Procedural Nature Pack - Vol.1

[Jacob-3D]

@wilberolive;382235

Hey, just saw your pack is on sale and am thinking about getting it. I’m just wondering though if you release an updated version of this pack (like a version 2.0 for example) at some point, will existing owners get the upgrade too or would we have to purchase the new updated pack?

Also, I see this point in your recent update.

This concerns me as wouldn’t changing the skylight to Moveable be a big performance hit as it’s lighting effects will no longer be baked into the lightmap but rather computed at runtime? Maybe I’m wrong, but just wanted to ask as it doesn’t sound right to have a skylight set to anything other than Static.

Hey wilberolive,

I’ll go in order for your questions

1. Any and all updates to the pack will be free to users until the end of time. The only case is such as I will be coming out with a vol.2 and that refers to the assets that come with a pack. So creating an entirely different nature pack with brand new assets, textures, features, and a new theme such as snow or desert wouldn’t be part of an update. As the amount of work involved in creating all new assets would warrant releasing a new pack, but while working on that pack if i upgrade the splines to say a version 2.0 better spline blueprint, then all of the users for this pack would receive the same update to the this nature pack. I want to be sure that you all get your money’s worth out of the assets and get any necessary updates and changes. I hope that answers your question

2. I personally never experience the foliage turning black after I bake my assets, but some users were still having issues and this was the first solution that I had found online that seemed to fix the problem. It was possible that the users experiencing the black foliage were on an older version of the pack and it is no longer relevant, but I have not heard anymore complaints about this issues in about a month now. I had also done some LOD work to try to fix the black foliage, so I don’t think changing the skylight to moveable is necessary. It is just an option if need be. I’m sure there is another solution, but since I couldn’t replicate the problem, I wasn’t able to troubleshoot anymore at that point. If you experience the black foliage at all I will be sure to help out

Thanks for your interest in the pack! I hope you get the chance to try it out and that you’ll enjoy it

• Jacob