 3 fading out trees and bushes. So the player is likely to be used to the effct too. In the end it's better than nothing when you can't use a full volumeric effect, and you can always tweak instances to make sure they aren't bothering players.

In Unreal engine the procedure noise is usually more performance expensive than using a texture, I'm assuming it's the same case in Unity, but it might not be.

Not sure, I would assume that higher end devices would do fine with it, but lower end ones might struggle with it, perhaps they could run a simplified version of it?

I believe you should be able to,

I will try then tell you. By the way forgot to tell you that this was a great tutorial

@@MrTriPie yes you can:) its been two years already since the video released, but i hope you will see this and help me if you can! I'm stuck on trying to "cut off" the mesh of volumetric light, that intersects with other mesh. I am using a dynamic light source (flashlight) and when i point it at some objects, it obviously goes through them and player can see that other part of the lightbeam. Is it possible to fade it after intersection?

@@ginner9635 I can't believe its already been 2 years. I don't think there would be any way to do this only using shaders, you could try doing something like this: Create a LOW resolution texture for the light cone, and every frame or two do several raycasts from the start of the cone to the ends along the sides to regenerate the texture. It may be a bit expensive on mobile, so you'd have to tweak it a bit. I'm also not sure if it would end up looking strange in a different way as its not a true volumetric, but this is only way I can think of to attempt this.

@@MrTriPie wow man, i didn't even hope you'll answer! Thank you very much! yeah, you're right - it is too expensive on mobiles:-/ I thought maybe there was a way to do it through the shader graph:(

The Universal Render Pipeline used to be called the Lightweight Render Pipeline, so hopefully this video is still compatible

Haha, nope!

MrTriPie dammit!