archived-urp

[steady vapor]

I was wondering about that since URP doesn't really let you do this afaik

[civic lily]

When i want make 2D light it show Experimental

why?????????

2020 version

[placid laurel]

Because it’s an older version

Newer versions it’s not experimental

It’s not gonna affect anything

[civic lily]

what should i do

[placid laurel]

It’s not going to affect anything

Meaning nothing

Just use them

This isn’t an issue at all

[civic lily]

so how other use 2D light?

[placid laurel]

What

[civic lily]

2D lights

it was released before

URP

i saw videos

all use that

[placid laurel]

Are you able to use lights

Are you able to create a light object

[civic lily]

No it did not work

2D ones

[placid laurel]

Why didn’t you say in the start lol

[civic lily]

lol sorry

it wrote

[placid laurel]

It’s ok

[civic lily]

Freeform light 2D (Experimental)

it is

[placid laurel]

What does it say when you try to make one?

[civic lily]

it is gray and its name is Freeform light 2D (Experimental)

[placid laurel]

Only that light?

Other lights are fine?

[civic lily]

no

all

all is wrong

[placid laurel]

You’re using URP right?

[civic lily]

all is locked

yep

[placid laurel]

Are you using the URP as the pipeline

Hmm

[civic lily]

i use the pipeline asset on graphic setting

[warped skiff]

the pipeline asset needs 2d renderer too

[placid laurel]

Yeah I feel like it’s something with the pipeline asset

[civic lily]

i use that too

[civic lily]

mabye

i create it for so many times

i do it step

by step

bot nothing

[placid laurel]

I thought you just meant it says it’s experimental, didn’t know it didn’t let you create one, so sorry for not being able to help 😬

[civic lily]

np

its a hard one

[placid laurel]

Wrong emoji lol

I can’t find the one I was looking for anymore

[civic lily]

yep

my hand clicked wrong

[placid laurel]

Me to

[civic lily]

it is

[civic lily]

Do you work in a group

?

[placid laurel]

I clicked on this one by accident

No

[civic lily]

ok

[restive wharf]

Hi!
I hope this is the right place to ask about urp shadows- I've googled around for ages and tried reddit for answeres but didn't find any.
I'm doing a toon shader and I want my shadows to be sharp. As you can see they look very low res and pixelated. I played around with shadows cascade count but nothing seems to fix it.
Anyone know how to fix it?

[sleek wagon]

Does URP working with Graphics.DrawMeshInstanced? Im using outline effect which works through URP render feature and all geometry drawing by DrawMeshInstanced and with this combination outline effect doesn't rendering. It works perfectly just in standard game object rendering

[lament olive]

Just followed this brackey's tutorial on making a pixel art outline shader (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqpyXhBIRSw) and i got it to work on the main preview, but then if i actually put it on the scene it looks like i ordered it on wish

is this way of making the shader deprecated or something? I've copied everything from the video and checked that the material values and defaults are the exact same, but it just wont work still

[marble vigil]

The sprite asset's Mesh Type probably needs to be Full Rect

Shaders cannot expand the sprite beyond its mesh edges

[lament olive]

nice, that fixed it

thanks a lot!

[knotty plinth]

Hey guys, what's the simplest way to make a Sprite glow in 3D unity?

[weary citrus]

my friend

do u work with unity

like for a long time

@knotty plinth

[knotty plinth]

2D for a year and a half, just started with 3D stuff today

[weary citrus]

so can u go to untiy talk pls

and help me!

[knotty plinth]

uhh sure I can try, no promises tho

[weary citrus]

#💻┃unity-talk

there

plsss

[knotty plinth]

Yeah I saw it, it's 3D. You probably know more than me in that aspect ._. Sorry mate, hope you'll find what you need tho

[weary citrus]

it ok, ty anyway 🙂

[knotty plinth]

Just so the question doesn't drown, here it is again. Any help greatly appreciated (:

[toxic forum]

@weary citrus Stop crossposting. You don't need to bother people to look at your question.

[weary citrus]

sorry

[placid laurel]

Anyone know why?

[bitter sentinel]

I can't find a global pipeline setting for the PP volume update mode, is it actually possible to set this in the urp settings?

[warm island]

What are you clicking on to see these settings? Normally you would select the Volume gameobject that you've added to scene, then in the inspector set the volume to Global or Local.

[bitter sentinel]

That's a setting on the camera

[warm island]

Hmm. I don't see that option on my URP test scene. Are you sure you're using URP? Check Project Settings > Graphics to see if you have a URP pipeline selected.

[bitter sentinel]

Are you sure you're using URP?
Yep, are you on unity 2021+? That's when that setting got added i think

[warm island]

Ah, I'm using 2020.

[silent charm]

No idea why but if I hit Autogenerate for the lighting, it lights proper, then as soon as I hit play or make a build it goes dark. I kept trying, added bakery and tried with that which sort of worked but that was without real time. I did it again working together with Enlighten, it got stuck at 45% and crashed my entire PC. Waited hours just for that to happen. Tried to auto generate again while having real time on, got stuck at 45% again for 3 hours and errored out saying it couldn't perform external something something for clustering job. After giving up, in scene view the lighting looked fine enough so I made a build and here's how the lighting looks -.- Unity is ruining my game dev experience more and more. I've only had a decent time when in Built-In 2019.

This version is 2021.3.6f1 LTS with the latest URP version.

this is "sort of" what it's supposed to look like https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/976335496672329741/998130148677259294/Screenshot_9.jpg

I have no idea what else to try/do to fix this. and that's just the lighting issue. There's a few others but this one is more important.

my PC specs are 24gb ram, RTX 2060, i7-7700k

[warm island]

I'm not if this is the issue, but URP has three quality settings; Low, Medium and High. The 'default' setting is usually Low even though you might be building the game with High settings.

I wonder if your build is running at Low quality?

[silent charm]

I'll check real quick but it happens even when I hit play. It's almost as if hitting play or building completely undoes my lighting

I've been trying to fix it since 2pm yesterday afternoon. it's now 4:36am XD

[warm island]

Ah, well, time to get some rest and look at it with fresh eyes tomorrow 🙂

[silent charm]

I absolutely will be doing that right after I check the settings real quick ^^

[warm island]

So that looks right. It also seems you can set what quality to use on the Camera > Rendering component.

[dry willow]

That's just for the Anti-aliasing

[warm island]

Oh, yeah. Good grief. I need to rest my eyes too.

[marble vigil]

All quality settings are included in a build, but the default one is used by default
Quality settings don't change how baked lightmaps are displayed

(except in the case of shadow distance when baking with distance shadowmask)

[warm island]

Yes, that makes sense now that I think about it. Unity doesn't create different lightmaps for each quality setting.

[marble vigil]

This might be a bug related to either using deferred rendering, or choice of Lighting Mode (shadowmask, subtractive, etc), I don't recall the specifics

[slate falcon]

Why max shadow quality is very bad in Android build, is there any other setting.

[marble vigil]

Quality settings has default setting tiers defined per platform

[slate falcon]

Ohh I see, let me build again

[marble vigil]

One trick that helps in situations like this is rotating the light around its forward axis, to minimize the jaggies in particular situations

[slate falcon]

Yeh you are right but in my case I can not rotate light

[slate falcon]

Thanks man It worked but now my fps like hell

[slate falcon]

I have removed everything from scene, no light no environment nothing just canvas still getting 15-20 FPS. Please help me.

Build only working fine in editor

[marble vigil]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/profiler-profiling-applications.html

[slate falcon]

tried this but every thing is normal

I have created new project max fps I can get is 30 in empty scene just skybox is it correct behavior?

[marble vigil]

It should tell you what the frame time is spent on

I have no experience with optimizing for mobile but they do have various hardware limits for FPS, and vsync can halve the FPS from that if the target can't be reached

[slate falcon]

How can i check that?

[marble vigil]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Profiler.html

[slate falcon]

Thank you so much

[restive wharf]

Yo I think I know the answer, but it possible to have two URPs in one project?
I want to have two so I can create two different types of shadows

[warped skiff]

not in the same scene I don't think

you can make a different pipeline asset and use it in a different scene

and I think cameras can use different renderer assets too

[silent charm]

I'll have to look into that too then. If it is a bug, I really hope it gets fixed soon because this is absolutely atrocious

[restive wharf]

Thanks, I'll look into that!

[placid laurel]

Does anyone know how to GPU instantiate grass to a dynamically changing terrain, and make the grass positions & rotations change with it?

[silent charm]

Cleared the Gi cache and set the render path to forward instead of deferred and it's doing this crap again.... Stuck at 45% and the timer just keeps going up instead of actually doing the jop it's supposed to -.- Here's hoping that it actually works this time though.

so Enlighten is broken. Turning on Auto Generate (to get this screen) with Enlighten selected causes it to do this bs. changing it to Progressive CPU i've already got more progress.

would be cool to have that Enlighten replacement I keep hearing about XD

wasn't it supposed to be in 2021.1? I'm in 2021.3.6f1

now getting these errors. id 15 and 13

[earnest relic]

Yeah I spent the weekend trying to attack it but no luck. Must be some shennanigans going on there. I will likely just have to try like you mentioned and approach it from the shader, maybe an overlay graphic of some sort to get the effect I want on the characters

[silent charm]

i just noticed this warning. So I deleted my light settings asset and remade it and clicked auto generate but it's still showing this warning?

[quartz basalt]

Help. How can I change the Base Map for my material? It is a URP material. I cant seem to change, it wont change the base map.

[winged token]

whats urp

[quartz basalt]

Universal Render pipeline.

[placid laurel]

Google it

[orchid glen]

Hey we have a custom lighting pass and would love to disable the unity default shadow pass. Seems it's a lot more difficult to disable than expected. How to disable the default shadow pass? :)

Disabling the default shadow pass from the project settings will break some internal commands. https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rendering.ScriptableRenderContext.DrawShadows.html this will throw an error for example.

[severe pivot]

Guys i need help, i keep getting this message and it lags my game

UnityEngine.Experimental.Rendering.ScriptableRuntimeReflectionSystemWrapper:Internal_ScriptableRuntimeReflectionSystemWrapper_TickRealtimeProbes (bool&)```

[marble vigil]

That message isn't responsible for the lag, but it suggests that you have too many high resolution shadow-casting lights

[simple anchor]

Hey. I'm writing a renderer feature that will render each object with it's assigned material but with a boolean value set, indicating that a different set of parameters should be used than in the main pass. In the renderer feature, how do I access the object being renderered so I can toggle the bool on it's material? Help appreciated 🙂

[sand lintel]

Hello, I have an issue, when i turn on Reflection Probe Blending, it turns some of my shaders full pink

[latent palm]

Hey people. I am using an asset called Highlight Plus but it seems its render feature causes about 0.8kb allocation per camera per frame which I don't think is sustainable. Anybody know this asset and how to optimize it a bit?

Edit: Nevermind. The devs have reached out to me with a fixed version and its now at 0 bytes in build.

[simple anchor]

An alterntive question - it is possible at all in a Scriptable Renderer Feature to tell which object is being renderered? Every example I can find of a SRF uses the same material for all objects being rendered

[tame fern]

I need a little help with something
I am using an interaction script that was working perfectly well and had 0 problems I decided to upgrade my project to universal render pipeline and it no longer even casts a ray cast or at least I don't think it does, I'm really confused and I've been completely stumped for like a week

here is the first script

(interacting script)

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Events;

public class InteractableScript : MonoBehaviour
{
public UnityEvent onInteract;
public int ID;
public Sprite interactIcon;
public Vector2 IconSize;

// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
    ID = Random.Range(0, 999999);
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{

}

}

the interactable script is shorter

(this one here)

https://youtu.be/lZThP8KG1W0

i got it from this tutorial

im only a year into games design / coding so please bare with my little knowlage

[sleek cypress]

Just a quick question if anyone can answer this. I want to render specific objects at a lower resolution (as in, pixelate part of a 3d scene)
My idea was to use the built in Render Objects feature, since that does most of what i need.
Is it possible to downsample the output of this before drawing it to the screen?

or will i essentially have to recreate it from scratch?

[scarlet lava]

hey, is it possible to create something like light saber sword using urp ?
it looks a bit more like a volumetric light beam

any useful tutorial?

[soft lion]

Sadly thats not possible 😁. Maybe try to ask that on #archived-shaders with some reference picture of the exact effect you want to achieve. Im not exactly sure what you mean by ”volumetric light beam” but shaders are most likely solution to that

[cedar sleet]

I copied some UI from my old Built In renderer game to my new URP game.
The images/ui are so faded compared to the images/ui in the first built in game, is this because of URP? The colours are the exact same.

[soft lion]

Do the colors have same transparency too? Urp should render UI exactly same way as birp does so there should be no difference. Most likely you have set up the UI differently (transparency? post processing?)

[warm island]

Yes, it’s easy. In your material, Just add an emission colour to your object and increase the intensity level.

[scarlet lava]

I'll try that , thanks

another thing, i have done exactly the same thing but it look different !

that is from the tutorial

my screen shot is as the following :

[soft lion]

Other is just visualized on a sphere and other one on a plane

[scarlet lava]

i'm trying to do the glow effect .. it doesnt look like it's glowing at all , it look like orange box to me

[soft lion]

Maybe show a screenshot of what you mean

[scarlet lava]

now its just red

no glowing effect

it should look something like that

[soft lion]

Fresnel doesnt really work well for flat shaded objects but it seems you dont have bloom effect/hdr enabled. Take a look at bloom post processing effect

[scarlet lava]

where is that ?

[soft lion]

On google for sure

[scarlet lava]

im new to shader and everything

[soft lion]

I dont bother trying to teach something that id need to google every step myself if you can just google it yourself

[scarlet lava]

i'm trying , im kinda lost, i'll keep trying .. but this is quite confusing

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/post-processing-effects-bloom#

[soft lion]

So did you find the place to add effects? Pp is bit different on birp and urp

This is meant specifically for urp: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@7.1/manual/post-processing-bloom.html

[scarlet lava]

no i'm still lost, but based on that tutorial, there supposed to be a postProcessing profile in my assets folder, i cant find it though, maybe there arent any ...

[soft lion]

Start by checking if theres Volume/Global Volume/smth like that in the scene, if not, add new volume. You should be able to add new profile from the Volume component if one doesnt exist already

[scarlet lava]

nah, there isnt any
but I've created a new "pp profile" and named it as the following

not sure how to activate it

[cedar sleet]

Yes, rhe colour and opacity is the same.

I never put any post processing on either of them.

[soft lion]

You have to create global volume in order to make use of that. Youd be better to watch some up to date urp post processing tutorial like this one: https://youtu.be/TG-sTm-Ln2c

[scarlet lava]

thank you! , I'll start with that

[soft lion]

Im not able to spot the reason for thst odd behaviour but as far as I know, theres no difference in UI with urp and birp. Iirc urp and birp even uses exactly same shaders for UI elements

[scarlet lava]

thanks it worked , all i had to do is to just right click >> volume >> global volume >> add override bloom and it worked

[soft lion]

Also make sure hdr is enabled, otherwise high intensity values will not do anything

[earnest relic]

So has anyone worked with multiple renderers in URP? I have two Renderer assets listed in my URPAsset, but no matter which one I select with my camera, only the default one renders

I'm trying to do a minimap and I have to do a replacement material because some of my materials don't work well in orthographic mode

But obviously I need my game camera to render normally

[sleek cypress]

cant you use the overlay camera system for that?

[earnest relic]

I'm rendering to a render texture once at the beginning of the game so I can use it in the UI

[sleek cypress]

right, no idea then

im struggling to even add a simple pass lol

[earnest relic]

I figured it out. It was working properly in the RT but the preview in the Scene view was using the default renderer. That was a pain to figure out.

[shy nexus]

So, can I implement this one with the URP? Or can I implement the old shaders with URP in general somehow?
https://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/flow/waves/

[cedar sleet]

Here is the properties so you can see it is the same

[soft lion]

Maybe it just looks different against different background?

[cedar sleet]

I don't think so

It wouldn't be that faded

I also removed the skybox and it was still like that so I don't think its the background

[soft lion]

The first one looks much less transparent for some reason

[cedar sleet]

Yeah..

I can't it getting looking similar when increasing the alpha..

[scarlet lava]

hi, I do have it installed, but and it does work but only if made bloom too freakin high to the point were everything is glowing.

[soft lion]

You can increase the threshold to make only the brightest objects glow

You have to tweak your bloom settings and the shader properties (i believe theres hdr color you can use to add more emission)

[warm island]

Have you adjusted the emission on the material of the object that you want to glow, like this:

[desert meteor]

this server has very poor help channel management

well anyway

how the hell does it do that

why is there 42.3 mil tris in a scene like this

enemies each have this amount of tris

[scarlet lava]

there are odd things that are hard to explain .. here is a video

this is just a basic test model (forget about the handle) .... that thing turns DARK for no reason at all

the sword is not a mesh, its a thick line

even after all the efforts, it doesn't look at all anything like the one inn the tutorial

[warm island]

I'm not sure what tutorial you're following so can't comment on why it isn't working.

Just create a default Lit or Unlit material and set the emission like I have in my example. Apply it to your sword to see if that helps a bit.

[scarlet lava]

sorry i thought i shared it earlier. https://youtu.be/ozByDujKyDc?t=321

I'll try to add emission.

[warm island]

Can you show us your whole shader graph too please.

[scarlet lava]

same as he did it on the video

based on his video, his boom is 1 and threshold is also 1

[warm island]

I can't read the text on the image, but I assume you've plugged the nodes into the Emission channel? And you did create an Lit or Unlit shader?

[scarlet lava]

yes

frens + color > multiplier > emission .. that is all

[sleek cypress]

Does anyone know of any good ressources on learning how to code my own passes?
Specifically i want to render objects at a different stage of the pipeline than they would usually be rendered at, if that helps.

[warm island]

Hmm, not sure then. This is usually a pretty simple effect to achieve. Add an emissive material to an object, set the intensity quite high, then play with the bloom settings on the post-processing volume.

I'm not sure why yours isn't behaving.

[scarlet lava]

i figured out what was the issue , in my case, i didnt have a camera in my scene lol

without camera , none of those effects are visable, even without playmode.

[sleek cypress]

its always the stupidest mistakes lol

[toxic forum]

Curious what you mean by help channel management and how you would improve it

[sleek cypress]

Well URP is a pretty broad topic that has a lot of overlap with other channels that already exist, so splitting it into multiple channels in their own category would be good. I suppose SRP wouldnt even be included in that, but theres no separate channel for that at all right now.

[civic lily]

HI

i ant use 2D light is urp

they are gray

[warm island]

I'm not sure what you mean. Can you be clearer on what the issue is?

[civic lily]

YEs

when i want to create a 2D light

The button is gray and it is like this

it is gray and its name is Freeform light 2D (Experimental)

all the lights

@warm island

[warm island]

You may have not set up your environment correctly. I follow this tutorial and it allows me to add the Freeform Experimental 2D lights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjpcitJim04&ab_channel=PitiIT

[civic lily]

i did ir exactly but no ir won't work

But thanks

[civic lily]

It is worked

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/380865487069904897/1001764362370940939/HIMI.png

[desert meteor]

a good example is the brackeys server. One category called "Development & Help", all major things get their own channel like seen in the screenshot. The main thing here is the #unity channel since a lot of things that people need help with dont fit into the categories presented in this server, as well as there is so many smaller, very specific channels that may not even get that much traction (more channel = less help since people who want to help wont visit all of them at the same time). And in the scenario of someone's problem not fitting into any of the categories they can also go to #other. Oh and brackeys aint perfect either, i think #code_optimization should be just #optimization because there is many instances where people need to optimize their whole projects not just code.

[dry willow]

While there are quite a few channels in this server, I think it's necessary to find people with those specialisations to be able to answer questions. Otherwise questions quickly get buried too.

[toxic forum]

#💻┃unity-talk is our "other" channel. And what Cyan said above.

[desert meteor]

then its a little confusing since the category is called Discussion

[desert meteor]

if thats the case then there is not enough of them

whcih side you on if even in this channel management you still dont get an answer

[mystic delta]

<#531949462411804679 message>
If you have further suggestions please continue in #531949462411804679 . Advise you to search the channel for topics you attempt to raise as well.
Also see #🔎┃find-a-channel for channel descriptions. It mentions the channel usage and purpose.

[desert meteor]

discord paradox

[delicate berry]

Is anyone using scriptable renderer features here ?

[warped skiff]

Doubt it
Theyre hard to work with

Most people just use the blit and object render feature provided by unity

[delicate berry]

Damn! How do we make image effects in URP then? Worst part, ppl working at unity don’t even reply on the forums

Render objects is experimental. Also some passes that unity provides don’t work or I don’t know how to make them work… so URP cannot be modified much!

[sleek cypress]

It can, but nobody knows how to do it lol

[dry willow]

Can use something like this, https://github.com/Cyanilux/URP_BlitRenderFeature

[sleek cypress]

The render objects feature actually just grabs a bunch of values to input into the renderObjectsPass i know that much.

but i have no idea if and how that pass can be modified

because if you can do that you can pretty much do anything.

[sleek cypress]

this has helped me massively. apparently the only reason ive been having issues for the last 2 days was because my blit feature was broken, so thank you for one that works.

[rapid marlin]

Can anybody help me out with this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73140812/unity-3d-pixelate-individual-3d-objects-but-retain-resolution-over-distance

Essentially I am trying to render some 3D objects in my scene as pixelated, however I want to retain their resolution over distance, but I am unsure of how to accomplish this as most pixelate methods involve taking a render texture, downscaling and using that which has the problem of far objects consisting of less pixels than close objects.

[sleek cypress]

ive been doing something similar actually, by applying a pixelation shader through a blit.

theoretically you can dynamically scale that as distance increases, though it works better with an orthographic view.

(in which case its actually size thats increasing, not distance)

[rapid marlin]

I've thought of this, but this wouldn't work for multiple objects, or if I want to have different resolutions for different objects

[sleek cypress]

yes it would

you can render them on different layers

thats what im doing

[rapid marlin]

won't i be restricted by unity's max layer count then?

[sleek cypress]

i suppose so but i dont think theres a way around that.

[rapid marlin]

rip

[sleek cypress]

what do you need 25 different resolutions for anyway?

[sleek cypress]

otherwise the only solution i can think of is recreating the render objects feature, but adding a filter that scales them down, while taking the depth value into account.

[rapid marlin]

This is most likely what i'll do, i just have no experience with render features so doing a lot of reading and googling :p hints / ideas are appreciated tho

[sleek cypress]

Ive been doing the same thing, but no luck so far.
If you find anything let me know.

[rapid marlin]

aight 👍

[sleek cypress]

are you still on the older version by the way, or did you get the feature youve shown to work in 2021.3?

[rapid marlin]

I got it working in 2021 (LTS)

[rapid marlin]

If you havn't managed to get it working and your using the tutorials i've listed in the stackoverflow page then you just have to visit the github issues: https://github.com/Madalaski/PixelatedAdvancedTutorial/issues/1

[sleek cypress]

right thats what i needed, the changed handle.

this works a lot better than what i did...all that workaround cause i couldnt find what they changed the reference to

also because im blind and cant see the issue page i suppose

[rapid marlin]

tbf I was the one to reply to the issue page like yesterday lmao

[sleek cypress]

well i started looking for it 2 days ago lol

out of interest where did you look up what they changed the reference to? some changelog i suppose?

[rapid marlin]

I didnt look it up, I just found it by accident on the frame debugger

so for future reference, when unity updates and inevitably changes its name again, just check there

[sleek cypress]

right, didnt even think to look there

im quite new to all of this

[rapid marlin]

dw so am I lmao, im in the exact same boat, starting looking at this 2 days ago

hence the issue reply also being like a couple days ago

[sleek cypress]

this isnt by any chance because youtube recommended you t3ssel8r videos, right?

[rapid marlin]

yup

u know it

[sleek cypress]

guess youtube went on one of their "we must recommend this to everyone" sprees again

[rapid marlin]

indeed

If your also interesting in learning the URP render features you can join me in reading up the catlikecoding tutorials on SRP : https://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/custom-srp/

since we are using URP some of the stuff is irrelevant, but the shader stuff and render feature passes is useful to know

[sleek cypress]

yeah im gonna do that on the weekend, i think

now ill work on adding a normals pass to the sobel filter

[rapid marlin]

aight, good luck haha

you probably should also look into toon lighting

[sleek cypress]

well ive already got the texture so i really just need to copy paste it with different references lol

[rapid marlin]

aight, in case this may be helpful to you, you can also try looking at the shaders that were used in the GBCamera asset https://roguenoodle.itch.io/gbcamera-for-unity

[sleek cypress]

yeah ive found that one too, just wanted to get the pixel effect working first

because with shaders i at least have some idea of what i need to do.

[rapid marlin]

lol, doing better than me, i got no clue

[final parcel]

Anyone find a fix for the issue when building URP iOS with cloud build, some of the shaders get lost?

same issue as reported here https://answers.unity.com/questions/1870769/how-to-fix-cloud-build-using-fallback-materials-on-1.html

[final parcel]

Finally got it working. Height maps. Apparently it didn't like the height maps on the materials. Deleted the height maps, and I was all set.

[river valley]

I'm pretty sure you can do this with elliot's ProPixelizer asset

[rapid marlin]

damn, yeah that's exactly what I'm looking for, thx. I wanna know how they pulled that off

[river valley]

https://medium.com/@elliotbentine/pixelizing-3d-objects-b55ec33328f1
he wrote a medium post about it

[rapid marlin]

cool, thank you so much, also love your videos <3

[ocean wasp]

anyone knows how to change the camera background color in URP ?

first time using it

so its hard to figure out

[ocean wasp]

ahh

[ocean hinge]

Cant be easier 😄

[ocean wasp]

mine was selected as skybox.

[ocean hinge]

^^

[ocean wasp]

didnt know it happens in 2d

either way

thanks a lot! i feel stupid now xD

[ocean hinge]

We all do sometimes 😛

[ocean wasp]

looks much better now :D

[ocean hinge]

nice style!

[ocean wasp]

thanks :D really appreaciate it

[hard fable]

I need help on disabling this fog effect on specific objects

https://github.com/samoliverdev/UnityURPAtmosphericFog

[shy nexus]

How would I be able to access the alpha value through script?

[stable geyser]

can help me search "that model (.pmx) replace to my char in my unity game" in yt and others?

[marble vigil]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Material-color.html This if the property is named "_Color"
If it's something else like BaseColor you'd do GetColor("_BaseColor")
You'll need to define a color, which is a struct with red, green, blue and alpha

In any case you'd call it on the material, not the shader

[copper pilot]

Stop spamming. @mystic delta

[mystic delta]

@stable geyser Don't cross-post or spam really, what that question is even mean?

[copper pilot]

I'm guessing that they are trying to hack a game made in unity, probably genshin impact.

[sleek cypress]

this is a problem solved by 5 minutes of googling

[scarlet lava]

hey how to set up Visual Effect graph with URP ???

I tried to install the package, create one by right click >> create >> Visual Effect>>Visual Effect graph but it was empty ...nothing coming out of it like every tutorial I saw over the internet

even the standared templates are invisable !

do I need to do something for it to work on URP ??

i'm also using android

[marble vigil]

@scarlet lava Crossposting all over will not do you any favors

[scarlet lava]

i dont know what to do, I've been stuck for over a day, ... I though Im posting in the wrong room, no body is committing to the problem, I dont even know if iam in the right room

maybe that is why i got no response.

[slim viper]

Would anyone here know why changing the layer of a 3d object might make it invisible, but not the shadow it casts?

I found the reason why

[lime moth]

is it possible to gpu instance a mesh with multiple materials?

[slim viper]

Are you referring to something like this?

[lime moth]

no

I want to spawn many bullets casings using gpu instancing

my bullet case mesh uses different material for the case itself and the primer

however Graphics.DrawMesh() takes only one Material argument

[slim viper]

If the meshes you generate have consistent geometry. Do you think it is possible to make a single material with the effect you're looking for?

[lime moth]

yes

however I would like to know if I can

use multiple materials

I dont care about working efficiently now, the project is just for fun

[hard fable]

Anyone knows how can I achieve a spa/sphere map shine on urp?

[warm island]

I'm not sure what a spa/sphere map is. Do you have an example?

[hard fable]

Like this

It gives a shiny look to the mesh

[copper pilot]

With the standard urp shader, just make sure that your smoothness is high and that you have a cubemap assigned in the environment settings

Alternatively, you can make your own cubemap-reflection shader

[hard fable]

Alright ty!

[marble vigil]

@hard fable The above are two good options for shine, especially the realistic sort
This specific type is most commonly called "matcap"

[warm island]

Ah, matcap. I saw something about this on the Unity Tips thread.
#archived-unitytips message
You don't have to use Omnishade as you can create these quite easily in shadergraph.

[marble vigil]

"Easily" seems relative
https://twitter.com/bgolus/status/1487224443688554497 Here's instructions from Ben Golus of one way to do it

[proven merlin]

Hello I just deleted a folder in my project called somehting like URP settings or something, I dont know why but I thought it was junk... that basically messed up all my spritres. Is there a way to undo this?

[hard fable]

Thank you so much guys

[marble vigil]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@12.1/manual/InstallURPIntoAProject.html
You'll need to create a new Universal Render Pipeline Asset, probably with 2D renderer if that's what you were using before, and set it as active render pipeline as per the instructions
And don't permanently delete random things without version control (or a backup of some kind)

[proven merlin]

thank you! Lifesaver

[soft lion]

I dont think its possible (all the materials would need to be instanced separately). Urps srp batcher is pretty good at rendering lots of objects tho

[marble vigil]

No
Lights and color space may change though

[ancient shoal]

Hi, I have a shader I'm trying to bring from a pre urp build and it gives no errors in the unity console, but it renders as pink. Is there any resources on how to debug this or things to change from pre urp to urp? I got RenderDoc working but I'm very lost on how to approach this so any guidance would be really appreciated.

[marble vigil]

Shaders can't be converted, you need to recreate it in shader graph or by writing it by hand

[ancient shoal]

Oh I meant editing it by hand to fix the problems

But I manged to get it not pink!

[lime moth]

I need to have them moving, sbr batcher works on static objects

solved it by reducing to one material

also i dont want to allocate objets and move them around

[soft lion]

Srp batcher has nothing to do with static/dynamic, it works on both

[lime moth]

telling game to draw a mesh every frame is simpler

[soft lion]

Oh yeah, youre drawing them via code right?

[lime moth]

yes

[lime moth]

really? i thought it works on static lol

because some yt tutorial said use gpu instancing for moving objects

[soft lion]

Srp batcher is the batching system thats automatically enabled (and makes urp/hdrp/srp so performant). Static batching etc. requires statickness.

[hardy cedar]

What's the updated version of vertex tex cord?

I can't find it anywhere

[delicate berry]

Can someone please help!

https://forum.unity.com/threads/rendering-to-depth-texture-scriptable-render-pass.1315464/

I am really struggling with that question 😦

[normal orbit]

keep the same material and change it per bullet with a propertyblock. there is another drawmesh method that takes array of propertyblocks if i remember

[delicate berry]

I am doing some shadow mapping with directional light. But seems something is off. It renders shadows till rotation is between 0-180 and after that it just doesn’t render shadows… what am I missing to add to the logic ?

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/videep_graphics-programming-shadows-activity-6956957311567343616-aAsl?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=ios_app

[coarse tangle]

Is it possible to do a custom grab pass that happens after transparents finish rendering (rather than before, like the opaque pass)?

[delicate berry]

I think it should be because it’s just a grab pass. You can try creating a pass and enqueue after rendering transparents and then blit it to opaque texture

Or look in the packages folder in URP, there are some passes available. Idk how many of them work 🤣

[dry willow]

Should be able to yes, with a blit to a custom texture ID. e.g. https://github.com/Cyanilux/URP_BlitRenderFeature
Or could look at the CopyColorPass that unity provides, it has some extra downsampling options. (May want to change the github branch to match your version) : https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/Graphics/blob/2021.2.16f1.4502/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal/Runtime/Passes/CopyColorPass.cs

One important thing is that any shaders then reading that global texture should be rendered after that. So would need to be taken out of the regular transparent queue (via the mask at the top of the Universal Renderer asset), and rendered via the RenderObjects feature.

[dry willow]

If you still need help with this : You'd likely need to manually draw them to the depth texture.

It does kinda depend, as there are multiple ways the depth texture is generated. It can do a CopyDepthPass (where it copies from the depth buffer). Your objects should actually already appear in the texture with that. But I think some platforms don't support it. And it turns off when using MSAA. (see : https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/Graphics/blob/4ccc5351ef4d264e7cf5d4cdab0024770dbc3740/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal/Runtime/UniversalRenderer.cs#L1131)

If it can't copy, then it does a prepass instead (DepthOnlyPass or DepthNormalsOnlyPass) using the default opaque layer mask (hence why your objects don't appear in it). The shader would also require DepthOnly, and/or DepthNormals passes for it to work. Ideally your shader should support both of these if it's code-written. If it's a Shader Graph, should check the generated code (I think DepthNormals only generates in Lit graphs).
(Which pass is used depends if a feature uses ConfigureInput(ScriptableRenderPassInput.Normal);, like the SSAO feature)

For clues to how they work can find these passes in : https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/Graphics/tree/2021.2.16f1.4502/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal/Runtime/Passes
May even be able to create a feature that uses those passes, as the LayerMask is a parameter of the constructor method.

[placid laurel]

hi, i have a problem, i recently converted my project from built in to urp, and im wondering how my settings should be set up for urp
some shaders are pink and i downloaded the respective urp shader, however it doesn't seem to be fixing the pink shader issues

[soft lion]

Pink means incompatible shader. Make sure the pink material is using urp compatible shader and you have urp asset added on graphics settings (Scriptable Render Pipeline Asset slot)

[placid laurel]

I've done that and the asset that i downloaded had an upgrade package to urp, however it still doesn't seem to work

[strong sable]

Hi, I have been trying to implement shadow mask support for my toon shader in urp that it could support shadow light cookies. I tried implementing it with shader graph as well in amplify shader editor but i cannot make it work. i tried Cyanilux https://github.com/Cyanilux/URP_ShaderGraphCustomLighting custom lightning, enabling keywords and all that things but i am still not able to make it work. Maybe you have some reference that i could try to use or something. I tried looking into Unity's urp shaders code but i cannot really find it useful to me.

I would appreciate any info about implementing baked shadowmaps in shader graph or in amplify

or just where can i learn about how unity handles all this so i could implement it on my own

[ocean hinge]

@dry willow will 100% be able to answer this 😄

[little grail]

Hey, I'm looking for a water asset (for URP) that is as realistic as possible, whilst still being very performant and customizable. Do you guys have any recommendations? Yesterday I found out about the KWS water system and heard some very good reviews about it, though Im asking here just to be sure there aren't better options. I have an island with sand as well as rocky beaches, together with many rivers.

oh and, is this the right channel to ask this?

[little grail]

I've been thinking of getting the KWS water because some people say it's better, though it's €61.64 compared to Crest's water system which is only €31.63
at the moment because of discounts. Is KWS truly much better than the Crest water system?

[dry willow]

My custom lighting functions don't support ShadowMask yet.

But from what I've seen, it should just be a Custom Function with Out = SAMPLE_SHADOWMASK(uv); (where I believe uv would be an input with the UV1 channel from the UV node, as that's usually where lightmap uvs are stored, but haven't tried it)

With that, you can then edit the GetMainLight(..) (and GetAdditionalLight(..)) functions to include that, rather than the half4(1,1,1,1) they currently use.

Also with the shadowmask / lightmap related keywords. URP/Lit uses : LIGHTMAP_SHADOW_MIXING, SHADOWS_SHADOWMASK, DIRLIGHTMAP_COMBINED, LIGHTMAP_ON, DYNAMICLIGHTMAP_ON. Not sure which ones are important

[little grail]

Hey I m looking for a water asset for

[half storm]

Bit of a rendering issue here -- Coming at you with limited knowledge about the rendering pipeline

I want my world space canvas to render over my outline and my outline to render over my water.

Water's render queue is 2501. The outline is a custom render pass, if the render pass is set to "BeforeRenderingTransparents", it'll be drawn before the water, and if it's set to "AfterRenderingTransparents", which afaik is the next render pass event, it's drawn on top of the world space UI.

I've tried creating a custom shader in shadergraph for my UI stuff but when using sprite unlit, I couldn't override the render queue, and when using regular unlit, it has no consideration for the canvas's hierarchy

Any pointers as to how I could solve this so that the rendering order is the water -> the outline -> the world space canvas?

[cerulean viper]

the render option under create is missing eventho i importet urp

@marble vigil can u help me please ?

i also get this error

[marble vigil]

Honestly probably not
The kind of problems you get when doing a major upgrade followed by a downgrade are beyond me

[marble vigil]

@cerulean viper If you get stuck forever, you can always export all your game assets into an unitypackage and import them into a freshly created project on the correct editor version and render pipeline
Takes a bit of boring work to put everything back together but it gets the job done

It's what I'd do in that situation
And going forward always keep backups or have a version control system

[stray scroll]

Where can I find this setting? I can't find it anywhere.

this should be enabled on the settings asset

[shy nexus]

Making my first shader here, following the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgXeo2SRDd4 tutorial. He's using a PBR shader graph, as I understand it, that would be the URP lit shader graph. I could be wrong. But after creating the first parameters, he's about to apply the settings to the materials Albedo, yet, I do not have it. So I guess I am using the wrong Shader, i.e. PBR is not Lit, or I am supposed to add it, but I don't think he did add it, or I am just missing something else. Ideas?

Mine:

His:

[soft lion]

PBR = Lit, Albedo = Base Color

[shy nexus]

Thank you! 😄

[stray scroll]

does anyone know where I can edit the depth of a texture?

I enabled it but nothing appears on my material.

it should look like this

[glass gorge]

that's a custom value, you have to add it yourself in the graph

[regal vortex]

I testing out making trees and leaves using transparency. Different video tutorials explains the creation in urp.
But none of them faces my problem that I have some sort of depth sorting issue on the leaves.
Is it something simple that I do wrong or is it much more complex?

the render-queue is just an attempt to solve this

[dry willow]

If you don't need partial transparency, could use Opaque + Alpha Clipping instead. Can enable it in the Graph Settings (tab of Graph Inspector window, toggled with button in top right of graph).
Alpha value just needs to be lower than the Alpha Clip Threshold port that appears for it to be clipped.

[regal vortex]

Oh wow, I did not know that.. Although I still need to get my head around what is really going on here technically.
Thanks for the quick answer!

[placid laurel]

guys... i have a very bad optimised terrain

how do i decrease the batches-

[late monolith]

What are some differences when installing this through the package manager rather than a project template?

[sand lintel]

Show your terrain, do you have grass ? Trees ? We can't relly tell you

[placid laurel]

so i had grass, i got rid of them and that made the batches to around 2k

[sand lintel]

Ok, you should probably check for GPU instancing for your grass then, and for most of your trees and else too, it should help a lot

[placid laurel]

i've enabled gpu instancing on their materials

[sand lintel]

2k is still a lot for this kind of scene i think

[placid laurel]

ps. this game is meant to be for vr

oculus quest 2

[sand lintel]

Are they marked as static ?

[placid laurel]

yep

[sand lintel]

And is it the same prefab for each same tree ?

[placid laurel]

also, what is this?

[placid laurel]

i believe so

[sand lintel]

I think you should uncheck "enable gpu instancing" on the material if they are marked as static

[placid laurel]

ive also turned off real time lighting

[placid laurel]

aah

[sand lintel]

Not 100% sure about that

But thats a guess

[placid laurel]

i see

[sand lintel]

Marked as static = static batching (for non moving objects) and gpu instancing is better for dynamic objects i think

[placid laurel]

for trees, are they meant to be static?

[placid laurel]

i see i see

[sand lintel]

Yes

Even if the leaves are animated using shader, the mesh is still static

[placid laurel]

aah makes sense

ill double check if all the materials have gpu instancing and stationary objects are static 🙂

so without the trees and everything, the batches count is 279

so the trees and plants are adding a very large amount of batches

[sand lintel]

Yes, in most of games thats what takes the biggest ressources

Thats why it's very important to optimize them, because they are mosly made to be placed everywhere and in big amount

[placid laurel]

i see

i think ive done all the steps you've mentioned

the batches didn't seem to change as much

[sand lintel]

Mh, in game you can use the frame debuger to see why meshes dont batch with eatch other meshes,

[placid laurel]

ohhh i found one of the issues

[sand lintel]

Window > analysis > frame debuger

[placid laurel]

i had small meshes, around 200 of them and i didn't even notice

[sand lintel]

Oh ok

[placid laurel]

it has decreased to 500 now

nvm 702

[placid laurel]

oh yep

majority of it is 'draw mesh'

it seems to be processing every single tree

[sand lintel]

do you have something like that writen for each tree ?

[placid laurel]

no i dont think so

[sand lintel]

On the right window you should have the "description" when you select any batch iteration on the list of the debuger

on "draw opaque object"

[sand lintel]

Btw, you have 700 batches which is ok, is it with the trees and grass enabled or not ?

[placid laurel]

with trees enabled only

i dont have grass

[sand lintel]

Ok

[placid laurel]

ah, i was looking at the oculus performer lint and it said to have less than 100

so i was very concerned

i think i may need to combine some materials

[sand lintel]

Oh really ? Never did a project on oculus so i dont really know but I did projetcs on mobile (which i think is less powerful than oculus) and we worked around 500-1000

[sand lintel]

Oh ok, i see

[placid laurel]

im making to mobile too 🙂

its the same process i believe-

i seem to have the same material many times0

[placid laurel]

i see, if urs can work between that range, ill give this a try and see how it tests 🙂

[sand lintel]

Less is better, actually 1000 is the very maximum, but yes

[placid laurel]

ill attempt to decrease it as much as i can

i think it is a lot better than having 17k-

[sand lintel]

You can check your batches on screen by using the slider on the top of the frame debuger

Yes for sure x)

If you can do that, you should try having the same material for multiples meshes, thats saves a lot

Using texture atlases

[placid laurel]

ill try to learn that

thanks for the help :))

[sand lintel]

No problem ! You can ping me or dm if you need anything else

[fair arrow]

Hello, I have a weird problem with URP's PixelperfectCamera + Cinemachine

The orthographic size I set in cinemachine is not applied to the actual camera IF "crop frame" is set to "none"

I looked around in the source code and found this in Renderer2D.cs

which sets the actual camera orthographic size back to the original one (ignoring cinemachine's change)

Then I searched why it was only happening with crop frame set to none

and

when crop frame is set to anything else, the PixelPerfectBackgroundPass is added as a render pass

Interestingely, it saves the orthographic size when created

and restores it at the end of the pass

I'm pretty sure that is why I had no problem with other "crop frame" values

But it still leaves the problem of Renderer2D forcing the pixel perfect camera OrthographicSize

The pixel perfect camera doesn't touch the orthographicSize if cinemachine is used

So Renderer2D should maybe do the same ?

[cerulean viper]

i have this weird problm where all render settings dissapeared and urp is completely brocken

and im missing one of these in the project settings but i cant create one

because the option is missing

[stray scroll]

I did, but this doesn't seem to affect the material at all...

[stray scroll]

For some reason, the Strength and Depth parameters here don't affect my material at all.
only the strength between 0 and 0.001 when in the official Unity tutorial it should be between 0 and 2.
what could be going wrong here?

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRq-IdShxpU)

[inland palm]

Hey, I’m trying to figure out the new URP Rendering Layers feature in 2022.2, but aside from being able to create and rename layers under URP Global Settings (Project Settings), I have no idea how to get it to work.

Anyone with and ideas or experience with this new feature (or any Unity Devs on here)?

Thanks! 🙏🏼

[spring depot]

I need to counter rotate object space Normal Vectors to its rotation. Pictured is the look I want (done by turning the mesh inside out) but I need a way to do it without turning the mesh inside out.
whatever changes when it rotates +, I need it to do the same change but - twice as much

is this even physically possible? I've tried half a dozen methods and none worked

[coarse tangle]

you could probably flip the normals as a final step, no?

[snow halo]

Hey, Im trying to use URP for some post processing, but I cant figure out how to make it work. I've installed the "Universal RP" package. Made a global volume and a volume profil. But my camera doesnt have the "post processing" option so i guess nothing happens? Do I need to set up something else?

[marble vigil]

It's not enough to install the URP package, you need to configure it as well
Instructions in pinned messages

[regal vortex]

I reached a point in the shader graph that every change the material preview stops updating
(change to other mesh or dragging doesnt help). Only thing that helps, is restarting the project and preview is back.
Could this be a simple setting in Unity somewhere? 2021.3.6f1

[ocean hinge]

The preview in Shadergraph is not working most of the time.
The best way to make sure how it looks is to add a plane in the Scene and drag a material with your shader on it 😄

[mystic delta]

@steel vine Don't cross-post, please

[steel vine]

Sorry, wasn't sure where to post this issue

I can delete the post in this room or the other

[spring depot]

weird question - when displaying the output of a Time node in shadergraph, my GPU starts to buzz real loud and the usage shoots way up

is this normal? Can I make it not simulate time in the preview?

[fringe moat]

Anyone have any ideas on why a silver metallic material in blender would be coming across as almost pure white in a URP Unity scene?

[cedar sleet]

A lot of vegetation assets on the Unity Asset Store are not compatible with URP, they all do this. Any idea how I can fix it?

[ivory prism]

uhm.. why does this happen when I enable "Alpha is transparency" on the material texture?

[marble vigil]

That's the purpose of the checkbox
It expands the color regions so whatever's outside of them doesn't leak into opaque areas when the texture is filtered or mipmapped

[ivory prism]

So how do I get the transparent parts of the texture to be transparent? I thought they would just show up as transparent immediately

[marble vigil]

Are you making a material with an existing shader or a new shader with shader graph or the like?

[ivory prism]

I was attempting to use the standard shader

[fast cave]

is it normal for realtime illumination to take like 2 hours to compute?

[ivory prism]

In some cases yes

Especially if its done on the CPU

[fast cave]

wait

how can you do realtime illumination on gpu

[marble vigil]

You need to enable transparency or alpha clipping on the material
"Alpha is transparency" on the texture asset only improves the appearance of transparency once it's enabled in the material

[ivory prism]

oh sorry

you said realtime

sometimes realtime illumination just freezes

[ivory prism]

in my experience, it will freeze until i restart unity completely

[fast cave]

im getting scared

[ivory prism]

if the time keeps going up and doesn't progress at all its frozen and you just have to restart unity

[fast cave]

it progresses

[ivory prism]

Oh duh
I didn't set it to cutout

[fast cave]

just very slowly

[marble vigil]

Are you quite sure you're working with URP? URP has no "standard" shader nor "cutout"
It has "lit" shader and "alpha clipping"

[ivory prism]

Nope!

[marble vigil]

Not relevant to this issue but might be worth checking

[ivory prism]

I think I meant to use a different channel but I don't know which one

Which one do you use for built-in

[marble vigil]

Whatever fits the issue
#🔀┃art-asset-workflow would've been the one for this

[ivory prism]

thanks for the help

[earnest relic]

I think multiplying the red and green channels by -1 would do that... but that's a guess. I usually work with tangent space normals, not local space normals. Also that's a very strange solution. What is it you are trying to do?

[copper pilot]

Use unreal =p

[inland palm]

Anyone with an idea about this?

[placid laurel]

Don’t think you can, one of the reasons it’s in experimental mode

[marble vigil]

HDRP can do realtime global illumination to an extent
"Enlighten precomputed" realtime global illumination was never designed to be calculated on the GPU, which is what the question is about I assum

[placid laurel]

So HDRP can do real real-time GI?

But I think precomputed real-time GI is way more performant and looks the same almost

[warm island]

You can do realtime global illumination on HDRP and, I think URP, (requires 2021 LTS) with a directional light. It doesn't work on other light types though. I did an experiment a few months ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpYLpW1pHo0&ab_channel=brianer

[marble vigil]

I think Enlighten works for all light types?
Only that light from emissive materials can't be moved

[fading galleon]

how can i create a simple lit shader with shadergraph?

my world curves as the objects get further away so i cant use the default one

[shy nexus]

Hello, really new to this whole thing. I don't know what to google for to get this to work. But how can I plug the vector3 into the texture slot? I assume I need to add some step in between or something like that?

Also, how could I create a gaussian noise texture like this? While searching I mostly come across blur tutorials and what have you and I haven't been able to get how to convert it to a texture type thing as below:

Alright, I guess I solved that one

[marble vigil]

Texture input only accepts texture assets, so it's not possible
Not sure why you'd want to anyway

[marble vigil]

You could use a picture of the noise as a texture and skip the calculation

[marble vigil]

This is extremely inefficient, and produces potentially unwanted values unless normals are what you need
You could instead use "simple noise", split it's color channels and offset them in different directions

[shy nexus]

no, I realized what I was trying to do. I misunderstood something I did earlier in a tutorial. I.e. I thought I had to use a texture like below to begin the normal map creation or something. I honestly can't remember my thinking 😛

[shy nexus]

That is true, but it's still good to know these things 🙂

[shy nexus]

How would I make the white slimmer? Essentially more black without decreasing the brightness of the white?

[dry willow]

A Power node should work

[shy nexus]

That did it! Thanks!

[placid laurel]

why pink?

what is it missing?

[shy nexus]

Hey, so I have this texture that I want to use as a displacement height map. Yet, I can't connect it to any node leading to the vertex position displacement, nor can I attach it directly. I've tried quite a few different things now. And this is what it currently looks like:

And this is the texture I want to use:

So how am I supposed to get this to work? 😛

[shy nexus]

Had to use Texture 2D Sampler LOD

[shy nexus]

How would I add just the white part of a black and white image onto a colored image? Like overlay and such in PS

Found "blend". That'll be the one

[dapper dagger]

You need to add the Vector3 node to the position node. Like (Vector3 + Position)

[shy nexus]

The problem was that I wasn't using a texture LOD. I did try what you suggested tbh

[shy nexus]

I'm getting these pixelated tears from using transparency. What could be the reason?

[elder sparrow]

i have this odd problem where my Draw Calls, Polys and everything is Optimized

but my game still lags a crap ton when its built to Android (Quest 2)

[soft lion]

By everything you mean no realtime lighting and mobile optimized shaders for all materials + post processing

[shy nexus]

Is it possible to make Voronoi noise be tileable?

Or rather, how hard is to make Voronoi noise be tileable?

After looking at some various youtube videos regarding voronoi noise it seems to me that it is in essence based on randomness and that lining up the various sides to tile could be quite the challenge. Another question regarding this would be if there's another type of noise like voronoi that is tileable?

[final crater]

My shadows are jagged in URP, how to fix that?

[shy nexus]

This one goes over it, and I believe it's in the section Adding Sunlight at the 3:00 minute mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dRVRyyGR4A

[final crater]

Thank you, I will see it

[final crater]

My shadow resolution is already maxed out

[shy nexus]

Upping the Cascade count seems to have increased the sharpness of my shadows. I'm no expert, just saying, all my knowledge is essentially from that one video I sent you

[final crater]

Yeah, I thought so, but I've been looking for other solutions

[shy nexus]

Shadows aren't what I'm focusing on atm, trying to get my water to be perfect. But if you do find a way to increase shadow quality, please tag me 🙂

[final crater]

Oh I will, I've been trying to figure it out for almost a year and a half now

Only URP seems to have this problem

But I don't want to use the built in render pipeline

[shy nexus]

Understandable, it's quite neat what they've done with the shader graphs, especially for someone like me who's never done any shading like this. And also, most of the new assets store stuff are URP.

Seems to mostly affect on the edge there

But at the same time, my shadows have an incredibly short range... Which is what I find the most bothersome about it all

@final crater

[shy nexus]

Is there a threshold feature in shadergraph such as the one in photoshop?

[marble vigil]

Do you have "soft shadows" enabled in the light source?

[marble vigil]

Check out "step" and "smoothstep"

[shy nexus]

Thanks 🙂

[final crater]

I do not know that unfortunately

[final crater]

That merely hides the pixelation but it still is visible

[shy nexus]

It would be the "Step" or "Smoothstep" as informed by @marble vigil 🙂

[marble vigil]

The jaggies in the picture are definitely a result of using hard shadows instead of soft shadows

Hard vs soft

[shy nexus]

So I am having a pretty annoying issue right now. Which is that I want to create a waterline, and I am using the settings below. Also see the picture for how the basecolor then looks like. Then after knowing how the base color of the black and white layer looks like, I wanted to apply that to a blue color. Yet, when doing that, I get the waterline but the water stays all black. I decided to try with "screen" and "linear dodge" as those exist in both photoshop and shader graph and in photoshop it simply applies the white color on top of whatever other colors are underneath it.

Sadly though, I imagine since the water material is transparent, it doesn't deliver the same type of blending result. And I also imagine that the Scene Depth measures through transparent materials but not through opaque ones so then I don't know how to create a waterline.

Settings to see the base color of the water line:

Result:

[final crater]

Alright, so having hard shadows with non jagged lines is not possible in URP?

[shy nexus]

Applied to the base color:

Also result:

PS screen blend:

PS linear dodge (Add):

[marble vigil]

I doubt that's possible in any pipeline
Shadows are textures mapped onto meshes, so they cannot fundamentally have perfect sharpness

[final crater]

Alright thank you

[marble vigil]

You'd need a custom system which skips the texture mapping part and projects the meshes themselves as shadows like some really old games used to do

[elder sparrow]

How do i find the Mobile optimized Shaders for URP?

[shy nexus]

To solve the bleding issue I found that the "dodge" blend works, which it didn't in an earlier attempt, guess i must've changed some related setting

[elder sparrow]

doing Mobile/Diffuse doesnt work, its just pink

[shy nexus]

Is there any way to tile this?

Currently:

[dry willow]

Instead of sampling the Voronoi with UV coordinates, you could use the Position node set to World space, and Swizzle with "xz".
That won't make it "tile" exactly, but should the coordinates are then continuous so shouldn't create those seams between meshes.

[shy nexus]

You mean like this?

Don't think I'm getting you correctly, I'm getting this 😛

[dry willow]

No, I mean use a new Position node set to World, Swizzle then put into the UV port on the Voronoi node

[shy nexus]

Literally perfect, thank you!

[shy nexus]

Would it be accurate to call the Position World node and the Swizzle node as "World UV"?

[dry willow]

Sure. It's full name would likely be "World space planar/projected UV", but "World UV" works too.

[shy nexus]

Ye, just for group and such, thanks 🙂

So, I am currently using the Add node for organization purposes. Like so:

Isn't there an empty node type for just this purpose?

Lol

[dry willow]

Double click the connection wire. Or right-click and should be "redirect" on dropdown

[shy nexus]

right click line and add redirectxD

Exactly, when you ask the question, you start to think "How would I have designed it" 😛

But thanks 🙂

[final crater]

What about this?

[marble vigil]

What about what?

[final crater]

There are hard shadows in the image that are not pixelated

[marble vigil]

They're fundamentally the same shadows you've been working with all this time

[final crater]

Wdym

[marble vigil]

https://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/rendering/part-7/ the picture is from this tutorial

[final crater]

Yes

[marble vigil]

It explains how to tweak shadow resolution, cascades and soft shadow settings
So the same stuff we've been discussing here

[final crater]

Alright

[marble vigil]

If you tweak them right you'll have perceptually perfect shadows

It's a bit easier on BiRP compared to URP as URP uses cheaper shadow filtering, but the process is the same

[final crater]

Hmm, is it possible to make URP not use that cheaper shadow filtering?

[marble vigil]

I guess SRP is designed to be customized but I've got no idea about the specifics of that

Much easier to figure out the best shadow settings with the current tools you have first

[shy nexus]

Is it a bug that causes it so that I all of a sudden can't set a node to the same node?

Or is it some sort of thing I did?

[soft lion]

They are meant for built-in render pipeline only. I think you are left with Sinple Lit shader under the urp category and shaders you can find from asset store/online

[shy nexus]

I only get the following options when I right-click => create node

Searching for subtract yields nothing etc

It works again now, don't know what happened there

[dry willow]

It looks like it's trying to create a master stack block node. (which usually happens if you right-click over the stack I think, but I have seen it bug out a bit before)

[shy nexus]

Hm, perhaps because I was too far away from the master node or something then :/

Ah well, would explain what solved as I went back to the master node and then just back again

Explains everything

[shy nexus]

How would I do this in shader graph?

Because I am doing this, and I am getting the results but they are upside down, and I am thinking this might be the reason

And I suppose this would be:

p.x += _Amplitude * cos(f);
p.y += _Amplitude * sin(f);

Whilst it should be:

p.x += _Amplitude * cos(f);
p.y = _Amplitude * sin(f);

I might just be thinking wrong about this, but if this is the cause, do help out if you know how to 🙂

Actually... Seems I've done an add where it should be a subtract

Alright, it works now...

[vagrant pewter]

how do I upgrade custom materials to urp?
I downloaded a tree asset from the asset store in my urp project and all the trees are pink

[marble vigil]

You must find URP-compatible assets or swap the shaders yourself to URP equivalents

[vagrant pewter]

how can I swap the shaders?

[marble vigil]

material assets have a "shader" at the top
You can use the meshes if you replace the shaders with URP's shaders
This can be done automatically if the shaders are not custom
But if they are custom as well, you won't be able to convert them
You can only hope that swapping to a similar URP shader is good enough

[vagrant pewter]

ok i will try it

well it changed color a couple of times but none of them worked

[left ridge]

So, I have a global light 2d and a point light 2d, how would I make the point light appear over the global light, because I can't see the point light right now

[shy nexus]

Hello, so I want to tile some planes that I am displacing. Which normally does go well enough. But now it doesn't go well. And I don't know how to correct it. When I use the Position "Object" node, then the tiles line up properly, next to eachother. Albeit they don't actually sync up their meshes during displacement. However, when using the Position "World" node, the tiles decide to separate completely... Any idea of how to tile these planes up?

Position "Object"

Position "World"

It's doing it in this specific way:

[pastel vector]

Is there a way to use auto exposure with URP? i kinda need it

[solemn zodiac]

When using Position World make sure to transform back into Object position at the end or use World position to Sample a noise etc. and apply it to Object position.

[shy nexus]

Hm... Is there a node that transforms it back to object position? :/ Not sure I understand really :/

[shy nexus]

This works, seems unintuitive tbh, but it did the trick 😛

[shy nexus]

Is there any reason I can't connect the same vector3 node to the Vertex Normal and the Normal (Tangent Space) ?

I don't get it, seems so weird, no?

This happens to a lot of nodes as well

[dry willow]

Sometimes nodes can get locked to a specific stage when connected. It's kinda annoying but I think you can connect to the vertex stage first, then connect to fragment. But don't think it works the other way around.

That's also assuming there's no nodes in the chain which can't be connected to the vertex stage - like Sample Texture 2D. (Would have to use the LOD version instead). There's also a bunch of other nodes that are fragment-only, I've got a few listed here : https://www.cyanilux.com/tutorials/intro-to-shader-graph/#fragment-only-nodes

[final parcel]

I have an FBX with embedded materials. No lighting in scene except for skybox. Lighting is baked. The shine on these metal railings is too high. Is there a lighting setting I can change? Or do I need to extract my materials and make changes to the materials?

[final parcel]

just noticed the sample scene came with global volume with bloom already in it 🤦‍♂️

[wary nacelle]

it still is a bit strong

the default bloom shouldn't go crazy like that for a scene

[final parcel]

its a VR project, so I just deleted the global volume gameobject that came in the scene

[shy nexus]

This is the normal size of my plane:

This is the size of my plane after applying my shader:

And in order to get it back to it's normal size I do:

multiplied by 1E-5

Doing this makes so many things work unexpectedly though... And I can't just change the scaling because then the tiling gets all wrong. Is there really no way to just scale it back normally from from the shader?

[shy nexus]

Lol, I can't believe I didn't realize I can just change the tiling grid -.-'

[jagged valve]

So, I have a little bit of an issue right now

I'm trying to find the difference between two shades of the same colour, so that I can then take another colour and amplify it by the same amount of get a shade of that new color

Let's take Weedle for example

I want to be able to make the nose green

This was edited with a tool, but I want to calculate the difference between the shades of red on it's nose and then apply them to the base green to create the different shades

[dry willow]

If this is for Shader Graph can probably use the Saturation node for this (or Colorspace Conversion to HSV, which you could use to hue-shift too)

If it's for shader code, there's some snippets on the node library pages which might help still.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph@12.0/manual/Saturation-Node.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph@12.0/manual/Colorspace-Conversion-Node.html

[jagged valve]

I'll give the Saturation Node a look

It's in Shader Graph, and I've caculated all the differences in the colours by Dividing the Shade by the Base colour; although I'm having limited success then multiplying Green for example by the returned value

[jagged valve]

This was what I was looking for, thank you ❤️

[pure hedge]

heya, was wondering how i could perhaps reverse the spherize on my shader graph that i have now so it goes from:

to something like this, dont mind the poor photoshop

not that great at using shaders as im new to it, but any ideas would be nice

[flint blaze]

probably a very unusual problem with lights:

• I have a transparent glass material.
• when light hits it, the player sees a spec / light reflected on the glass.

Problem: the player does not see the reflected light on the other side of the glass,
from the light on the other side.

Probably because the material on the other side is invisible, since the normals point away from the player?

[flint blaze]

good point -_-'

[fading dirge]

Hello ! Any Idea why my texture suits perfectly in blender but does this in Unity ?

Unity vs Blender

Now my tree looks like a cow

[mystic delta]

It's likely you're not viewing actual textured result in Blender. Make sure you are viewing it using that material render mode.

[fading dirge]

I only have one material

[mystic delta]

Can open UV editor there as well and look where are the actual faces on the texture map

[fading dirge]

In the UV Editor it suits perfectly too

[mystic delta]

Blender has several workflows for materials

Make sure everything is applied and correct material exported

[fading dirge]

But I only have one material

How could it not be exported

[mystic delta]

I would find a tutorial to follow and try to spot which part you are doing differently so that your UV are not exported with correct material

[fading dirge]

I've watched every single tutorial about it, not even joking

Maybe 10 of them

And I just do the exact same thing

[mystic delta]

One mistake is all it takes. Blender has different workflow for painting textures and you need to make sure you are exporting correct one.

or it was applied correctly anyway

Create a project with simple primitive shape and experiment with it

Also if you are using Blender's node created material it might be ignored completely on import

[ocean hinge]

Simple question but maybe it helps. Do you have an Offset / Tiling in your Unity Material? ^^

[fading dirge]

No, it's all set to 1/1 and 0/0

Am I supposed to change that ?

I really don't get it

Ok It worked

I just had to click this

[mystic delta]

That's correct. Best way to figure it out is. <#archived-urp message>

[mystic delta]

Find proper workflow with that, then look what's different in the current one

[fading dirge]

I Actually just needed to click the "Swap UV's"

Can anyone tell me why ?

Thank you for your help anyway though

[mystic delta]

Your UVs were assigned on a different channel somehow. Usually default import settings are fine (usually)

[fading dirge]

Ok thank you

[shy nexus]

Can I measure the distance of a vertex to another vertex on a different object?

I.e. Measure the distance from the ocean plane to the terrain plane to affect the height of the waves. (Or any other way to do this)

[shrewd turret]

how expensive is setting the bloom on all materials to some dim virtually invisible color? I'm using material property blocks to turn on and off emission at runtime by setting the emission color, I wonder if I should be using a second material for this, and resetting the shared material to the material copy with bloom enabled

[indigo dirge]

I need help,
Assets\PipelineSettings.cs(62,9): error CS0200: Property or indexer 'UniversalRenderPipelineAsset.supportsSoftShadows' cannot be assigned to -- it is read only
but its a public bool xD : public bool supportsSoftShadows
Thanks infront

[normal tundra]

Does anyone know if there's a way to have different Render Scale settings per Camera in URP?

[marble vigil]

If you swap between cameras you'd have to change the quality settings with a script at the same time
If it's an RT camera I think it gets its resolution from the RT texture resolution

[wooden nest]

Hey I'm using a render texture in my UI to force a 4:3 aspect ratio with a base cam/overlay cam rendering on to it. It works fine when the game view is set to 4:3, but when set to anything wider than that the overlay camera's visuals get stretched wide while the base cam appears to remain shaped correctly. How can I keep the overlay camera from stretching?

Oh nvm lol I figured it out. I had my overlay camera overlayed on the 4:3 game camera AND my display shaped background camera which stretched it out.

[indigo dirge]

Hey I found a bug in the URP Render Asset
You cant change -> public bool supportSoftShadows
I dont know why this is but it should be fixed... It says it isnt public when you change it via code.

[old shore]

Hey I am looking for some resources (tutorials, articles, etc.) about implementing volumetric clouds in urp. I've searched the internet, and everything I find seems either not actually it, fot hdrp or saying "just do a raymarcher - basic stuff". So if anyone knows any good resources, please ping me. Thanks!

[unborn sage]

how do I make my speedtrees become urp shader with still having wind??

[heady jewel]

can somebody please tell me why my emissive material isn't working?
and to avoid a waste of time, my camera has pp enabled and it wouldn't affect the scene view anyways

also, it looks to me like it's post processing in general because other effects aren't working either

ok so turns out you are not allowed to change global volume's profile from default, nicely done devs

[heady jewel]

great now I am getting this 0_o

if you have a solution please @ me and I'll reply as soon as I can

so turns out just restarting unity worked, great!

[reef steeple]

Possibly silly question: But how do I enable the ShadowMask 😊 ?

I'm guessing it's just not supported on the version I'm on...

[dry willow]

It should be available in v10+ (Unity 2020.2+)

[reef steeple]

Yeah, figured, thanks 🙂 I'm on 2019 - v7

This bit of code works in 2020, but in 2019 I get this:

float2 uv = Uv  * unity_LightmapST.xy + unity_LightmapST.zw;
Out = SAMPLE_TEXTURE2D_ARRAY(unity_Lightmap, samplerunity_Lightmap, uv, 0);

Gargh, figured it out. It was just in the alpha channel instead of rgb.

[shell mantle]

trying to make a 2D sprite light up with 3D lighting
would putting it on a quad in blender do the trick?

for context. trying to make a game like dont starve

[reef steeple]

How can I reduce the radius of baked lightmapped GI in UWP? (I want a faster falloff, but I don't want to reduce exposure)

[fading plaza]

Been redirected here from #💻┃code-beginner -so I'm following a tutorial. I'm not like exactly sure what URP does exactly. I guess it has to do with like all the graphics and stuff.

Now, which is the Pipeline Asset (Forward Renderer)? And what is the difference in the 2D and universal one? Thanks in advance

[marble vigil]

Have you read the documentation?

[placid laurel]

Increase intensity

[heady jewel]

nah that wasn't it I know how to do post and all that it just wasn't working

I sent 2 or 3 more messages explaining why after that and it is really dumb

[delicate fern]

Does anyone know how to use Post processing on specific layers in URP? Like I want to exclude certain objects from post processing on a single layer. I know how to do it in built in pipeline but I can't get it to work in URP

I want the change the color of my background / depth of field effect multiple times

so I have all my bg in a specific layer, and I want to change the color of every object on that layer

It's a combo effect, changing the base color of 100 different materials just for a few seconds is very performance heavy

Is there actually no way to just make post processing affect a single layer? I understand everything has a work around but I have so many effects I want to stack and everything would just be more straightforward if I could use pp on a layer

Wouldn't be able to smoothly lerp to different colors if I use material variants

There are multiple videos on yt which describe excluding layers from post processing, the only issue is they're all not for urp

I thought it was a simple solution considering it how easy it is to do in built in pipeline

😢

[tidal atlas]

I have an issue. In both scene and game view, the light is now being rendering right. I am not using custom shaders or anything

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/430748143802646529/1007693249508560976/unknown.png

Here is a photo from a certain distance ingame, where i cant see the light

but when i get closer

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/430748143802646529/1007693320505536613/unknown.png

i start to see it but still not correctly

The scene has only the house it self, with a cube as the ceiling and a directional light

[balmy sail]

The tree Tree must use the Nature/Soft Occlusion shader. Otherwise billboarding/lighting will not work correctly.

i tried to place trees using the terrain tree feature but it gave me this warning and i cant place my trees

i tried using the shader its saying but it dosent work in URP
how do i fix this?

[cobalt flax]

I just have a really dumb question that I hope someone can help me with. Wanting to generate a smoothness map from a blender model to bring into Unity (roughness vs smoothness yes, not worried about that atm). I thought getting the map into the transparency of a png would work, but apparently that is not the same thig as an alpha channel? Can someone help me understand if I'm doing something wrong or if there is a different file type for map I should be using? Working with the following material area specifically:

All I seem to be able to do is just apply it as a specular map, smoothness not being affected

[brisk forum]

Hm so I'm using a stacked camera but the scene view is now basically useless because it doesn't have camera stacking...

anyone have any idea how to fix this?

like ideally I'd just use something identical to the in-game camera but I can't figure out how to set something like that up...

[ripe fjord]

Hello! Does having a lit URP shader set to opaque surface type prevent a transparent material?

NVM

[inland bolt]

Hey fellas, i just started using URP and i think i got it mostly working, but i downloaded a stylized translucent crytal pack and the shaders on there are pink. I tried upgrading project materials to urp materials but im also kinda scared ill break it. Does anyone have any ideas on how to to fix it?

edit: it says failed to compile. can you have scripts on these?

[clear sentinel]

simply - you must upgrade those materials to use URP compatible shaders

or make new materials for the crystals with URP shaders

[inland bolt]

i already tried upgrading the materials and it didnt work and i have no idea how these shaders are made

nvm

[clear sentinel]

Basically only Unity's default materials can be upgraded automatically

[warped dove]

how do i create a tree in urp? even assets will do, but is it possible

[grand zodiac]

hi, im having a similar issue here. Our game runs URP 2D (12) and I've tried several methods to correctly put a blurred foreground and background in the game. Literally tried for over a year now without success. I'm not experienced enough in this rendering stuff.

it uses like yours, several layers. we call the play area "mainground", and everything else is background, far background, and we have a foreground too etc.

currently im doing camera stacking, where each camera renders one layer each. I place a DoF volume on each of the background layers, getting my desired effect, but i cannot put it on the front camera. this is because the post processing volume is applied to the whole camera image, so it blurs everything, even whats behind.
ive looked for EVER for a solution to fix this, but I still have nothing. Does anyone please have any ideas?

So on this image i post here you can see how the rear layers are blurred

and here's the same thing when I apply a blur to ONLY the foreground camera, the mainground also blurs out. The post processing image is not aware of any alpha, basically drawing the whole image white, so blur appears everywhere.

tl;dr
I only want to blur the foreground and background, like any traditional 2D game. But the limitations of the post processing doesn't allow me, and I'm not skilled enough to figure out a method to do it. I've tried making my own shader too that offsets images, but it looks terrible sadly.

funny thing with the blur being like that, drawing on the whole camera view, is that it "stacks" the blur effect on background, far background and absoltue background. Which is nice, making the distant more blurred. But the lack of foreground kills the look I want.

[zinc adder]

is this car paint shader looks ok or does it need something?

matte paint

can't do glossy

[copper pilot]

Well, it will always look at least a little strange since that is uncommon for car paint.

[copper pilot]

Don't use DOF; that is based on depth and the 2d renderer won't feed it the correct information.

Unless you maybe pass in a custom depth texture based on your 2d data

[whole hatch]

I am making a game with URP but when I build the game it just gives a black screen, whats going on?

[grand zodiac]

Im just using DOF because its the only thing I can think of for a blur effect. yeah the depth doesnt matter, I get the correct strength on the blurs that I want anyways.

the problem is I cannot use this image effect or any other on the foreground because it fully paints that overlay camera

theres no "cutout" through the alpha map of the image effect render pass

this is my issue. i'd like to find a solution to this

but yeah depth map is irrelevant really. it all comes down to the problem that the image effect pass doesn't have alpha. if you have any ideas how to override that or any other idea that can achieve the result, any tips are welcome :)

[copper pilot]

Write your own blur?

[copper pilot]

That is not nearly enough information to even guess what is going on.

[proper temple]

Could anyone help me figure out why Progressive lightmapping generates these artefacts?

[marble vigil]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/faq-blocky-artifacts-appear-when-i-bake-a-scene-how-can-i-fix-them.951444/

[proper temple]

@marble vigil Thanks I already knew about all this but your link was still extremely useful, as soon as I read normals I realized the shelves you see in the pictures had the normals inverted 😂 Now its all nicely lightened up

Btw i'll take the opportunity to ask another thing, I'm using a specular workflow and even if i have a spec/smooth map i still get the slider for smoothness, is this intended behaviour?

[marble vigil]

I'm not sure what the intention is, but it seems that the slider and map are applied multiplicatively

So go with value of 1 if you want to give the map full effect

[proper temple]

amazing thanks

I recall seeing in some old documentation about maps that it was supposed to go away so thats why i got confused

[tawny sequoia]

Any ideas how to fix the bounds ?
[ switching the check box during play mode : ]

when there is no "Update when offscreen" the bounds will be wrong and it will cull the gameobject in odd cmaera angles

if there is "Update when offsecreen" then the skinned mesh renderer will not receive any lightning data

[marble vigil]

Another option you have is to set the bounds manually with a script to be big enough to cover all the possible deformations

[tawny sequoia]

any ideas if that would mess up with the performance ?

[marble vigil]

The bigger the bounds, the less effectively the mesh can be culled
If they're just big enough to accomodate the deformation I doubt it'll be a problem, but as always with performance your mileage may vary

[sterile compass]

Hi, I've just switched to URP, and suddenly the leaves on my trees are noisy if viewed from far away, like there is close to zero anti-aliasing.
Here are the differences. I think SMAA is similar to No AA, and FXAA looks blurry as hell 😄
While before URP they looked much less noisy.
Is there some setting missing? Did I misconfigured something? How could I improve it?
Thanks in advance! 🙂

[indigo moon]

Hey ! Anyone know why I have so many depth related textures in my URP scene ? Is this related to postprocess? Depth texture is disabled in the URP asset. Thank you

[marble vigil]

@sterile compass Do your leaf textures have mipmaps enabled in import settings?

[sterile compass]

@marble vigil Yes:

[soft lion]

Mipmaps with trilinear filtering (just makes the transition between mipmap levels smooth) could help on the texture noise better than anti aliasing

[soft lion]

Btw are you sure it was MSAA and not SMAA that you used with built in render pipeline?

[sterile compass]

Hmm, maybe MSAA, I'm not sure. How can I find it in URP?

[soft lion]

From urp asset i believe

[sterile compass]

Oh, yeah, found it, it's on with 8x.

I set the texture import to Trillinear, maybe it's better, I can't really say

[soft lion]

If you disable all other aliasing methods, do you see jagged edges if you make something with straight line in it (like cube)

If so, msaa isnt working

[sterile compass]

Thanks, it is working. I guess it was trillinear filtering, I think it improved the quality 🙂

[zenith copper]

anyone know why my objects go grey when I zoom out?

[dry willow]

Fog. Can turn it off in the Lighting window if you don't want it

[zenith copper]

ah thanks

[soft lion]

You can take a look at this https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Texture-mipMapBias.html and Aniso level if you want better quality mipmaps

[sterile compass]

@soft lion Ohh, this sounds like my saviour.
But for some reason it doesn't change a thing I think. Maybe the info texts which appeared after I changed the value explains it? 😄
By the way why I can't put a negative aniso level while the doc you've just linked says I can?

Oh wait, mipmapBias and Aniso is not the same. Then where is this Bias on the Texture inspector? 😮

[soft lion]

Maybe you can access it on debug mode. Atleast you can set it by using c# script

[sterile compass]

Yep, but I can't edit it:

[soft lion]

Maybe you could change it via editor script then

[sterile compass]

@soft lion I managed to change it, but doesn't really help. Same noisy till an X value, then hell gets loose 😄

[marble vigil]

There's two kinds of noises that could be happening
One is noise within the texture when it's viewed from afar which happens if mipmaps aren't functioning correctly or are showing a too high resolution
The second is noise between leaves at the alpha clipped edges

That one needs AA to solve

I don't recall the specifics but some forms of AA only deal with geometry edges, not alpha clipped edges so it's worth looking into

[marsh dome]

can i upgrade my game to URP anytime by just downloading the package? or i have to start with URP
and if i start with URP will it be different or difficult than normal one?

[marble vigil]

You can find the URP upgrade guide in pinned messages
There will always be less work and less potential incompatibility problems if you start a project from an URP template instead of upgrading an existing one

[marsh dome]

Thanks

[marsh dome]

actually i was just wondering when should someone go with URP , i mean how would someone select if he wants to go with normal renderer or URP or HDRP (idk anything about them so something to read will also be fine) I am asking this because i want opinion of someone experienced in these things

Also i tried URP it is too slow why? i created an empty project (3D URP) added one cube for floor and one character it was just 90fps whereas when i created normal project (3D Core) with same things i get 950+fps
am i doing something wrong

[runic gyro]

Just converted to urp, but I can't see anything

[marble vigil]

A difference like that suggests you didn't have vsync enabled before and now you do

Build performance is the one that matters anyway

[runic gyro]

what it looked before:

[marble vigil]

HDRP is for cutting edge graphical features and photorealistic rendering, URP is for good performance and maximum feature parity across all platforms

[marble vigil]

We can see something at least
I guess it's because you use some kind of camera stacking which isn't compatible with URP's camera stacking

[runic gyro]

multiple render layers

for the weapon

and for the rest

so it doesnt go through walls

[marble vigil]

URP doesn't have "render layers"
It has camera stacking and "render objects" renderer feature

[marsh dome]

If i have 2 characters
URP - 18fps
Normal - 200fps
😅

Is that vsync fault?

[marble vigil]

Probably not

If you upgrade an existing project sometimes weirdness like this can happen, especially if you change editor versions as well

[marsh dome]

Umm i started new project

And i have only one version

[marble vigil]

Then I'm out of guesses

[marsh dome]

I might have missed something i guess

I'll head to some tutorials

[soft lion]

Maybe try profiler

[marble vigil]

Well, it could also be that the default graphics settings in URP templates (like SSAO) are something your machine is just not having any of

[marsh dome]

Hmm that might be helpful

[runic gyro]

doesn't let me change render type to overlay

[soft lion]

Are you using deferred shading?

[runic gyro]

whats that

[soft lion]

If you dont know, youre not ig

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@12.0/manual/rendering/deferred-rendering-path.html

[runic gyro]

will this help with the overlay not selecting?

[soft lion]

No, deferred doesnt support camera stacking. It could be one reason it being greyed out, but I cant remember any other reasons rn

[astral atlas]

Please someone help, so i have this problem, ive been searching through reddit and apparntly there isnt a fix but sometimes there is
and its scaring me
so
i installed Universal RP
then i got to the step of
changing all the materials to work with it
bc theyre all magenta
and i get these erros
[Worker3] Shader error in 'Universal Render Pipeline/Lit': Couldn't open include file 'Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal/Shaders/LitInput.hlsl'. at line 146
[Worker4] Shader error in 'Universal Render Pipeline/Lit': Couldn't open include file 'Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal/Shaders/LitInput.hlsl'. at line 146

i would appreciate any help

also some materials say that there isnt a converter to upgrade them to the selected pipeline

[runic gyro]

Window > rendering > render pipeline converter

[runic gyro]

Cant find it

[astral atlas]

b r u h

thats waht i did