[FREE] Amplify Color - Advanced Color Grading

Ace Ferrara And The Dino Menace - Forum Thread

Nice! loving the style and use of Amplify Color.

 

@Amplify,

Very nice plugin.

I went through the written tutorials and got a bit lost at the color volumes.

It would be totally awesome if the following topics in a demo project and video tutorial.

1. Volume creation and placement best practice ?
2. how to do the blending ?
3. how to setup trigger to change colors going from one volume to another ?
4. Providing demo templates for various color grading look and feel that is used for games.

Cheers.

 

@rocki

1. Volume creation and placement best practice ?

Depends on the type of project but Color Volumes are very flexible, the best way is to try it out. They can be moved, rotated, animated and even created in runtime. You can place them freely even if they intersect, although we would advise you to add them to their own specific layer.

2. how to do the blending ?

With Volumes? Simple add a Lut to the Volume and set its blending time, don't forget to turn on “Use Volumes” in your Camera Amplify Color Script. In the near future we will also add distance based blending.

3. how to setup trigger to change colors going from one volume to another ?

Not sure what you mean here, the Volumes already do that, please elaborate or get in touch with support@amplify.pt

4. Providing demo templates for various color grading look and feel that is used for games.

Definitely something we will be doing, more examples and color profiles soon, stay tuned @amplifycreates.

 

Hey Amplify, just wanted to say that Amplify Color is sick! Especially the latest color volumes, so easy to use and provide an awesome effect

 

Awesome, glad you liked it. Be sure to send us some info on your projects, we can help promote them.

 

I mentioned Ace Ferrara And The Dino Menace and after reading more about it I found out it’s a one man project. Awesome work by Philipp Seifried, I would really encourage you all to visit the Development Blog and Game Page.

 

Wow, that's an awesome achievement, I would never have guessed a one-man effort!

 

Awesome project, can't wait to play it!

Our doors are open if you have a project you would like us to promote

 

hey Ricardo,

I forgot to thank you for the update.
Just bought Amplify Color, runs super smoothly with volumes on iPhone, amazing job !

ben

 

Thank you for supporting our products

Stay tuned @amplifycreates, we have new Volume related features coming in the next update.

 

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We took the liberty to build a quick sample on how to generate dynamic masks when using Amplify Color.

Download the Amplify Color Mask Sample project here or visit the manual page.

You'll note, once you load the project, that it works by using a second camera to render objects on a "Color Mask" layer using a very simple unlit color shader, e.g. white on black background (or vice versa), into a "Color Mask" Render Texture. This texture is assigned to the Mask property of Amplify Color, in order for the effect to work.

 

Wow, Super Awesome.

You took the liberty and gave us Freedom.

 

What is the purpose of a dynamic mask? Can you give some example scenarios?

 

@rocki

Nice! Enjoy

@fanjules

It really depends on your project but it opens up a lot of possibilities. It allows you to achieve more stylized looks such as the movie Sin City or 300 for example, although this is an extreme case it should give you an idea of what can be achieved through its flexibility.

You could also use it for more practical effects, depending on the project, selective screen based effects such as damage fx or similar and even more complex effects where you could combine masks in order to apply the effect to specific areas of your scene.

 

Ah thanks, I understand now.

 

This is Awesome !!!

 

I downloaded the trial from your website and whenever I try and send the file to photoshop or simply save the reference, it crashes Unity. Is there a workaround?
- R

 

The crash is definitely not supposed to happen. Do you mind providing some info? Specifically:

- What version of Unity and Photoshop are you testing?
- Are you testing on Windows or OSX?

 

It also happens when I save the file as apposed to sending it to photoshop.
Photoshop version: CS6
Windows: 7 (Home Premium)

 

Is there any chance you can provide the Editor.log file? It should be located at "C:\Users\%USER%\AppData\Local\Unity\Editor".

If you can, please forward it to us at support@amplify.pt. It would be highly appreciated.

This could help us sort out the problem. Hopefully it'll be an easy fix.

 

My Editor.Log isn't there, or in any of my Unity folders but I copied over what windows said when it crashed. I have emailed. Sorry about this, seems like a weird error.
- R

 

Alloy 2.0 is now available, we highly recommend that you try it out. A new demo powered by Alloy 2 is also available, click the image bellow and forge your own Blade.

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A quick reminder, Amplify Texture 2 will natively support Alloy 2.0 and other select 3rd party frameworks.

 

If you guys weren't out of my price range as an indie hobbiest I would buy all of your offerings lol. <3 amplify color!!

 

Thanks Lee

Stay tuned @amplifycreates, in the future we might have something right for you and many other indie developers.

 

Awesome.

 

Amplify Color is not just for 3d games, flexible and robust it covers all your 2d game requirements. Check out this awesome project by Free Lives, an independent game design studio based in Cape Town, South Africa .

You play as 80′s and 90′s action heroes waging war against terror in almost entirely destructible nostalgic settings. Incredibly fun to play , amazing visuals, sound and VFX.

Broforce

Amplify Color - Unity Asset Store

Fully functional watermarked trial version - Download

 

Guys this is just fantastic!
I just wanted to know if it is or it will be Oculus supported

 

Glad you like it

Yes, it’s compatible, just be sure that the Amplify Color Effect is applied before OVRCamera component:



We recently added a dynamic mask example (VR/Normal) to our Manual, check it out in our Website.

 

We might pick this up for our next production.

Quick question, though. Would you be able to switch between different luts in a game with a static overview camera (think static RTS)?

From your latest video, I'm guessing you could just have an offscreen proxy object, and move that between 6-8 different Color Volumes via script?


EDIT: Im also curious to hear from peoples mobile experiences with this?

 

Hi, thank you for considering Amplify Color. It should work quite well, you can easily change luts at runtime using the volume/proxy combination or directly via script with the “BlendTo” function.

We recently introduced a Mobile specific quality mode that allows you to achieve even higher levels of performance but it’s best that you try it out and see if it’s right for your project.

Fully functional watermarked trial version - Download

 

Thank you all for the great support, we are overwhelmed with the amount of users and feedback we have received since we first released in 2011.

Amplify Color's development arose from the need to connect directly to existing pipelines, be it Photoshop, Nuke, After Effects, the Free version of DaVinci Resolve and so on, with the ultimate purpose of running flawlessly and without compromising quality, on Desktop, Mobile Consoles.

It allows users to quickly use any software required with the File Mode, it also connects directly to Photoshop (+80% of games are graded in Photoshop), it delivers both in working color grading proficiency and pipeline flexibility. There is no need to learn how to use new tools, users can use what they already know for maximum productivity. In short, Amplify Color grading allows you to grade the way you want, adapting to your workflow and not the other way around.

Quality - Performance - Multiplatform Portability - Mobile/Console Ready Optimized​

Join thousands of other developers that made the change. We offer fully functional Trial Versions of all our products and our support team is ready to guide you through any subject you might want to discuss.

Click here and try it today!​

Not long ago we released our Volume update but we have some new exciting updates/functionalities coming in the next weeks. Stay tuned, it will be worth the wait. @amplifycreates

 

Awesome tactical RPG amplified by our color grading solution.

Check it out, we strongly recommend it.

Blackguards - Steam Page

 

Awe-inspiring project, amplified by our color grading solution.

StarForge- Steam Page

Amplify Color works with any color grader, use the professional tools you already know and love.​

 

Hi there!
Let me start out by saying that we absolutely LOVE amplify color, however we are having some problems :/.

Currently when we try to build with amplify, for some reason in builds it doesn't work at all.

Here's some info:

Platform: Windows 32bit
OS: Windows 7 x64

Camera has the following post processing effects on:
SSAOEffect, Bloom and Lens flares, Amplify Color, Depth of field scatter, Antialiasing as post effect.

We are using Volumes as well.
And we have also already tried disabling Depth of field and Antialiasing, also we tried using the "fastest" setting, to see if Anti aliasing in unity was causing problems with Amplify, which did not help.

The quality settings can be seen in this picture: http://imgur.com/oDSPqS6

I wish to point out that we are using a fully legit and updated version of Unity PRO. So that should not be the problem .

Thanks!

 

Hi Justei,

Thanks for taking the time to report the issue.

Is AC not working on the editor too, or just the builds?
Is Amplify Color the only post-effect not working as expected?
Does the problem remain once you disable the volumes? Does using a basic LUT, without blending or Volumes work?

If you could send us the log file generated by the player after you run the build, it could help us track down the issue. Please send us the file, if you can, to support@amplify.pt

 

Legend of Aethereus, High Action RPG amplified by our color grading solution.

Check it out, we strongly recommend it.

Legend of Aethereus- Steam Page

 

Take a break, have some fun with BroForce directly in your browser.

(click to play)
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Amplify Color provides full color grading capabilities even for 2d games, fully dynamic render to texture masks supported.

BroForce, available on Steam - http://store.steampowered.com/app/274190/

 

I just tried the Trial version, and it looks great in the Editor, but on an iPad, the camera rendering is black, and xcode log is spammed with this:
OpenGLES error 0x0502 in .....Classes/Unity/GlesHelper.mm:316

I found some threads on this, and tried checking "32-bit display buffer," but that kills frame rate. So what can I do?

 

Hi Dave,

What iPad hw version, as well as Unity version, are you testing on?
Do you have anti-aliasing enabled?

 

iPad 2, with iOS 7. Unity 4.3.3 (Mac Mavericks). Anti-aliasing is off.

 

FWIW, the same thing happens with the trial version of Amplify Motion.

I do have two main cameras (for near and far views) (plus GUI camera)--I've put the amplify effect on just the near camera. Would that be a problem?

 

We are happy to announce a new version of Amplify Color. In this new update we expanded our volume based functionalities and we now support volume based 3rd party effects and custom events. We also improved overall performance, added the ability to blend Base Lut’s with Volume Lut’s and added specific optimizations for overlapping volumes. Amplify Color is now open to everyone, the standard version includes all the required source files in order to develop new functionalities or to expand existing ones.

Stay tuned we included a special preview near the end of this video.

Update Overview​

Visit our product page for more information, fully functional trials available: Amplify Product Page

Amplify Color is available in the Unity Asset Store: Asset Store Page

Features:

• Industry level color grading
• Semi-automated Photoshop workflow
• File-based workflow for any other Image Editor
• Dynamic blending between profiles
• Texture-based per-pixel masking
• All Color Alterations Supported
• Oculus/VR friendly
• Color Volumes
• Performance/Mobile Mode
• NEW! More Source Code
• NEW! Third-party Effects Volume Blending
• NEW! Better Volume detection accuracy
• NEW! Base and Volume LUT mixing
• NEW! Unity 5 support

**We also updated our customer showcase, check it out!

Special thanks to Thomas Hourdel, maker of Colorful - Image Effects. We definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a flexible and high-quality image effect package, check it out in the Unity Asset Store.

 

Can you advise us at all on the error I described above? (on iPad 2, iOS 7, no anti-aliasing)

OpenGLES error 0x0502 in .....Classes/Unity/GlesHelper.mm:316

 

Hello. Why on mobile phone anti-aliasing with "amplify color" not work? Without "amplify color" anti-aliasing work.

 

Our apologies for the delay, there seems to be a problem with the forum notifications after the latest update.

The developer responsible for technical support will post here as soon as possible. For direct support, contact support@amplify.pt.

 

To clarify: We get this error only when using a special 2-camera setup. I have tested a simple, standard setup and it works fine on iPad.

 

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Hello ruslite


What I mean is that you would have gotten a reply sooner but unfortunately due to an issue with the forum watched thread notifications we only saw your post yesterday.


We are currently looking into the issues described, the developer responsible for technical support will post here as soon as possible.

 

My question was "Why on mobile phone anti-aliasing with" amplify color "not work? Without" amplify color "anti-aliasing work". You do not answer me.

 

Hi ruslite,

Yes. Amplify Color works with MSAA on mobile, like any other effect. There have been some reported issues with performance when combining image effects that may require a workaround. Not sure if the issue has been fixed yet.

Regardless, I'll have a look at it this weekend to make sure everything is up to par.

Cheers