Yellow-Dog-Man
PHOTONDUST unable to be seen by cameras with selective rendering
Describe the bug?
when trying to use photon dust with a selective rendering camera it came to my attention that they dont get rendered.
To Reproduce
create a new photon dust system. and a new camera with a render texture provider, set the root of the photon dust particle system as the selective render slot. witness it now no longer exist according to the camera
Expected behavior
particles to be visible and rendered if the photon dust emitter or system is selected in the selective mode of cameras
Screenshots
No response
Resonite Version Number
Beta 2024.12.26.1378
What Platforms does this occur on?
Windows
What headset if any do you use?
n/a
Log Files
DESKTOP-N0VAL1H - 2024.12.26.1378 - 2024-12-27 03_08_20.log Player-prev.log
Additional Context
found this out while trying to make a low resolution dynamic skybox. was gonna use the new photon dust particles for the stars since i can just remove whats not needed and add what i want
Reporters
Redd56/redd (me)
it seems that setting the particle system to parent space fixes the issue but its still an inconsistancy between the legacy system and photon dust
I've been looking into this one. It's another of the tricky ones, because we rely on the current Unity integration to replicate the hierarchy for rendering and then mark it properly with flags for selective rendering.
Because PhotonDust actually puts the renderer in the hierarchy where the target space is (only locally), it makes it not work based on this.
When the Unity integration itself gets rewritten, it won't be replicating hierarchy anymore and we'll do the selective rendering fully on FrooxEngine side to build a list of objects. This will allow for fixing this much more simply.
Given this, I'm probably going to put this on a back-burner until that gets done (since that's one of the last steps of the Performance update) - question is how many things are affected right now with this not working properly? Is there anything critical enough that would be affected?
so far im not aware of any items except a few audio visualizers. but given setting to parent space can be a work arround and most objects im aware of arent grabable id say backburner is fine
I see- thanks for the update, @Redd56. I'd also agree it'd make sense for us to defer this issue for now, then.
I have a facet that spawns particles and it used to spawn the particles "in 2d" but now it's "in 3d"
it was a cool effect
I'm commenting here because I have a similar issue.(#4452) We have confirmed that particles are not displayed by the rendering camera in the game used in a world previously published on mmc.
We have also confirmed that when we tried to display the same thing in something we are currently creating, it is not displayed.
I plan to continue using rendering cameras in game production, so I hope this issue will be resolved.
We are sharing the tools, so please check them out. resrec:///U-GONT-3/R-2370e236-1ff1-4c93-b61b-d79c9574d984
The same phenomenon can be seen in games in this world. Particles do not appear on the screen displayed on the game machine. https://go.resonite.com/record/U-GONT-3/R-ae8f6e4b-3d28-4cd2-8711-1533411eb144
Resonite Version Number 2025.5.23.1096
