(29-07-2024, 02:06 PM)Thibault_EODE Wrote: Ok, the file dont appear in Unity but exists in the directory.
It works after removing the .meta
The content of the original meta file seems corrupt by a git merge ?

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(30-07-2024, 11:44 PM)Ben_bionic Wrote: when I use a chain renderer and try to change the length of it with obiCursor.ChangeLength(1);

(30-07-2024, 11:44 PM)Ben_bionic Wrote: It works fine in the crane demo scene with the extruded renderer but not with the chain one. I know chains changed a lot so I assume something got missed? I know this worked on the last version of obi since I used it pretty extensively.

Quote:The material used for rendering the chain must support GPU instancing, and if you're using the Compute backend, it must support indirect drawing. Obi includes an example of a ShaderGraph indirect instancing shader, which you can find at Obi/Resources/ObiMaterials/Common/Instanced/Compute/ProceduralInstanced.shadergraph.

(31-07-2024, 08:08 AM)josemendez Wrote: Hi Ben,

The behavior of ChangeLength has changed in Obi 7, the parameter passed is now a change in length, not an absolute target length. Passing "1" will add one meter to the current length of your rope.



I'm unable to reproduce this. Swapping the ObiExtrudedRopeRenderer with a ObiRopeChainRenderer in the sample Crane scene works well for me. The chain can change its length and new links are added/removed as a result, the chain doesn't go away:



Keep in mind that chain rendering now uses GPU instancing, so the material you use to render the chain must support GPU instancing. Otherwise an error will be shown in the console and the chain won't be rendered. See:
http://obi.virtualmethodstudio.com/manual/7.0/roperenderingmodes.html


let me know if this is still an issue,

kind regards

(31-07-2024, 10:29 PM)radius400 Wrote: just upgraded, no issues. fantastic work!!

one odd thing, it pulled in the Jobs 0.7.0 experimental package which is quite old... i removed it and everything worked fine (as before with 6)... not sure why it pulled that package in, as 6 did not

(01-08-2024, 12:01 AM)Ben_bionic Wrote: looks like the issue I was having was that I had messed with a few things and was changing the length by to much. If you change the length by a large margin as I was doing to try and start with a lot of slack in the chain it would just go away. I now just do it a few times over the first few frames and get the result I was looking for.

(01-08-2024, 12:01 AM)Ben_bionic Wrote: The only weird thing with chains that I am now fighting with is with the default chain I change it to compute and I get one chain link. I checked and the material is set to "Enable GPU Instancing" but even in the example compute shader scene if I change to a chain renderer I only ever see one link.

Quote:The material used for rendering the chain must support GPU instancing, and if you're using the Compute backend, it must support indirect drawing. Obi includes an example of a ShaderGraph indirect instancing shader, which you can find at Obi/Resources/ObiMaterials/Common/Instanced/Compute/ProceduralInstanced.shadergraph.

(01-08-2024, 01:43 AM)radius400 Wrote: actually spoke too soon - have a couple of hard crashes and a more minor issue where render layers on my softbody skinned mesh are being ignored during playmode

is there any info i can send to help debug these issues?

macbook pro M1
unity 6000.0.12

(01-08-2024, 08:03 AM)josemendez Wrote: Hi!

Could you send the crash editor log over so that we may take a look at it? Also, which backend were you using (Burst or Compute)? They work quite differently so a crash might happen in one of them but not the other.

Will take a look at the render layers issue.

kind regards,

(02-08-2024, 05:22 AM)radius400 Wrote: the render layers fix would be much appreciated, we are using them heavily to control lighting

thanks Jose!