By BOXOPHOBIC
Version 22.2.1
Documentation | Join Discord | Contact Welcome! All asset-related discussions are moving to Discord . Join us for more information, updates, if you experience any issues, or if you just want to say hi! Please check the description, limitations, disclaimers before buying the asset! ○ Unity Awards Publisher Of The Year 2023 - 4th Place Best Development Tool 2020 - 2nd Place Best Development Tool 2018 - 3rd Place ○ About the upgrade The Vegetation Engine was released 5 years ago and it got over 80 free major updates over the years. Due to the older design, once the asset and the modules started to grow, they were harder to maintain and to add new features. The Visual Engine is a new product, completely re-designed to be more extensible, more powerful, easier to use, and it comes with dozens of new features! Check out the comparison highlights and more details here ! ○ The Visual Engine The Visual Engine is a set of next-level shaders and powerful tools designed to unify any asset from the Unity Asset Store, Megascans, Speedtree, Tree Creator, and more, or custom models made by your team. Enable high-quality wind motion, interaction, local wind control, seasons, wetness, dynamic rain, advanced snow, subsurface scattering, layers for scans and moss, top projection, detail blending, gradient and variation tint, vertex occlusion, perspective correction, camera distance fade, glancing angle fade, crossfade, size fade, and more, for all vegetation assets and props with Standard, Universal, or HD Render Pipeline! ○ Advanced Systems The Visual Engine comes with a one-click conversion workflow for 3rd party assets. Once converted, the assets are fully compatible with all features provided by the asset and will work in all render pipelines! The converter uses text-based presets with an easy-to-use but comprehensive API. One click, everything unified! The Visual Engine comes with a comprehensive set of modular elements, used for motion and interaction with unlimited characters, local wind, dynamic seasons, global overlay (snow, sand, dust), wetness, tinting, size control, and leaves amount with minimal performance impact! The elements work with layers, so you can customize how each material is affected globally by each element used in the scene. The Visual Engine includes an advanced Material Manager tool to set the settings for multiple materials or prefabs at once or save and apply presets. Use the Shader Manager to add support to the most popular instanced indirect renderer and use the Scene Debugger to check any aspect regarding rendering or shader settings! ○ Community With constant updates and improvements, all BOXOPHOBIC assets are trusted by tens of thousands of game developers. Feel free to join our Discord server or get in touch via email if you need any help or if you want to discuss more advanced topics about the assets. ○ Compatibility The Visual Engine supports the following render pipelines: ✓ Standard Render Pipeline 2022.3+ ✓ Universal Render Pipeline 2022.3 / 6.0 - 6.6 ✓ HD Render Pipeline 2022.3 / 6.0 - 6.6 The Visual Engine supports the following modules: ✓ The Visual Engine • Amplify Impostors Module ✓ The Visual Engine • Terrain Shaders Module ✓ The Visual Engine • Terrain Blanket Module ✓ The Visual Engine • Terrain Elements Module The Visual Engine supports the following 3rd party tools: ✓ Amplify Shader Editor - Full shader editing support ✓ Foliage Renderer - Procedural Instancing support ✓ Nature Renderer - Procedural Instancing support ✓ GPU Instancer - Instanced Indirect support ✓ Flora 2.0 - Procedural Instancing support ✓ Vegetation Studio Pro - Instanced Indirect support ✓ Mega World Quadro Renderer - Procedural Instancing support ✓ Vladislav Tsurikov Instant Renderer - Procedural Instancing support ✓ DE Environment - Conversion for DE Environment ✓ Magio - Interactive Effect Engine support (by Arctibyte OAVA) ✓ Ignis - Interactive Fire System support (by Arctibyte OAVA) ✓ Game Creator - Actions for TVE control (by RVR) ✓ Game Creator 2 - Actions for TVE control (by Auxilium) ✓ Enviro - Enviro to TVE control (by CatGamesStudio) The Visual Engine supports vegetation created with the following tools: ✓ Speedtree - Profesional vegetation creation tool ✓ Broccoli Tree Creator - Powerful tree creation tool for the Unity ✓ Unity Tree Creator - Built-in Unity tree creation tool ✓ CTI - Advanced vegetation importer tool ✓ TreeIt - Free vegetation creation tool ✓ MTree (procedural setup) - Powerful tree creation tool for the Unity The Visual Engine supports the following 3rd party vegetation assets: ✓ Any Asset - User setup or Automatic setup ✓ Quixel Megascans - All vegetation assets ✓ Synty Studios - Biomes Nature Packs ✓ Nature Manufacture - All vegetation assets * Please note, with the Visual Engine's complete redesign, the old presets for supported assets are not yet updated! More presets are added in steps! ○ Limitations 🞫 TVE is not a placement tool, it is a vegetation unification/detailing tool 🞫 TVE is designed to work with instancing, static batching support is limited 🞫 The shaders are not designed for mobile development! 🞫 Scalable Ambient Obscurance is not supported in Forward Rendering 🞫 Billboard Renderers from Speedtree7, Tree Creators, and CTI are not supported. Speedtree7 billboard faces are not supported! 🞫 Billboard shaders for VSP and GPUI will not work with the TVE features! 🞫 HDRP ray tracing and path tracing are not fully supported! 🞫 Only the latest LTS Unity versions are officially supported! ○ Disclaimers ⚑ The Visual Engine will not do a 1:1 conversion for the assets. Even if in most cases the converted prefabs will look similar to the original asset, depending on the original shaders, lighting can change, colors can change, various features could not work anymore and the wind animation will definitely be different. After conversion, material tweaks will be required! ⚑ This is not a vegetation placement tool, but it can be used together with your favorite tools supporting instanced indirect such as Vegetation Studio, Nature Renderer, GPU Instancer, Mega World, or other placement tools like Microverse, Gaia, Map Magic, Terra World, etc... ⚑ With the release of the Visual Engine, the Vegetation Engine will not be updated anymore, but it will get critical fixes for a limited time. If you purchased any of the modules and you need older versions compatible with the Vegetation Engine, feel free to contact me!
By BOXOPHOBIC
Version 22.2.0
Documentation | Join Discord | Contact Welcome! All asset-related discussions are moving to Discord . Join us for more information, updates, if you experience any issues, or if you just want to say hi! ⚠ Requirements The latest version of the Visual Engine is required for the module to work! The Visual Engine is a set of high-quality shaders and tools designed to unify 3rd party assets under the same shader system. Enable high-quality wind motion, interaction, seasons, wetness, subsurface, layers, variation, etc. for all assets with Standard, Universal, or HD Render Pipeline! ○ Overview The Terrain Elements Module is a set of element shaders designed to control the vegetation color, size, overlay, cutout, wetness, emissive, and subsurface for each individual painted terrain layer, based on splat maps. The Terrain Elements Module works with any terrain painting system capable of generating or exporting splat maps, such as the Unity Terrain or MicroSplat. ○ Compatibility Terrain Elements supports the following Render Pipelines: ✓ Standard Render Pipeline 2022.3+ ✓ Universal Render Pipeline 2022.3 / 6.0 - 6.6 ✓ HD Render Pipeline 2022.3 / 6.0 - 6.6 Terrain Elements has integration with the following 3rd party tools: ✓ Amplify Shader Editor - Full shader editing support ○ Features ✓ 16 terrain layers supported ✓ Demo and full source included ✓ Paint Elements: Tinting, Tinting Intensity ✓ Atmo Elements: Dryness, Overlay, Wetness, Cutout ✓ Glow Elements: Emissive, Subsurface ✓ Form Elements: Size Fade ○ Disclaimers ⚑ With the release of the Visual Engine, the Vegetation Engine will not be updated anymore, but it will get critical fixes for a limited time. If you purchased any of the modules and you need older versions compatible with the Vegetation Engine, feel free to contact me! ○ More Assets ✓ The Visual Engine • Unified shaders for any asset ✓ The Visual Engine • Amplify Impostors Module ✓ The Visual Engine • Terrain Blanket Module ✓ The Visual Engine • Terrain Shaders Module ✓ Atmospheric Height Fog • Optimized fog for consoles, mobile, and VR ✓ Polyverse Skies • Low poly skybox shaders ✓ Free Skybox Shader • Cubemap Extended shader
By BOXOPHOBIC
Version 3.8.0
Documentation | Join Discord | Contact Welcome! All asset-related discussions are moving to Discord . Join us for more information, updates, if you experience any issues, or if you just want to say hi! Please check the description and limitations before buying the asset! ○ Overview Highly optimized and customizable skybox shaders fit for low poly style games, built with Amplify Shader Editor for Console, Mobile, and VR, with perspective and orthographic camera support. Customize your skies with 3 color gradient background, sky pattern overlays, animated clouds, sun-lit clouds, sun and moon, twinkling stars, Unity’s built-in fog, and high-quality textures even at 4K gaming. ○ Compatibility Polyverse Skies supports the following Render Pipelines: ✓ Standard Render Pipeline ✓ Universal Render Pipeline Polyverse Skies has integration with the following 3rd party tools: ✓ Amplify Shader Editor - Full shader editing support ○ Features ✓ Generate a prebaked cubemap from the scene skybox | NEW ✓ Generate a cubemap with custom made clouds meshes | NEW ✓ Amplify Shader Editor graph included ✓ Basic Time Of Day via Day-Night material interpolation ✓ Highly customizable skybox shaders ✓ Console, Mobile, and VR-optimized shaders ✓ Feature toggles for easier usage and performance ✓ Perspective and Orthographic camera support ✓ Unity’s Built-in Fog support ✓ Zero global shader keywords used(2019.1+) ✓ Ready-made presets included ✓ Sky, Horizon, and Ground colors support ✓ Horizon height and smoothness adjustment ✓ 3 Pattern overlay cubemaps at 2K resolution ✓ 5 Stars cubemaps at 2K resolution ✓ 3 Layers of stars ✓ Stars size, intensity, and twinkling adjustment ✓ Stars horizon and sun mask ✓ 6 Sun and Moon textures at 2K resolution ✓ Sun position controlled by directional or user gameobject ✓ Size, color, and intensity adjustment ✓ Moon meshes included ✓ 10 Low poly clouds cubemaps at 4K resolution ✓ Clouds lit by directional light ✓ Rotation and animation support ✓ Height, light, and shadow colors adjustment ✓ Clouds meshes included ○ More Assets ✓ The Visual Engine • Unified shaders for any asset ✓ The Visual Engine • Amplify Impostors Module ✓ The Visual Engine • Terrain Elements Module ✓ The Visual Engine • Terrain Blanket Module ✓ Atmospheric Height Fog • Optimized fog for consoles, mobile, and VR ✓ Polyverse Wind • Wind shaders compatible with any low poly assets ✓ Free Skybox Shader • Cubemap extended shader
