Note that the system is lower priced when Sky Master ULTIMATE is bought first and then upgrade to Ethereal asset, plus this way the whole Sky Master ULTIMATE Suit can be accessed, and includes multiple volumetric effects like clouds and a complete weather and ocean system for all pipelines. Make sure to first install Sky Master ULTIMATE and then Ethereal to get all the cool bonus demos and Foliage shader included in the asset. HDRP and URP versions of Sky Master ULTIMATE are available on PM request.

UNITY 2022 VERSION NOTE: The system has been submitted using Unity 2022.3.10f1 for Unity 2022.3 LTS support, if using Unity 2022 versions prior to the 2022.3.10 and get an error with the fog shader, please install the patch in the "ARTnGAME -> VolumeFogSRP -> PATCHES -> UNITY 2022.3 LTS PATCHES" folder with name: "ETHEREAL v1.6a Fix for Unity 2023.3 and Warning on Full Screen Mesh Draw - Forward Plus Support".

For support of Unity 6 URP RenderGraph please upgrade to the latest Ethereal 2024 asset.

Notes and Known Issues: 1. If the Camera has both rotation and X,Y,Z coordinates at zero, the screen may go black, to fix add a tiny displacement in Z axis of camera (0.0001 will do). A fix will come in next versions after identify the issue (Fixed in v1.1.8c).

Ethereal v1.5 Manual

Versions:

Ethereal v1.7.7b

- Added dust storm demo showcasing the combination of Ethereal 2021 fog and impostor lights with Ethereal 2024 local light volumes and texture based fog wind noise.

Ethereal v1.7.7a

- Updated the Welcome screen with information on the various new assets.

- Added extra demo scenes combining Ethereal 2021 fog with Ethereal 2024 very fast local light volumes.

Ethereal v1.7.7

- Added new demo showcasing the combination of Ethereal 2021 fog and impostor lights with Ethereal 2024 local light volumes and texture based fog wind noise (Video)

Ethereal v1.7.6

- Resolved a warning about Zmask texture not having been set when the game starts.

- Resolved an issue with profiler warning in Mac OS

- Resolved an issue where not having the required MainCamera tagged camera in the scene produced an error message.

Ethereal v1.7.5

- Added new demos from Unity 6 version to Unity 2022.3 version, showcasing various use options for the rolling fog and local light volumes fog systems.

Ethereal v1.7.4

- Fixed memory leak that happens when both Game and Scene view are active and the Default renderer in the pipeline is same as the one in Game view camera and that renderer uses Ethereal renderer feature. This issue happened only in Unity 2022.3 and not in 2021.3.

Ethereal v1.7.3

- Added new demo showcasing maximum performance setup for stained glass local light volumetrics.

- Updated the Welcome screen with information on the various new assets.

Ethereal v1.7.2

- Ethereal 2024 Beta with Unity 6 and RenderGraph support and a new Forward+ based local lights volumetrics system, with the ability to handle hundreds of fully shadowed local lights is now available on request. Video of Ethereal 2024 used with LUMINA GI and Sky Master ULTIMATE clouds.

- Added new impostor light volumes demos in Unity 2021.3 version.

- Updated the Welcome screen with information on the various new assets.

Ethereal v1.7.1

- Added new stained glass volumetrics with haze demo in Unity 2021.3 version.

Ethereal v1.7.0b

- Addressesd an issue where the last forward renderer was missing in the sample Ethereal ready pipeline, in the Unity 2022.3 version.

Ethereal v1.7.0a

- Added ARTnGAME Welcome screen with information on all assets, including links to tutorial videos and support channels.

Ethereal v1.7.0 (Major Update) - (Requires download from Unity 2022.3.18f1 or 2021.3.34f1 and up)

- Added new custom inspector with the most important fog control options for easier tweaking of the effect. IMPORTANT: The new custom inspector applies limits to some of the variables, so might change the settings in a scene made before the editor was introduced. The new editor is deactivated by default, so if when enabled the fog changes, could be a variable off the new limits.

- Added fix for the Humidity based muti scatter fog, where it would flicker when previewed in Unity editor while not in play mode. IMPORTANT: The fix also enables the proper handling of the "Fade Ramp" and "Blur Tint" parameters, if the local lights appear saturated after the update, change the texture in the "Fade Ramp" to another for best result.

- Added new demos showcasing the various features and the use of impostor loghts as LODs for local lights at distance.

Ethereal v1.6.7

- Added new noise handling for better stability of fog noise on camera motion.

- Added new demo scenes showcasing the new noise

Ethereal v1.6.6

- Added fixes and enhancements in the embedded Temporal AA system

- Added new demos shocasing the temporal AA use with large downscle factor

- Added new humidity based fog demo with impostor lights and sun shafts

Ethereal v1.6.5

- Added support for Forward+ for Unity 2022.3.10 LTS and above and patch included in the 2021.3 version, in case that need to upgrade the project to Unity 2022 later.

- Added new demo scenes combining the humidity haze mode with the new improved impostor lights system.

Ethereal v1.6.0

- Added support for Unity 2022.2 new Full Screen Quad render method.

- Added patch for the above support in 2021.3 version, in case that need to be upgraded to 2022.3 later.

- Added the new Ethereal v1.5 Manual in the Install Instructions folder

Ethereal v1.5.0

- Added new shader version that has multiple new features

- New noise anchored to the scene so wont move as the player moves, ideal for finer noise where the motion effect may be more visible.

- New Impostors system with more accurate impostor rendering. Up to 128 lights support from the previous shader that supports 32 impostor lights.

- New Fog Only mode directly integrated and controlled with checkbox in connect Fog script

- New Infinite Local Lights mode directly integrated and controlled with checkbox in connect Fog script, the default mode is up to 6 local lights

- Added option to use float numbers in Downsample, so can fine tune the noise versus performance gain ratio with many more options.

- Added option to define the maximum Impostor lights count that will be sent to the shader, this variable can be set up to 128 lights when using the new v1.5.0 shader. The default is 32 lights, which is what the pre v1.5.0 version shader supports.

- Added multiple new demos, showcasing the above new modes and example of reducing environment fog to near zero, while keep the local light volumes.

Ethereal v1.4.7

- Added new demo showcasing the use of colored cookies v1.4.6b

- Added native Unity 2022.3 LTS version of Ethereal for direct use in Unity 2022.3 LTS projects without need to install the Unity 2022.3 related patches.

Complete changes Log

Ethereal URP 2021 - Volumetric Lighting & Fog