The Visual Engine | Conversion Presets

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○ The Visual Engine

The Visual Engine is a set of highly customizable vegetation and props shaders and powerful tools designed to unify any asset from the Unity Asset Store, Megascans, Speedtree, Tree Creator, and more, or custom models made by your team.

Enable high-quality wind motion, interaction, local wind, seasons, wetness, subsurface scattering, gradient and noise tint, perspective correction, camera distance fade, glancing angle fade, crossfade, size fade, top projection, and detail blending, and more, for all vegetation assets and props with Standard, Universal, or HD Render Pipeline!

○ The Conversion Presets

⚑ Please note, that with the release of The Visual Engine 20, the presets need reworking, and only a few assets are currently supported. More assets are added in steps!

The conversion presets are used by the Prefab Converter to transfer the mesh data, material properties, and pack textures to make them compatible with the Visual Engine shaders. The Visual Engine has presets for the most popular assets and tools from the Unity Asset Store. See the full list here!

○ Disclaimers

⚑ The conversion presets will not always transfer all properties from the original shaders. Depending on the original shader complexity, some features might not be compatible with the Visual Engine. If the original shaders change, the presets might not work anymore!

⚑ With the release of the Visual Engine, the Vegetation Engine will not be updated anymore, but it will get critical fixes for a limited time. If you need the old presets for the Vegetation Engine, get them from here!

○ More Assets

✓ The Visual Engine • Unified shaders for any asset

✓ The Visual Engine • Amplify Impostors Module

✓ The Visual Engine • Terrain Blanket Module

✓ The Visual Engine • Terrain Shaders Module

✓ The Visual Engine • Terrain Elements Module

✓ Atmospheric Height Fog • Optimized fog for consoles, mobile, and VR

✓ Polyverse Skies • Low poly skybox shaders

✓ Free Skybox Shader • Cubemap Extended shader

Release Notes

○ Upgrading

⚑ Please delete the Visual Engine Presets folder before importing a new version! Always use the presets with the latest version of the Visual Engine!

○ Version 2.8.0

• Decoupled all presets form the core package for easier updating

○ Version 2.7.4

• More PolyArt fixes

○ Version 2.7.3

• Updated PolyArt presets; they should work for all PolyArt assets now

○ Version 2.7.2

• Fixed Layer feature not enabled in some cases

○ Version 2.7.1

• Fixed Pure Nature dark branches for some packages (requires TVE 21.2.0+)

○ Version 2.7.0

• Added Angry Mesh - Stylized Meadow Package initial support

○ Version 2.6.0

• Added auto-detection for conversion option (props/grass/plants/trees) based on the prefab path
• Added fixes to SeedMesh preset

○ Version 2.5.2

• Added various updates to NM preset

○ Version 2.5.1

• Added various updates to SeedMesh preset

○ Version 2.5.0

• Added BK Pure Nature and Pure Nature 2 support

○ Version 2.4.2

• Fixed Goatogametry props collision conversion

○ Version 2.4.1

• Fixed SeedMesh tree conversion not adding wind masks
• Fixed Synty Biomes grass converting to white materials

○ Version 2.4.0

• Added support for SeedMesh assets

○ Version 2.3.0

• Added Polyart Studio - Dreamscape Collection (Preview)

○ Version 2.2.1

• Fixed Nature Manufacture blending not working properly in URP/HDRP

○ Version 2.2.0

• Added TriForge - Valley Forest

○ Version 2.1.0

• Added Goatogrammetry - Castle Valley Collection
• Added Infinity PBR - Book of the Dead
• Added Aquarius Max - Stylized Trees and Foliage
• Added Artkovski - The Illustrated Nature
• Added SICS Games - Toon Fantasy Nature
• Updated Angry Mesh to work with PBR rocks

○ Version 2.0.0

• Updated presets to work with the Visual Engine. Only Nature Manufacture and Synty Bioms are currently supported, more assets will be added soon!