💥┃post-processing

[silent furnace]

my best try for trying to recreate the fernel effect for 2D objects

[steel pivot]

Whats causing this weird black shadow on my gameobjects

[mighty stump]

#💥┃post-processing message

[mighty gazelle]

I believe this is in URP 6.3 and is adding filters for bloom, default is gaussian and it’s adding Kawase and Dual. Best for mobile platforms.

[steel pivot]

i dont know how to disable it...cant seem to find it

[mighty stump]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/urp/post-processing-ssao-landing.html

[steel pivot]

Thanks🙏🏻

[plush pumice]

anyone here familiar with URP render graph API? I'm trying to figure out how I can get the current camera render target but am unsucessful. Need this for a post processing effect that I'm doing so I can take my effect and blend it with the scene

[wise crown]

(font difference is due to a setting that allows me to change it, it's unrelated)

okay, well, I am running into an issue where my game looks different in editor then in build and then it looks different in build between different devices and I feel so lost to what's causing it. I have tried everything at this point, toggling hdr, dithering, changing post processing layers, I feel like I changed every single setting possible in the urp settings and I just don't know what to do

The only post processing effect I have is bloom. I have no clue to as what I can do to fix this, I've been googling, asking ai, I spent a solid few days on this by now and I don't have a solution

[wise crown]

nvm nvidia fucked me over

[wise crown]

Just in case anyone has this issue, disable "nvidia rtx dynamic brilliance", this shit turned on automatically for some reason and I spent tens of hours trying to figure it out

[sacred talon]

how can i tamper with polygons render order?

cuz i want to make whats called "artist alghoritm"

its a cheap alternative to Z-Buffer, that basically render tris in strict order

[dusky sail]

Guys, how can I make the URP fog look more realistic?

[native timber]

https://x.com/MuhammedEAydin/status/1959288981440405749

Muhammed Emin Aydın (@MuhammedEAydin)

Unity URP Custom Mobile Object Motion Blur Test
#unity #unity3d #shader

X · Aug 23, 2025, 4:17 PM

[brittle heart]

What do you mean by "realistic" ?

[dusky sail]

More faithful to reality??

[mighty stump]

In what way specifically? Realism is not a linear scale

HDRP's fog implements various techniques to try to improve fog rendering in specific ways, that could be a helpful reference of methods you'd typically consider

[dusky sail]

HDRP is extremely heavy on my computer.

I'm trying to create something minimally beautiful and at the same time well optimized

[mighty stump]

You don't have to run it well, or at all to study its fog rendering

[brittle heart]

so technically, you can create a fog post processing that use like URP but it takes height into account.
Like in this tree picture, the fog is limited in it's height.

[mighty stump]

Tinting the fog by sky color (or a mip map level of the sky) can help distant objects blend more naturally

[brittle heart]

Truely volumetric fog is a HDRP feature and there's no way to make is just as realistic but not as demanding. So the next best thing is to fake it with particles and transparent planes.

[mighty stump]

I think this works if you're looking down at the fog
But looking from within the fog towards distance there may not be a simple way to make it work?

[dusky sail]

I'll do some particle testing, if necessary I'll try to create a shader. Thanks for the recommendations.

[mighty stump]

With particles "soft particles" shader feature or depth fade will help
But with that method overdraw rendering cost is very high

[dusky sail]

Thx

[frail sun]

Facing issue in bloom (post processing) when testing on an android build 2D game. The bloom works perfectly fine on the pc playtesting but on android build the bloom just isn't there.

I tried setting URP settings to ultra for android, opengles3 and vulkan support, main camera is also set to post processing.

Anyone having any idea about this?

[plush root]

Hey! Bloom on Android often requires HDR to be enabled on both the camera and URP asset—without it, bloom won’t show. Also check your Render Scale and quality settings for Android, and make sure your device supports the bloom shader (some older devices or OpenGLES3 have limits). Are you testing on a real device or an emulator? I can help walk you through fixing it on Android.
@devm.sh

[frail sun]

HDR is enabled, render scale is also 1, quality settings is ultra. And my device is literally new and supports OpenGLES3.2 as well. Im testin on real device

[hushed grove]

Use the frame debugger to see what's going on.

[frail sun]

currently changed the post processing to a 3rd party plugin bloom which works. Unity's own post processing is really a pain

[latent coyote]

Hi guys, I have some trouble with a custom post process on HDRP (Unity 6.2).
I have to add the post process into project settings -> graphics -> custom post process order, otherwise I have an error when I add it to the Global Volume of my scene.
But... it does apply the post process right away. Adding or removing it from the global volume doesn't do anything.
I'm following the hdrp documentation. Any ideas ?
Thanks

[mighty gazelle]

Camera has post processing toggle enabled?

[vapid ore]

what thing can cause this to happen? (i am using 2 custom post processing shaders, one is a shader graph)

what am i doing wrong

😭

SubShader
    {
        Tags{ "RenderPipeline" = "HDRenderPipeline" }
        Pass
        {
            Name "VHSBleed_BlurH"

            ZWrite Off
            ZTest Always
            Blend One One
            Cull Off

            HLSLPROGRAM
                #pragma fragment BlurHorizontal
                #pragma vertex Vert
            ENDHLSL
        }        
        Pass
        {
            Name "VHSBleed_BlurV"

            ZWrite Off
            ZTest Always
            Blend One One
            Cull Off

            HLSLPROGRAM
                #pragma fragment BlurVertical
                #pragma vertex Vert
            ENDHLSL
        }
        Pass
        {
            Name "VHSBleed_ThirdPhase"

            ZWrite Off
            ZTest Always
            Blend One One
            Cull Off

            HLSLPROGRAM
                #pragma fragment ThirdPhase
                #pragma vertex Vert
            ENDHLSL
        }
    }
    Fallback Off

[hushed grove]

This is shaderlab. Not the actual contents of your shaders...

[vapid ore]

yeah but that was the part that i needed to change in order to fix it

i fixed it by setting blend modes to off off and in the last pass to src alpha somehing

and by changing what line an rthandle is

[frail sun]

read the original query properly

[proven gyro]

Im trying to convert a post processing effect from unity 2021 to unity 6

the 2021 one you just put the script on the camera object

[hushed grove]

Sounds like BIRP vs URP. Not version difference.

[proven gyro]

i dont know but its this https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/shaders/crt-free-248066

[hushed grove]

It would probably work in a BIRP project in unity 6

[proven gyro]

ill try it thank you

[frail storm]

not strictly a post-processing question, but I am trying to go for a found-footage-y kind of vibe and right now I have this. What can I do to make it look more like it's real but from a shitty camcorder?

[severe slate]

OH MY GOD HOW DID YOU DO THAT?

[mighty stump]

Bloom with a dirt texture, film grain, barrel distortion, color adjustments, DoF, some chromatic aberration
At least those are what I see in the image
It doesn't have screen space lens flare, but it'd work with the style
It doesn't look terribly realistic though, if you want authenticity, find a specific type of real world camera to mimic

[frail storm]

I have some chromatic abberation, kinda notched it up, but also screen space lens flare seems to be better, not sure why exactly tho

what is it about camcoders that give them that look?

More saturation?

[mighty stump]

Ah, I thought you were asking what effects were used in the image
There are countless different types of camcorders
Early and modern film camcorders and early and modern digital camcorders are all different

Professional vs amateur devices, and the type of lens used

[frail storm]

idk I think the desaturated low contrast looks better, hides imperfections.

[mighty stump]

I think desaturation occurs with cheap film, old digital sensor or IR imaging

But I don't know if you are shooting for authenticity or realism

[frail storm]

trying to make it look more realistic by basically lowering expectation

[hushed grove]

The ground looks a bit plain. Does it have a normal map applied to it?

[hushed grove]

What looks like a wall on the left is completely dark. In reality it should be receiving some light from all the street lights.

Same for the walls behind the light in the middle

Basically, improve the lighting and it should look pretty realistic IMHO.

[frail storm]

how do you do global illumination?

ngl the normal map cooked kinda.

[hushed grove]

If the scene is static bake light maps. Otherwise baking lighting probes should help.
Also, I don't remember if you could tweak the point lights radius. If you could extend it out more it might help.

[mighty stump]

Hard to know what's wrong on your end
If you can't get it working, you should practice and test camera culling, camera stacking and DoF post processing separately

The only error I see in the tutorial is that is seems to leave the main base camera covered by overlay cameras completely so it's rendering pointlessly, though that wouldn't break anything
You only need one overlay camera, for the unblurred foreground and color adjustments

[final drum]

in the little preview box, the cameras are rendering the correct elements separately. however, if i start the game with, for example, the blur camera set to not visible, the background still renders when i load the game. could this be the issue? do i need to disable something on my main parent camera, allowing the two child cameras to take over

if i do something drastic like change the color curves on the default layer, it applies to every element in the scene instead of ignoring the Blur Background layer as specified in the culling mask

i guess one other piece of info is that im also using cinemachine but im not entirely sure how that would interfere with camera stacking

[fresh glacier]

Did you set up the camera stack correctly?

as well as the Environment volume layer filtering?
if you can show all of the camera inspector info with a screen recording (sharex or windows snipping tool can do this)

[final drum]

1. Main camera
2. Sharp Camera
3. Blur Camera
4. Blur Background Post-processing Volume
5. Background sprite
6. Cinemachine Virtual Camera

[fresh glacier]

What about in the Environment sections?

[final drum]

here's the environment tab in main camera too. the video doesnt mention using this but it does have a "volume mask" whch...sounds relevant

[fresh glacier]

Erm no the video did mention using that

so correct those and hopefully it works now

[final drum]

oh god really? oops

i was working on this at 3am hehe. im gonna be so mad if i missed that

ohhhh you're so right

damnit ok

ok its almost working. if i tick blur background in the sharp camera, it applies the blur background volume. that means the volume is working but i actually want it to apply to the blur camera. if i untick it in the sharp camera, the volume stops being applied.

if i tick blur background in the blur camera...it doesn't apply the volume

ah! ok, followed the tutorial from the start again and its working now

thanks for the help :]

[reef forge]

Might be a silly question, but in HDRP, is there no way to output emissive from a custom fullscreen pass? I've had a look around but can't seem to find anything. I have an outline pass that looks very bland currently.

[hushed grove]

What's even "emissive" in this context? Emissive only makes sense in the context of lit materials, as it's basically just means "ignore any shadow and lighting calculations and just render an unlit color here". So unless you're doing some lighting/shadow calculations in your pass, "emissive" doesn't make sense here.

[reef forge]

Sorry, I should've been more specific with wording, I am trying to make it contribute to bloom

[hushed grove]

Then just output a color above the bloom threshold.

Also, it needs to render before bloom is applied, so confirm that in the frame debugger.

[reef forge]

I thought I tried this last night, but I was tired, so chances are I messed up. Thank you for the suggestion, I'll try this again when I get home today

[reef forge]

Thank you, that's perfect!

[velvet hornet]

Hello, I have a problem, my build fails every time without error. The only warning I have is: "Shader warning in 'Universal Render Pipeline/Autodesk Interactive/AutodeskInteractive': 'UnityMetaVertexPosition': implicit truncation of vector type at", does anyone know what this means? Thanks in advance.

[mighty stump]

That's not related to post processing
Unlikely a Rendering topic either since I've not heard of a shader error failing a build, at most not appearing in build
Not that it's an error anyway but just a warning

[velvet hornet]

Sorry, I didn't know where to put it because I don't even know what the problem is.

and if it's not a shader error, unity would just refuse to do the compilation (while it was still doing it a few games ago)

[mighty stump]

Platform specific channel if there's one that fits, otherwise just #💻┃unity-talk
Build logs could reveal why it failed, and that's what'll be needed to help anyway

[velvet hornet]

thx

[quiet plume]

Hi, I have a question
I want to invert the colors of camera vision.
I’m too much of a noob, so I tried to find a video or an article that explains how to do it throughout the day, but I could only find old ones.
so, if you don’t mind, could someone teach me how to invert it?
(im a Japanese speaker, so my English might be unnatural 😵)

[mighty stump]

Simplest way may be the Color Curve override, with an inverted curve

[quiet plume]

Ahhhh it finally worked...
After playing around with the color curve for a while, I finally got it to invert.
Thank you so much

[spare inlet]

no problem

[thorn owl]

does this Post processing package work in URP?

[gritty folio]

No

[hushed grove]

I'm not sure if that's the correct channel(or even server) for such content.
<@&502884371011731486> just in case this needs to be handled somehow.

[bronze mural]

@tribal wind Don't spam channels with off-topic. There are many scams on Discord, report to support.

[dawn gorge]

Hi guys, does anyone have an idea of how to remove the jagged shadows?

[mighty stump]

What kind of shadows they are
This is a #1390346776804069396 topic

[dawn gorge]

Soft shadows from a spotlight

[mighty stump]

Spot light relative shadow resolution drops exponentially with spot angle above 90° because of perspective distortion
So drop it below or at least close to that before increasing shadow resolution
If you need a very wide shadowcasting spot light, it's better to use a point light with 3d light cookie instead

[dawn hornet]

Hi! What can I do to remove or tune down that blueish tint everywhere? Its supposed to be signal red

[buoyant ferry]

This color comes from environment light ( skybox )

[dawn hornet]

thank you!! It was the fog in those settings

[buoyant ferry]

😉

[swift nimbus]

what kind of post processing is used to acchieve this kind of dreamy magical genshin impact forest look?

i tried to replicate it but as you can see, mine looks like crap

the difference in asset quality aside, hhow can i improve the post processing?

this is what i got rn, im in URP

[hushed grove]

Well, more than 50% is assets.
Other than that I can see some c
Volumetric fog, color grading, GI(or at least real is ic AO). Lens flares.

Probably custom shaders too.

[swift nimbus]

grahhh ok

[hushed grove]

There's a lot of specularity in your screenshot. In the samples, the lighting is lighter and smoother.

[swift nimbus]

but ik post processing can make a huge difference, from a flat world to a very stylised one

i feel like im missing something

idk what

i tried fiddling with everything but i cant find a satisfying result

[hushed grove]

It depends on what effect you're going for, but PP is usually one small part of it.

Material shaders are one of the biggest contributors.

[swift nimbus]

hmm alright

anything i can do to fill up the empty sky a bit?

my garden doesnt feel like a garden

[hushed grove]

A stylized sky box. Do you expect the player to see the sky often?

[swift nimbus]

certain parts of the map

like near the pond

[hushed grove]

Vegetation often uses a transparent material, sometimes subsurface scattering or something to simulate it. Definitely not just an opaque specular material.

[swift nimbus]

wdym can u elaborate a bit pls, im kinda new to this stuff

🙏

[hushed grove]

What part of it?

[swift nimbus]

opaque specular material

r u referring to the low poly trees or

the low poly ones are place holders, im planning to replace them slowly with a stylised shader version

[hushed grove]

No. Your material is using an opaque shader. And the specular value is too high for vegetation/leaves.

[hushed grove]

Ah, OK. Yes I was referring to the low poly assets.

[swift nimbus]

those r for blocking out the entire map

any post processing stuff i could do to make it look like this? im still deciding on the style

[hushed grove]

I see. Get the actual assets in the scene first before judging visuals.

[swift nimbus]

alright

[hushed grove]

This is like real life photo. You'd need hdrp with all its features and global illumination(ray traced) for a similar picture.

[swift nimbus]

so using urp and trying to achieve that is a pretty bad idea?

[mighty stump]

Not that big

[swift nimbus]

😔

[mighty stump]

Your post processing could be rather close to the references, and lighting may be as well, but it's hard to tell mainly because of the materials

Scene window screenshot being aliased as hell doesn't help either

[swift nimbus]

mb my computer is already half dead from running unity

i can barely take a screenshot without freezing

[mighty stump]

As mentioned smoothness is too high, which exaggerates the visual contrast
The material base colors in my opinion are too dark and saturated, and have perhaps too much variance
The meshes in the references use a lot of manually authored smooth normals to make the objects look softer than they are, while yours are pure flat shading

Ambient occlusion is one thing your PP is missing though

[swift nimbus]

how do i achieve those "manually authored smooth normals"? just get better assets in general?

[swift nimbus]

ohh right thanks ill add that

[mighty stump]

https://blog.yarsalabs.com/normal-transfer-in-blender/
Example image of the effect lower down the page

[swift nimbus]

oh wow thats amazing, ill def look into it man 🙏

[swift nimbus]

sorry dumb question but, why isnt my ao working, i already enabled it in the URP renderer asset

[mighty stump]

When you decide on object colors I'd recommed starting from colors that have the same visual brightness value, and then tweak them gradually away from that level to create the visual contrast
Rather than start with colors that are drastically different

[swift nimbus]

so far, after vs before

i think it looks better now

[mighty stump]

Can't see a reason from here
To test you can make intensity very high, like 20, and then increase radius to see if anything appears

[swift nimbus]

i cranked it up to unholy numbers and still nothing happened ;-;

[mighty stump]

You should check that the URP asset that uses this Renderer is also currently active in Quality settings

[swift nimbus]

ye it is i checked

[mighty stump]

I think it looks less like your references
But if you like it that's what really matters
More like 2005 syle of graphics when everything was fuzzy and colorful (like Oblivion on release)

[swift nimbus]

true, guess it still needs tweaks

i just felt that my before version felt too flat

[mighty stump]

The references are embracing the flatness

[swift nimbus]

ye

still cant wrap my head around it

[mighty stump]

The level base colors, high roughness, manually smoothed normals and flat HDR tonemapping are all characteristic of the modern low poly nature style

[swift nimbus]

ill prolly tackle the smooth normals later

[mighty stump]

And also textures in the references fit the bill

[swift nimbus]

nvm bro im dumb i mixed up the settings i got it working now 🙏

[mighty stump]

Functionally there only to mix adjacent colors or material types, and to add soft noisy feel

[swift nimbus]

this gon require more studying and testing ig 😔 thanks a lot for the advice man ::)

[mighty stump]

It's a whole field of art

[swift nimbus]

its fun but so complicated at the same time

😔

my brain hurts

[mighty stump]

Same as training a muscle

[cedar forum]

Nobody will do that for you. This is a learning discord, so we can only help answer questions

[mighty stump]

!collab if you want to commission someone's help
#✨┃vfx-and-particles if you have questions about particle effects

[azure arrow]

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[hexed chasm]

Can't we increase render scale more than 2.0?:

[reef grove]

why do you need it with more than 2

[hexed chasm]

Because textures are blurrey after some distance:

[reef grove]

you need texture mip maps, not the render scale

[hexed chasm]

Where I can find this?

[reef grove]

in the texture import settings

[hexed chasm]

Ok, I will check

[hexed chasm]

This?:

[reef grove]

I said "texture"

click on your texture in the Project window

under the Advanced tab there is a "Generate mip maps" checkbox

[hexed chasm]

Ok

[hexed chasm]

Textures are still blurrey for road even after checking Generate mipmap?:

[mighty stump]

Mip mapping makes them blurry (which is correct and preferable, because the alternative is a noisy mess)
But you need to swap from bilinear to trilinear filtering and/or increase Aniso level

Or just have a higher resolution ground texture

[hexed chasm]

Thx, now its fine after increasing aniso level

[hushed grove]

<@&502884371011731486> theyre everywhere!

[signal shuttle]

hi can someone tell me why texture in unity looks like shit

in blender looks so much better

i tried changing max size to 4k

and compression qualitty to high

but texture weight 21.3mb

[mighty stump]

#🔀┃art-asset-workflow

[swift nimbus]

ambient occlusion looks weird at darker places, why? I tried both using gradient and blue noise for method, but both looks just as bad

[mighty stump]

The values are too extreme, and it's not being applied equally to a lot of the meshes

[limpid loom]

sorry im legit lost, im not sure where to ask this, but my HDRP project is really damaged, i cant see anything, and im not well versed in unity 6. Ive messed with the graphics and hdrp project settings, lights, cameras and more wont show up

[cloud musk]

Hello everyone,
I’m looking to hire a Unity developer for a small WebGL prototype similar to this example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62CW5pOoPaU
. The project includes a simple oval arena, two provided robot NPCs (red and blue gloves), and a fight system where the round ends when one robot’s health reaches zero. It should also have basic health/damage logic with realistic percentages and automatic winner selection. This will be the foundation for future updates like AI vs Player and PvP. If interested, please DM me with your timeframe and availability.

Is this the right place to post this?

If not, can you recommend me to anybody that can do it or the best channel for it

But the best is if anyone can recommend me to a unity developer
Please

[mighty stump]

Not the right place, even tangentially
!collab

If the bot fails to show up, see: #💻┃unity-talk message

[lean wadi]

Hi everyone, quick question
I'm working on a project, where i'm trying to use worldspace UI, alongside post processing (i'm using worldspace UI, since i have some fullscreen pass shaders going, that i need to affect both the UI and the game)
Issue is, some of the post processing effects, mainly the depth of field, mess with how the UI looks; would it be a possibility to somehow exclude the UI from the post processing? (already tried rendering with a different camera, and overlaying it, but it doubled up the fullscreen passes, and some of my passes require depth data, so when i only put them on the overlay camera, things broke)

Also i'm on unity6, and i'm using urp

[drifting canopy]

Not sure if this is the right place for this, but I'm looking for a basic URP Deferred Rendering shader example that respects lights/shadows from point lights and spot lights.
I can't find anything online. If anyone can share an example or help point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it!

[severe slate]

Why does Scene Color look blurry? Are fullscreen shader effects drawn at a lower resolution?

[gritty folio]

Scene Color samples the camera Opaque Texture (snapshot before rendering transparent objects). There's a setting on the URP asset to adjust the amount of down-sampling.
If this is for a Fullscreen graph, you should instead use the URP Sample Buffer node (set to Blit Source)

[severe slate]

Yep that seems to work great. Thanks!

[mighty gazelle]

You might have opaque texture down sampling enabled

[stray ice]

I'm trying to render the character "hands" above walls using Render Objects in the unity, I can't seem to get them working while removed from the cameras culling mask, if I leave it there there's weird overlap artifacts.
How can I fix this?

https://www.intetic.com/blogs/unity-hdrp-render-object-on-top-of-everything/ (basically what i'm trying to do)

[stray ice]

i think this probably only works in hdrp and i'm using urp

[idle swan]

this is about Unreal but many of the techniques apply to Unity just the same. It gives you an overview of the engine-agnositc options+tradeoffs, particularly in the first half before it gets UE specific. Your shadow/SSAO/DepthMask problem is among them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11sLIyw0pWQ&t=732s

[mighty gazelle]

Are you simply trying to render the hands on top of everything?

[stray ice]

yep

[stray ice]

tossing this in my watch later seems like a very good talk

[mighty gazelle]

Why not set the ZTest to Always?

[turbid badger]

Is this good lighting?

[dusk raven]

good lighting is lighting you are happy with and the player isnt either blinded or stumbling in the dark. Are you happy with its result?

[turbid badger]

Ok. Sure.

[mighty stump]

#1390346776804069396 is for lighting
"Good" is hard to determine when everyone has a different idea about it, and doesn't know what the intended goal is
You have ambient light from the sky indoors even if it has no practical way to reach there, which is not "correct" but might not be a bother and it does allow the player to see something

[mighty stump]

The scaling and squashing methods described are by far the easiest, and don't even require any matrix math if you do it by scaling transform parents
An example of both, together with obstacle awerness
It only has technicaly challenges if you want accurate shadows onto the world from the viewmodel
The more you can keep the viewmodel in world space proportions and physically move it out of the way of obstacles, the more issues you avoid
That kind of detection requires its own effort but may be preferable if you don't want the viewmodel to appear disconnected from the world

[severe slate]

When I drag the skybox material onto the scene (unlit urp shader graph) where does it go?

Also why can't I make colors as bright as I can make them when using a fullscreen shader graph with a full screen render pass?

That bright blue color is the same one you see in the fog effect

Yet it is much darker

[mighty stump]

Window>Lighting>Environment

[severe slate]

I don't see lighting anywhere

[mighty stump]

Sorry
Window>Rendering>Lighting

[severe slate]

What am I supposed to be looking at?

I tried changing them. It doesn't seem to make anything brighter

oh wait

You mean that's where the material is

Thanks

[mighty stump]

Yes

A fullscreen pass could produce different color values than a scene material if the fullscreen pass is applied after post processing

[severe slate]

What I mean is that it can achieve higher brightness colors

It seems like the skybox has some sort of filter on it

[mighty stump]

If it has, and mesh renderers in the scene have it too when you assign the material to them, then it's likely either post processing or something in your shader specifically

[severe slate]

No I'm pretty sure it's only the skybox

[mighty stump]

Pretty sure?

[severe slate]

Objects using materials using a urp shader graph shader don't have the brightness limitation

and fullscreen shaders don't either

If you try setting your camera to a solid color, no shader involved, you still can't get pure white

[hushed grove]

Do you have hdr color enabled (I think it's a setting in the render pipeline asset)?

[spice bough]

I am going through and trying to understand with unity post processing components. There is the volume and then there is the post-process Volume I understand that one is the legacy pipeline. While the other is made with hdpr and urp in mind. My question is with the volume component is it like unity's old input system as a solution. It seems to have less features?

Also please @ me with a response.

[hushed grove]

You're probably referring to the post processing package volume..? If so, then it doesn't have any effect in SRPs, and might even cause issues. In SRPs post processing is built in the render pipelines and not a separate package.

[mighty stump]

<@&502884371011731486> multiple channel promo spam

[sacred talon]

is it possible to code custom post process effects

[sacred talon]

why my post processing doesnt work

thats my setup on camera, camera on layer PostProcess

[teal leaf]

I made a new urp asset and renderer in the files, in the scene I made them in they both actually change the scene, but when i go to other scenes, nothing changes. In the graphics tab in project settings, the pipeline asset file is set as the default, and i have the same volume profile. Does anyone know how to make the urp asset/renderer affect all scenes?

[swift nimbus]

How can i disable fog for a specific object with shaders?

in URP unity 6

[mighty stump]

URP assets and renderers fundamentally are not per scene, and cannot be
Volume components however can override volume profiles per scene

Post processing and renderers can be changed per camera though

[reef grove]

disable receive fog in the material settings if it's SG shader

[swift nimbus]

Ohhh tyy

[swift nimbus]

can i ask where is the setting?

[reef grove]

Check "Allow Material Override"

[swift nimbus]

i dont think it worked

fog still applies to the object with the shader

[reef grove]

the "Receive fog" option should upper under the Surface Options in the material

do you have it unchecked?

[swift nimbus]

i dont see it

[reef grove]

what

[swift nimbus]

im using urp unity 6

[reef grove]

weird, let me see

[swift nimbus]

thanks

[reef grove]

yeah, it's not there

weird

[swift nimbus]

;-;

[reef grove]

[swift nimbus]

theres a fog node in shader graph but other than that idk

[reef grove]

I think the only way is modify the shader file itself

[swift nimbus]

damn

[reef grove]

exactly, how do you use that node if the fog is applied by default

[swift nimbus]

no idea

shader graphs confuse the hell out of me

;-;

[reef grove]

[swift nimbus]

i love unity

[gritty folio]

That node would only be used in an Unlit Graph

[swift nimbus]

any solutions for a lit graph

for uhh disabling fog

[gritty folio]

I think you can use a custom function, though haven't tested in new versions
https://www.cyanilux.com/faq/#sg-lit-fog

[swift nimbus]

oooh thanks

[neat kindle]

I'm trying to color this grass animation I made but not so sure why it isn't working. Can some help me out why it isn't showing?

here is the picture

[fading lynx]

im making a multiplayer game and want to add a drunk effect to player cameras. i messed with the default URP volume stuff but didnt really get anything useful out of it. is this something ill want to use cinemachine for?

[sweet bobcat]

Is this like, animated with nodes in Blender? Like procedural or based on a moving seamless noise?

[neat kindle]

it's animated on nodes

[sweet bobcat]

Be prepared that a lot of things you can do in Blender, do not translate.

[reef jay]

Good question

[sweet bobcat]

I actually almost never do my materials in Blender, since Unity doesn't accept a Roughness map by default

[reef jay]

Is this blender?

[sweet bobcat]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/10wzbzs/export_blender_geometry_node_animation_to_unity/

[neat kindle]

yos

[sweet bobcat]

https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/259988/exporting-geometry-nodes-to-unity

There's another link a comment, that basically says TLDR; No.

[neat kindle]

Ah

[reef jay]

That's so unfortunate

[sweet bobcat]

May I recommend, bend the vertices in Unity itself? There's videos on it.

"Wind Shader"

[reef jay]

What do you use then?

[sweet bobcat]

Use, to do what?

See materials?

[neat kindle]

I just realize I'm in a Unity server not a Blender server

[reef jay]

So it's unity?

[sweet bobcat]

No the screenshots were from Blender.

[neat kindle]

It is not

blender

[reef jay]

Yes to create martials

[sweet bobcat]

If you want to do like texture painting, UV editing ,all that. Sure

[reef jay]

Ooh okay lmao I was about to ask what version are you using

[neat kindle]

lol ur good

[sweet bobcat]

I just meant, the "final result" of what it looks like, and the "making cool Node graphs in Blender to affect how it looks" typically gets lost when you import to Unity

I've noticed Godot is actually pretty solid with .blend files though

[neat kindle]

also I am in the wrong server to askl this sorta thing

[sweet bobcat]

I think in Unity you can achieve reliable .blend importing, it just requires some efforts. It's not hard to make Unity understand common PBR - the main difference is the Roughness Smoothness thing

[reef jay]

But what does this mean for flaqoro does he have to recreate it in unity shaders

[sweet bobcat]

If he wants the grass to be animated when its in Unity, yeah.

Blender is great at making illusions - most of the Node graph is just that. Illusions, unless you bake out / export out

[reef jay]

Man that sucks i haven't crested animated grass in blender before I didn't know this

[neat kindle]

All was only looking for how to change the color

Not to transfer anything

[mighty gazelle]

Isn’t it in the A channel of the smoothness map?

[grim ledge]

This took soo long to get right but i finally managed to pull this off

this is how it started btw

i fricking hate baking textures-

but i did learn some valuable lessons

don't rely on raw emissions to light your scenes...

[mighty gazelle]

niceee, is this with post processing too?

[grim ledge]

Yup yup

this was done without URP

mainly used whatever VR chat limits i had

this was done with the vr chat companion tool thing

[sweet bobcat]

You mean, the Smoothness Map is in the Metallic Map A channel. Yes
(for URP Lit Shader at least - optionally it can come from albedo map alpha instead)

Unity allows you to swizzle in the import settings - but you can just use a Texture Channel Packer tool or handle it yourself in Gimp/Krita.

[swift nimbus]

how can i disable fog for a specific shader / object?

using shader graph in unity 6 urp

[hushed grove]

Use an unlit shader graph. Fog is part of the lighting calculation AFAIK.
Not related to post processing BTW.

[swift nimbus]

Oh where should i ask

[hushed grove]

#1390346776804069396

[grim ledge]

Any idea how to fix this bleeding? the top image is the first floor and the second is the secon floor, i'm using area baked lighting, i've noticed with that in particular it seems to act like sand, where it gets everywhere-

here are some settings if this helps

[grim ledge]

okay well the area light was def one of the main culprits but there still lies some resedue-

[grim ledge]

okay maybe the overlapping UV's in blender might be the culprit-

[grim ledge]

and that didn't fix sht i just need to crank the padding and res

[grim ledge]

it was the reflection probes-

and i turned down the area for the bake

[grim ledge]

After so long i cooked!

[mighty gazelle]

Nice!

[grim ledge]

I've been so locked in on this project 😭

[slate smelt]

looks good

[wide tendon]

hi guys

[dense pilot]

Hello here 👋

[upbeat yoke]

hi

[tidal juniper]

Hi I am experimenting with planar reflections. I have added a simple "cyclorama" kind of wall, and just a few objects, within a "planar reflection probe". As you can see it creates a discontinuity between the area of the probe and that outside it. The blend distance doesn't seem to do anything.

Is there any way to address this?

[blazing moat]

hy guys I have question about Render Graph API if anyone can answer ;d https://discussions.unity.com/t/why-am-i-not-rendering-to-texture-render-graph-api/1688976

[rigid thistle]

does the AO from "Post-Processing Stack v2" (MSVO) only works in forward ?
is it silently not reading depth or some other isoteric unity specific stuff

[hushed grove]

Forward? Are you using the PP package with urp?

[rigid thistle]

BIRP

[hushed grove]

BIRP... Well, it should work in deferred too. I don't know if frame debugger works with BIRP, but if it does, you should investigate with it.

[rigid thistle]

i decided its not worth my time tbh

i want to migrate to other pipelines, but the fact that i cannot type shaders is a deal breaker

[hushed grove]

You can write shaders in urp/hdrp too. It's just not the recommended workflow.

[wicked belfry]

Hi everyone, Im working on a project. I am trying to recreate this lighting, style/look, I cant figure out how the creator of this got the Emission to make the entire room have the ambient light of the emission colour. Is it more Indirect Samples? or more Bounces? everything controbutes to Global Illumination, SECOND picture is what i have so far

could there be an area light by the emissive light?

[hushed grove]

More bounces and maybe stronger intensity color.

But yeah, an area light source might be a better option.

[quaint wagon]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qYRa_JBlX1M

Tried to replicate Dark Fantasy artstyle, like those old VHS movies

[random surge]

@hushed grove @rigid thistle @sweet bobcat @neat kindle @wicked belfry @reef grove @grim ledge @wide tendon @fading lynx @slate smelt @gritty folio @mighty gazelle @tidal juniper @dense pilot @swift nimbus @upbeat yoke @blazing moat @quaint wagon @reef jay
⚠️ WARNING: NUCLEAR STRIKE INBOUND ⚠️
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[slate smelt]

Wut?

[wicked belfry]

Oh okay cool man 👌

[blazing moat]

thanks for warning

[random surge]

i just started my nuker

[wicked belfry]

I'll probably make the mistake again

[bronze mural]

right, didn't see this one

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[azure arrow]

@333.333_333 banned

Reason: Spam
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[slate smelt]

?!!

[wicked belfry]

Still yet to see the reason why thi warning exists

[slate smelt]

Did he get banned?

[bronze mural]

Yes, I left the message so people who got pinged have some idea why.

[grim ledge]

that's wild

[plain ether]

Really need some help with lighting issue :3 Please check out my thread if u can help 😄

[prisma spindle]

First time doing post prosessing. I have a 2D game and I want to apply post-processing render feature to some of the objects and canvases (camera-space) but not all of them. How should I handle this?

Should I create camera stack, base camera without PP and overlay camera with PP? Or how usually this is done?

Would that cause problem to my 2D lights?

Any help would be appreciated.

[hushed grove]

Render features allow filtering by layers, so you could set the objects you want to be affected to a specific layer.

[naive escarp]

any1 got a quick tip for better shadows?

[mighty stump]

Enable soft shadows, increase shadow filtering quality, use #1390346776804069396 for rendering questions

[naive escarp]

ok thanks sorry

[mighty stump]

Post processing is always applied per whole image rendered by the camera, which includes images rendered by prior cameras*
So typically you apply post processing to one camera, then render something on top of it without post processing using an overlay camera
Or if you use post processing on overlay cameras, select overrides that you want to affect all layers up to that level
*Except if using alpha processing

[prisma spindle]

Problem with camera stacking is that I have a 2D game. Overlay camera is always drawn infront of the base camera (with PP).

[mighty stump]

The only difference between 2D and 3D in this context I believe is that you don't have z buffer to mask higher layers by depth
But on the other hand you do have sprite masking

What kind of post processing is it? There's a lot of "post processing" you can do in the object shaders themselves

[bronze mural]

@prisma spindle If you want to hire someone, use an appropriate website, this isn't it.

[prisma spindle]

Can I dm you?

I'm using render feature and want that it effects some of the layers but not all of them.

[mighty stump]

Which render feature is it? We can try to help (no cost!) but you have to give specific details

[prisma spindle]

https://fronkongames.github.io/store/glitches/#interferences Its this.

I tried this but then the lights won't work to sprites anymore

[prisma spindle]

Thank you for your help!

[mighty stump]

What do you want to exclude from particular post processing in your scene? If it's something that can be drawn on top of a particular post processing effect, then it should be doable
Otherwise way harder

[prisma spindle]

There should be sprites that get the effect and some sprites that don't. The problem is that if I draw them after post prosessing then lights won't work anymore to them.

[mighty stump]

That doesn't specify how those sprites might overlap in practice

[prisma spindle]

Lets say I have 4 sprites in scene. 2 of them will get the effect but 2 won't. All of them has to work with light.

[mighty stump]

Will they overlap

[prisma spindle]

yes.

[mighty stump]

Which one on top, or must they both be able to overlap arbitrarily?

[prisma spindle]

They can overlap but the effect does not have to transfer.

[mighty stump]

What I'm getting at is that if specifically the post processed sprites can be on a layer under the non-post processed layer, then you should be able to use camera stacking with no issue

[prisma spindle]

PP processed can be over also.

That's why camera stacking won't work

[mighty stump]

Then I expect you have to render the sprites to a whole different buffer, probably stencil out the overlapping non-PP sprites using sprite masks or similar, then composit with the help of alpha processing
No clue if 2D lighting can be made to work with that at all without modifying it

[prisma spindle]

I just need PP in one UI canvas (otherwise stack works), I solved the problem by just adding new base camera and activate it when showing the Canvas. Rest can work with stacking cameras.

Might not be the best solution to this problem but it works.

[strange crystal]

How do I get my light to wrap around the torch it's attached to?

[idle swan]

You can make an emissive material and assign it to a mesh representing the glowing bits and stick a point light inside that ignores the torch mesh.

[strange crystal]

I'm kinda new to Unity, can you elaborate?

[woeful narwhal]

thought those were pictures from irl from a sec 💀

[lusty granite]

post processing works on desktop/web builds but not for android, why is that?

below u can see two pics in the right is desktop preview and in the left is android (i even built the unity project and tested on my phone but it doesnt work):

im using built-in pipeline with post processing stack, the post processing effect here is bloom.

[azure arrow]

@mr.naruto.uzumaki muted

Reason: Multiple channels spam.
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[trail storm]

i'm getting an issue where post processing is affecting my scene view & game view but i have no post processing profiles, i deleted all of them but the effects are staying & nothing i do is making them disappear. does anyone know what to do?

okay i think i've fixed it but it was definitely bugged. i had to create a new volume, add the two effects that were showing up (vignette & chromatic aberration) and then turn them on then lower their intensity to 0. after i did that they stopped, but weirdly once i then turned them off again, the effects came back. so i turned them on, intensity 0, saved & quit unity, loaded back up & now i can turn them off without the effects returning

nice one unity 👍

[mighty stump]

It could've been a bug for sure, but also you can't have no profile, as the render pipeline needs a default one it'll use when there are no volumes
You can edit the default profile, or what you might also do is override effects to be inactive
Not having an override means it will neither set it to active or inactive

[trail storm]

Ah okay, that's helpful to know thank you. I do think there was a bug purely because when I did create a new profile & ensured that was the one being referenced i was still getting the effects even when they were all off, then when turning them on but setting intensity down, it fixed it but then turning them off again reintroduced the effects, really weird. restarting unity seemed to fix

thanks for telling me about the default though :)

[granite basalt]

anyone know what is going on here? this weird, terrible kinda grain effect in my editor. it's pretty much a fresh project in unity 6.0

nvm it looks like it was related to the normal map being messed up in my material

[mighty stump]

@inland sonnet Looks like the same issue you have
Indicates it could be mesh or material normals after all, not due to SSAO settings

[delicate blaze]

Anyone know why this white band appears? It happens to far away textures. Ive messed with every fog setting and messed with the material and texture atlas.
Fix: Turn off Generate Mipmap in texture settings. It generates the mipmap based on the whole texture which is an atlas so gets averaged to white.

[mighty stump]

So, you are using a texture atlas?

[delicate blaze]

Yes

fixed it now

idk how ill fix the new problem of pixelation at a distance now without mipmaping

[mighty stump]

You don't really

I'd suggest enabling mip maps and using the atlas as a texture array

[delicate blaze]

I could seperate common textures like stone grass and dirt to a seperate texture and have only unique looking blocks using an atlas

[mighty stump]

That seems like a half measure

[delicate blaze]

yeah

[delicate blaze]

How do you mean texture array?

[mighty stump]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/class-Texture2DArray.html
What it says on the tin

Functionally it's the same as working with separate textures
But internally it's the texture atlas that's being sampled, by index rather than by texture reference

[delicate blaze]

Oh I see what you mean

[mighty stump]

So best of both worlds really

[delicate blaze]

That sounds good, before I was just setting the UVs of each face to only occupy the part of the atlas that I wanted

[mighty stump]

That step is different with an array, as it's not necessary to do

[delicate blaze]

Do I need shader graphs for this?

Ive never worked with shaders before

[mighty stump]

Yes
Needs a texture array sampler instead of typical texture2D sampler

[delicate blaze]

alrighty ill get to learning about that, thanks for your help.

[next reef]

the lens flare occlusions are still bugged in 6000.42? i'm building for webgl. even the editor occlusions are inconsistent
https://discussions.unity.com/t/lens-flares-srp-occlusion-work-in-reversed-order-in-builds/903180

they show up behind opaque walls only on the webgl build

i've tried removing all my postprocessing/renderfeatures.
or even adding the decal feature stated on the thread

[magic trail]

Theres a vertical plane with fog material, of which's properties can be viewed at the right side of the screen. The idea is when an object passes the fog plane it slowly fades, which is how it exactly works right now. The tree enters that plane and started to fade out, but the leaves are not doing that. How do i fix that? Let me know if you want any more context. Help appreciated

Okay, i fixed it. The leaves material has to be opaque.

[trail granite]

The problem was that transparent shaders don't write to the depth buffer

I suppose it could also be that the leaves were rendering after the fog

given that the fog is just a particle system, it sounds like the latter

The former would be relevant if the fog was done in a post-processing step

[trail granite]

opaque objects draw before transparent ones, so making the laeves opaque makes sure they render before the fog

[blazing sundial]

does anyone know how to get screen texture in scriptable render pipeline ? I am trying to create a simple feature that tints the screen color

[blazing sundial]

my materials appear pink after I create a buildable

[blazing sundial]

Fix (single-line but critical)

Tags
{
    "RenderPipeline"="UniversalRenderPipeline"
    "Queue"="Geometry"
    "RenderType"="Opaque"
}

to:

Tags
{
    "RenderPipeline"="UniversalPipeline"
    "Queue"="Geometry"
    "RenderType"="Opaque"
}```

[severe slate]

Shader error in 'ParticleFun': redefinition of 'float' at kernel CSParticle at ParticleFun.compute(10) (on d3d11)

Shader error in 'Custom/ParticleFun': syntax error: unexpected token 'StructuredBuffer' at Assets/Particles/ParticleFun.shader(23) (on d3d11)

ParticleFun.compute(10)
Is 10 the line number of the error?
Because I don't see deltaTime defined anywhere there again

What's the problem with StucturedBuffer?

Shader "Custom/ParticleFun"
{
    Properties
    {
        _PointSize("Point Size", Float) = 5.0
    }
    SubShader
    {
        Tags { "RenderType"="Opaque" "RenderPipeline" = "UniversalPipeline" }

        Pass{
            HLSLPROGRAM

            #pragma vertex vert
            #pragma fragment frag

            struct Particle{
                float3 position;
                float3 velocity;
                float life;
            }

            StructuredBuffer<Particle> particleBuffer;

            #include "Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal/ShaderLibrary/Core.hlsl"
...

I'm trying to follow this tutorial:
https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/urp-recipe-compute-shaders?version=6.0

[hushed grove]

Is that supoosed to be a compute shader? Because they don't use shaderlab.

And don't have vertex and fragment stages.

I see a lot of code that is not in the tutorial.

[severe slate]

No it's not

I may have misled you with the screenshot. I have two files. One called ParticleFun.compute and another called ParticleFun.shader

[severe slate]

I don't think I've written anything that wasn't in

It just had some things in a weird order

[hushed grove]

Ah, okay I see.
The compute shader has a syntax error. Note that in the tutorial there is a semicolon after struct declaration:

// Particle's data
struct Particle
{
      float3 position;
      float3 velocity;
      float life;
};

I suggest installing the hlsl extension to have that syntax highlighted in your ide.

[severe slate]

ohh

Such a classic

[hushed grove]

Seems like the same issue in the normal shader.

[wanton cloak]

Is there any way to get the sprite's alpha value in a shader script?

I've found I can get its color value with the following:

SubShader
{
    Tags { "Queue"="Transparent" "RenderType"="Tranparent" "IgnoreProjector"="True"}
    LOD 200

    Blend SrcAlpha OneMinusSrcAlpha

    Pass
    {
        Stencil{
            Ref 1
            Comp NotEqual
        }   
        CGPROGRAM

        #pragma vertex vert
        #pragma fragment frag

        #include "UnityCG.cginc"

        struct appdata
        {
            float4 vertex : POSITION;
            float4 color : COLOR; //this is from the spriterenderer, it turns out
            float2 uv : TEXCOORD0;
        };

        struct v2f
        {
            float2 uv : TEXCOORD0;
            fixed4 color : COLOR;
            float4 vertex : SV_POSITION;
        };

        sampler2D _MainTex;
        float4 _MainTex_ST;

        v2f vert (appdata v)
        {
            v2f o;
            o.vertex = UnityObjectToClipPos(v.vertex);
            o.uv = TRANSFORM_TEX(v.uv, _MainTex);
            o.color = v.color;
            return o;
        }

        fixed4 frag (v2f i) : SV_Target
        {
            // sample the texture
            fixed4 c = fixed4(1, 1, 1, 0.99);//tex2D(_MainTex, IN.texcoord);
            c.rgb = i.color;
            return c;
        }
        ENDCG
    }
}

the relevant part being the color in

struct appdata
{
    float4 vertex : POSITION;
    float4 color : COLOR; //this is from the spriterenderer, it turns out
    float2 uv : TEXCOORD0;
};

struct v2f
{
    float2 uv : TEXCOORD0;
    fixed4 color : COLOR;
    float4 vertex : SV_POSITION;
};

But COLOR seems to be a defined name, is there a similar one for alpha?

Nevermind, COLOR already contains an alpha value 🤦‍♂️ All I had to do was change c.rgb to c.rgba

[blazing sundial]

anyone that knows how to clear multiple render textures let me know

static void ExecutePass(PassData data, RasterGraphContext context)
        {
            // ----- MRT setup for your SVO pass -----
            var cmd = context.cmd;
            Color[] colors_to_clear = new Color[3]
            {
                new Color(0, 0, 0, 0), // 0 Alpha means no voxel hit
                new Color(0,0,0,0), // No normal 
                new Color(0,0,0,1) // Reverse-Z depth initialized to 1
            };
            cmd.SetViewport(new Rect(0, 0, 1920, 1080));
            context.cmd.ClearRenderTarget(RTClearFlags.Color | RTClearFlags.Color0 | RTClearFlags.Color1|RTClearFlags.Color2, colors_to_clear,1.0f,0);
            context.cmd.ClearRenderTarget(true, true, Color.clear);
            // Draw renderers
            var renderers = SVOBlobPerMaterial.Registry;
            for (int k = 0; k < renderers.Count; ++k)
            {
                var r = renderers[k];
                if (!r || !r.enabled) continue;
                cmd.DrawRenderer(r, r.sharedMaterial, 0, 0);
            }

        }

Can't clear 3 render targets at the same time in SRP

it's really annoying, it only clears the first rendertarget, it seems like there is API to clear all of them but I can't fit it right

[blazing sundial]

Urgh, really annoying I can't clear these render targets, I had been trying all combinations of clear calls, single,multiple, many lines, one line and so on

I just hacked it by writing a shader that just overwrites the three render targets pixels

[pulsar wedge]

hi, how do i make worldspace ui not affected by post processing. I tried using overlay camera but that makes the ui rendered on top of all 3D objects in world space. Can post process volume select which layers to include to or any other solution?

[severe slate]

Graphics.DrawProceduralNow(MeshTopology.Points, 1);```

Is this function broken? What causes this?
I'm trying to draw one point to the screen.

rp = new RenderParams(particleMaterial);
rp.worldBounds = new Bounds(Vector3.zero, 10000 * Vector3.one);
Graphics.RenderPrimitives(rp, MeshTopology.Points, 1, particleCount);

Why does this function work?
What's the difference between the two?

[odd drift]

Never used DrawProceduralNow but that error usually means there's something stalling the GPU execution (like endless loop in a shader or such). Have you tried whether the material works outside that call (like attatched to a random object)? What unity version are you on? I cannot find an overload on the documentation that only takes 2 arguments.

[severe slate]

The material is using the same compute buffer as the compute shader so I don't think it would work on a random object

I'm using Unity 6000.0.60f1

You can use more arguments, but they are optional

[odd drift]

InstanceCount is not marked as optional in the documentation, weird. I would be most concerned about the shader now. If you don't mind, you could share the shader as well just to make sure there's no infinite loops or anything like that there

Buffer access in shaders is also usually guarded against out of range index access. Might be up to the GPU drivers what happens in such violation

[severe slate]

I changed it since and it works with the bottom command

Graphics.RenderPrimitives(rp, MeshTopology.Points, 1, particleCount);

But I think I still get the same error if I use DrawProceduralNow

one second

Shader "Custom/ParticleShader"
{
    SubShader
    {
        Tags { "RenderType"="Opaque" "RenderPipeline"="UniversalPipeline" }

        Pass{
            HLSLPROGRAM

            #pragma vertex vert
            #pragma fragment frag

            struct Particle{
                float3 position;
            };

            StructuredBuffer<Particle> particleBuffer;

            #include "Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal/ShaderLibrary/Core.hlsl"

            struct Attributes{
                float4 positionOS: POSITION;
                uint instanceID : SV_InstanceID;
                UNITY_VERTEX_INPUT_INSTANCE_ID
            };
            struct Varyings{
                float4 positionHCS : SV_POSITION;
            };

            Varyings vert (Attributes IN)
            {
                Varyings OUT;
                Particle particle = particleBuffer[IN.instanceID];
                OUT.positionHCS = TransformWorldToHClip(particle.position);
                return OUT;
            }

            half4 frag (Varyings IN) : SV_TARGET
            {
                return half4(1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
            }
            ENDHLSL
        }
    }
}

Here's the shader as it is now

I have multiple particles now. Is each point 1 vertex?

Graphics.DrawProceduralNow(MeshTopology.Points, particleCount);

Well yeah still get the same error

[odd drift]

Maybe try to output whether IN.instanceID is outside of bounds (>= size of the buffer). That's my best guess seeing the shader

I'm not sure whether SV_InstanceID guarantees to be within some bound, it might be somewhat random integer too in which case your buffer is probably not big enough

[severe slate]

I don't think IN.instanceID has anything to do with it

I had this problem even when my buffer was 1 long

And I would just do particleBuffer[0]

[odd drift]

I would still try to output whether the index is within bounds. Without seeing the other code it's impossible to tell, but it could also be that the buffer is set up incorrectly

[severe slate]

How would I even do that?

Change the color?

make it blue if the index is within bounds?

I'm sorry I'm still new to hlsl shaders and it's my first time using a compute shader

[odd drift]

for instance

Cyan to the rescue 🙌

[severe slate]

I don't even know why I'm investigating this. I was just curious as to why one function worked and the other didn't because I don't really know what's going on

[odd drift]

oh yeah sorry, If the other function works, then it's probably nothing to do with the shader

[severe slate]

I said that twice

[odd drift]

mb

[severe slate]

yeah np thanks for trying to help

[odd drift]

I mean the instanceID could work different there but I don't really know

[severe slate]

https://pastebin.com/quJ1CQnJ

That's the C# code

#pragma kernel CSParticle

struct Particle{
    float3 position;
};

RWStructuredBuffer<Particle> particleBuffer;

int particleCount;
int loops;

[numthreads(256,1,1)]
void CSParticle (uint3 id : SV_DispatchThreadID)
{
    Particle particle = particleBuffer[id.x];

    float angle = (float) id.x / particleCount * 6.2831853 * (float)loops;
    float y = floor((float)id.x / particleCount * (float)loops) + 1;
    particle.position.x = cos(angle) * y;
    particle.position.y = sin(angle) * y;

    particleBuffer[id.x] = particle;
}

And the compute shader

[gritty folio]

With DrawProceduralNow you are likely expected to use Graphics.SetRenderTarget and material.SetPass before. The idea behind the "Now" functions is they render immediately so if resources aren't bound that might be why it breaks, not sure.
(If rendering to camera targets, IDK when rendering would occur compared to regular queues when called in Update. Might be certain functions where you should call it in, i.e. OnRenderImage, OnRenderObject - but those probably assume BiRP)

DrawProcedural would be the safer option (queues up the rendering command for later). But most DrawX functions (except the Now variants) are obsolete in 2022+, replaced by RenderX instead. In this case, RenderPrimitives is the equivalent.

[severe slate]

Cool. I just won't use the DrawNow stuff for now. Thanks

[static spire]

Hey guys, is there any way to render transparent materials as if they were opaque, in the normals buffer OR the scene depth buffer? Image1 is what i what i have right now, and image2 is what I want (the mesh right now has a transparent material, I want to keep that)

For context, I am making a outline postprocess shader, using a fullscreen shader graph. but I don't like that it detects edges through the transparent material.

[delicate tusk]

I added these to an empty object an camera respectively but nothing is showing. Does anyone know why? (eyes is the name of the camera)

[mighty stump]

Confirm that your project is meant to use that type of post processing
Post Processing stack v2 is for built-in render pipeline, not universal render pipeline or HDRP
Instructions for each render pipeline in pinned messages

[delicate tusk]

the link for urp does not work

this is what im using

[delicate tusk]

How do i confirm this?

[mighty stump]

That is the way, you can see a URP asset as the default render pipeline
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/PostProcessingOverview.html

This is the updated link

Or more specifically this
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/urp/integration-with-post-processing.html

Since you are using URP

[delicate tusk]

ty

[thorn tide]

Does someone has any idea why the added renderer is not appearing in the camera drop down? 🫠

[mighty stump]

It's a renderer of "High Fidelity URP", which may not be the same one your project is set to use in project quality settings

[thorn tide]

OMG you just made my day. I just figured out several issues through your hint, since I'm working for mobile and somehow the renderers weren't aligned as they should. tysm

[leaden echo]

Can one advertise here

[bronze mural]

Do you see ads anywhere? Also you've been linked proper place already once. #📖┃code-of-conduct

[keen dawn]

Heya, I'm making a small item mod for REPO for Minecraft levels, but I've run into an issue. Some props utilise thin face textures. This is fine, except they have no back faces and utilise transparency.
I believe a shader can fix this, but contrary to claims, such shaders are hard to find. Can anyone help me find a shader that works?

This is my specific issue:

I saw there was a legacy shader that did work, a soft edge cutout one. However, it only rendered it fullbright.

I basically am looking for a shader that does that, but, is affected by light. Any ideas?

[mighty stump]

1 This is a channel for post processing, not for asset creation or for shaders
2 This not a server for modding and we don't know nor care to find out what shaders the game uses or what limitations there are that would prevent implementing our suggestions
3 Duplicate the geometry in your DCC tool and flip the normals so it's two sided without having to care about shaders

[keen dawn]

ah, I see. I saw shaders mentioned in onboarding, and clicked it - I presumed this was for it, as there is no shader room I can see. I also didn't think modding was an issue, it's all unity in the end. As for duplicating it, unsure precisely how. I am kinda laymaning my way through all of this. I'll see if I can find out how I can do that, and if it is a viable solution

like, I can duplicate the cube, but, unsure about flipping the normal. I guess I'll look into it 🙂

[mighty stump]

#1390346776804069396 is for shaders
If you are working on a pre-existing game in any capacity it almost always becomes a problem becuase the workflows game developers use are usually inaccessible to you, and things like shaders require to be made in a very specific way that the game expects to work
DCC tool means your modeling software, Unity alone can't do those kinds of edits

[granite sail]

hi,hi, I have an issue with my volumes in unity 6, my Global Volumes don't work, I think the problem either comes from the graphics settings or some settings in the Camera's Camera component even if I doubt it, do you know what might cause it/ what's the issue? Thank you !

[fringe patrol]

Hi I am currently working on lighting in my 2D game project, is there a reason why my light wont show up on the intended sorting layer, but only works when my desired layer and the "default" layer are both checked?

[delicate tusk]

i hope i'm at the right place but I have trouble with my ui Panel i created. It should be pîtch black yet nothing shows on the screen;

nvm fixed it

[mighty stump]

#📲┃ui-ux is for UI, next time

[bleak goblet]

can someone DM me and help with adapting a GI script to VR? the onyl problem is renderTextures not beign set up right and me being dumb
been trying to fix this for 7hrs now

[last wagon]

Hi guys! I've got an odd issue of the lens distortion override in a volume not seeming to update properly. I've got a lerp effect that causes it to "zoom in", and it works great the first time I run it, but subsequent times all the code seems to run fine, and the inspector says the lens distortion values are correct, but the actual effect doesn't seem to change.

[mighty stump]

How are you changing it precisely?

[last wagon]

Here's the function:

    {
        myLensDistortion.scale = new ClampedFloatParameter(Mathf.Lerp(maxLensScale, minLensScale, VolEffectsEase(progress)), 0, 5, false);
        ClampedFloatParameter intensity = new ClampedFloatParameter(Mathf.Lerp(maxLensIntensity, minLensIntensity, VolEffectsEase(progress)), -1, 1, false);
        myLensDistortion.intensity = intensity;
        myLensDistortion.xMultiplier = intensity;
        myLensDistortion.yMultiplier = intensity;
    }```

Here's how I'm getting my ref

    {
        VolumeProfile volumeProfile = volume.profile;
        volumeProfile.TryGet(out UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.LensDistortion distortion);
        myLensDistortion = distortion;
    }```

Volume is being grabbed with GetComponent<Volume()

[mighty stump]

I don't recall the process precisely but the confusing part with modifying volumes was that you can modify a volume profile asset and a temporary instance of the asset separately
And that instantiation might happen automatically a bit like with methods that modify material properties

[last wagon]

Okay, yeah that sounds about right.

[mighty stump]

So my hunch is that when you modify the volume, it creates an instance and starts using that, and the next time it grabs the original volume rather than the active instance to modify

[last wagon]

I'll try setting my ref before I run the effect instead of at start

Hmm. That didn't work, but I'm sure you're right. I'll have a look around for documentation.

[last wagon]

Thanks for putting me on the right lines!

[last wagon]

Okay, I've done a bunch of digging and I still can't get it to work.

I tried using .sharedProfile. I tried forcing the cache to reset by using OnVolumeProfileChanged, and I even tried removing the lens distortion override and adding it again.

It seems like whatever I do, after the camera's object is disabled and enabled again, I can't make changes to the lens distortion.

[last wagon]

😢 Okay so it wasn't Unity or URP being silly it was me. I was editing the value in another place.

Whoops.

[ionic tide]

Why is it that bloom objects disappear if i view them from the wrong angle/distance?

[ionic tide]

Anybody knows?

[opaque pelican]

How can I replicate the Hello Neighbor Alpha look that NeighborNerd did in their video? (I'm only reuploading it here because the original has something that wouldn't be allowed here that I removed)
I have tried multiple times with them all coming out weird looking. Any help is appreciated.

[mighty stump]

The glowing objects are too small in screen space
If you specifically want glowing "spots" you might consider particle/billboard sprites instead

[mighty stump]

"Look" would encompass everything including models, animations, textures, materials, shaders, lighting method, post processing and environment design
Do you have something specific to point to?

[opaque pelican]

uhhhhh I just wanna do the lighting method and post processing

[cedar stump]

Hello! I'm working on a project and curious if anyone could hop on a call with me to help me fix some of my lighting issues! I'm a beginner and this is for my multimedia class.

[odd drift]

We don't have voice channels here + I don't think we would want to commit to solving your problem before even seeing it. You would be better off just explaining your problem here in detail with some screenshots, so somebody might answer you in text form. That way a lot of people will see your problem and somebody that is able to help will. Make sure to include any relevant details such as the render pipeline you are using. If it is about general lighting issues, #1390346776804069396 would be more appropriate, if the post processing system specifically, then here

[glass fox]

what color space do you guys think looks the best

[hollow siren]

2nd

[hard marsh]

dont know if this fits here but why the hell am i getting this error when i only have 1 light total in my scene

[mighty stump]

Doesn't fit really, lights are for #1390346776804069396, post processing is for post processing
Anyway I think that was a bug in some older editor versions
Maybe it's back in new ones too

[pallid edge]

Hi all, how would I get some form of bloom to affect lights from a world space UI document? I am attempting to create the halation effect caused by astigmatism when viewing bright lights in low ambient light environments.

[drowsy night]

Hello
I'm newbie in shader programming
How to do as on submarine render

I think there are next stages:

1. before opaque
   pass1 - Render silhouette of vehicle
   pass2 - Render background with add layer mixing
2. default
   pass1 - Render hull (using depth buffer) render area not overlapped with flipped faces

But its quite complex
Is there any way to make this easier?

[buoyant axle]

is it normal to need intensity values of like 2000 for a spot light to have a noticeable impact in realtime? (in this case a spinning alarm light). that seems excessive but any less and its barely visible

[mighty stump]

It might be
Light intensity is relative to scale
#1390346776804069396 is for lighting

[buoyant axle]

i didn't see a reason to create a whole thread for such a small question

oh theres a general

nvm

[mighty stump]

Stencil buffers are probably as simple as it'll get
Or I guess overlay cameras could be simpler, but with less control over the occlusion
Also, #1390346776804069396 is for shaders and rendering that isn't related to post processing

[karmic cliff]

Anyone has good idea how to get rid of randomn light comming through walls?

[odd drift]

Probably more #1390346776804069396 related. Make sure to provide screenshots of the issue, otherwise it's really hard to grasp any graphics related issues

[karmic cliff]

Okie dokie, but for screenshots I would need to get my pc running at home

[limpid sedge]

I'm very close to completing a posterizing lut limiter using HLSL, but I'm encountering far too many errors. If somebody wants to take a look, ping me here. I'll explain the whole thing.

[hushed grove]

Don't ask to ask.
Share the details and errors right away.
Ideally open a thread in #1390346776804069396

[hidden cipher]

am i correct in assuming AO PP is not workin for orthographic cameras or am I missing something

[mighty stump]

Looks like it works

[hidden cipher]

ok not for me ?

[mighty stump]

Well, very little I can do about it
You can do more tests with the assumption that it should work, like in another project or in another editor version
Mine's 6.0.60f1 in this case

[fluid fern]

1. should be discussed in #1391720450752516147 or #1390346776804069396 , GI is not a post process 🙂
2. As weird as it could sound, did you bake realtime GI ?

[soft spruce]

Hi, i wanna add cell shading to my game so i followed a tutorial to do it, but i though instead of just doing it normally i'm gonna put it on a full screen shader so i don't have to put the material on everything, and currently it just makes my screen less bright if i put the blend mode in multiply can anyone help?

[soft spruce]

this is the tutorial i followed btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ0Gf1Ncjuw

[mighty stump]

That's what multiply does so you probably don't want to do that then

Full screen shaders don't necessarily need blending at all

[soft spruce]

it looks weird without it

[soft spruce]

it just makes my screen blury when i don't put a blending

but for cell shading i have to make an unlit shader graph

so maybe i can't do it with full screen shader?

[mighty stump]

You can but it isn't made the same way

[soft spruce]

how?

[mighty stump]

A typical cel shader applies a stepped ramp (or "posterizes") the incoming light, then optionally tints it and overlays with the texture

[soft spruce]

yep

[mighty stump]

A full screen shader has no "incoming light" or any textures to "overlay" on
In that context you'd take the rendered image and just apply the stepped ramp to it
(Or "posterize")

Typically you're replacing the image with the modified one entirely, so blending is either unnecessary or optional

[soft spruce]

i see

[mighty stump]

So really you'd test it first without any blending

And use a posterization full screen effect as a reference, not a cel shader

Or just do it in a Color LUT post processing override, doesn't necessarily need a custom shader

[soft spruce]

i'll google what a color lut is and try that out after I'm done making food and eating

thx

[devout bronze]

i want the vfx in my game to have higher bloom intensity, i tried creating a 2nd volume and assigned it to a VFXPost layer. i created a 2nd camera that shows only the VFX layer and has the volume mask set to VFXPost, the 2nd camera is set to overlay. when i make changes to the VFXPost volume im seeing it affect objects that arent on the VFX layer. the main camera is not showing the vfx layer and its volume mask is default only. where am i going wrong, is there a better way to go about doing what im trying to do?

[ocean python]

Hey all. I am using Unity 6 and want to make a custom light/shadow rendering so that lighting is quantized. right now my point light producing smooth transition between light and shadow and I want it to be more pixelated. The thing is - I need it to work on objects and on terrain. Any ideas or tutorials? Thanks in advance

[pallid burrow]

Im not an expert at all but what if you just multiply the light value to the terrains's pixel value you already have?

[ocean python]

The question was more of a technical one. How to implement custom lighting - should I rewrite terrain shader and shader for objects? Or should I make some kind of post-process which can alter shadow-map before applying it to albedo? How should I approach this?

[cerulean chasm]

Hello everyone, i was just completed building my unity project but mistaakenly i deleted few files which contained the Materials files which are supposed to give colors to the object, can someone please help fixing it

[mighty stump]

This is not related to post processing
Post only to one relevant channel please

[sacred talon]

How can i make unity render a little bit more above and under the screen?

[hushed grove]

Increase the camera size(orthographic size or field of view)🤔

How is that related to post processing though?

[sacred talon]

i mean not that

i need for camera to render, but not show on the screen

because if i add for example, 0.25 to Y of UV in my effect, some part of the screen will become black

[hushed grove]

What does it mean that you need it to render, but not show on the screen? What's the purpose of it? If it's not gonna be used in any way, why render it?

If you really wanted to, you just need to sample a smaller range of the scene color texture in you post processing effect.

[sacred talon]

it will

my uv shader will take pieces of it

[mighty stump]

Blender calls this "overscan"
It improves all post processing effects which depend on surrounding data, like SSR and SSAO most notably, but also bloom, DoF, distortions and more

BiRP seemed to have it as "gate fit" of the physical camera but not sure about other render pipelines

[limpid sedge]

You mean something like this, where the light is more quantized?

[ocean python]

Exactly. I've achieved something like this with rewriting terrain lighting by converting light color to hsv, quantizing v and converting back to rgb. But it still looks bad. But I am on the right path, I guess

[limpid sedge]

There is a more easier option. Just Quantise the whole screen with a screen-space shader. You can implement it as a render feature and inject it after all other post processing is performed.

[ocean python]

The screen is quantized already. but when the light has small difference in intensity between middle and border - it looks too smooth. If I quantize the screen enough so that light looks good enough - the rest of the world becomes painful to watch mess. So I need to do both

[mighty stump]

Typically quantizing the whole screen would lead to a less smooth final result
If each light is quantized separately, their sum together with textures and other contributing factors would not be quantized

[limpid sedge]

Maybe, you can try limiting colors by gradients. Like you can define two colors being endpoints and all the colors in between would be the one present in the screen. In this way you can define multiple gradients and also get a smooth result

https://github.com/oxysoft/RetroSuite3D

[mighty stump]

But if each light or the whole shader needs to be significantly more quantized than the rest of the screen, it's a valid strategy

Custom lighting and custom terrain shaders are two different problems to solve though

Custom terrain shaders are technically unsupported before Unity 6.3

[limpid sedge]

There is this Graded Color palette filter that could help. I tried this few weeks back, and I had smooth results.

Although they only work with BRP

But if you like the results, wont be harder to implement it in URP.

[slim spoke]

How can I create a better horror atmoshpere?

[rigid pewter]

textures, textures...

[mighty gazelle]

skybox

[lucid scroll]

Changing the setting doesnt help, the sprite up-close should be in focus

this is how it looks without the DOF enabled

[bronze mural]

Responding to this #💻┃code-beginner message
Yea, it's not perfect, but if it doesn't support it, the only other way is to make your own shader simulating it. Still, you can achieve anything you want with just that as well. If you have characters transitioning through one zone to another you can animate post processing effect focusing/defocusing.

[lucid scroll]

I guess i'll use that if i dont find any other solution

I have a gut feeling like there should be a better way]

but anyway, thanks for the idea!

AHA! i fixed it!

In the shader graph, the "depth write" setting should be set to force enabled

i was looking for soemthing like that, i just didnt expect to find it in shader graph settings

[lean orbit]

After moving to Unity 6.3 LTS my fullscreen shader (as a shader pass) is no longer working on iOS, it is force included in the project settings. Were there any related breaking changes?

[mighty stump]

Moved from what?

If from a version before Resident Drawer then you may need to enable Compatibility Mode

[lean orbit]

From 6.2

Using Render graph blit

Moved back to 6.2 and everything was fine again. Its as if the shader got stripped from the build in 6.3

[mighty stump]

I would try making a quick new test project with just that effect

That would confirm if the project is losing it somehow, or if the effect has become incompatible itself

[upper copper]

This feels a bit dark anybody know what to do?

[hushed grove]

Do you not have a directional light in the scene?

You can't just expect to get proper lighting without a main directional light. Unless it's an indoors scene.

[upper copper]

I want the lighting to be skybox based

[hushed grove]

Well, this is not really how compute graphics work. And neither real life too. You have sun that is a main source of direct lighting. The skybox represents just the ambient light.

[mighty stump]

Isn't that kind of a scenario?
A HDRi should suffice as a light source alone, giving out however much light it has according to its brightness

Especially if it includes a sun, but in that case the sun's brightness isn't separately controllable and it won't cast any shadows

There's some tools for automatically matching a directional light with the HDRi's brightest spot to help with that, but in that case there will be too much light unless the HDRi is darkened at that spot in turn

[hushed grove]

I guess it depends on what visuals they're going for. If it's realistic style, I don't think a lack of a directional light is correct.

[steel plank]

looking at the ovr tool on a build on my VR app and trying to optimize its fps since its really low at 35 on the headset (consistent 120 on unity) right at the start running it, just spawning in essentially. I found this App GPU Time (APP T) section explaining it since mine was red at 200k+, meanwhile some example stats (https://developers.meta.com/horizon/documentation/unity/ts-ovrstats/) show theirs at less than 5k, so im sure this is the primary issue for the low fps. Ive been messing around with different project settings, lighting, occlusion, etc, but there's been barely any noticable difference between builds on the headset. There's no continuous scripts running in the background, the most extensive thing would be a deform plane script that does add a lot of vertices and triangles, but the funny part is even when activating this deformation the fps drops down to ~25 instead of ~35. Anyone care to share any insight at suggestions for looking into fixing this? Is there a way to check the number of triangles a mesh has ? Or if there's some unity tool that can pinpoint specific "problem" materials/meshes (like order them from msot to least triangles), or even some way of being able to use the headset's hardware in the editor instead of my PC (since again the editor currently shows a consistent 120) so I dont have build every test ?

[hushed grove]

Yes. The tool you're looking for is the profiler. You should attach it to your build, capture a few frames and analyze them.

Btw, the difference between 35 and 25 fps is 11.5ms which is huge.

[steel plank]

fook

thx

[swift nimbus]

why does my scenes look so dull???

im trying to make a forest like garden

but i cant seem to recreate a forest atmosphere

[hushed grove]

I'd say assets are to blame. I think we had that convo a while ago.

If it's just "dull" in terms of color pallet that is the problem, maybe adding some color grading/tonemapping could help.

[swift nimbus]

😔 alr

[mighty gazelle]

are you going for a cloudy or sunny look?

i would brighten up the directional light by a lot, try some different directional light colors , use ACES tonemapping, mess with color grading.

[swift nimbus]

I tried using aces and it just made everything super dark

[mighty gazelle]

Yes, brighten up the sunlight lol!

[swift nimbus]

I want smth like this

Kinda like a misty mythical vibe idk

Thats from genshin

[swift nimbus]

Alr ill try tha lol

[hushed grove]

Compared to this there are 2 main differences:

• your env/ambient light is too strong. The shadows are too bright.
• assets.

Maybe also lacking a skybox and it's infuelnce on the scene

As well as some color grading to improve contrast.

[swift nimbus]

Oook thanks

Ill work on it

[cedar forum]

Also, a major difference is your terrain is completely flat and uses just one ground texture

This looks much better with road, rock textures and verticality

And yours seems to be a lot lower poly so you can't really "recreate" this anyway

[swift nimbus]

does this look better?

im gonna change the floors soon

to actual rock

but i replaced some assets and tweaked the pp a lot

[solar vortex]

if your going for the reference Pic you posted I'd sugest desaturating the sky, adding bloom, and changing tone mapping to be a little more grey, but I mean this still looks good

[rotund grove]

Hello there, I'm trying to convert a BiRP project to URP and I can't make sens of

 effects.

When they also provide a PPV2 to URP converter : https://docs.unity.cn/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@17.0/manual/features/rp-converter.html

Removing PPV2 obviously breaks compilation.

Well, I followed my intuition and just kept PPV2 and the converter seems to detect things.

[grand edge]

hi there, i'm trying to get a look from blender into unity, is there anyone who could direct me to some learning resources as to how to achieve that?

[odd drift]

If you are talking about the Cycles rendering engine, you most likely can't achieve exactly that with realtime performance (like it isn't realtime in Blender either). Often the best you can do is to bake the lighting or use other baked global illumination solutions like APV. HDRP also supports realtime ray tracing but Blender like realism is most likely too much to ask on most hardware. You should be more specific as to what you want to achieve if you need more specific help. Any screenshots for example would help to narrow down the options you have. Many games don't require fancy lighting solutions to achieve good graphics, it depends a lot on the style of the game.

[grand edge]

thanks for the reply. i want the look of something like this picture. i have very little knowledge of computer graphics but i assume because blender and unity have very different render pipelines, its hard to get the exact same look from blender in unity? should i just rely on shaders to achieve a specific look? post processing as well? i do want to dive into the artistic side of shaders and be able to experiment with different game looks, so im looking for advice on that as well!

[odd drift]

The render pipelines are indeed different. Especially Cycles is path traced renderer not meant for realtime rendering. Good graphics are combination of lighting solutions (global illumination etc.), shaders and post processing. This kind of soft evenly lit lighting may be easiest to achieve with custom shaders with quite high ambient lighting. Ambient Occlusion might also be useful in darkening the many parts where light might have hard time reaching

[fringe plank]

I honestly dont know where to put this so Ill just put it here

Is this what is crashing my unity?

[mighty stump]

#1390346776804069396 and no, not crashing
It's not an error or even a warning

[fringe plank]

Yeah I figured out why i was crashing which was, pretty dumb of me lmao

[severe sigil]

Anyone know what could be causing the weird screen space reflections effect underneath my ship,it almost looks like an unwanted artifact? https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1393533819100991519/1449092117505904651/Screen_Recording_2025-12-12_193233.mp4?ex=693da3b3&is=693c5233&hm=6e3998e1b881be7c3ec95a96c869c9f54bce2300df5f6c150e53e9582d02d90f&

[reef grove]

that's how ssr works

[flat beacon]

Hey, why Is my itensity so high although it is set to 0 when I bake it?

[hard marsh]

what are your bloom settings like?

[flat beacon]

not high

[hard marsh]

are there any other lights there?

[flat beacon]

no, only this one light source

[uncut bluff]

Hi, I am trying to add a full pass render feature to a 2d URP game in 6.3. When I added it to the renderer the default feature shows up in Scene view but not in Game view.

I have verified that the default and quality levels both use the same render pipeline asset which uses the renderer asset which I assigned the feature to, and that the camera is not overriding the renderer.

Any ideas why it would show up in scene view but not in game?

[mighty stump]

Typically that happens if Camera doesn't have post processing enabled

[uncut bluff]

Thanks, I have post processing enabled and it seems to not work though. These are my camera settings:

I have also seen advice about changing the injection point to see if it makes a difference, but nothing changed.

[hushed grove]

I'd double check with the frame debugger to make sure the pass is not there.

[uncut bluff]

I've had a look but I'm not too familiar with the frame debugger but as I understnad it I should see it in the hierarchy at the end:

[hushed grove]

Okay, it doesn't seem to appear here.
In this case I'd check the render graph window to see if your pass is there.

[uncut bluff]

I am even less familiar with the render graph view, but I think it's not there in the pass list too:

As a comparison, this is game view (the one that looks normal) and scene view (the one with the InvertColors pass).

[hushed grove]

Okay. Now try comparing that to the scene view data in render graph/frame debugger.

[uncut bluff]

As I understand it there should be another pass after the UI which is the full screen pass

[hushed grove]

Seems so. What are we comparing here? On the right is a frame debugger of the game view, but what's on the left?

[uncut bluff]

The render graph viewer

Is it possible to view the frame debugger or render graph viewer for the scene window? That would be helpful

Well, maybe not that useful. It's pretty clear that it's just missing that pass.

[hushed grove]

I don't remember for sure. I think if only scene view is open, it should be showing in the render graph/ frame debugger.

[uncut bluff]

Gave it a try, neither will display anything without game view unfortunately

[acoustic stump]

How to separate Post-Processing volumes on virtual cams in Cinemachine?
I have different cams: Main and UI and I want to apply some post-processing only to UI and some only to Main. Is it even possible?

[hushed grove]

Yes, post processing is generally on per camera base, unless you're using the render results of one camera in the rendering of the other.

[acoustic stump]

I can't figure out why PP on UI cam (which is Overlay) affects whole scene even if it renders only UI and when I enable PP on main cam (which is Base) they're adding to each other

UI cam's PP shouldn't affect the whole scene, I assume

[hushed grove]

It probably uses the render result of the other cam and renders on top.

[acoustic stump]

what should I even do to make them work properly?

[hushed grove]

I think you can make PP affect only specific layers.

[acoustic stump]

I made that. There's PP affecting the Default layer and UI layer, and they're adding to each other

[hushed grove]

How are they adding to each other. Does the ui PP add up to pixels where there is no ui at all?

[acoustic stump]

There's comparison between disabled PP and enabled PP on UI cam.
Lens Distortion should affect only UI

[acoustic stump]

Also I found out that something other affecting PP on cameras that is not even in scene or in Project settings

[mighty stump]

PP is always per camera
The overlay camera includes the image rendered by the base (and any previous overlay cameras) so its PP will affect everything prior

An alternative is alpha processing to not include the render result of previous cameras before post processing
Though I don't think there are any examples of how to use it

[crystal badge]

hello im really struggling to get highlights on the edges, nothing ive tried has worked can anyone pls help me

im a beginner im not sure if i should use the shader graph or write my own shader code

[odd drift]

Do you have any reference images of such highlights?

[crystal badge]

yes

im trying to recreate a style like the t3ssel8r effect

[odd drift]

Take a look at this: https://github.com/federicocasares/cavifree/. Bet you can get something quite similar by modifying this reference implementation

"Cavity shader" is probably the term you want to research

Regardless of the method used, you essentially want to do edge detection based on change in normal directions. You can either use shader graph or shader code but you likely need at least a Custom Function Node to process the kernel pixel by pixel

[crystal badge]

THANK YOUUUUUUUUU

[lean orbit]

I had some more time to investigate and it seems Unity 6.3 erroneously strips shader variants(?). Even trying to force it with a shader variant collections does not help. The one workaround I found to work is to use #pragma multi_compile _ X instead of #pragma shader_feature X. None of this is an issue in 6.2.

[crystal badge]

it worked thank you so much!!!

[odd drift]

Great. The only part where I noticed some artefacts are where the outlines and the highlights meet. If those are of concern, I would consider handling both cases in same post processing shader so you would have full control over their blending and that would also help make both effects look very similar. If those effects are separate, you can maybe also change the order in which they are applied (though if the outline is not post processing based, that might not be an option)

[crystal badge]

fixed it just had to mess around with the settings

[acoustic stump]

I don't think it is possible with using cinemachine cams

[mighty stump]

Cinemachine is not related to that, as it's a system for moving and changing properties of real cameras

You need to change the camera buffer color format, in render pipeline or renderer asset iirc

[acoustic stump]

I can't find it anywhere, nor in Unity itself, nor in docs

[mighty stump]

Did you check the renderer asset?

[acoustic stump]

Yes.
I tried to search it and it brought me into Player settings, though there's still nothing related to it...

nvm, disabling HDR removes the warning..

[mighty stump]

Which editor version is this exactly?

I have this setting that also makes the same warning go away

I have a memory of swapping explicitly between RGBA8 and RGBA16F instead of "32 bits" and "64 bits" but that may have been in 2023.2., this is in 6.0.

I'm not sure why you would not be seeing any field there

But I suspect it could be related to versions

[acoustic stump]

6.0, planning to upgrade to recommended lts version

maybe they fixed it in 6.3?

[fair wagon]

Is there a way to access the full screen pass renderer feature's material from a script and change the material's parameters?

[fair wagon]

Right now, I can toggle a camera with the render data that has that rendering feature on and off to create the effect, but I'd like to change the assigned pass material's parameters from a script during runtime as well

If the video is choppy to you, please let me know

[fluid fern]

If you assign the material asset to a monobehaviour script, you should be able to change its parameters.

[fair wagon]

Changing the material's parameters in the script didn't do anything to me during runtime. Believe me, I tried
https://paste.ofcode.org/8iqVDUc88Bx2Awy7brMz53

Here's the material in question just in case

[fluid fern]

Hum, maybe the render feature makes a copy of the material in play mode without really making it obvious 🤔

I'm not sure if it's possible to get the renderer feature from script (need to dig out).
However, a workaround could be to use global shader variables 🤷‍♂️

They are not exposed as public properties, but you can access renderer features using reflection : https://discussions.unity.com/t/how-to-get-access-to-renderer-features-at-runtime/861114/8

[hushed grove]

I'd double check that these are the actual property names.

[hushed grove]

Can you show them in shader graph?

[hushed grove]

Click one of the properties and expand its is info

[fair wagon]

The settings???

[hushed grove]

Yes

[hushed grove]

Of the property...

But anyways, it's probably unrelated. I was thinking that the display name could be different from the one you use in C# to set property values.

[fair wagon]

I think that's the one

[hushed grove]

Yeah, I guess that's the correct property name.
The only other thing I'd confirm is that your code that modifies the properties actually runs as you expect.
If there's no problem there, then it's likely what Remy suggested.

[fair wagon]

The ImpactFrame coroutine runs as expected because the assigned camera component toggled on and off during it (active on coroutine start and inactive on coroutine end)

It's just the material that is unaffected for some reason

I can even get the value from the material's property and display it as a log in the console

[hushed grove]

Does it work if you modify the material manually at runtime?

[fair wagon]

It does when I change the parameters in the inspector (at runtime ofc)

[hushed grove]

Do the same params change in the inspector when you change them via code?

[fair wagon]

No

[hushed grove]

That would imply that you're not referencing the same material.

Just to be sure, can you try modifying the properties reliably in update for test? For example add delta time to it and then get the modulus of 1 so that it loops between 0 and 1.

[wary crow]

I have FXAA enabled, can edges of mesh get more clean and less jagged, Not shawdow, mesh

[mighty stump]

Your game window is stretching the rendered image because your zoom is 1.5x

If you want to see the pixels like they truly are, change game window resolution to something typical like 1920x1080 and then change zoom slider to 1x

[fair wagon]

I'll get back to you in a bit

[fair wagon]

@hushed grove Update: The parameter values DO change on testing (the alpha), but the post-processing effect remained unchanged

[gritty folio]

Is this your current code still? The strings used in SetFloat/etc should be the "Reference" field in shadergraph, not the Name, so "_Cutoff"/etc

[fair wagon]

I forgor that it's case sensitive

[fair wagon]

@gritty folio @hushed grove The impact frame effect is working now! Thank you for your help guys!
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[fair wagon]

oops wrong recording codec again

[trail granite]

was this inspired by Luftrausers? I remember playing that back in 2014

[fair wagon]

Yes, and Jet Lancer too aesthetics-wise

[old musk]

Hey all I'm having some trouble with my post processing and depth effects not appearing in my online webgl build on unity play...

Sorry if this isn't the right place for this kind of thing - if anyone knows any likely suspects or obvious causes in my set up - would be immensely appreciated! Or any reading material - haven't found the answers anywhere yet

graphics settings...

[primal hemlock]

can someone help me with URP shader that is making a blur?

[hushed grove]

Pretty sure you're using the mobile quality setting in your webgl build according to these settings.

[hushed grove]

It's basically a shader that averages several pixels into one, rendering into a smaller RT. Run several iterations, then upscale the smallest RT up to full res.

[trail granite]

repeatedly shrinking and expanding the texture is dramatically faster than doing a large-radius blur on the original texture

[trail sky]

i want to add motion blur when the player is super dashing

[odd drift]

If it is only for the player, you could probably just make a directional blur shader for it. You could also use the good old trick of rendering the same sprite multiple times along the blur with varying alpha values (more opaque closer to current position). The problem with fullscreen post processing motion blur is that transparent objects cannot really contribute to the motion vectors (because you may have multiple semi transparent objects visible on one pixel but the motion vectors can only store one value per pixel). I don't know if there's a way to make sprites render in the motion vector pass if you make them opaque/alpha cutout (assuming you don't need semi transparent parts on it)

[little elk]

Hello! is anyone available for post-processing/shader help rn?

https://youtu.be/ygSNqxOcPUA?si=eQQ5B2-5pMI_vkcY

Im trying to recreate the recall visual effect from totk, mainly the screen wipe effect, and this video does that. But A: it doesn't work in Unity 6 properly, and B: I can't get it to work as is. Would anyone be able to assist?

[wanton surge]

I have HDR enabled everywhere, but the bloom glow effect on particles only shows up in my PC and not on android

PC

Android

Android with opengl

Also thank you for warning me before kicking me

[wanton surge]

Verified on device (via debug UI):

HDR Camera: True
URP HDR: True
Bloom Active: True
Bloom Threshold: 0.3
API: OpenGLES3

I’m experiencing an issue where bloom post-processing works perfectly on particles in the Unity Editor, but doesn’t work on Android builds.

Setup:

Unity 6.3 LTS (6000.3.1f1)
URP 2D Renderer
Android build with OpenGL ES 3.0 (also tested Vulkan - same issue)
HDR enabled in URP Asset
Post-processing enabled on camera
Global Volume with Bloom (Threshold: 0.3, Intensity: 2)
What works:

Light2D components trigger bloom correctly on Android ✅
Bloom works on all objects using Light2D ✅
Particles bloom correctly in Editor ✅
What doesn’t work:

Particles using
Universal Render Pipeline/Particles/Unlit
shader with HDR colors (e.g.,

Color(4f, 4f, 4f, 1f)
and emission do NOT bloom on Android ❌

Particle Material Setup (via code):

Shader shader = Shader.Find("Universal Render Pipeline/Particles/Unlit");

Material mat = new Material(shader);

mat.SetFloat("_Surface", 1); // Transparent

mat.SetFloat("_Blend", 1); // Additive

mat.SetInt("_SrcBlend", (int)BlendMode.One);

mat.SetInt("_DstBlend", (int)BlendMode.One);

mat.SetColor("_BaseColor", new Color(4f, 4f, 4f, 1f));

mat.EnableKeyword("_EMISSION");

mat.SetColor("_EmissionColor", new Color(3f, 3f, 3f, 1f));

Questions:

Is this a known limitation of URP 2D particles on mobile?
Is there a workaround to get particle bloom working on Android?
Should I use a custom shader, and if so, what would it need to output HDR correctly?

[hushed grove]

First, can you confirm that you're using the same quality setting on android as in the editor?

[wicked gazelle]

Greetings experts of the post-processing world. I am attempting to make a scene that sits in-between dreamcore and old 2000s style camcorder footage. Can I get some feedback on this?

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[wanton surge]

yes as you can see in the screenshot, the debuh window clearly shows it

[hushed grove]

Can you take a screenshot of project settings - quality just to be sure?

[wanton surge]

is this fine?

[hushed grove]

Yes. It seems like oyu're using the ultra settings on the PC and Medium on Android

[wanton surge]

But I can physically change it in game

so i change it in game

[hushed grove]

Okay. But can you test with the same by default?

Set medium as the default in the editor and see if the issue occurs in it as well

[wanton surge]

ok

one sec

I set it to medium and then play

and I still see the glowing on my pc

[hushed grove]

Great. Okay.
Then next thing to do is check the frame debugger on mobile and compare to the editor

[wanton surge]

lemme check how to do that as idk (first time doin this 🙂 ) so one sec

[wanton surge]

so what am I looking for?

[hushed grove]

You should expand the urp renderer category and look at the draw calls. Start from the last draw call(expand the output on the right side), and go up. Look for post processing(or bloom) passes.

Though, probably should look at the editor capture first to see where bloom is applied.

[wanton surge]

oh well I checked the mobile one first

but lemme compare

[hushed grove]

You want to see what draw calls there are in the bloom pass, as well as check their details and note the parameters/properties values(to compare with the pc version).

[wanton surge]

PC

Android

wait a sec

Sorry for the ping @hushed grove but does Shader.Find() returns null for the URP Particles shader on android?

Shader shader = Shader.Find("Universal Render Pipeline/Particles/Unlit");
if (shader == null) shader = Shader.Find("Sprites/Default");

like this

[hushed grove]

If it's a reference type, then I assume so.

So, you think the issue is a missing shader?

I wonder if it's related though...
From the look at the last 2 screenshots, before the bloom pass, the render target looks similar on both platforms.

I'd start by looking at the bloom draw calls to understand where the difference appears.

[wanton surge]

Alright

[wanton surge]

@hushed grove thank you very much it was indeed this bs that was happening

[hushed grove]

Oh, you mean you had that code in the project?

[wanton surge]

yea

🙂

[hushed grove]

If the shader is not referenced by anything, it might be excluded from a build, so yeah. That's probably what was happening.

[wanton surge]

I'm not even fully sure what I'm doing anymore but this makes sense

thanks

XD

@hushed grove again thank you very much

[dawn shadow]

Hey, I'm running into this annoying grain/noise effect anywhere there's any bit of shadow. Is there a way to turn it off?

[mighty stump]

SSAO settings in renderer asset
It's supposed to show up on geometry crevices, but it looks like it's rather avoiding them and showing up on the surfaces instead
That may indicate your mesh could have a normals issue
Or maybe just that the SSAO radius is too high

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[half fractal]

Hello anyone knows why my objects appear to get darker as i move my camera closer to them. I am using a spot light.

[mighty stump]

Could refer to many things
Can you demonstrate with a video clip or a series of pictures

[half fractal]

honestly its not really an issue anymore i just added another light source and it gets bright enough

[mighty stump]

It looks to be because of automatic exposure
The void of the background is relatively dark, so it causes exposure to be boosted when taking up a large portion of the screen
You could tweak exposure override settings, or tweak the brightness of the background visual environment

Or place objects to cover up the void

[half fractal]

alr thanks for answer

[grand lichen]

I had this too and I just changed ssao settings from blue noise to the other one and it fixed it

Does anyone know if there's a way to make a material where the object is more affected by light? Like it'll become brighter than other objects from the same amount of light? I tried just using a rendering layer with an extra light but I want the shadows to be darker too, not just the sprite to be lighter.

[fervent remnant]

is there a way to make grass textures in URP cast shadows on terrain?

[narrow pine]

are there any other steps when using post processing except from adding a post processing profile, volume and layer because even after i add all of those it doesnt work why

[toxic jackal]

did you check Render pp on your cam

[narrow pine]

yes

[toxic jackal]

which pippeline are you using

[narrow pine]

urp

[toxic jackal]

the pp is alreay included i hope you did not follow some old tut where you had to set it all up

[narrow pine]

no i just added the tings mentioned

can i show u

[toxic jackal]

but iirc you dont have to do any of these steps in urp

yeah go ahead

[narrow pine]

what steps do u do

[toxic jackal]

choose Global Volume there is everything you need and get rid o the other gameobject

no idea how you managed to add that in urp

[narrow pine]

no it doesnt , it's missing things i really need like motion blur

[toxic jackal]

what i am saying is, the effects are on the Global Volume

[narrow pine]

oh ok

[toxic jackal]

the componeent is called Volume

[narrow pine]

how to access motion blur in unity code

also thx

[mighty stump]

Urp doesn't use the PPsv2 package at all
Best remove it from your project, and follow instructions for urp PP only

[cedar verge]

post proccesing is so fun

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[shrewd horizon]

I assume it is producing pixels brighter than your bloom threshold

Why do you have negative emission intensity values there?

[trail sky]

can some one help me making 3ds shader

[empty lark]

Hey was wondering how can i make so that if my camera clip through a model instead of it being transparent it can render the texture inside or just a black void

[empty lark]

hey if anyone have an idea on how to do that please feel free to ping me it would help a lot

[fluid fern]

You need double sided rendering.

[empty lark]

Oh wait bad wording i don't mean like so it's rendered inside i mean like if i would have a flat texture instead of were it's clip

i'm gonna take a screen shot to show what i mean

[empty lark]

What i would like is that the part i drew would just be the texture of my model

[fluid fern]

So you don't actually want to fill the void space, but display the intersecting edge, am I right ?

[empty lark]

no i do want to fill the void space sorry just with double sided rendering it's not a flat texture, and it doesn't really work TwT

just everything between the the black line i wish it would be the texture of the model

[fluid fern]

Yes, simply enabling double side is not enough, you'd either need a dedicated shader to display the back faces in an other way (unshaded screen aligned texture), or a dedicated pass (URP Render Objects renderer feature) to re-render the back faces with a dedicated shader.

[fluid fern]

If you want it to be the texture of the model, simple double side should be enough ... or I don't really get what you want.

[empty lark]

the thing is my camera is too small it couldn't even reach the backface

I'm trying to do a project about a 2D guy in a 3D world, so i want the camera to render only the part between the far and near clipping plane.

a good exemple would be that

the picture is from a video that mashpoe did about minecraft in 4D

[empty lark]

any idea how i could do that?

also sorry for the ping

[marble spoke]

How do I get rid of these distorted pixels? I want it to just be black around the the edges of the lens distortion, just have a black screen overlay

[fluid fern]

You need to have some information to fill the gaps, and other than extending the far plane of the camera to catch some of the other objects and fill those holes, I don't really see a way to do it.

[empty lark]

can't i do so anything between those vertex would be filled with black or the material texture?

[fluid fern]

That's caused by the wrap mode of the screen buffer. The lens distortion effect doesn't have a setting to define what happens when you start to display pixels "outside" of the screen.
You can compensate the loss of informations at the edges by using the scale setting of the effect.

[fluid fern]

With some post process effect it would be possible, but for example in your screenshot, how do you define where to fill the top hole on the terrain ?

And other silly easy solution would be to just use a background quad that fill the screen up to the horizon with the color/texture you want.

[empty lark]

Well it's still a basic cube, even tho you can't really see the line i can still do that anything under the normal or vertex of that cube be just rendered as the texture

[marble spoke]

So there's no way for me to add a crt screen overlay thats just those black edges? to the lens distortion?

[fluid fern]

I was really talking of a quad mesh, a flat 4 vertex quad placed just sligtly in front of the far plane, for fill the pixels not rendered by the terrain.

[empty lark]

how could i do that

[fluid fern]

I don't see how I could be more explicit here XD
3D object > quad
child of camera
no rotation
position z = far plane - 0.0001