[Coming soon] FX 4 Indie - Brings Pro's Images effects to Unity Free

With FX 4 Indie, improve the graphic quality of your games !
FX 4 Indie fakes the render texture to get post process effects working in Unity Free !

Why FX 4 Indie ?
FX 4 Indie is designed to have maximal performances over customizability. So it's not easy to create his own effects, but it's the cost for a good optimization. Also FX4Indie has advanced post process effects you find in professional games.

What FX 4 Indie is not ?
FX 4 Indie is useless with Unity Pro. Also, FX 4 Indie will not have artistic image filters like Black and White, Contrast...

Is it hard to use ?
No, just drag and drop scripts and it's done !

When will it be available ?
I don't know, but it will be released before 1 or 2 month.

About performances ?
FX4Indie needs a good PC. But i7+Geforce Titan is not required for 60FPS .
Obviously, Pro's rendertextures have better performances, but i have ~50FPS in 1920x1080 with all effects activated with my GTX 570. For some effects, it's possible to reach to 60FPS without a big loss of quality.
In webplayer or in 720p, it's easy to have 60FPS.

Will work with mobile ?
It's planned

So let's see some pictures.

Effects 100% finished :






Effects i'm working on :

(i have 60FPS with motion blur only)

Planned Effects :
- Screen Space Reflections
- (if possible) Screen Space Shadow Tracing
- Screen Blur
- Lights Shaft

The price will be 20$ i think.

So what do you think about ?

Suggestions, tips, request are welcome

 

Very nice, do you plan to add light shafts too later ?

 

Yes it's planned forgot to write it in the thread^^

 

Great, i am very interested, considering i dont know when i will be able to afford Unity Pro, plus having more effect options is always cool anyway , so i would use this pack even with Pro probably.

Also i suggest renaming the pack to make more clear what it is about, right now does not make clear it can replace Pro effects

I would use something like "Pro FX for Indie" or similar

 

A little preview video, running at ~50FPS (Effects are exagerated for demo)

 

Can you post a sample of SSAO on the standard Unity grass ?

 

SSAO on standard Unity Grass doesn't have any effect (but no artifacts), because grass is too little for the effect to work (the method used only works if the surface is enough large, and because grass is transparent, blade of grass are too small to see effect). But the technique i use is one of the only SSAO techniques which doesn't need blur (Almost all ssao needs blur pass).

Anyways, here is the new bloom shader, more expensive (so i'll keep the older too) but with better results :


Also FX 4 Indie is MUCH faster with DirectX 11, you'll win ~10FPS on complex scene and >20FPS in simple scenes.
DirectX 11 is very well designed for next gen effects compared to DirectX 9.

PS : A little image with all effects activated :

 

Here is a little standalone demo using the current version of FX4Indie :
http://mega.co.nz/#!SUYETBhJ!7NOV_RBysxqBPka2bDgHsVOJChFw0JXsVV7Z2lMjfhM

There is still many optimizations to do.

EDIT : For some reason, SSGI doesn't works on the demo , but works on the editor...

 

New Camera Motion Blur (Opposed to old Global Motion Blur) :



New demo :
https://mega.co.nz/#!qJ5Q0KBC!Oins6ERdyto0w9132Eb5DEgJmnWBueqCo9Qq5hl8DkA

Mode Dual Texture added, i win ~10FPS with it.

 

Is this using lightmapping or do you emulate the radiocity in real time ?

 

What the heck... is this?

An attempt to kill my pack, Cyrien5100? I bet that's what you're basing this on, you little mongrel!

And if you did base this on my fx, it won't work on mobile, i already tried.

 

nice work but your using a modified version of fuzzy quills indie effects and you modified his work and attempt to sell it to blow this young developer out of the water, shame on you.

and how do i know this? have a look at "Epic Radial Blur Effect for unity free" (image effects for unity free) you made replys asking for help and showcasing what you did and now you take his work and sell it and claim its all done by you? shame

 

Well said, FrostBite! well said!

 

Oh man... *sigh* I even friendly pointed you towards the camera motion blur in this thread http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/epic-radial-blur-effect-for-unity-indie.198568/page-6 and the next thing I see form you is how you want to put it into a package and sell it? I'm pretty disappointed Cyrien...

 

Um, 0tacun? you accidentally said "form"...

 

Moderators are watching!

It'll be nothing if you're using other people's code without permission.

 

Are you kidding me ? I wrote my own framework... from zero. I did this beca use i wanted to have better control, and better performances...
At the beginning, it was just a test, i wanted to implement SSAO. After, i rewrited a framework from scratch, and wanted to make something different. My goal with this package is to do something very optimizated, which will work on all computers.
And about the camera motion blur, it comes from the nvidia site, and usinga modified version which works with my depth texture ( your one works only with exponential depth). I'm also planning to do some more advanced effects, and i sell it to make a little money to buy assets for my game. So yes Indie Effects gave to me the idea to do a post process package but i didnt copy/paste your code, my actual framework is 100% from me. Ok, the normal depth texture is the same as what i sent in ssao package, but it's from me. Your package is awesome, but i wanted to make mine

However, new things are planned :
Object Motion Blur
Shadow mapping
Mobile support
And more

 

Show the source...Prove that its a original package.

 

Really? again, show the source... If it is actually yours, you're forgiven!

I am a "hedgehog," I forgive when there is a reason to. So just show us the source to prove you actually wrote it, and perhaps I may actually help this mature!

I also wouldn't mid taking a look at the motion blur... 0tacun's is still not working!

EDIT: Wait, how did you mod the motion blur shader to work with linear depth?

 

@FuzzyQuills I sent you the main framework in PM.

 

He did Eric, it is more complex than i thought...

He also said in his PM that it's going to be more than post-process... anyone up for better indie water?

EDIT: Cyrien, that is beautiful motion blur...

 

So, do you deserve public apology? or not?

 

@ZJP: Yes he does, I looked at it, and it's all from scratch. He has also told me that he plans to add more than just PP shaders... I am deciding to help him with this also!

EDIT: I might also PM Cyrien for a full list of what he might put in, that way, either he or I can post it here.

And i heard that Marrk abandoned FXLab...

 

I'm up for more indie water!

 

RIGHT! I am going to send my current one to Cyrien now!

 

Here you guys, mainly for Cyrien's benefit, but for all to see:


And Cyrien, maybe you should rename this whole pack to something like "AdvancedFX" or something, as it is now going to be more than PPFX...

 

Here, some theory I whipped up for image-based lighting. (it is essentially a drawing for all to see!)
Basically, a new lighting model may be the next thing on cyrien's list. He's already working on linear space lighting. He also said something about image-based lighting, so i produced this in literally 2 minutes! all I know: this will need a depth buffer to work right. it is also designed to simulate shadows too. the challenge is to make this real-time, and to have some sort of GI in there too.

 

A little preview of the coming linear physically based shader on a character.

 

Anymore work on this? Looking too good to stop.

 

Yes, but i'm doing a rework of the package :
- easier to use
- more like (but not) a rendering modification so not only post process
- clean a little the package from all the tests i done^^

 

Cool. Keep it up. The character screenshot above looks amazing.

 

Definitely gonna buy this!

 

Any ETA on this? My 10-20 bucks are here!
Proper light shaft, even parallel light shaft (for direct lighting) would be cool!
Please introduce star or shape based bloom, and make everything stackable!

 

Very cool, cant wait for it

 

@Cyrien5100: Mind if I have a shot at building a better water shader for everyone?

 

What do you think FuzzyQuills? Really man it would be great.

 

I'm currently a little busy with school, exams... So the developpement will be slowed but not stopped
But i have some interesting things (very WIP)
The last PBR shader (skin, hair and classic) :

 

With the water shader I have built atm, it doesn't use any sort of texture capture, just cubemap reflection and transparency. but in a fast moving environment, this:

Actually looks nice! Also decided to record this water, so I parked the car on the beach, and...
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2tqYgzg1_lWTUU2ZEpWQjg3X00&authuser=0 (Video Link)

^^As for what the car was doing at that time... let's just say he was a bad driver!

I also plan to add baked refraction & shore blend. (For shore blend, probably a baked approach! )

 

@Cyrien5100: I do wish you could use these shaders in a tropical environment!
Maybe baldinoboy can help put together such a scene for this pack for showcasing purposes.

 

looks nice, just add some specular, and a fresnel and you have some even much nicer looking water.

 

There is actually a Fresnel there already, it just isn't visible!

And plus, the 'refractive' part is only a quarter of one in transparency. for specular, I am yet to implement that.

 

Ok, people, atm my water is going well, but has a couple of "square normal" issues on mobile, where the map distortion seems to be using nearest-neighbour!

Either way though, going well. Am considering PMing Cyrien on this one...

 

no updates ?

 

Might PM him...