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[Released] Rove3D: Interactive Pathtraced Global Illumination

Discussion in 'Assets and Asset Store' started by rove3d, Dec 24, 2016.

  1. Curious

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    How can we run Rove3D on Android?
     
  2. rove3d

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    @Curious - I've done some experiments and it's difficult to say when it would be ready for release for Android. My current priorities are definitely to get the current version as stable as possible on the very wide array of GPUs people are using.
     
  3. Curious

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    Cool, I'm certainly one of those people and can't wait for what's coming.

    But still, +1 for mobile (Android, iOS) and WebGL if possible ;)
     
  4. Curious

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    How do you know when a render is completed?
     
  5. rove3d

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    @Curious You can set the samples per frame to render a specific number of samples, or just wait for the image to clear up.
     
  6. Elecman

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    You can't. There is no definition for "completed" for path tracing. If the noise becomes imperceptible, you can call it finished, Some scenes require more samples than others for the noise to clear up.
     
  7. SAOTA

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    I seem to have found the perfect way to break ROVE. Importing massive worlds at run-time and assigning rove objects. : )

    [Edit]

    Not break, cause memory issues. Currently on 4GB 970 will try at work with 8GB Card.
     
  8. rove3d

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    @SAOTA - If you're using very large scenes, you'll have to use 'Memory' from the 'Optimization Level' dropdown in the settings.

    Also noticing there is an issue with 5.6, I recommend staying on 5.5.x until the next update.
     
  9. SAOTA

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    I've tried this. It works sometimes, so perhaps it is 5.6.


    This is the scene I'm trying to render.

    No rove -
    screen_1920x1080_2017-04-08_19-47-45.png



    Rove -

    frame_1.png
     
  10. rove3d

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    @SAOTA - just curious, what is the poly count in that scene and what are the results on your 8GB GPU?

    Also, if the trees are using Unity's internal tree engine, and are not just regular meshes, they won't appear as we haven't built in the tree or terrain engine stuff yet.
     
  11. Lex4art

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    Btw, here is the list of typical problems of using path-tracing in real time games:
    - No DXT/BC texture compression (everything is like *.BMP). So, if your game uses 4GB of typical video memory budged you need ~6x more VRAM (around 24GB!) for same scene with path tracing.
    - No texture streaming (because there is no MIPs). No streaming for meshes LODs.
    - Path tracing drops fps in linear dependency to amount of pixels, e.g. 1280x720 will render with 60fps -> at 2560x1440 it will give 15fps -> at 4K it will be 7.5fps
    - Path tracing have serious performance drops rendering trees (tons of alpha-tested polygons? or just more samples to trace because of high amount of additional surface area, created by thousands of near parallel planes?).

    How serious this list of problems affecting Rove3D?
     
  12. rove3d

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    @Lex4art - Yes, the items you pointed out are all problems inherent with pathtracing currently, so Rove3D suffers from them as well. Current hardware is not designed for pathtracing, and so there are areas like you mentioned that are not ideally setup for pathtracing.

    Rove3D currently is best for interactive applications like ArchVis that don't require immediately noise-free results, and for rendering things like promotional stills and animations without having to jump out of Unity. We'll continue to improve performance as much as possible, but pathtracing in marketed, production games could realistically be 5+ years off.
     
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  13. Lex4art

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    Thanks for clear and honest answer!
    Hope to see some movements from Nvidia/AMD about hardware solving these limitations... or new PCI-E hardware, dedicated to path tracing needs. Per-pixel GI + perfect antialiasing is worth it ).

    P.S. https://www.blendernation.com/2017/04/08/real-time-cycles/ - maybe it's possible to merge rasterization & path tracing (but it will be compromise/limited ... maybe good enough for games, though).
     
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  14. Curious

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    Does Rove support multi-material meshes?

    What is suggested for making a script that converts Unity materials (eg. PBR) to Rove material system at runtime?

    It would be nice for ArchVis walk-through in realtime and then rendering a still image with Rove for example.
     
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    @Curious - Oops sorry I missed this, yes Rove does support multi-material meshes (sub-meshes can each have a separate material).

    Rove's new material system in the experimental version matches Unity's PBR material nearly identically, and the Rove materials are actual assets just like Unity materials, so it shouldn't be too difficult to write a script to copy the settings between the two.

    P.S. - pushed new version 0.1.3 last night with fixes for Unity 5.6, which is now the required version of Unity to run with Rove.
     
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  17. Curious

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    No problem man.
    Can't wait to try the new version already :D
     
  18. Curious

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    Have you thought about supporting IES light profiles? Would be really cool for (currently) non-interactive renders
     
  19. rove3d

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    @Curious - I have thought about it and probably will implement it in a future version, but the focus right now is VR (which is proving to be very challenging) and a noise reduction filter.
     
  20. Curious

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    Noise reduction filter would be great!

    I think I found some kind of bug! It seems that Rove3D does not (currently) support different texture wrap modes. It seems that it currently is set to clamp mode. I couldn't find tiling or repeat mode.
     
  21. UnityLighting

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    Some tests with 0.006. All models are very low poly and is made for mobiles
    Frame0.jpg Frame1.jpg Frame2.jpg Frame3.jpg photo_2017-04-23_01-07-22.jpg

    Video captured from my work in 30 min is uploading:
     
  22. WalterEspinar

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    Unity5.6f03 crash(Closes) with V01.13 package on my pc and with v0.006 after some minutes unity
    it freezes, may be due to an incompatibility with my ATIRadeon R9290x?
     
  23. UnityLighting

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    Some new features needs for V 0.013:
    More material options
    Tiling for materials

    Also you can activate Run In Background from player settings for example project

    Noise over time gif comparison:
    1.30 means clock 01:30 ...

    www.GIFCreator.me_UZKm1r.gif
    photo_2017-05-05_03-34-29.jpg
    Progressive Lightmapper (6-14 hour bake time ETA)
     
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  24. rove3d

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    @COAForce - Thanks, I will look into this. It should work with that card, I have a test machine with a mobile 290x that works, so that is odd.

    @aliyeredon2 - Thanks for the feedback! With materials about 50% of people ask for more options and the other 50% want it to be exactly like Unity's PBR materials, so it's hard to decide which is best. My goal was to make a very easy to use pathtracer because many times production renderers can be very complicated for the beginner, and I wanted to allow game developers to use this without prior production rendering experience.
     
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  25. UnityLighting

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    Yes i also want unity standard shader like settings.
    You can add only Roughness using texture alpha (standard shader used this one) channel and Heightmap or AO options.
    Also you missed UV Tile option. it's very important

    Another suggest is that saving automatically Camera and Environment settings during playmode similar to materials settings that's saved automatically during play-mode.
     
  26. TooManySugar

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    What would be a blast, would be that it was able to bake results into lightmaps. Photorealistic scene baking in minutes. Would make even the progressive light mapper look like a cheap toy.
     
  27. Abuthar

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    Upon downloading v013 and opening it with Unity 5.6.0f3 I get a failed to load library error. I then open the example scene and hit play and get a black screen with "Rove: Failed to get library", "Error code: 0", and "Rove: Failed to load plugin. When I stop the scene I get this error:

    NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
    RoveSetup.OnDestroy () (at Assets/Rove/API/RoveSetup.cs:194)

    Am I missing something??
     
  28. UnityLighting

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    Try example project with best setup
     
  29. rove3d

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    @TooManySugar - that is a very likely feature for the future.

    @Abuthar - hmm, haven't seen that before. Any reason why the dlls in the plugin folder aren't able to be read?
     
  30. Abuthar

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    Honestly I'm not sure. I just downloaded the lastest version and opened with Unity 5.6 right after. I even installed unity and reinstalled it, no fix.
     
  31. photonic

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    Hi there, is it possible to use a skinned mesh also? We didn`t manage to do so.
    Cheers!
     
  32. rove3d

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    @photonic - I should be able to add support for that relatively quickly, you can expect it in the next update. However, we don't currently support skeletal animation.
     
  33. photonic

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    Awesome! Can't wait! The possibility to render great marketing or demo shots with the correctly textured and posed assets in Unity directly would speed up things greatly. Keep up the good work!
     
  34. Curious

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    Can we expect texture tiling as well?
     
  35. atomicjoe

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    Rove3D is great. I can't wait for path-tracing to be playable in games. This is the future for sure.

    Now for the bugs: scaling objects in a single axis doesn't work as expected. Try your test scene and scale a single sphere in the X axis up to 100 or more: the sphere doesn't get more than approx. 2 times the scale and the render speed drops. It seems to have some relation with culling in your renderer, maybe.

    Feature request:
    Wouldn't it be a good idea to render the new image over the last position rendered image instead of starting from a black image? This would make rendering much smoother when moving the camera.
    I know path tracing works by acumulation and thus needs to start from a black image, but you could render it internally over black with zero alpha and then alpha mix it with the image of the last position (the last image before Rove3D cleaned the render buffer) for the screen buffer. (assuming only non rendered black areas are zero alpha and rendered pixels have an alpha=1 )
     
  36. UnityLighting

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    Developer left its development few month ago (as he said in website)
     
  37. atomicjoe

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    Oh! I'm late to the party it seems... thanks.
     
  38. brisingre

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    That's a shame, it showed a lot of promise.
     
  39. UnityLighting

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  40. atomicjoe

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    Anyway, we will have to wait for the makers of Octane Render to release their path tracer for unity, since they seem to be already on board. ;)

    https://unity.otoy.com/roadmap/
    bottom of the page
     
  41. janjanusz

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    Hello, your webpage is dead. What's going on? Is the project alive?
     
  42. wetcircuit

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    No, this project is very dead after charging $200 for a "beta" he determined that current-day hardware is not viable for pathtracing to be used in games (as per his announcement on Reddit 9 months ago).... Oh and it's also Unity's fault too. :rolleyes:

    He hasn't posted in this thread in a year.
     
  43. veteran_gamer

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    hi ,,,..umm.. any update ?

    lol octane is kinda broken I would like to use this plugin
     
  44. yokenstein

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    I'm hoping if anyone has files available for this project?