Glow 11 - for desktop and mobile

when i switched to pro, that was the first asset i wanted to purchase, the demo you provide just convince me. so beautifull
thanks for releasing such asset

 

It's incredibly beautiful, and the author is quite nice, very responsive! This is what I 've done with this plugin for my 2D game. The plants are glowing and lighting the environment with Glow 11. Thanks for making this awesome plugin!

 

paraself = beautifull!!!!! is it a game?

 

It's a game. Check the link in his signature.

 

Hey SRH. Great work on Glow 11. I'm currently using it in my next game. I have an issue in that it looks really insipid on iOS with the default blur. I have compared desktop, Android and iOS and the iOS version is definitely washed out. If I set the blur to be the Unity bur it really regains its colour but it looks no where near as good.

Any ideas?

 

Did you enable "Use 32 bit Display Buffer" in the player settings?

 

Yep. As far as I can see that is the default option is it not?

 

You're right. It wasn't enabled by default in earlier Unity versions, that seems to have changed recently.


Back to your issue. I was able to reproduce your issue but haven't found a fix yet.
I'll continue investigating whats going wrong there, my best guess at the moment is that it's some kind of precision/clamping issue in iOS. I hope I'll have a fix early next week.

Btw. do you have a scene were it is really obvious? While I an see a difference in the glow it's hard to compare it between iOS and my PC as the difference in screens is much more distinct then the difference in the glow (had to make screenshots on iOS and then take a look at them on the PC to compare the glow).

 

Looks like this is a more basic iOS issue, nothing todo with the Glow:

Just a simple unlit cube looks desatured when rendering on iOS without any glow or anything else in that scene


So it looks like there is nothing I can do to fix it

 

Question before i buy : do i have to change my object material to make it glow ? or modify any shader code ?

 

You've to change the material (change the shader). Modified version of most standard shaders are included (the missing ones are shaders that use blending other then alpha blending).

If you've custom shaders you'll have to copy&paste a few lines of code (see http://i-gamedev.com/glow11/manual.html#writingShaders).

 

Whilst there is a slight difference there is something else that's an issue here. I'll screen shot the default blur and the Unity blur and you'll see a huge diference in colour

 

I have attached a spliced screen shot. The left side is with the Unity blur, the right side is with the default blur. Both were captured on the same iOS device. It shows that the iOS device can do nicely saturated colours, but the blur looks nasty using Unity's method.

If you look at the ball colour it appears almost white on the right hand side. The green goal is almost white too, as is the blue blur.

 

Just seems to be an issue how you set up your material. Looks to me the sphere and green cube are a bit to bright, simply use a darker color for them.

You should be easily be able to get something like this:

 

That looks much more like I want but of rate life of me I can't get it I've tried darkening the colour and it stays super bright. As long as I know it's possible I'll carry on fiddling with the settings. If it's not too much trouble, could you put that scene up with that cube so I can check it's settings please?

Thanks for your help on this.

 

Here is a screenshot of the settings:


If that's not enough tell me your email and I'll send you the scene.

 

That's perfect. cheers for your help.

 

awessssssssssssssssm work

 

This is a fantastic plugin but I'm having a problem getting it to work with my 2d game that uses an orthographic camera. The glow always seems to be rendered using perspective.

 

The glow should copy the settings of the camera it's attached too.

There could be an issue if you've a script that modifies the projection matrix directly. I can send you an updated version that should fix that.

 

It might be something to do with me using the 2d Toolkit, it has it's own special camera script.

 

Ok, it looks like the 2d toolkit cam is modifying the projection matrix directly like you said!

I think I was wrong about it being in perspective, it could be orthographic but just not matching up. It looks much more zoomed out.

 

Please tell me you email (send me a private message) and I'll send you an update that will fix that.

 

I got it
didn't expect the impact on the performance but i like the effect.

 

With the update from SRH it works perfectly in my 2d game now!

Fantastic support.

In case anybody is interested in seeing it in action in a 2D game here is a web player.

Webplayer

 

I have some glowing tiles and spawn a 1 shot particle burst over the glowing tiles.

The tiles under the particles lose their glow whilst the particle is emitting briefly.

I saw in the Glow 11 reviews that this issue had been fixed. Was it an asset store fix or did you advise with changing some settings?

Thanks.

 

The update isn't on the Asset Store yet (but will be soon). I sent you a private message explaining where to get the update.

 

Lovely, thanks very much. Your support for your product is exemplary.

 

Hey, for some reason I can't get Glow 11 to work on mobile, the script just disables itself like the Unity Pro Image Effects?

 

Glow 11 has the same basic requirement as the Image Effects. You need a Unity (iOS/Android) Pro and on mobiles it requires OpenGL ES 2.0.

 

Well I feel stupid now, thanks for responding though!

 

Any non Pro users should check out Indie Glow. While the quality of the glow is not as good as with Glow 11 it's a good alternative if you don't have Unity Pro.

 

It seems that objects do not glow when the camera sees them through other objects with transparency? Is this intended?

 

that is a bug in the current version (tint color isn't taken into account). I'll send you an private message with an updated version (this update should be available in the asset store next week).

 

hi,
i boughted glow 11 before fue day. it's amazing . but glow color property is not animated in run time plz.... help me.how can i do it.


regards

play_edu

 

Most probably this is due to a bug in Unity (not all materialk settings are copied when a material is instanced.

As a workaround you can either try to modify sharedMaterial (if thats possible in your use case), or do the following (before you modify any of the material settings)

Code (csharp):

1. string[] shaderKeywords = renderer.sharedMaterial.shaderKeywords;
2. renderer.material.shaderKeywords = shaderKeywords;

According to UT this will be fixed in Unity 4.2

 

hi,

thanks for help.

 

Hi!

Thanks for this! Really great work!

I'm having a little trouble implementing it in my project however. The glow seems like it's not getting occluded by geometry in front of it. This occurs in any combination of unity built-in shaders, glow11 built in shaders or my own custom shaders.

It looks like this:

I'm most likely missing something fairly obvious, lol... In any case, if you could point me in the right direction to fixing this it'd be really awesome.

Cheers!

 

Please try to enable "Reuse Depth".
If this helps it's most probably caused by a shader that uses a non standartd RenderType. In this case you'll to modify /Glow11/_internal/Resources/Shaders/Glow11GlowObjects.shader and add (assuming teh shader is opaque):

Code (csharp):

1. Subshader {
2.     Tags { "RenderType"="YOURRENDERTYPE" }
3.     Pass {
4.         Lighting Off Fog { Mode off }
5.     }
6. }  

If this doesn't solve your issue please send a simple test scene to glow11@i-gamedev.com so I can take a closer look at it.

 

Just bought GLOW 11 and it rocks! however, I'm wondering if there is a way to glow "black", I realize glow is usually implemented as an additive color, but what about as a multiply? Anyway to go about this? I've been trying to get the effect for quite a while now thanks for any hints in advance

 

You could modify the shaders used for blending. They are in Glow/_internal/Resources/PostShaders/Glow11Compose.shader

 

Thanks for responding!

It turns out that closing all the open faces on the occluding geometry and then re-applying their material solved the problem, things are looking great now!

Cheers!

 

Due to some changes in Unity 4.2 the current version of Glow 11 generates a few warnings.

An hotfix to fix most of these is available here. There is still one left and I'm working to fix this too.

 

An update to the hotfix: Download

Had to do some internal changes and it's not properly tested yet (there are no more warning messages and everything seems to work fine). Any feedback would be appreciated.

 

I just updated to Unity 4.2. I was getting a ton of warnings. Then I found you had a hotfix. I have imported "glow11_1_0_7_unity4_2_hotfix_v2", but I still get a bunch of warnings like this:

 

You're right, there were still some warning when using the Unity Blur.

Made a new update that fixes this: download

 

Awesome, works great! Thanks!

 

Hey, I have tested the app on a Nexus 4, and S3 and an S4.

For some reason on the S3 the glow filter goes all blurry:



Any idea why this would deb the case?

 

Try to change the downsample blur mode, some devices don't support the Max blending (shouldn't be an issue as there is a fallback for devices that don't support it, but maybe something goes wrong there).

 

You were spot on. I tried setting it to screen and it works fine.

I have added a script to the camera that changes that on Android devices.

Thanks.