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Unistorm
Unity Plugin Review
- Support for desktop, VR and Mobile
- Ultra wide screen support
- Good examples scenes with options for testing the plugin
Unistorm Unity plugin info
Unistorm offers an easy way to implement weather system in your game. This high quality plugin gives you AAA-standard procedural volumetric skies with fast setup. Addition to skies, Unistorm supports sky shadows, fog and different types of weather. There are lots of settings user can tweak to make plugin a perfect fit for your project. Plugin offers over 100 customizable options which user can play with.
| Unity Asset Store Rating: | 4/5 |
| Price: | 53,59 € |
| Tested on: | Unity 2020.3.21f1 LTS |
| Supported pipelines: | Built-in, URP (under development) |
| Supported Unity version: | 2018.4.27 or higher |
| Date of original release: | Jan 27, 2012 |
| Latest update: | March 24th, 2022 |
| Development state: | Active |
| Package Size: | 142.3 MB |
| 3D/2D support: | Yes/No |
| Mobile support: | Yes |
| VR support: | Yes |
| LOD support: | Yes |
| Build-in optimization: | User can choose between high-end to 2D optimized version |
| Errors after installation: | No |
| Includes sounds: | Yes |
| Known Issues: | URP not working fully but it is in under development. If using URP developer recommends using Unity 2019.4.9 and higher. HDRP support is under development. |
| Links: | Forum Thread Discord |
Installation
Installation is really easy. Just open up the Unity Package Manager and choose My Assets from upper left corner. Then choose Unistorm plugin from the list and hit install button and import the plugin in your project.
There was no errors after installation on Unity 2020.3.21f1 so plugin is usable with out extra tweakings and hacks.
Plugin Content
Plugin content includes documentation, prefabs, sample scenes and sounds which you can use as starting point.
Unistorm Plugin graphic examples
Sample scenes
There are multiple sample scenes where you can see how plugin behaves on mobile and VR. One of the sample scenes is playable demo where you can walk around on terrain and adjust plugin settings easily via UI.
If you want to see how plugin behaves on ultra wide screen monitors then you can check that on Unistorm ultra wide scene.
Sample scenes includes these scenes:
– Standard Demo
– Mobile Example
– VR example
– Playable Standard Demo
– Procedural Lighting Strikes
– Save Unistorm Data Example
– Unistorm Ultra Wide
See Testing Video
In this video you can follow how to setup Unistorm to empty Unity project and see different settings from sample scene. By watching this video you can get better idea on what kind of settings there can be found and maybe have some ideas how to implement Unistorm on your project.
Conclusion
Unistorm is a flexible weather system which helps you add high quality volumetric clouds in your game. Is supports mobile and VR so different kinds of gadgets are supported. According to developer URP is supported now from Unity 2019.4.9 and higher, but some of the Unity developers have confronted some bugs while trying to implement this plugin on URP projects. If you need weather system on URP project, then you might need to check current status of URP support from developers website or Unity forum. Plugin is maintained by the devs so this issue should be solved basically any moment from now. Also the HDRP support is coming in the future.
