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Nystul
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Re: Investigations on Realtime Reflections in Unity

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sure!
sry for causing those issues - wasn't aware of them.

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Re: Investigations on Realtime Reflections in Unity

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Cheers, and no problems at all. :)

Will try this and update builds for testers so they can check out your changes, which look amazing btw.

Edit: Yep, that fixed it. New builds up soon with this feature available.

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Re: Investigations on Realtime Reflections in Unity

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perfekt thanks!

edit: I investigated a bit further and found out that it is pretty easy to make it dx9 compliant - the fix basically fulfills the requirement from the error message you encountered - it just uses 4-component output values for the fragment functions - is pretty easy to change the code to fulfill those requirements.

I will issue another pull request upon your changes soon (hopefully this is ok) - I think it will be worth it, having deferred reflections also in the dx9 path

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Re: Investigations on Realtime Reflections in Unity

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Cool, thanks! :) I've already created tonight's builds. Will post these now and merge/test changes tomorrow when I can.

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Re: Investigations on Realtime Reflections in Unity

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cool! no problem, we are in no hurry ;)

edit: tested the newest live build - indoor reflections work but there seems to be a problem with the updated MetallicGlossMap texture files from the ReflectionMod/Resources folders. Seems like they are not included in the build.
What was the solution for the shaders last time - maybe this could be applied to the textures as well. Or maybe just the meta files of the textures need to be deleted and freshly created by unity)

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Re: Investigations on Realtime Reflections in Unity

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Thanks for letting me know. Anything in a Resources folder should be rolled into build. I'll see what's going wrong.

Could you provide me with a quick screen of it working normally (or send me a save at a good spot)? That way I have something to directly check after fix.

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Re: Investigations on Realtime Reflections in Unity

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sure, will pm you the link to the save file (including the screenshot how it should look)

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Re: Investigations on Realtime Reflections in Unity

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Thanks for sending through. :)

OK, so issue seems to be that Standard shader variant with keyword _METALLICGLOSSMAP is being stripped from build. This isn't that unusual, as Unity will strip anything it doesn't think is used by a scene at runtime, or isn't present in the Resources folder. Because these materials are created at runtime, Unity doesn't know to include them.

Normally I can fix this easily by just adding a dummy material to Resources, or by adding required shader to variant collection. But I'm having a fun time with this one. Even shotgunning all Standard material keywords to a dummy material and adding every variant to the collection still doesn't yield a working metallic glossmap material at runtime in builds. :evil:

Would I be able to volley back to you for a bit? If you're able to create a working copy of that metallic glossmap material in a test scene (e.g. on a sphere or cube), rather than just at runtime, that should force correct variant to be included in build. It might even help identify what's missing and create a specific dummy material.

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Re: Investigations on Realtime Reflections in Unity

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Sure! Will spend the time on it. After reading the documentation about #pragma multi_compile vs shader_feature I am confident this is the culprit. Will have to test it with multi_compile instead of shader_feature. This is the main difference between the old and the new reflections mod shaders. The old worked so I hope this is it.
Thanks for pointing out that it has to do with the shader keyword. This pointed me into the right direction hopefully.

edit: pull request is issued - shader pragma multi_compile replaces shader pragma shader_feature - hopefully will solve the MetallicGlossMap issue

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Re: Investigations on Realtime Reflections in Unity

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Boom! Fixed!

All I needed was the usual dummy material to force it into build, and now it works perfectly. Great work! :)

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