Trouble using HDRP Time of Day in Unity 2023.1.4f1

[John Reynders]

Hi,

I’m having trouble getting Time of Day to work on a configuration of:

• Unity 2023.1.4f1
• HDRP 15.06
• Gaia Pro 2021 v3.4.0
• HDRP Time Of Day v1.2.0

i created a test project which reduced things to creating a standalone project that only installed Gaia Pro2021 and Time Of Day. No other packages or code other than these elements from Procedural Worlds.

I instantiated this test project with the above configuration.

I also instantiated a test project in another configuration which i have been able to get to work in another project:

• Unity 2021.3.20f1
• HDRP 12.1.10
• Gaia Pro 2021 v3.4.0
• HDRP Time Of Day v1.2.0

I followed the steps for set up in - nothing special, just the defaults as outlined in the very helpful video:

Basically in Gaia Manager the default Create World with Powerful Desktop → Generate World → Spawn Biome

When it came to the runtime, i selected Procedural Worlds Sky:

In the 2021 LTS case, it created the Time Of Day component and when run, worked great. And in the Hierarchy, i have components as follows:

In the 2023.1.4f1 project, following exactly the same steps, a Time Of Day component is created - but it is not populated:

I compared with the working 2021.3.20f1 version to manually add the components into the inspector fields - however, it seems some elements are simply not installed and i am not able to get the system to work - and effects appear to be missing. The hierarchy in this case is:

Not sure what has changed wherein Time Of Day no longer works in this version of Unity. Let me know if there is something i should do differently or if there is a work around. I very much want to utilize Time of Day in our current development on the Tech Stream branch.

 

[Bryan]

We will need to take a look at the new Unity version. 
I will be taking a look to see if I get similar results. 
 

[John Reynders]

Thanks Bryan,

 I've pulled back to the latest LTS (2022.3.5f1) - and Time of Day works just great. Full config is:

• Unity 2022.3.5f1
• HDRP 14.0.8
• Gaia Pro 2021 v3.4.0
• HDRP Time Of Day v1.2.0

Seems to be something funky on the Tech Stream. I've run into a few challenges on Tech Stream and think i'll just work off the latest LTS for now - so, no urgency.

[Bryan]

Thank you for the update!