MicroSplat 3.9.29

- Fix to some syncing issues with MicroVerse

- Fix to issue that was leaking materials

- Fix for derivative issue in decal rendering

- Fix compile error in trax

MicroSplat 3.9.7

- Streams now tintable

- Fix to procedural texturing sample stripping on windows

- Fix to trax tessellation displacement when using only snow tracks

- Documentation buttons readded to every module

MicroSplat 3.9.6

- Emssive multiplier is now unbounded for HDRP, which needs much higher values

- Fix to Mesh Workflow's vertex mesh syncing

- Fix to wind slope filter to prevent denormalization issue with vector

- Fix warning about render textures in Trax

MicroSplat 3.9.1

- Trax world size limits now based on buffer size

- Reduced chance of spreading caused bug buffer blending

MicroSplat 3.9.0

- Massive refactoring of internal use of texture samplers. A total of 20 samplers were removed from the system, and I don't think it's possible to exceed the hardware sampler limit (16) anymore. Unfortunately this required bumping the major version, since it affects almost every module.

- (internal cleanup) Removed surface shader legacy cruft, mostly using modern declarations and sampling conventions now.

- Fixed a few places where textures were being wrapped instead of clamped, causing potential seems between terrains

- Texture Selection Displays now shows overriden layer name when layer is overridden in Texture Array Config

MicroSplat 3.8.14

- Added "TerrainCompatible" tag to shaders so Unity 2021 doesn't put warnings in the terrain editor

- When using the slope filter in terrain blending, the normal from the terrain is only taken into account on the blend area, not on the tops of objects which are just recieving terrain texturing

- Flip Mesh Workflow normals to match unity standard orientation

- Force array to have 1 texture in it if no textures are provided on conversion

- Trax now filters downward facing surfaces from the effect

- Cleanup to some trax code in HDRP

- HDRP GI emission flag added

- Fix to per texture rotation of UVs in tessellation stages

MicroSplat 3.8.3

- Simple Lit option for URP

- Ability to set minimum dieletric to 0 in BIRP

- Fix to weight limiting code when working with over 16 textures

- Better Cleanup for Trax

MicroSplat 3.8.0

PLEASE DELETE THE CURRENT VERSION OF MICROSPLAT BEFORE INSTALLING

- MicroSplat now delivered as a Package instead of as an asset. This means that it can be found in your Packages folder.

- Examples are no longer imported as part of the module. Instead, you can install them by selecting the module in the Package Manager and unpacking the sample you want to try.

- MicroSplat now uses assembly definition files. If your code uses assembly definitions, you will have to create appropriate references to MicroSplat. Note that all modules use assembly references to inject themselves into the main MicroSplat assembly definitions, so you do not have to account for module usage.

- Note that due to the new assembly definition files, some 3rd party assets will need to be updated to work with MicroSplat again. If you are using lots of third party integrations, you may want to wait to update until they have been updated as well.

- The minimum Unity version for new MicroSplat development is now 2019.4, previous versions are still available for 2017+.

- The Ultimate Bundle can now be downloaded as a single download instead of as separate modules!

Additional cleanup code for trax camera

MicroSplat 3.791

- Fix to fogcoord bug in standard pipeline

- Fix to compile error with object shader in HDRP

- Regenerate all shaders script would sometimes try to regenerate a built in shader, now checks for that.

- Trax no longer requires MicroSplat to be installed, so it can be used with the Better Lit shader or any shader created with Better Shaders, which now has a trax stackable.

MicroSplat 3.79

- Fix to tangent basis that could cause flipped normals in some cases

- Fix to encoding of textures 16-23 in Vertex based workflows (digger, vertex workflow)

- Trax manager no longer manually renders the camera. This makes it much faster in HDRP

MicroSplat 3.7

The entire system has been rewritten to run off the Better Shaders framework. This is a pretty massive change that fixes many slight differences and bugs between the various render pipelines, making it much easier to fix issues across all the pipelines at once.

Note that Unity's Package Manager is completely broken in most versions of Unity, will show that it has the latest version, but instead install older versions. To fix this, please delete the asset store cache before downloading any assets, otherwise you will most likely not get the latest version.

MicroSplat 3.6

**MANUAL UPDATE STEPS MAY BE REQUIRED**

If you are using terrain blending, dynamic streams/lava, Mesh Terrains, or per-pixel normal, you will need to update the terrain descriptor by clicking Update on the MicroSplatTerrain component next to the terrain descriptor.

- HDRP now supports tessellation

- HDRP now supports Vertex Mesh Workflows

- HDRP now supports Digger Integration

- Option to use Surface Gradient framework for normals instead of traditional normal blending

- The terrain descriptor is no more, all hail the terrain descriptor. The terrain descriptor is now a world space normal map, reducing its memory use in half from the previous format. It also now doubles as the per-pixel normal map, saving you more memory if you were using it as well. The height map is now read directly from the terrain, as it is available in both instanced and non-instanced modes.

- Per Pixel normal maps are now stored in the same format Unity uses, so that the code which samples them does not care if they come from Instancing or are manually generated. Unfortunately there is an issue in Unity in that grabbing the instanced normal map and trying to use it doesn't work until the second frame, if this becomes possible to fix, a terrain descriptor won't be necessary when instancing is enabled.

- Terrain Blending can now work over Mesh Workflow meshes which use the Combined or Splat modes

- Mesh Terrains now create a per-pixel normal map texture automatically when Draw Instanced is enabled on the terrain, to better match the original terrain.

- Mesh Terrains also serialize out a special height map texture when dynamic lava or streams is used on them.

- Vertex Painted meshes can use tessellation in URP and HDRP

- Biome and Tint masks are no longer autogenerated by the Terrain Painting system when they are not found on the component. This would create issues when a user assigned a tint map to the material (but not the component) and the terrain painting system would suddenly create a new tint map for them and assign it as an override. Now you have to press a button to create one.

- Custom texture importer for HDR texture types, can be used to serialize in/out native textures without going through Unity's broken EXR pipeline (which gamma corrects linear textures)

- Mesh Terrains now set proper shader types when using the generate separate shader option

- URP/HDRP properly detected again when converting terrains

- Fix to SRP batcher compatibility

- Fix to normals in HDRP when using triplanar texturing

- Fix to stereo VR rendering in URP when tessellation is enabled

- Fix to polaris module to make multi-terrain workflow better.

- Many small fixes, optimizations, and code cleanups

MicroSplat 3.51

- Clear trax buffers at initialization

- Fix to triplanar NAN issue

- Fix to very large objects getting tinted in URP

- Fix naming of scatter documentation

- You can now multiple edit the template material on terrain components

- Fix to viewDir getting messed up with Parallax on

- Fix to black area around painted area when using procedural texture and splat maps in Linear blending modes

MicroSplat 3.5

- Decal module support

- LUTs generated by per texture property data and procedural texturing are now exposed as sub assets of the scriptable objects. This paves the way for non-component backed MicroSplat shaders, such as simple object shaders.

- Fix to Biome Mask 2 in Procedural Texturing module not combining with the first biome mask as expected

- Fix to snow not rendering correctly on mesh terrains

- Wrap mode option for global texturing

- Optimizations to procedural texturing

- Refactor of compiler to better support additional shader outputs

- Warn when texture count > max texture count

MicroSplat 3.48

- Automatic system to compress splat maps and other masks used by MicroSplat

- Tessellation is now turned off on edges of holes, allowing tessellated surfaces to seem up with non-tessellated digger meshes

- Fix to Triplanar projection on Terrain Blended surfaces in HDRP

- Triplanar scale set on conversion, so that UV scales match original non-triplanar scales

- Max texture count no longer set to the minimum value on conversion. Too many support requests from new users who didn’t understand to raise the max texture count when adding textures

- You can now manually assign the terrain when terrain blending. This is useful when the terrain cannot be found via ray casts.

- Trax snow offset now allows you to prevent trax from leaving snow trails in light snow areas

- Render Loop property is always shown, even when no render loops are installed.

- Changes for the new decal module

MicroSplat 3.42

- Support for new scatter module

- New spreadsheet style editor for curve data in procedural texture module

- Null ref fix for substance textures

- Quadratic sampling option for trax buffer

- Draw Instance disabled on default conversion

MicroSplat 3.401

- Fixed issue with trax where when the world size was too large, the buffer would initialize with part of the data already depressed.

MicroSplat - Trax