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• Ahm

  11 months ago

  update please..

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  Physical Addons

  10 months ago

  Ahm,
  Appreciate the message. Tell us what kind of update you’re looking for so we can point you in the right direction. Please confirm you’re on the latest version. Recent releases are listed here: https://www.physicaladdons.com/psa/release-notes/. If you have feature ideas, share them in our Discord’s #suggestions channel: https://discord.gg/wvzPVzj9Vr
• Bo_Geun_01

  about 1 year ago

  Mac OS + Apple Silicon Support Please!!!!!
  This add-on is not fully compatible with macOS. While PSA is somewhat usable, POW does not render correctly in the viewport for both Cycles and Eevee. The water's color and texture, which appear normal on Windows, are not displayed properly. Furthermore, some features for underwater scene rendering are disabled and unusable, and rendering itself does not function correctly. I hope to see POW work properly on macOS in the future.

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  Physical Addons

  12 months ago

  Hello! Thank you for your feedback. We used to have an issue on macOS where the water looked pink, but this was fixed in the latest versions and shouldn’t happen anymore. Do you happen to be on the most recent release of Blender and Physical Open Waters? It would help if you could expand on what you mean by underwater features being disabled and unusable, and how exactly the rendering fails - that would help us reproduce the issue. Regarding the water’s color and texture not matching Windows, we’ll test this on our side. You can also create a ticket in our Discord (https://discord.gg/AYXuWG6EK) under #support-tickets so everyone can follow up. And if you purchased the Studio package, feel free to reach out directly via [email protected] for direct support.
• Steve

  almost 2 years ago

  I purchased the bundle. PSA is great and I have used it several times the past year. Not my go to for environment lighting but still useful. I've never used PCO so I cant speak on that. I was pretty disappointed with POW. It's easy to use and understand, but has a known bug that creates a ton of motion blur every couple frames and looks so bad when rendering an animation. When I reached out to Physical Addons to find a solution, they responded with "Yes this is a known issue and there's nothing we can do". It wasn't a very helpful response. If I could go back knowing what I know now, I wouldn't have purchased.

• 

  Physical Addons

  almost 2 years ago

  Hi Steve,
  Thank you for sharing your thoughts. We understand your frustration with the motion blur issue in POW. Blender, as powerful as it is, does have certain limitations, especially when it comes to complex simulations or specific rendering scenarios.

  While we do provide workarounds for many issues, they don’t always yield perfect results in every use case. We know about the issue, but we have to do some research to find a workaround for it. We appreciate your feedback, hopefully, you can still find value in the other aspects of the addon.

  If you have any more questions don't hesitate to contact us again through support messages or join our discord community https://discord.gg/ZfSm2vGX
• Shawn

  over 3 years ago

  PSA one of the most expensive atmospheric addons for blender... no moon, clouds are not even useable, hardly intuitive, and the asset previews don't even display properly. THANKS PSA! maybe the moon and decent clouds would be nice, considering you're selling a sky addon. SAVE YOUR MONEY!

• 

  Physical Addons

  over 3 years ago

  Hi Shawn,

  Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback on our addon. We're sorry to hear that you're experiencing issues with it, and we understand how frustrating that can be. We're constantly working to improve our product, and we appreciate your feedback as it helps us identify areas that need improvement.

  Regarding your specific concerns, we're aware of the issues with the asset browser images not displaying properly and are actively working to fix that as well as other common issues reported by our users.

  We appreciate your suggestion regarding the inclusion of the moon and better clouds. While we don't have immediate plans to include those in our product, we'll certainly consider it for future updates.

  If there's anything else we can do to assist you, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at [email protected] or on our Discord channel at https://discord.gg/e63avY5ACk. We value your feedback and hope to improve your experience with our product in the future.
• Diego Llamazares Garcia

  over 3 years ago

  the add-on itself is great but it does not seem to be receive the development and support it needs. For instance, thumbnails in the asset browser are not being being rendered, this issue has been going on for a while, it would also an easy fix but still does not work...

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  Physical Addons

  over 3 years ago

  Thank you for your feedback, Diego! Regarding the thumbnails in the asset browser. We added a quick fix that supports assets for PSA v1.6.3+ and it came with an understanding that whenever our API changes - assets must be updated otherwise they will crash. So we are developing a script that based on the currently used PSA version will generate the preset file, add a preview and automatically install or update it. In the future, we are planning to have a development blog so you can follow what we are up to and see the big picture. Have a great day!
• Maarten

  over 3 years ago

  Nice addon which quickly and easily adds great value to scenes. There was an issue with stars not working in 1.6.1 and it took a while to get a fix (that's why I give three stars, no pun intended), but now that it's fixed it all seems to work perfectly now. Like others said the clouds could be better (there are other add ons for volumetric clouds, one of them I use now, but for this price I think we might expect clouds to be a little more usable on itself and not as flat as they are now. Although still nice to have as backgrounds behind 'real' volumetric clouds 'below' this sky). Also a moon would be welcome for night scenes. But other than that; this is an add on I use a lot now, I'm very happy with the great results it almost instantly gives and I will definitely continue to happily use this on lots of outside scenes in the future too for sure. Would be empty without these beatiful skies!

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  Physical Addons

  over 3 years ago

  Thank you for your kind words! It took quite a time to pinpoint the stars' issue and then address it. As we are developing more addons and adding more features - the complexity of maintaining them increases. We are balancing our precious R&D time between new addons/features and bug fixes. To address this, we are automating tests, creating tools that help us work faster, and hiring extra hands. Have a great week ;) !
• Ronnie

  over 3 years ago

  Not sure what I am doing wrong, but the assets don't work for me anymore. The background is not changing when dragging Assets into the view.

  I believe this AddOn is really great, but not very well documented for a part time user like me. Quite a shame.

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  Physical Addons

  over 3 years ago

  Hey Ronnie, Thank you for the feedback! Indeed assets file has been corrupted due to our API changes and is partially working. Wanted to reply as soon as we had at least a workaround and here it is. You will find 2 assets.blend files attached in the downloads section - assets for PSA version 1.6.1 and below and assets for version 1.6.2 and above. In the upcoming release, we'll introduce a script that will generate an assets file and import it depending on the PSA version you are using. Sorry for any inconvenience caused due to this issue. By the way, you can find documentation here https://www.physicaladdons.com/psa/documentation/ and if any questions arise - feel free to ask them on our community Discord https://discord.gg/wvzPVzj9Vr.
• Marcos Fernández Díaz

  almost 4 years ago

  It worked well until the last versions. Sometimes it simply doesn´t work. I wish to know why, but after spending hours triyin even to know under which circunstances it happen, I can only say this: At some point the add doesn´t repond to the changes you made in the interface. And there is also a problem with the Alpha tree add on. I can say that once I add an alpha tree element, PSA stop responding. This is the most recent problem but before this there was another problem with alpha trees: The PSA fog material doesn´t work properly, because the fog can be seen in the transparent areas of the alpha tree planes, which is not good and create a weird effect. (alpha tree uses images with alha channel to recreate trees)

• David

  about 4 years ago

  The add-on looks nice but it causes a lot of bugs with world setting, when it's not the world going black after chaging or re-activating the add-on or replacing it with an HDRI, it's the settings not reacting to changes or the clouds not showing up...

  Also for an add-on this pricey the updates come very slow and never fixed the issues mentioned above, you don't get a moon light setting and/or texture to render night scenes either.

  I would recommend this add-on if you find it on sale, but for the full price I think it has too many issues and less features than it should.

• 

  Physical Addons

  about 4 years ago

  Thank you for your feedback, David!
  Due to multiple circumstances fixing the material fog issue (that causes broken/black materials) got delayed, but we are working to release it this week. Regarding settings that are not updating and clouds that are not showing up - could you please send steps to reproduce these issues on our Discord #help section (https://discord.gg/wvzPVzj9Vr) and I will get back to you ASAP. About star textures - feel free to ping us on Discord and we'll point you to the NASA official textures.
• Neil Wood

  over 4 years ago

  I chose this Addon instead of Pure-Sky Pro. I'm not sure yet if I made the right choice? The sky presets that ship with this Addon are now in a Blend File that can be used in Blender's Asset Browser. However, when I open the Preset Blend File the the thumbnail images of the preset skies look great, but in some cases the render view in Blender looks nothing like the thumbnail image that represents it (e.g. tatooine, retrowave) and I can't see much change between any of these presets really? So, I'm not sure if there's something wrong with the shipped presets and think this needs looking into, and when corrected, maybe a few more could be included to get people started with this Addon?

  The clouds are a great idea in this product but they are not volumetric and could do with a bit more work to improve thier quality and usability. I think that as they currently are they can be useful for background distant views, but I suppose you could have a go at making your own volumetric clouds to use to supplement / replace the ones generated in this Addon - see the link here: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTHmdLVcieI&list=WL&index=9&t=31s).

  I also think an option to add a moons and a range of planet types into the scene would be a great addition to this Addon. And if this along with the other points / issues I've raised were dealt with, I think this Addon would possibly be the number one Addon in this space?

• 

  Physical Addons

  over 4 years ago

  Hi Neil,
  Thank you for your feedback! Indeed there's an issue where when applying the World asset it doesn't refresh the azimuth/elevation values and the generated atmosphere may look completely different than the one in the image, although it is a screenshot of the asset. There will be a hot-fix this week regarding this issue.

  In this addon, we have implemented a simple, but quite sophisticated (fast as they are procedurally generated and good for most cases) version of clouds. There is a future plan to develop advanced clouds as a separate addon as it is quite extensive work that has to be done in order to provide realistic and physically accurate clouds that perform well.

  Regarding planets - in the upcoming month we are about to release a new addon called Physical Celestial Objects (PCO) which would let you create physically accurate planets on a real scale with just a few clicks. You can see the progress of this addon in our Discord channel (https://discord.gg/wvzPVzj9Vr) #showcase section.

  Thank you again for taking your time and writing the review <3!

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