2022.3 Release 1 : (14.0.8 rev1 2023-11-10)

• Updated Unity to 2022.3.8f1, Updated HDRP/VFX to 14.0.8

• Notable Changes:

  • Added SmokePortal sample: HDRP Lit smoke lighting, VFX Instancing, HDRP Probe volumes and Volumetric Fog
  • File size and capacity pass
  • Updated Visual Studio Editor and added Profiler Analyzer packages

• Known Issues:

  • Use chmod a+x SomeApp.app/Contents/MacOS/* to open MacOS build

2021.2 Release 2 : (12.1.4 rev1 2022-02-04)

• Updated Unity to 2021.2.9f1, Updated HDRP/VFX to 12.1.4

• Notable Changes:

  • Added GooBall sample: HDRP Decals, HDRP Materials, Shader Graph vertex animation texture
  • Jacob's ladder effect excluded from TAA for better rendering (MagicBook Sample)

• Known Issues:

  • Prewarm delta time consideration (fixed in 2021.2.10f1)
  • Mac M1 build: scene flickering issue
  • Linux build: "Vulkan - out of memory" issue

2021.2 Release 1 : (12.1.1 rev1 2021-11-29)

• Updated HD Render Pipeline / Visual Effect Graph to 12.1.1
• Notable Changes :
  • Added Ellen Skinned Mesh Sample

🌠 New Meteorite Sample from @MarieGuff !

• Updated HD Render Pipeline / Visual Effect Graph to 10.5.0
• Notable Changes :
  • Added Meteorite Sample
  • Rebuilt all Visual Effects

Rebuilt Players for Windows, Linux (vulkan) and macOS (metal).
(Note: for linux, you may want to chmod +x ./VisualEffectGraph-Samples.x86_64 the executable file, as zip compression does not handle executable flags)

2019.4 Release 1 : (7.5.2 rev1 2020-12-15)

• Updated HD Render Pipeline / Visual Effect Graph to 7.5.2
• Notable Changes :
  • Rebuilt all Visual Effects

• Updated HD Render Pipeline / Visual Effect Graph to 7.2.1
• Notable Changes :
  • Rebuilt all Visual Effects
  • Upgraded all HDRP materials to 7.2.1
  • Added Magic Book Sample

2019.3 Update: (7.2.0 rev1 2020-02-12)

• Updated HD Render Pipeline / Visual Effect Graph to 7.2.0
• Fixes and Improvements
  • Rebuilt all Visual Effects
  • Upgraded all HDRP materials to 7.2.0
  • Fixed Ambient Lighting in GrassWind
  • Fixed SSS Profile for Chomper Character in EllenHologram
  • Fixed UI Labels in Voxelized Terrain that disappeared in 1440p
  • Fixed Bonfire Fire Shader : was using a texture that was removed from HD Render Pipeline Package
  • Removed unused Custom Render Texture + Shaders in SpaceshipHoloTable

2019.3.0 Release : (7.1.8 rev1 2020-01-30)

This version introduces three new Samples.

• New Samples
  • Bonfire : Small Scene with Fire and smoke featuring custom VFX Shader Graph rendering (Featuring CC0 Assets from Kenney)
  • Ribbon Pack : Balls of Unraveling multi-colored trails featuring the new Particle Strips.
  • Ellen Hologram : Holographic reprojection of moving characters from 3D Game Kit
• General Improvements
  • Other Samples were updated and polished to match new features:
    • Added Motion Vectors / Motion blur in Butterflies, Portal, SpaceshipHoloTable, UnityLogo, Volumetric, VoxelizedTerrain
    • Reduced texture size of the SpaceshipHoloTable environment
    • Rebuilt all assets
    • Removed old ProceduralSky from scenes
    • Embedded Visual Effect Graph Sample Additions from package 7.1.6
  • Samples Navigation Improvements
    • Added Navigation Menu Bar (Accessible via Escape Key)
      • Options Window
      • Load Samples Window
      • Toggle Demo Mode
      • Toggle FPS Counter
      • Take Screenshot
• Known Issues:
  • Ellen Hologram not working properly on macOS/metal
  • Linux Vulkan rendering is mostly broken

• New Samples
  - Spaceship Holo Table : Holographic Pin-Screen effect isolated from the Spaceship Demo

• General Improvements

  • Upgraded all project, volumes, postprocesses and scenes to 2019.1 package track
    • HD/VFX Package versions to 5.8.2-preview
    • Editor version to 2019.1.0b6

• Fixes

  • General Performance adjustments

• New Samples

  • Genie: Magic flow gushing out of the Magic lantern and taking the shape of a Genie
  • AR Radar : Lines and Dots that form a Radar Grid with multiple Targets
  • Voxelized Terrain : Interactive Terrain Visualization driven by a heightfield.

• Fixes and General Improvements:

  • Simplified Sample Loader Script
  • GrassWind : Fixed the sample to reflect the fixes in ConnectTarget
  • GrassWind : Reworked the Camera Control (now works with cinemachine)
  • GrassWind : Added Ethan Body Diffuse texture