Thanks Gary, looking forward to it!

Glad to hear it!

Thanks for the call out, will fix now!

Interesting. GPU Resident Drawer should only affect instances objects in the scene. Do you mean the UI is going blurry when activating STP? Or is is Resident Drawer causing the blur? Could you clarify if your UI is using Canvas or UI Toolkit? and if your UI is screen-space or world-space? Assuming this is for canvas in screenspace UI, first thing I would try is changing the render type on the canvas set to "Screen Space - Overlay" and see if that does the trick!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank You!

@@Ayres3D good teacher I got

They do work for mobile, which is pretty awesome. They work with URP on forward+ rendering. One cool piece of info: at Unite they demoed the Fantasy Kingdom with all 3 new graphics features running on an iPhone!

XR roadmap I am unsure of, but my understanding is that this works great with everything down to a mobile device, but hasn't been optimized to work with HMDs. I hope that integration comes soon!

GPU occlusion culling in Unity is used in addition to frustrum culling. You can increase the scale of Spatial Temporal Post Processing (STP) above 1 because it allows you to render a higher resolution image than your target display resolution, effectively "upscaling" the image to appear sharper and more detailed on screen, even if your native resolution is lower; essentially, you are generating a higher quality image that is then downscaled to fit your display, resulting in improved visual fidelity. This can help with things like anti-aliasing and overall visual quality, but I personally haven't found a situation where I would use this technique.

@@Ayres3D I think the question 1 is whether the new GPU occlusion culling is a replacement to Unity's own built-in occlusion culling system or not

Thanks for the sub!

It is a blast to play with all the new Unity 6 tools!

Edited below as my initial response was incorrect: All the Muse tools fall under the single Muse subscription as far as I know, so yes the following tools will all only be accessible through the $30/month subscription: Muse Chat Muse Sprite Muse Texture Muse Behavior Muse Animate Muse 2D Enhancer

@Ayres3D well that sucks I hope they change that later and make at least the behavior tree available without subscription

@@hansfritz6026 that’s a great suggestion. I’ll be sure to pass it along!

Hi @hansfritz6026 , I actually just spoke with the team and I was incorrect. On the product page it clarifies this - docs.unity3d.com/Packages/[email protected]/manual/index.html It is free to use Unity Behavior, but you need a Muse Subscription to access the generative artificial intelligence features of the tool! My understanding is that initially, the product was called Muse Behavior, but since making it available to use without a Muse subscription it has since changed to Unity Behavior.

@@hansfritz6026 This tool is free. It has a gen AI component that IF you want to use, you need a muse subscription.

Glad to hear it. Thanks!!

Awesome! The great thing with all these new graphics tools is that both Unity and Unreal are doing amazing things in this space, which is fantastic for creators regardless of engine. Competition spurs on innovation!

That's a great thought. I'll poke around and see what I can find out! I do love the current SSS shader in HDRP, but certainly has some limitations. From what I have heard, the new Time Ghost demo is something we can get our hands on in the near future, which could lead to some awesome new techniques to dissect as well for light scattering.

Thank you! Being mentioned in the same comment as Ben Cloward is an honor!

Thanks for passing along.

ahh you don't have 100s of videos in channel so I can watch all topics you have covered till now

That feedback means so much to me, thank you! I am keeping up with a one video a week pace right now, but may scale up in the near future if I can negotiate it with the wife and kids! If you have specific topics, please let me know and I will add it to my list of topics to cover.

Here are a few links for AVPs and Lighting Basics, though lighting is pre Unity 6. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4undGaKg8innbs kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2XYZ6GddtiSrJY

@@Ayres3D I was messing around this unity 6 for the first time. And I am having lot of issues with shaders for example if I import any of my polygon biome pack purchased from asset store when loaded in unity 6 it give errors with water shader. Btw I have 3 years of experience with unity on mobile games so I am not that beginner. Can you suggest me any shaders related video which I can study to see how shaders in unity 6 urp works.

@@CodingBeat sure thing. I can also take a look at that asset and see what I can sort out on my end. I’m out for the day, but will take a look and recommend some videos ASAP. If the shaders are built in shadergrpah that will likely be where I start is seeing which nodes might be acting up.

Thank you, Gary!

I appreciate the feedback and you sharing your thoughts on Lumen. Lumen is an exciting technology and I hope both Unity and Unreal continue doing awesome things in this space to bring the best creation tools to the talented creators out there!

@@Ayres3D In any case thanks for your tutorial :) I'll try!

Good question! This is one of those areas that gets so bespoke it is a bit hard to answer in a "one size fits all" way. In short, assuming you mean for access control and the goal of having orgs, sub-orgs, multi-tiered user role permissions, I know that is sought-after capability to do on a per user basis in UAM. The immediate recommendation I would give it to work by dividing your asset access on a project by project basis within UAM. This will likely not create the hard firewall you're looking for in the short term, but assuming more specific features do release to allow specific access controls, then it would set you up to easily manage your teams. If you're a Unity Industry user, this is one where I'd recommend you ping your immediate client partner or partner relationship manager at Unity and have a deeper 30min-1hr call to better understand exactly what you're aiming to do and we can chat in greater detail.

Thanks for the feedback, I will take a look and dial the settings in better for future videos.

Glad it helped! I appreciate the feedback.

I appreciate your perspective, but feel you're making many assumptions about the light quality of a scene made in 10 minutes to demonstrate a tool. There is a much better representation of APV in the URP sample scenes template in Unity Hub. I'd recommend taking a look at that before drawing too many conclusions, as this video is more intended to show what the feature is and how to set it up, rather than a look at fully deploying the solution and in a polished environment. I am also excited to see what updates come at Unite next week.

@@Ayres3D funny. I actually think of your video as a better representation precisely because it shows the limitations of the technique so clearly. anyone could have covered up the artifacts by making the walls thicker but you didn't. maybe that's an accident but regardless. the video ends up demonstrating exactly what APV can and can't do.

Thanks for the feedback! There are some controls within the tool that'd be worth poking around as well - Such as max and min probe spacing to add more probes or less if needed in certain volumes, probe offsets to customize around unique shapes, etc. For example, virtual offset settings are intended to force invalid probes outside of geometry to eliminate backface hits. There's a lot of cool stuff in here, and I am glad the video was helpful!

@@forasago The GDC talk showed multiple ways to fix light bleeding, you can adjust probes sampling area individually for singular bad probes or use a volume to adjust the sampling location of an area of probes, or invalidate probes. You can adjust how much along a faces normal the sample is taken from as well and how much weight it given to probes based on direction to face normal. Setting up a lighting scenarios properly does take some time, there are reasons that lighting is often an entire separate job in many studios.

Interesting. Does Amplify Shaders operate on the shader graph system where you can poke around and see which nodes could be the culprit? Happy to help in any way, but I've not used Amplify Shaders myself.

Thank for the feedback. Happy to help! I’ve seen a similar behavior that I’ve relayed to the team as a bug. My fix currently is to close the editor and reopen. Let me know if that’s solves the issue for you. Happy to troubleshoot with you.

Thank you! Glad you liked it!

Very cool! It would be great to start aggregating future feature ideas for tools like this.

There's actually a pretty major difference between this and light probe groups. The old light probes contribute illumination to the entire object, whereas these are on a per-pixel basis. With the old light probes an object in its entirety would get brighter as it got into a brighter area, even the parts of the objects that weren't actually supposed to be lit. If you had a spotlight for example and a large object, the entire object would get lit, not just the pixels where the spotlight would hit it. These APV probes actually are sampled per-pixel which looks much better, not quite as good but maybe 85%-90% of the quality of lightmaps, something that absolutely can not be said about the old light probe groups.

Howdy! This is party of the URP sample scenes you get by default. No cost. I have another video that walks through where they are and how to download them, but to put it simply, just download the URP sample template in the Unity hub and enjoy. If you want to purchase a similar scene, the Unity Asset Store is always a solid option.

I typically leave my directional light mixed to leverage the real-time shadows that come with it from the direct lighting and then baking the indirect lighting.

Fantastic, thanks for the feedback and good luck on the VR project!

Glad you liked it!

Thanks for watching!

That's a great idea. That scene is one of the 4 URP sample scenes called the Garden. I'll poke around in there and see if I can replicate the time of day system in a future tutorial.

Do the controllers work reliably? Putting kids to sleep right now, but will gladly come back to this tomorrow and add some initial thoughts.

@@Ayres3D Yeah the controllers are just fine, but for whatever reason the hands just don't register at all whether through play mode or building to device.

Are there any errors in the console? It may be worth creating a fresh project and following along one more time to ensure all settings and packages have been implemented exactly. Can you confirm the hand models are appearing in the scene prior to hitting play? Meaning when looking at the scene right after opening the scene are the hands floating or just missing?

@@Ayres3D Turns out I just needed to reset the hand tracking settings on device. Thanks though!

@@Zeldarulah Fantastic, glad it worked out!

Awesome, thank you!

I appreciate the call out!

Thanks for the sub! Absolutely, will do. If there are specifics you’d like future videos to focus on, please let me know and I’ll do my best to get the topic onto the backlog.

That's awesome. Good luck!

You are absolutely right. A big part of it was the super fast lighting setup. I may go back into this scene and pull in some textures using Muse and light it properly in a part 3, but for the sake of this demonstration focused mainly on the blocking with the lighting being more just to indicate where to run towards. Great call out. I would guess at a glance that there is some exposure override happening in the default settings we went into in the beginning to turn off the HDRI sky.

​@@Ayres3DThank you!

Thanks for the feedback! There are a handful of ways to trigger the timeline and, specifically, animation clips. Typically what I do is create an animation manager that indicates an entry and exit state for an animation series. Then if you go to window > animator you can see animations and control them in a node-based interface. You can also do things like trigger animation sequences on click via a button, on start, or otherwise.

@@Ayres3D Using animation manager made it lot easier to control it! Cheers🎉

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for the feedback

Thanks, Gary!

Thank You!!

Thank you for the feedback!

Great question! While pink showing up in Unity indicates an issue with the shader applied to an object, the pink in Pixyz Studio is meant to indicate a flipped normal. Flipped normals essentially mean that the face intended to be oriented towards the outside (camera-facing) of the object are for some reason facing internally. This can be caused by a few things, but I'll focus on the solution rather than the initial cause for now. There are essentially 3 ways to fix this - 1)Ignore it. If the renderer you intend to take the object into tends to leverage, or can leverage, two-sided face rendering (and you don't mind the fps his to render 2 sided materials), this may not show up in a way significant enough to worry about and can simply be ignored in Pixyz. To ignore this, selected the BF Color icon at the top next to checker and turn it to two-sided. When importing into something like Unity, you'll see the faces an invisible until you turn the shader applied to the object to "two-sided material", then it should look better. 2)Fix it within Pixyz. In Pixyz Studio, within the menu for "Mesh" at the top, there is an option to "orient normals" as well as an option to "smart orient faces". I'd give those a try and see if this can be fixed in an automated fashion within Pixyz Studio itself. What you're trying to do is get all the faces to orient towards the intended tangent for rendering. 3)Fix it in the original DCC tool. If you created this in Catia, Revit, Maya, Blender, etc. there will be a way to reorient faces and normals in those pieces of software and this can be fixed prior to saving or exporting and taking into Pixyz. Please let me know if this helps!

Thank you!

Thank you!