archived-urp

[astral atlas]

i already said that

i get errors

[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

please

[runic gyro]

remake materials

[astral atlas]

i have hundreds

thats not a solution thats manually deleting and remaking things

[runic gyro]

I've done that with 24 materials

you'll be fine

[astral atlas]

I have 370 ish

i dont want to waste my life lmao

thx for the help anyway tho

i appreciate it

[runic gyro]

I have a hard time converting too 💀

game screen is blue

[astral atlas]

rip

[little cliff]

ive setup up URP for a 2D game and whenever i use a 2D light, it just shows the light and nothing behind it

[fickle forum]

Hi all. I need a bit of help.
I have (1) converted my project to URP, (2) set the Project Settings>Graphics and Quality to URP, (3) upgraded Project Materials to URP Materials, AND (4) reimported all objects.
Yet the trees I placed with the Terrain painter are still pink, and I still get a bunch of "There's no upgrader to convert etc etc shader to selected pipeline" messages in the Console. What else can I try?

[warped skiff]

are they speedtrees?

[fickle forum]

Nah, I just added them with the Terrain Paint Trees tool.

[warped skiff]

if they're an asset you got from somewhere then they probably use a custom shader

which isn't compatible unless the shader is remade

[fickle forum]

I see, yeah that must be it. Thank you, dog in a ski mask.
Another couple of questions. What's the benefit of using URP over Built-in? And if there's a benefit, why isn't URP just the default RP in Unity?

[warped skiff]

there's benefits and downsides

benefits are compatiblity with devices like mobile and web

downsides is there aren't many tuts covering it and the few that exist won't work with current versions of urp since unity keeps updating it

you can still use urp without any trouble if you don't use any custom shaders tho

you have to rely on unity's shaders tho

[fickle forum]

No wonder. This tree asset was packed with a Readme to update them to URP and some Unitypackages to do it, but they were out of date already, so none worked. That explains that

[warped skiff]

yeah

urp is hell for beginners

[fickle forum]

I appreciate the help!

[warped skiff]

no problem

[runic gyro]

It doesn't let me change render type to overlay

[runic gyro]

ok

gonna try

I don't see the pipeline setting

only one option

how

already have it on forward

says to make render overlay

guess its unfixable

[late monolith]

Will URP possibly have deferred rendering in a future version of 2020
Or will it stay only on 2021 and higher?

[marble vigil]

Are you like, sure? The pipeline converted fundamentally cannot convert custom shaders because it doesn't "convert" anything
It replaces shaders from one pipeline with a matching shader of another pipeline

[ocean hinge]

i dont think that they will implement stuff in outdated versions. Also LTS Versions only get bugfixes i think

[late monolith]

I see thanks

[runic gyro]

[restive elm]

Hi guys, when I switch scene for the first time the main light "breaks" in a weird way:

Any clue why?

I don't know where to look at... Those capsules have a normal lit shader

That's how it should look

That's the bug when it's in game, both lit and unlit shaders (even my custom shaders) become completely black and don't react to my main light

[marble vigil]

Generate lighting manually for each scene in lighting settings (disable baked lightmapping if it's not necessary)

[restive elm]

What do you mean?

By "manually"

I can't bake lightmap since the world is completely procedural

and modificable

I can't press "generate lighting" in game

[restive elm]

I'll be a bit more specific: when I say "switching scene" I mean in playmode, using the scene manager.

When the game is not in playmode, everything works flawless. The weird thing is that only the second scene switching has problems: if I start the game from my game scene, it checks for the savefile, doesn't find it (it has to be selected from the menu) then switch to the menu, breaking the lighting system. And when I load my game from this "broken" scene, the game works.

But when I start from my menu, the menu works, but when I load the game, the game breaks

[marble vigil]

Yes
Generating lighting without lightmap baking basically saves the ambient lighting into the scene (or into lighting settings asset? not 100% sure)

[restive elm]

I'm sorry but I'm still not getting it.

I can't generate lighting while playing and generating it outside the game doesn't change anything

Also because outside of playmode the scene works perfectly

[marble vigil]

Do it for every scene you need to load

If this isn't done, you'll still get lighting in the currently active scene due to some temporary lighting from the editor, but it won't persist on scene switch

[restive elm]

Ok..

O.O it worked

[marble vigil]

[restive elm]

Could you explain why this happens? I'm really really confused

I'd never have tried that in one hundred years, I'm just not getting why it should work

[marble vigil]

I don't fully understand the mechanism behind it, but ambient lighting needs to be generated and saved for each scene
The currently open scene will have lighting automatically generated by the editor, but whenever you switch at runtime scene it tries to look for that scene's lighting, and won't find any, so it turns black

[restive elm]

Ok... but this never happened to me

[marble vigil]

Lighting here means just the "ambient" lighting applied to all objects, dynamic or not, separate from baked lighting

[restive elm]

in, like, two years of unity programming

(as a hobby)

it seems like a problem that I should've had more times

[marble vigil]

Maybe it wasn't always that way, I dunno
I guess having "auto generate" on for lighting usually takes care of it? Which used to be default setting I think

But it's also possible to miss if a game takes place in just one scene, or doesn't need lighting as in the case of most 2D games

[restive elm]

Mmh.... Ok, thanks, I think I've always auto-generated lighting when I coded 3d games

[marble vigil]

But I also recall situations where the fix is to specifically untick auto-generate and generate manually
May or may not need to create new "lighting settings asset" for it to work, it's a bit wonky and my memories are hazy

[restive elm]

Would this have been avoided in my build?

I didn't build my game for some days because there was this bug, and I tried to not build it until it wasn't absolutely needed

[marble vigil]

Build has the same requirement, but doesn't get the benefit of the initial editor-generated ambient lighting I think

It's a good idea to do builds every now and then even without any specific goals, just to check how things are looking and running outside of the editor

[restive elm]

That's what I was trying to do, but then this bug showed off and I stopped caring

guess what, it's full of visual bugs 😦

some objects are purble (classic URP shader error), and lighting still doesn't work (I'll try to auto generate lighting to at least repair the broken lighting in game)

The build is still not working, even with "auto-generate" on

How the world looks in game... Some shaders are broken and the lighting still doesn't work... in both scenes, menu and build

Ok seems like I can't fix any of my problems. Any clue why? I noticed that both graphics and quality in my project settings were missing my URP settings, but even changing that didn't work. Anyone?

By the way that's how it should look...

[marble vigil]

If the slots there are empty that suggests URP isn't configured at all

Though the ambient light problem is the same on both pipelines

[restive elm]

I filled them

that's my urp asset now

isn't it enough to configure URP?

Yeah I think I have to convert my shaders.

[marble vigil]

The important part is to connect that to the slots in graphics and quality

[restive elm]

I did it

I hadn't recompiled the shaders

Well it worked and fixed my purple shaders

but ambient lighting is still broken

[restive elm]

I fixed everything, except that shadows doesn't work. I didn't notice it before because everything was broken, but now that it works good I can't understand why shadows aren't working. Graphics is set to ultra, and directional light is set to important...

[marble vigil]

It may be helpful to work with test scenes where there's less stuff going on and easier to see what works and what doesn't

Testing in isolation is my number one technique that gets stuff fixed

[restive elm]

Did that with a test scene and the menu (that has wayy less objects than the game scene), for some reason only a single shadow works (a shadow of a character, which is weird because it has the same shader and mateiral of other objects...)

[marble vigil]

If the ground is a single mesh, it probably has the 4-8 light limit shared across all trees

[restive elm]

I'm not sure if that's the problem, there's no single tree with another tree's shadow in itself, so I guess shadows simply don't work

[marble vigil]

Good point
I recommend even more test scenes

Verify that default cubes with default lighting cast/recieve shadows, then introduce your custom shaders

[restive elm]

I did a lot of tests and ended up with the conclusion that's the cartoonshader's fault, copied from an unity project

I don't even know if that's built for URP, but in the editor it works really well...

Isn't there a way to simply "port" or "confirm" that what I've got in the editor is the result that I want?

I'm talking about this shader btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGTTHOpUQDE

[shadow trout]

Does anyone know how can I set this at a runtime?

or in editor

but has to be done through code

I cannot access Renderer List

it's only get; field

[sinful gorge]

I think in that case you gotta change the URP asset as a whole

[shadow trout]

I created that asset in code

Is there a way to instantiate that same asset but with filled renderer data ?

[dry willow]

Maybe try creating a UniversalRendererData asset, then pass it into UniversalRenderPipelineAsset.Create(rendererData);
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/Graphics/blob/4ccc5351ef4d264e7cf5d4cdab0024770dbc3740/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal/Runtime/Data/UniversalRenderPipelineAsset.cs#L271

[shadow trout]

Ill try that thanks!

[shadow trout]

There is no Create method exposed, I assume I need to create and override project or sometghing

[dry willow]

According to that file there is. It's surrounded in #if UNITY_EDITOR though, so would likely need that too when calling it.

Could be that older versions don't have it, not sure

[storm pendant]

I am currently doing graphics compositing using a scene + disabled ortho camera (that renders one frame via script) + render texture + putting all my objects in a container + render layer to keep my objects invisible to the normal main camera.

I'm trying to make that less dependent on which scenes are loaded (i.e. not having to have a component container/camera loaded, no rendering layer stuff to keep things invisible to my normal cameras, etc).

I saw that I could do something very similar without a camera and without setting up a scene by using Graphics.Blit. However, that method doesn't seem to support rotation, and I need to be able to rotate my sub-images. I suspect this is because it's trying to emulate old-school blitter hardware, which wouldn't necessarily just support arbitrary transformations/at least not rotations. that's fine.

Is there any middle ground between these two approaches? Or at least something that would let me render transformed (or just translated + scaled + rotated) quads to a render texture, without scene setup?

I'd be fine with using some sort of semi-low-level rendering facility. Just not sure where that lives, if Unity even exposes such a thing.

[dry willow]

Maybe Graphics.SetRenderTarget & Graphics.DrawMesh - which can take a matrix (to apply translation + rotation + scale)
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Graphics.html

[storm pendant]

ty

[dry willow]

Or the CommandBuffer versions, which could run in a custom Renderer Feature.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rendering.CommandBuffer.html

[storm pendant]

looks like it still requires a camera (mmm) but I guess it can skip the scene (yay)

ah, yes. probably requires the camera to be in a scene too

[dry willow]

Maybe DrawMeshNow instead then, that seems to not require a camera

[storm pendant]

That one doesn't even take a target texture, so I am guessing probably will draw it into my other stuff.

I'll explore this namespace more tho. Might have something in here.

thx

[dry willow]

It should draw onto whatever the current target is, hence using SetRenderTarget before it

But I'm more familiar with the CommandBuffer versions tbh

[storm pendant]

ah ok. yeah, that might do it then

[shadow trout]

UniversalRendererPipline.Create() did the job, thanks!

[shadow trout]

@dry willow Do you know how can I load postprocess data to my instance of UniversalRendererData

[dry willow]

It looks like postProcessData is a public field, so should just be able to assign it?

[shadow trout]

figured that out, but how do I grab existing PostProcessData from Packages/URP?

I noticed that it's asigned by default when universalpiplinedata is created

[dry willow]

They seem to use

internal static PostProcessData GetDefaultPostProcessData(){
var path = System.IO.Path.Combine(UniversalRenderPipelineAsset.packagePath, "Runtime/Data/PostProcessData.asset");
return AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<PostProcessData>(path);
}

It's an internal function so probably can't call it, but could copy the contents there.

[shadow trout]

Thanks!

[shadow trout]

Worked!

Do you by any chance know how to add this feature? ARBackgroundRendererFeature

I see features list exposed, but I don't know how to create the feature

trying to do this

[dry willow]

Can you not use the ARBackgroundRendererFeature class with ScriptableObject.CreateInstance? Rather than ScriptableRenderFeature.

[sleek sphinx]

anyone experienced this with 2021.3 LTS when making a build? colors are all weird

looks like this in editor

using urp

only found this, but didnt rlly contain any explaination of how it happened / solution
https://forum.unity.com/threads/urp-lights-gone-wild-after-build.1289888/

[shadow trout]

Fixed it, thanks! Do you by any chance know how do I make ARBackgroundRendererFeature child of UniversalRendererData

[dry willow]

I think you can do it with AssetDatabase.AddObjectToAsset(Object objectToAdd, Object assetObject)
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetDatabase.AddObjectToAsset.html

[shadow trout]

Figured that out but thanks anyway!

i solved all of my issues and learned so a lot about editor scripting, thanks to you!

[shadow trout]

When I create URP Asset from Create Menu It also creates UniversalRenderPipelineGlobalSettings

How can I replicate this from script?

I can already create URP Asset from script and it's dependencies except UniversalRenderPipelineGlobalSettings

[warped skiff]

make sure you follow 2d urp tuts step by step

[pure hedge]

Heya, was wondering how i could use shaders to create something akin to this (in this case just used a perspective camera with 45 degrees angled quad) but with an orthographic camera?

other solutions are also possible

[ocean hinge]

i would say render several lines, offset them and you got it

[pure hedge]

huh that could work, thanks!

oof now that i realise it, probably wouldn't due to performance and whenever i have to use different sprites, still thanks for the recommendation but would be nice if there is another way to do it

so yeah, what would be the idea behind how a shader like it would work

[ocean hinge]

you could use a rect and scale it down to look like a line

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph@6.9/manual/Rectangle-Node.html

[pure hedge]

wait you can rotate the x-axis of a rectangle node?

[ocean hinge]

You can rotate the UV

i think rotating a UV node and plug it into the Rectangle node should work

[pure hedge]

hmm tried doing that before but only got rotations for the z-axis, lemme see

[ocean hinge]

is your sceenshot not just a 2D plane? ^^

[pure hedge]

sadly not, it was just a quick mockup screenshot made using perspective cam and a quad mesh render's x-axis being rotated by 45 degrees

[viral tendon]

So I was getting some pink materials when I downloaded some Unity Assets. When I went and used the Unity Render Pipeline Converter, it changed A LOT. Now when I play my scene, everything is grey. Could someone help me please? I really hope I havent just lost everything.Here's a picture of some of the errors im getting and what the scene looks like

when I then play the scene, this is all I see

[marble vigil]

URP has different shaders and renders things differently so you can't expect everything to work one to one
You're probably using render layers for the viewmodel which URP doesn't have
For viewmodels in URP you'd use camera stacking or render objects feature

The pipeline converted can also be used in reverse and URP can be uninstalled by reversing the configuration steps, so you haven't "lost everything"

You should always use version control for your projects though

[viral tendon]

Gotcha thank you. Also I used the pipeline converter, I’m not sure how I would reverse those steps?

[marble vigil]

The converter has an option to go from URP back to built-in, don't it

[viral tendon]

I hope so, sadly I can’t check right now

[cyan bay]

hey friends, how can i calculate a light.shadowAttenuation but with a given light.direction? in URP HLSL
i've been looking through RealtimeLights.hlsl and Shadows.hlsl and function that has a lightDirection parameter ultimately ends up only working for point lights for some reason (and they have to be actual lights, i want a fake one if that makes sense)

[tepid hatch]

i'm reading about optimizing particle system, i read an article which told

When using SRP Batcher, you will need to pay attention to the following points:

    Shader needs to be compatible with SRP
    SRP Batcher does not support particle systems temporarily
    Shader variants will interrupt the batching of DrawCall

i didn't understand, what is particle systems temporarily ? (unfortunately that article didn't tell anything about it)

[dry willow]

Not sure why they wrote temporarily, maybe they meant "currently".
Either way, SRP Batcher only works with MeshRenderers & SkinnedMeshRenderers.

[tepid hatch]

so SRP Batcher don't work with 2D things? (2d renderer & 2d sprite)

then i should focus on GPU instancing for 2d games, right?

[lilac glacier]

Edit >> Render Pipeline >> Universal Render Pipeline >> Upgrade Project Materials to UniversalRP Materials does NOT upgrade my materials. Still pink. I tried making a new shader and material. The preview still shows pink. I reopened the project, and tried upgrading again. Nothing.

[soft lion]

If it doesnt work, its the render pipeline (urp) thats not working, not the shader. Make sure you have configured the urp correctly

[lilac glacier]

Thanks for the help. I went through the procedure here again: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@7.1/manual/InstallURPIntoAProject.html

Works now, because of you!

[lilac glacier]

Now I can't get shadows to work at all

[lilac glacier]

I got it

[limber dagger]

why when i bake my light the shadow of sprite are not at the good place ?

wait is the shadow map based on the uv ?

[cinder kindle]

Yes. There's a checkbox in th emesh import settings to generate lightmap UVs

[limber dagger]

thx

[iron thistle]

Im not sure this is the right place to ask this but I wan to experiment with breaking up a heightmap texture into chunks, each chunk is a defualt unity 3D plane.
For this to work, I would need to adjust the UV range of each vertex in a chunk's plane to match up with the area on the heightmap.

The problem is I am unfamiliar with UV mapping and how to create custom mapping for the plane meshes, anyone got tips on how I can get this done?

[feral cosmos]

Hi
how can I convert default 3D scene to URP

[soft lion]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@15.0/manual/InstallURPIntoAProject.html

[iron thistle]

I want to use a heightmap image (.jpg) as a RenderTexture object for my compute shader but there is some incompatibility between my texture and adding it to my script as a RenderTexture

[broken radish]

Is there an option somewhere to have a roughness/smoothness map on a URP material?

[soft lion]

You can see the source is set to Albedo Alpha meaning the smoothness map is stored on the alpha channel of the "Base Map"

[broken radish]

ty

[late monolith]

How much peformance does it take when changing the shadow distance from 50 to 100 for example?
Is it very expensive to do or very ok?

[placid laurel]

It's more expensive, since you're rendering shadows from further away.

[ocean hinge]

Just have a look in the Profiler and how much FPS you lose 🙂

[soft lion]

its more expensive because you are rendering more objects to the shadow map, but most likely the difference is very negligible

[placid laurel]

I asked this a lot of times before, so I am going in this channel maybe more people know

Is this bloom flicker normal? Can I eliminate it?

[late monolith]

I have experienced such flicker before but i myself did not mind.
It's probably normal and just a side effect of the bloom.
I don't know how to reduce it tho, i think the best thing to try is playing around with the settings of the bloom like the intensity and all that

[soft lion]

Actually increasing render scale would work

[placid laurel]

Oh I’ll look into that

[placid laurel]

Yeah but I would like to keep the bloom at current settings

Thanks guys

But in general, as a player this is a normal thing to see right?

[late monolith]

in my experience it is

it just mostly depends on the settings how much the effect is

[placid laurel]

Yeah

[soft lion]

Yeah it is, when theres only few pixels that exceeds the limit for the bloom, you will get flickering when the amount of pixels "activating the bloom" changes randomly (lets say theres either 0 or 1 pixel that is brighter than the threshold, when theres 0 pixels, theres no bloom coming from that area and when theres 1 bright pixel there is some bloom)

I believe thats the reason, not sure

[feral cosmos]

how can i fix this

[soft lion]

Did you upgrade all the materials?

[feral cosmos]

no

[soft lion]

Did you follow all the instructions? (One was to upgrade shaders)

[feral cosmos]

I was following a YT video then it selected something i don't have

this^

[soft lion]

Maybe this is better https://jordancassady.medium.com/how-to-upgrade-materials-to-urp-in-unity-2021-2-and-above-3f1274656989

That video is most likely very outdated

[feral cosmos]

it worked with the assets but didn't work with the terrain

what should i do?

[soft lion]

The converter doesnt work well with the terrain shaders for some reason, take a look at this: https://forum.unity.com/threads/standard-terrain-shader-upgrade-to-urp.892882/

Oops wrong link

[feral cosmos]

ok

[soft lion]

Now should be the correct one

[feral cosmos]

is this urp shader or what its name

and what about the grass and the trees

[feral cosmos]

can u help me?

i fixed the ground and the assets @soft lion

how can i fix the trees and the grass

(sorry for ping)

[ocean hinge]

You should have a look in the material of the trees. They may use a shader your render pipeline does not support

[placid laurel]

Got it, thanks

[thin spire]

Hey all!

I have a problem with my baked lighting looking like this in one place and it seems to correspond with the "baked lightmap culling". Does anyone know what baked lightmap culling does and how I could fix this? Thank you.

[ocean hinge]

you mean the benches?

[placid laurel]

Any idea why probuilder object don't cast baked shadows?

I'm using urp, the object is set to static, lightmapping setting from probuilder is set to auto, but instead of shadows it kind of fades black at the bottom

Ok, apparently it's the whole scene that is fucked somehow

But why does it happen?

Tag me if you have any idea please

[placid laurel]

For anyone dealing with the issue above, go to lighting -> environment and make sure you have a light source in the slot below the skybox

[dense turtle]

I'm trying to use prefabs in my palette w/ a GameObject brush. I'm using URP.

When I open the palette as a prefab, I can see the prefabs rendering perfectly and when I paint with them, they render fine as well, but the palette pane in the inspector renders them magenta every time. I suspect it may have something to do with the PreviewRenderUtility which GridPaintPaletteWindow.cs uses, but I can't for the life of me figure out why it'd be using a different render pipeline or how to affect it.

Any ideas?

[void comet]

URP / Post Processing question:

I'm trying to have my depth of field ignore anything on the Character layer, so that everything gets blurred except for my character. What I did was to go to my forward renderer => remove the layer from opaque layers => Add a render objects feature that renders the layer after post processing is done

In theory, this should work, in practice, my player avatar (skinned mesh renderer) gets drawn a bit messed up

Is this a bug with the feature (since its experimental), or am i missing something silly here?

[soft lion]

I dont know much about render features but why you want the character not to be affected by the depth of field completely? Could you just focus the camera on the player distance?

[void comet]

Ty for answering, managed to make it work with simply a second camera and turns out it looks like crap when some elements arent affected 😅

so no depth of field for now

[soft lion]

Have you tried using Bokeh Depth of Field with Focus Distance at the player level? You can change the focus distance on runtime via script to keep the player on focus

[soft lion]

Btw the reason for this type of error is that the shader doesnt read or write (or neither) from the depth buffer (usually rendered as transparent geometry)

[void comet]

Yeah tried bokeh, even with that its hard to get a good result since
A) At the point of the blue particle effect there'll be another bot, so its range needs to be quite wide with a fast dropoff in blur right after the bot. Didn't manage to get any parameter settings to look right, I don't feel a real life camera would be able to do it either
and B) platform is WebGL so want to avoid expensive volumes

Simply not using depth of field since it was just an idea, thanks for the info on the depth buffer, rendering is still a big mystery to me

[placid laurel]

You can always go with the AC Unity route where you don't actually have depth of field, you just swap the meshes and textures to low quality ones to simulate depth of field and save performance.

[fathom quarry]

guys how do i check if im using hdrp or urp
I think im using hdrp but there's an "Exposure" node that I can't find here

[placid laurel]

You can go to the package manager and see which one you have in the project.

[clear sentinel]

in your graphics settings check your render pipeline asset

[jagged valve]

Hey, I'm trying to make a shader graph that allows me to cross section an object based on it's intersection with a plane

When the white rectangle goes into the red archway on the right, say only half way in, the other half shouldn't stick out the other side

[obtuse lily]

Do standard unity trees that come with unity terrain work on URP ?

im having trouble with the materials being pink

[placid laurel]

I'm pretty sure that they only work with the standard render pipeline. #archived-hdrp had this same convo a few days back.

[scarlet lava]

hey,

I have few walls that are URP based, they look fine on the editor even in playmode.
However, once I make an android build it and enter the game, those walls just disappears.

what could be the cause of that?

[main eagle]

I switched pc's and now I can't see any post processing in my project, not even basic bloom! Who knows a fix? All post processing is correctly set up and it is enabled in the scene camera. The white thing is my sun.

It doesn't show up in game, but neither does it show up in the editor camera

Also, my inputs don't seem to be working on my UI (new input system with Player Input component on the canvas), maybe this is connected to the issue above? I am able to walk around with my character, however... 🤔 🤔

[steep aspen]

ive installed URP and my whole post processing thing stopped working, i ticked the HDR and post processing thing in the URP thing and ticked the post processing one in the camere and its still not rendering bloom and all the fancy stuff, anyone has an idea how i could fix this?

\

the post processing stopped working after i set the URP thing in settings

[warped skiff]

only thing i can think of is you're using the wrong post processing component

URP has a special one

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@7.1/manual/integration-with-post-processing.html

@steep aspen

[steep aspen]

i will try this later, thank you so much

[main eagle]

got it finally! There was an evil hidden option that somehow got toggled off

[frosty heart]

Hello I am new here and I was wondering if anyone had a solution to this. My player sprite seems to just be black when it gets close to this 2d light even though it's not really in the radius of where the light is affecting. I was wondering if anyone had a solution to this?

[rich drift]

I'm having trouble with 2D shadows in 2020.3 LTS

nvm

unity being weird again

[copper pilot]

Make the light bigger?

[cyan swallow]

Is there a preprocessor directive for different graphics APIs? I know e.g. SHADER_API_METAL is defined for shaderlab, but it doesnt appear to work for C#

[cyan swallow]

The reason I ask is because the cameraDepthTarget behaves differently for Vulkan and Metal compared to other APIs on 2020 and 2021 LTS (specifically, it refers to the scene view depth target for these APIs but not others). So I need to switch my code path to select a more appropriate depth target for these APIs only in these engine versions

[polar sable]

i just added urp to my game and my player is always under my wall sprite regardless of how low he is

probably has to do with the rendering layer masks but i have no idea why

haven't found anyone else with this issue

[ocean hinge]

Probably the Z Position?
Or the Position in the Hierachy?

[polar sable]

the z position on all sprites is 0

everything was fine before i added urp renderers

[marble vigil]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/2DSorting.html
There are multiple modes of 2D sorting
To my knowledge URP doesn't touch this, but if all your sprites are at the exact same depth, tiebreaks may happen unpredictably

[pure hedge]

heya, after installing urp into my (originally non-urp) project the "recompile and continue playing" option completely stopped working and just used recompile after finished playing. pretty sure there was a notification on it during installation the first time, but can't recreate it

[keen shuttle]

So I set up my project with URP, and where before, I could easily see my entire scene, now it's like the far clipping plane on the scene camera is really close.

I tried increasing the scene camera's far clipping plane, but that doesn't change things at all.

I also tried selecting the ground and pressing "F" to automatically set the clipping planes, but that also didn't make a difference.

I looked online for a pretty long while, but couldn't find anyone with the same problem I'm having.

Any advice?

[stable knot]

I have this distortion shadergraph for the water in 2D. It works fine for what I want, but when I build the game for phones its all pink and WebGL is all gray. How can the build platform affect the result we see? I based a lot of it on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8Z3QvYApnk&ab_channel=SethFunk

It works fine in Unity and on PC builds, anyone has any idea why doesn't it work otherwise and how do I fix it?

[barren pike]

question! when I build to quest 2 in a URP project with "opaque textures" enabled, all of the transparent materials don't show up in the build (I think they're being rendered in the wrong order.) is this a bug? anyone know of a workaround?

[peak agate]

If the sprite is using a LIT material, then it has to be in a light to not be just black, so you have to either put it in the range of a light or use an UNLIT material

[stoic imp]

Hey guys! We are trying to get shadows from a plane which has a mask. When we set up the Surface Type as Transparent, no shadows are casted; and, if it is set to opaque, mask does not work... Do you have any idea to proceed? Custom shader approaches will also be interesting 😅

Also, with a custom shader, we get the mask working fine, but the shader displayed is the squared one from the plane (it does not respect the mask)

[dry willow]

Should be able to use Opaque + Alpha Clipping

[stoic imp]

Inside the regular Lit URP Shader?

[dry willow]

Yeah

[stoic python]

hey folks, i'm trying to make a unity decal projector that ignores lighting and just sets an unlit decal on an object, but i'm unsure of how to make it unlit in the decal shader graph

anybody familiar with how to go about creating a basic decal shader graph that is unlit/ignores-lighting?

[placid laurel]

You sure you need to create one? URP already has decal projectors you gotta just add it as a renderer feature

[copper pilot]

Is tessellation in URP doable with shadergraph?

[marble vigil]

Not with SG, I don't think, but in URP otherwise yes
https://www.patreon.com/posts/basic-setup-in-45320078

[gentle charm]

Is it possible to use SRP Batcher with Graphics.DrawMesh?

[stoic python]

oh i'm already using a decal projector, i just need to make a shader graph for the material the decal projector is firing

i'm using it for a projector in my game, but i don't want it to be lit by anything, i just want it to show up full brightness

this kinda shows my problem, where the lighting of the level affects the decal and makes it darker

[stoic imp]

It does not work either...

[coral ravine]

hello

just upgraded to urp

and i get this error all time

i've never did work with shaders or urp

[heady stag]

Hello, is there an appropriate channel for 3D solid objects (filled)

[placid laurel]

Oh ok, well when making a shader graph you can select unlit

[frail cradle]

having absolutely wild performance issues in URP on 2021
60% GPU usage in an empty scene even when limiting frame rate to 30fps with vsync

the same test without URP gives like 23% gpu usage

anybody else seen this?

[clear sentinel]

what framerates do you get if you let it rip?

[frail cradle]

pretty high (>100fps)

we've discovered that using either 2022 or 2020 fixes the problem completely, literally taking me down to 0% GPU

[soft lion]

Elaborate, I dont understand and I dont think others do either

[static shadow]

Hey guys. I've been working on this project for a bit now and I finally went to go build it to see if it runs and unfortunately, it doesn't look as how I thought it would. For some reason the windows on these houses are rainbow and the lighting is completely off, and this is ONLY happening on the build - not during the Play Test.

When I change the Rendering Path from Deferred to forward, it goes full rainbow.

Okay. I was able to figure it out, thank god. I had these checked.

Accurate G-buffer normals (off) fixed the lighting, and the Transparent Receive Shadows (off) fixed the rainbow windows. As to why it's even rainbow I have no idea.

[heady stag]

Is there a channel for filled 3D objects, as in 3D objects that not only have their surface layer meshed but rather all of their insides aswell, since importing such meshes from Maya and Catia did not work in unity but rather created 'shells' of the objects. Im wondering if unity even has such support ? ( importing full 3D meshes )

I require this because I need the full meshes for CNC cutting and drilling simulation

[soft lion]

In unity all the backfaces are just culled (not rendered). You can use double sided shader (shader that doesnt cull backfaces) to render both sides of the triangles

[heady stag]

I believe you havent understood my question, in order to avoid constant retriangulation when cutting or drilling I would just remove the triangles associated with the vertices to be cut thus making the part of the mesh invisible, but for this to completely work id have to have a fully filled 3D mesh with a high enough number of verts and am wondering if that is even possible in unity

the kind of mesh generated by CATIA, Inventor, AutoCad 3D and MAYA

not the blender one, since blender created shallow objects

[marble vigil]

For those programs to display "filled" objects they do some fancy procedural geometry and shader math
Something you'd have to replicate from scratch in Unity

There may be some solutions for it on the asset store

Generally I think that effect is categorically either a mesh generated fully at runtime from SDF data, or one or more meshes combined with an "internal cutout" masking shader

[heady stag]

CATIA uses both enclosed surfaces & solids ( filled meshes ), so I believe you're wrong there

[marble vigil]

Wrong about what?

[heady stag]

Those programs dont just 'display' the objects to appear as they are filled, rather they are 'filled', thus they are called solids

[dusk orbit]

Anyone know why spotlight behave like this?

[marble vigil]

They might not, but it's one of the options

In rendering it's a bit of a pointless semantic difference whether something "looks" like it's filled or actually "is" filled
The polygonal mesh representation you see is never thicker than paper thin anyway

[marble vigil]

Pixel light limits per object

[dusk orbit]

Thanks Spazi, what does it mean? This is pratically my first time using URP.

Tried to search only It's said something about 8 light

[marble vigil]

It's a setting by that name and a whole topic related to optimization of light rendering
You can surely find a lot of info searching that term

[dusk orbit]

but I don't uderstand the per object part.

Oh! Got it... so a chair can only render 8 light

Thanks!

[marble vigil]

In forward rendering path every mesh object has to be rendered once for every light affecting it, so bundled up lights are expensive and big meshes easily fall into many light ranges

[dusk orbit]

That's why it's preferred to bake light right?

Alright thanks!

[marble vigil]

Yes, avoiding this challenge and expense one upside of baked lights

[dusk orbit]

Thanks! It works!

[unreal shore]

Hi,
my texture renders all funky in my custom generated mesh (an hexagon) i've tried to setup the uvs but it's like the texture is "starting from each angle"
On the left, a simple plane with the texture i'm trying to setup
And this is how i setup the uvs :

Vector2[] uvs = new Vector2[mesh.vertices.Length];

            for (i = 0; i < uvs.Length; i++)
            {
                uvs[i] = new Vector2(mesh.vertices[i].x, mesh.vertices[i].z);
            }

            mesh.uv = uvs;

any idea on what i've fucked up ?

[spice hedge]

is there a way to make a decal projector only project on the first mesh it hits

[soft lion]

Not with the projector components unity provides afaik

[surreal jungle]

is built-in render pipeline considered legacy?

[soft lion]

What is this referrig to? I think it is in some sense. Unitys plan is to get rid of birp in the future, urp is meant to have all the birp features so it could be used instead

[surreal jungle]

friend of mine told me this and I was unsure if it's so

[ancient obsidian]

guys why post processing not work?

[mystic delta]

Make sure you are using URP components and not installed default pipeline package. Instructions are pinned in #💥┃post-processing

[soft lion]

You can still use birp, no worries about that (and you can upgrade to urp very easily later on), unitys long term plan is just to get rid of it. What comes to rendering etc. they are not working on it anymore, editor etc. gets all the updates normally but the render pipeline isnt on active developement. So its not going to be removed from existing unity versions but upcoming unity versions may not support it

[next talon]

I'm not sure where to put this, but what is that default material probuilder used to have that was basically a placeholder cubes that would show how much one meter was basically

[idle musk]

hello, I'm working with a UI, and I want to make an inventory with some 3D gems, I'm using URP and use a render feature, but I can't use masks to hide them if they come out of a grid. does anybody know how I can fix it?

[lime moth]

is there a reason for the default capsule to have so many duplicate vertices? (all vertices that are not yellow are duplicates, the one on top has 6 vertices in one place!)

[copper pilot]

Not even close.

URP is not even close to feature parity with BIRP yet.

[surreal jungle]

ty

[peak flame]

Hello! So I am trying to layer cameras in a URP app, but world text appears in different locations on the cameras I am trying to stack ( I am trying to make a UI camera to render on top of special effects)

The result is the right picture, where there is two different locations for the text, has anyone seen this before?

I set up the UI camera as a child to the main, set it to overlay, added it to the main camera stack, the FoV is the same (by script), so I'm stuck on what could be making it different

[marble vigil]

@surreal jungle It is "legacy" but it's not deprecated

[polar cipher]

I'd guess it's because of UVs

[ancient obsidian]

got it

[ancient obsidian]

im using 2020 version and idk it is default or not
btw i enabled post processing in camera

this glowing thing is prove

[mystic delta]

I mean the post processing package. URP has built in one, remove external one if you have it

[ancient obsidian]

delete this?

it work when i put component to main camera

but i dont want it

[placid laurel]

any impact on performance or future light problems if my normals are flipped randomly but i am setting the render to 'both'?

[ancient obsidian]

it not work tho

[ancient obsidian]

i deleted it

[soft lion]

Just make the normals correct. Yes, it affects performance and id imagine it can cause some other issues too (like leaving gaps im shadow maps)

[placid laurel]

i mentioned random normals just as an example... i am using a lot of single faces on plants models etc.

[soft lion]

Single faces sounds fine in this case

[placid laurel]

ok! thanks 🙂

[stray ocean]

generated my lighting and now none of them are working

how do i fix this

when i delete the lighting data and reload the scene most of them work, some just dont

nvm got it, my objects have to be static 🤦‍♂️

[mental wigeon]

Anyone have experience converting shaders from built-in RP / CG to URP / HLSL? Or from converting HDRP to URP? Looking to hire someone for a small port project (I have a working project examples of a shader effect in both Built-In and HDRP already)

[peak flame]

As an add on to what I asked earlier, the frames are the camera are different in the editor, I don't understand how this is possible if I am setting their FoV to be the same every frame

[simple skiff]

Hi... I have a URP scene of a building and I need to add markers on all (rectangle) windows - (see Potoshop illustration) ... how should I go about? is there a shader I can use \ create that do that to quads?- Fresnel doesn't work on quads

[outer nest]

Trying to use URP/Baked Lit shader, am i doing something wrong? Because it ends up looking nothing like URP/Lit shader... Am i missing a baking step?

[warm island]

The Baked Lit shader only receives light from a baked lightmap. So you should apply these materials to static objects and make sure your lights are set to Baked or Mixed. Then bake your lightmap.

[outer nest]

ah i see

ok thanks

i wish there was a way to "bake" the exact rendered appearance of the URP/Lit shader onto my objects, maybe onto their textures or something... then just render it without the URP/Lit shader for better performance

for several reasons 1) these are static objects 2) this is for mobile, i've seen significant performance difference between using URP/Lit and URP/Unlit shader

[quaint marlin]

how do I convert built-in legacyshaders/particles/additive to urp and should I do it or not?

I just want particles to work with urp... I can create new if needed

[marble vigil]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@12.0/manual/particles-unlit-shader.html
Use this or any of the particle shaders with additive blending

[quaint marlin]

okay! one thing though, where is texture pick in this shader?

[quaint marlin]

oh, like this, I see, thank you!!

[waxen pewter]

How to change tile color at runtime?

[urban silo]

Just use a different texture 4Head

[simple skiff]

Thanks. what is 4Head? tried texturing but the problem is that textures do not stretch that well 🙂 and I have the quad in different sizes...

[tender python]

I need to fix this so it won't render it like this but the other way, that the top is on top of the upper one and under the lower one

[placid laurel]

Oh wait

[tender python]

what

[urban silo]

Lol, dont mind the "4Head" reference, its a twitch.tv thing
But this vid might help you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiOGWZXBg4Y
It creates a highlight where it intersects with different objects

[old belfry]

Hey guys I have an emergency here.

Downloaded and imported one of the free Unity particle packs from the asset store, now my project looks like this. I didn't save after the import when when I reloaded it was still like this

How can I fix this? I also can't find the file of the imported asset

[fresh pond]

@old belfry If you imported the Unity Particle Pack, it's a tutorial project that overwrites some of your project settings

[old belfry]

Is there a way to undo that?

[fresh pond]

As far as I know, no. You could read through the review section and hope someone has some tips there, but this asset also looks like it's meant for standard/built-in, not URP

[old belfry]

I've been working on my project for 2 years. I kinda need a fix if not an undo 😒

[fresh pond]

I don't have a very specific answer here, but when you imported it, a whole bunch of stuff may have changed, including project settings.. Tags & Layers may be gone

[old belfry]

Is there someone I could reach out to for help with this? I know very little about tags and layers and I don't know code (been using Game Creator for my scripting)

[fresh pond]

And I imagine you may have to set up URP from scratch

I think it will take some time to fix this, but it's not impossible- in a review someone mentions the asset changed: "render pipeline (in your case from URP to standard), lighting settings, global physics settings, layer settings"

So unless you have a recent backup there's not much you can do except to manually fix stuff that it broke

[old belfry]

I don't mind taking time to fix it, but it kinda needs to be fixed as...as I said, with the exception of a few month break I've been working on my project for at least several hours a day daily for 2 years.

Unfortunately my processor is kinda outdated so haven't been able to back up in a while

Does Unity have a tech support phone number?

[fresh pond]

I don't know. I personally email them if I have issues with something

[old belfry]

Is it [e-mail]?

[fresh pond]

https://support.unity.com/hc/en-us - You can go here and at the top Submit a request

[fresh pond]

I believe you can use that email too

[old belfry]

Will do, thank you

[tender python]

so how can I fix it?

[ocean hinge]

what exactly am i looking at?

[tender python]

I need ot fix that rendering, hte bottom part should be covered bz other sprites, not the upper part

[tender python]

.

[ocean hinge]

When using Sprites, you must change the Z Position to change who will appear in front of who.

But ideally Z ordering is the last thing to determine what is in front of what. Typically in a 2D game you almost never have to worry about Z if you do things right.
You have order in hierarchy for the canvas, as well as Sorting Layer and Sorting Order on every Sprite Renderer and Canvas.

could help also: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-SortingGroup.html

[tender python]

😐

and btw it's sorting them but from bottom up

[proper basalt]

Anyone have any ideas why my render pipeline may go missing inbetween github pushes? I have them correctly but whenever a partner fetches project it opens up as missing or the terrain texture is missing.

[knotty saffron]

hey! I am using a decal projector w/ a transparent decal in unity.

however, i get this result

would anyone know why?

[hardy rover]

Can we do ssgi in urp?

[marble vigil]

No, unless you implement it yourself

[fading arrow]

How do I configure URP for a generic mobile game?

[hardy rover]

Dayum, I thought there was a plan to port it to URP a while back, or proly I mixed it with something else. Thanks 👍

[proven ether]

hey guys! i have a global volume thats im using to desaturate the game. however it's only applying to my scene view and not the game. whats up?????

[marble vigil]

Cameras need to have post processing enabled individually

[proven ether]

thank you

[proven ether]

i deleted Procedural Worlds folder from my project, because im not using Gaia for anything and its like 5gb

and everything turned purple!

how fix :(

like i literally wasnt using it, and had only used it on one scene that i deleted a while ago.

dont get why deleting it impacted my other stuff

[marble vigil]

First you would check if the purple objects have missing materials or missing shaders on those materials

If nothing there is missing, it's possible that the package contained an universal render pipeline asset which was in use, and now the project thinks it should use built-in RP

[proven ether]

doing a render pipeline conversion again fixed all but 1 thing

though a bunch of other assets look kinda funky

https://i.imgur.com/pv9r2ZD.png

like, the grass is half renderingn ormally

if i change the shader to simple lit, it looks fine

but it was working fine on Lit before

i dont really understand how shaders and everything work

is there something i could do to like.. refresh everyhting?

https://i.imgur.com/zytLSXI.png

it should look like that, for reference

it seems like my whole scene is a bit darker now too

like it changed the lighting or somethign?

[marble vigil]

That is possible, you could regenerate lighting from lighting settings window

[proven ether]

how do i do that

i have the lighting window open

just reimport the lighting settings?

[marble vigil]

"Generate" button

[proven ether]

ah it was on auto generate

[marble vigil]

I struggled with two-sided backfaces rendering their lighting really weirdly, but I didn't find out if there's a workaround for it or not
Let me know if you find out

[proven ether]

hm

i think its kinda back to normal

but it feels off before

i was relaly happy with how it looks before

and now everything just feels a bit off

for future reference, whats the proper way to delete unused assets?

https://i.imgur.com/VZq96Nq.png

like this light used to be blindingly bright to look at

now its just like... nothing

[marble vigil]

If they're installed through the package manager you should be able to uninstall them there
Otherwise you'd just delete them from the project window
It becomes difficult to uninstall packages if they overwrite existing assets, such as project settings which is what happened here I believe
This is also why it's very important to use version control software so you can roll back any change to your project
or at very least why you should keep backups of some kind

[proven ether]

yupyupyup

lessons learned

it def deleted some shared assets

https://i.imgur.com/6wv1VJV.png

it seems like no matter what i set my Lighting Settings profile as in lighting, it makes no change

[marble vigil]

I believe the LightingSettings asset only contains data for baked and precomputed global illumination
If you use neither of those systems it won't make any visual difference
Stuff like ambient light probe and fog settings which do have an impact on appearance are stored in the scene asset, not LightingSettings, though I'm not 100% sure where they're hiding

If none of your scenes have baked lightmapping and all of them use default sky settings, they'd all have identical ambient probes as well so you wouldn't be able to see any difference if you were to swap them around

[proven ether]

too baked to deal with lightmaps

[proven ether]

im trying to make a spotlight, but its not actually lighting up anything in my scene

any idea how to fix?

[sonic temple]

Hey guys, does anyone know how to lower the resolution for only the VR camera?
Here is the forum post: https://forum.unity.com/threads/dynamic-resolution-on-vr-camera.1333062/

[hardy rover]

Any idea why the Screen Space Shadow in URP is doing that?

it's a skirt with a opaque material + alpha clipping on

[soft lion]

Its really hard to tell without more information, do you have any comparison images between the pipelines?

[soft lion]

Seems like theres much less lights (ambient and directional lights?)

Also the shadows looks like the urp one doesnt use more than 1 shadow casting light source

The object in the middle looks very different 🤔

I dont think its the same scene at all... that boat looking thing looks clearly very different

[mint vortex]

Anyone know why render queue doesn't seem to be responding to changes? I have two objects, object A set to queue 2000, and object B set to queue 2001, but B doesn't render on top of 2000.

[soft lion]

Render queue defines the order in which the gpu draws the meshes, not in which order they are on the screen, take a look at "Z-buffering" for more information, toggling Z-writing/testing on/off gives more control over the drawing order

Where are all these overlapping shadows coming from? Multiple directional lights am I right?

[mint vortex]

Ah okay! Thanks for the pointer!

[soft lion]

Honestly I dont know how to fix that as URP supports only one directional light shadowmap. Could you get similiar results with only one directional light + spotlights and pointlights?

I think multiple directional lights are still supported but only one that has shadows. The way URP handles shadows is more optimized but limits the amount of shadow casting lights. Have you tried playing with ambient lighting/ambient probe? Btw I like the URPs skybox shader a lot more. You have to make new material with that shader and add it to the Lighting Settings (or was it somewhere else?) in order to get that skybox

[silk yew]

assuming that the before is in built-in 3d if i remember correctly only the built-in pipeline supports multidirectional shadows while urp and hdrp only support 1 directional shadow even if u got multiple directional lights
that's the only problem i can see

[solar coral]

is there any built in method of converting a shader built for the default render pipeline into being compatible with urp, or is there a guide on what to replace inside the shader file?

[solar coral]

nevermind figured it out, turns out it is as simple as replacing a few tags and changing to hlsl in unlit shaders!

[quaint marlin]

Is it a bug that with urp+pixel perfect camera packaged with it + cinemachine you still get cameras fighting each other even though the pixel perfect extension is added?
if so, how to go back to unity built in pipeline?

[warped skiff]

Fightimg how?

[ancient obsidian]

guys

i still cant solve it

enabled post processing

it only work when i put it into camera

put component

[marble vigil]

I don't understand what this means

Stop crossposting about this issue please

[tulip jay]

hey, in this unity tutorial, the guy changes the plane's mesh filter to "waterBlock", ive added URP to my project and still dont see it, how should i get it?

[lean gale]

how do i only render part of the object in the vision cone using universal renderer
i have no idea how to configure the universal renderer data object

[plucky patio]

I’m kinda new to 2D in unity and I was wondering how I can create a shiny effect like this? Creating something like this easy in 3D but for 2D I’m kinda lost since materials work differently. Any thoughts?

[twilit acorn]

Well, the simplest solution would be an animation.

Although probably not so simple from the artistical point of view.

[plucky patio]

Yeah lol I have no knowledge in 2D animation I was hoping it was possible to make a glossy effect from either shader or materials

[twilit acorn]

Glossy effect would probably work the same way as in 3d if you were to do it with a custom shader.

[ionic carbon]

Beginner here. I have a black hole with a distortion effect that distortions everything around it, like the little green ship.
Is there any way for this distortion to affect the thruster particles (little flames)? They're rendering over the distortion so they're not in line with the ship.
Is there any way the distortion can affect the particles? Thanks in advance.

[tepid dragon]

On URP 12.1.7 with unity 2021.3.9f1, how can I sample from the camera render texture, as well as the depth and normals buffers, from a scriptableRenderPass? For the shader, I've been building on top of the Blit.hlsl utility, but I can't tell if my issues are coming from the ScriptableRenderFeature itself or the shader code.

render feature: https://pastebin.com/DM3vrAmK

shader: https://pastebin.com/nfjaSFVy

the output of the render pass (the camera is directly facing an opaque cube):

[urban raft]

Hello! Changed the target platform to android and the Sprite-lit-default material stopped working and does not show the texture of the object, urp is used in the project. help me please

[hardy rover]

There are requirements for urp specifics

Test it on at least mid-higu end devices

[quaint marlin]

Finding a workaround to URP Pixel Perfect Camera Cinemachine Bug

[desert flax]

I've got a decal projector but the decal is only projecting on to the terrain, all the other stuff is being rendered on top. Any ideas what I need to check?

[hardy rover]

Any side effects of using FSR for upscaling on non AMD gpus?

[marble vigil]

Do not crosspost, please

[nocturne shale]

hey guys a build of mine to iOS builds perfectly but when running the apk in the Xcode emulator i got this error, can someone help?

[tardy grove]

Sure, sorry

[surreal valley]

I'm trying to develop a 2D texture array to hold 10,000 slices. Except, I'm getting this error:

UnityEngine.Texture2DArray:.ctor (int,int,int,UnityEngine.Experimental.Rendering.GraphicsFormat,UnityEngine.Experimental.Rendering.TextureCreationFlags)```
Am I unable to create a larger format? I've heard that a pro to these are how much they can fit! Is it possible the graphics format? Thanks.
```tileArr = new Texture2DArray(51, 51, 10000, GraphicsFormat.RGBA_DXT3_SRGB, TextureCreationFlags.None);```

[marble vigil]

If it says that max supported is 2048, then I guess that's what it is
Out of curiosity, what's the practical use for a 10000 slice texture array?

[surreal valley]

I have an image with 10,000 textures on it. It's for a voxel framework. I'm suprised and curious as to why that's the limit- if that's the case.

[marble vigil]

I don't think I've heard of any games utilizing ten thousand textures in total, let alone at the same time
Still, texture atlases are another option which you could use instead of / in combination with texture arrays

[surreal valley]

I haven't tried a texture atlas yet- but Im worried about texture-leakage. If I want a texture to repeat, I don't want the tiling to go to the neighboring texture in the atlas.

that's what I've heard texture arrays prevent which is why i wanted to use it

[marble vigil]

That's true, atlases need some extra care to prevent that

[sand sigil]

is it possible to use more than 1 render data if yes how do i go about it please help me

[surreal valley]

define 'render data'

[sand sigil]

🤦‍♂️ i figured it out lol

[sand sigil]

thanks for the reply

[summer prism]

Hello I have tile map rendering issues. there is like a line on the border of my tiles. does anybody know how to fix?

[marble vigil]

Tilemaps require 1-2 pixel margins between tiles, as the edges will bleed color over a bit

[summer prism]

ok that fixed it

ty

[dawn bronze]

So I can not add a "LightMode" tag to a shader graph? Is that a fact?

Kinda important when this is the only way to specify drawing settings in the render feature dontcha think?

[placid laurel]

Is post processing vignette basically like ellipse? (I deleted this message from #💻┃unity-talk because I didn’t want to put it there)

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph@6.9/manual/Ellipse-Node.html

[copper pilot]

I'd make a normal map for the card and then use that to distort a gradient 'reflection' texture.

[desert flax]

I asked about decal projectors the other day but I've got a bit more info now. I've got a projector just projecting a white rectangle straight down. When the game starts there's just a car on a large plane. If I turn the projector on at that point, everything is affected as expected. Then I do something and loads of geometry is generated, roads, etc. and also terrain. If I turn the projector on here, only the terrain is affected, nothing else as far as I can see. Does anyone have any clues they could give me on why?

[polar cipher]

Is generated geometry on the same layer? Doesn't it by any chance use transparent shaders? Is it rendered by a renderer feature? Are you using forward or deferred renderer?

[desert flax]

I'll have to go and look up the answers to all those, thanks!

[polar belfry]

Hi, I just changed my forward renderer in an fps game, so i only need one camera. I used the render pass thing or what its called and followed a tutorial. It all works good but the ambient occlusion is now not applying on the gun render layer. Does anybody have a fix for this ?

[royal iron]

Hello!! Is there any way to use Complex Lit in deferred rendering mode? Or some hack so that it doesn’t fallback to forward and limits the lights available!

[plucky river]

Hello there! Does anybody know why VFX Graph could be not working in my project? URP 12.1.7, Unity 2021.3.9f1 LTS (Also tried on Unity 2021.2.17f1 and 2022.1.16f1). Any VFX effect, even the default one just don't emit and don't show anything at all. I've tried to change versions, reinstall package, import effects from another projects where they were working, set the URP and Quality settings equal to that projects... Nothing worked. Any ideas?

[marble vigil]

There's no need to crosspost
Instructions for URP configuration in this channel's pinned messages

[soft lion]

What is the feature you want from the complex lit shader? I dont think deferred rendering in unity supports clear coat etc.

[royal iron]

Basically a car at night requires to have a clear coat for the paint, but if there’s too many lights they start pop in and out. I also know that it doesn’t support deferred rendering but I never understood why 😦

[royal iron]

Oh but basically I just want the clear coat when compared to the standard shader!

[soft lion]

Did you try to increase the per pixel light count? Did you know urp now (i think its only on alpha release) has forward+ renderer which is able to handle more lights than the default forward renderer.

[royal iron]

Yes I maxed out to the 8 limit and in some scenarios still pops in, I can work around the placement of lights but I wish I didn’t 😦

[royal iron]

Oh yesss!! It’s just sad that it’s still in alpha, because forward+ is hella powerful! Since it’s alpha it crashes a lot and I can’t build for iOS it throws me errors.
But when it’s a stable release it’s just a no brainer to have it selected

[cyan swallow]

I've got a question with SRPs and editor behavior. It seems that in URP the scene tab and preview window actually both render their views at the same time, or there is no guarantee one finishes before the other begins at any rate. This means that if you have custom passes that rely on storing some data in a global property, those properties can be overwritten by the two cameras creating race conditions which give rise to nondeterministic behavior

Is this a bug? Is there an alternative to work around this?

For instance, I have a custom pass that requires the viewport size to accurately produce a regular dither pattern. To support RenderScale != 1, I have to store the viewport size manually in a global vector, because _ScaledScreenParams does not provide sufficient data to determine the render target size accurately (to within 1px). But then whenever scene viewport and preview window are different sizes, I get glitches

[native socket]

Does anyone know if I can write to a velocity buffer in a custom shader? one that would be used by motion blur

or would i have to write the implementation from scratch

[jagged valve]

Why are my sprites appearing as just cubes?

And that black shadow was never there before, it was a semi-transparent shadow, no idea why it's now fully solid...

[cedar sleet]

Does 2D URP with with android? The "New Project" page says 3D URP works with android but 2D URP doesn't..

Looking at the documentation, it looks like Android is supported but why would the "New Project" page say its not?

[balmy vine]

Anyway to change my default material when using URP? It's tiring to change it for every new material

[soft lion]

What would you want to change it to?

And are you talking about the material thats added when you create new object or the one when you create new material?

[balmy vine]

Because I have my own shader that I want to use as a default, it will be the default for most objects.

[balmy vine]

Ultimately I'd like to change both, custom material that can be copied when creating new materials; and used for primitives and imported models.

[soft lion]

@balmy vine Im not aware of that feature atleast. I think default material per imported mesh can be changed, im not sure. If thats really a problem, custom editor script could be used to easily change the materials/create objects with certain properties

[balmy vine]

Really wish it was a feature, URP already overrides the material for everything

[hardy rover]

that would be disaster

[marble vigil]

You can assign materials to multiple selected objects at once

[hardy rover]

And pray that the materials would assign the texture correctly 😆

[jagged valve]

.

[marble vigil]

Hard to guess
Did you change something recently?

[jagged valve]

I figured out what it was. Something to do with upgrading my version of Unity.

Alpha channel was being incorrectly handled.

[jagged valve]

New issue popped up, now any shaders that had transparency are just filled with opacity but it only shows in game not in the editor

[jagged valve]

Only comes up in the game view, not the scene view, and has only started happening after i upgraded my unity to 2022

[marble vigil]

2022 versions are still alpha/beta and can have unpredictable issues

In my experience it's much more likely those issues show up when upgrading to an experimental version, as opposed to creating a new project

[cyan swallow]

Is it possible to define our own shadergraph targets for the scriptable render pipelines yet? I see in HDRP there is a DecalTarget, for instance. In URP it looks complicated by the fact that UniversalTarget is a sealed class?

(I'm trying to work around the old problem of not being able to add passes in shadergraph)

[cedar sleet]

Does 2D URP with with android? The "New Project" page says 3D URP works with android but 2D URP doesn't..

Looking at the documentation, it looks like Android is supported but why would the "New Project" page say its not?

[marble vigil]

Probably an oversight

Should be fairly quick for you to verify if you build android projects

[wheat leaf]

how do i add the 2d urp rendererrdw

is it too late?

[marble vigil]

Don't crosspost, google can answer these questions
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@12.1/manual/Setup.html

[shadow wind]

So ive noticed something odd. Using URP decals, when I use automatic or dbuffer, if I use it on a Terrain, it won't currently show on top of any terrain layer after the 4th. I feel like this is something im just not sure of

[cyan swallow]

do you know if the terrain passes get drawn again for layer 5+? maybe it's redrawing over the decal?

the frame debugger might help you take a look at what is happening after the decals are drawn

[balmy vine]

How so?

[green torrent]

has anyone any idea why im getting these jagged circle artefacts thru a reftection on a surface? lack of a refection probe maybe?

[marble vigil]

If you're using deferred rendering this could be caused by not using "Accurate G-buffer normals"

[green torrent]

interesting. ill check that out straight away.

[green torrent]

btw, thanx. and btw, where are those settings?

[marble vigil]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@13.1/manual/rendering/deferred-rendering-path.html#how-to-enable
Below the red circled area here

[green torrent]

awesome! superthanx yet again

[green torrent]

didnt work. just shifted the angle you see it from, not the actual jagged circles. they are still there. and it kinda messed up my URP somehow. got alot of flickering pixels when i mive the mouse or camera. had to close unity. so there must be something else.

[green torrent]

getting this now:

[marble vigil]

I don't recognize this, but definitely looks more severe than the usual g-buffer artifacts

Restarting or reimporting may help

[green torrent]

i did restart. same issue as before with the circles. but the pixelation is gone thankfully. but isnt there a way to smoothen out this reflection? like increase a HD slider on something?

[marble vigil]

Well no, it's not supposed to be jagged like that, except in the specific case I talked about

[green torrent]

strange.

[exotic wasp]

I made a maze and I got a spotlight working, but when I added a shadow caster to my wall it makes weird shapes

the first one is without and the second one is with the walls (darker grey) have a shadow caster enabled

is there a reason for this

oh god

I got it working

and it's lagging up a storm

bad idea

[hardy rover]

is realtime GI possible in Unity?

if so, what are the requirements?

[marble vigil]

Enlighten does precomputed realtime GI
HDRP does ray traced GI and SSGI

[hardy rover]

@marble vigil how's the workflow tho, like, how it works with dynamic/static objects etc?

[marble vigil]

Enlighten can only bounce lighting from static, baked objects, ray tracing and SSGI work with everything

[hardy rover]

And there's no SSGI as of now in urp, right?

[marble vigil]

Nope, and unlikely to be

[hardy rover]

🥲

[wheat leaf]

i have the issue is the answers i see on google dont work for me

[wheat leaf]

sorry for cross posting tho i forgot to delete the other one

[marble vigil]

The documentation I linked explains how to create renderers including 2D
If it doesn't work you'll have to be more specific as to why

[solemn zodiac]

@marble vigil @hardy rover there is no solution from Unity's end, but Raytracing is supported in URP, here is my take on DDGI in URP. Got some artifacts as this was learning project not final solution. But realtime GI is definitely possible.

[near spade]

Can someone pls help.
I want to implement that light won lose its intensity over distance.
While searching I only found https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ProgressiveLightmapper-CustomFallOff.html
and I have 0 idea how do I implement it.
Any suggestions ???
I'm fairly new to Unity so I'm still learning to use documentation
Edit: I use realtime lighting in urp

[marble vigil]

Post only to one relevant channel

[placid laurel]

I think Precomputed is way better

It makes things look amazing and doesn’t kill your device

[placid laurel]

Anyone know?

[sour bronze]

if you make the parameters extreme enough you can tell

enabling "rounded" makes it a circle i think

hey guys I have a question relating to camera stacking

I wanted to have a render feature apply to everything except certain objects

the only way I could think to do this was by adding an overlay camera that and rendering the objects on a different layer

the only problem is now those objects dont render their shadows anymore

the way I thought of resolving that was by duplicating the meshes, turning off shadows on one, and setting the other to shadows only, then putting them on their respective layers

but im worried about the performance implications of doing that with high poly meshes

is there a way to go about this that won't have a substantial impact on the performance?

[sour bronze]

i guess more simply the question is if I can have an overlay camera render the shadows casting onto objects outside the culling mask

[placid laurel]

Alright 👍

[marble vigil]

A shadow casting mesh is rendered once normally and a second time for the shadow caster pass, so it doesn't make much of a difference if the shadowless and shadows only meshes are separate

[opaque plume]

I made my lit material double sided for this flag, but why does it look so different on the backside?

[soft lion]

The backface most likely uses the normal from the frontface

[opaque plume]

well yeah it is only one face

but since the flag will use cloth physics it can only be a once sided mesh

[mystic violet]

Why was my message removed ??

[soft lion]

You could make a shader graph that inverts the normal for backfaces

[slate spade]

i get this black artifact when using URP high fidelity, if i use balanced i don't see it. seems to have something to do with shadow, playing with the Near Plane setting on the Light's shadow setting affects it. is there some easy way to deal with this instead of playing with each individual light's settings?

[hardy rover]

how would you get like super sharp shadows in URP? is that possible?

[slate spade]

I get these messages in the console also, not sure if related.

[marble vigil]

These simply mean that the shadow resolutions to make them fit the atlas, I'd be more concerned about the yellow warnings and red errors

If light's near plane has an effect, that's surely worth looking into

[marble vigil]

Sharpness comes from a high shadow resolution
Shadow cascades will be important to get the resolution where it's needed

[hardy rover]

thanks for pointing that out, too bad, we can't lose any more performance by ramping up the shadow resolution 🥲

[sour bronze]

right, thanks for the pointer

[slate spade]

The yellow warning/errors weren't related to the light/shadow issue, just something else I was working on when I took the screenshot. Do you have any recommendations on things I could look into to resolve the issue? Thanks

[marble vigil]

I don't recognize the issue, but since it happens only on one quality setting but not the other, I would try pinpointing the cause by comparing the differences in quality settings

e.g. by making a copy of Balanced and switching the settings one by one to the values from High Fidelity to see when the issue appears

That should reveal what the issue exactly is so it'll become easier to solve

[slate spade]

I tried that actually, nothing I changed in the quality settings affected it =/

[marble vigil]

Yet it only happens on high fidelity? Seems odd

[slate spade]

Yeah, this is an asset I picked up off the Unity store, I reached out to the creator to see if they have any advice

[marble vigil]

The odd part is that if you change a quality settings asset's all settings to match another asset (one that doesn't have the issue) there should be 0% difference between them and the issue should be eliminated

[tribal steppe]

hello guys, I migrated to HDRP few months back (with quite a pain)

after using it all this time, I decided that takes a lot of work for a solo dev to make assets. I was thinking of switching to URP. Is there a procedure to do so? how painful is it?

[marble vigil]

I haven't done it personally, but I believe the pipeline converter can handle most of it
The parts that can't be directly translated are light intensities, post processing volumes and environment and sky settings

[tribal steppe]

aha, I expected this

I am thinking of switching before I write more custom HDRP shaders

the volumetric lights are really something but beyond that I don't see any hardcore change and feel

and wondering what extra performance can I squeeze out of it by going to URP

[marble vigil]

Significantly, most likely

[hardy rover]

it can be done apparently... but the performance, is super shitty! https://github.com/unity3d-jp/RaytracedHardShadow

what a shame... I mean, shame on me 🥲

I mean, the amount of sampling is just... insane

[marble vigil]

Well yes, anything is possible when you start customizing the render pipeline

[soft lion]

Custom HDRP shaders? How is that possible?

[cinder kindle]

You can write your own shaders for HDRP in addition to creating them with Shader Graph

[soft lion]

Afaik theres no documentation about them and pretty much no one knows how it works (maybe unlit ones could be doable but lighting may be tricky)

[wheat leaf]

i believe it was because i wasnt using the urp when i first created my project so when i tried converting it to one, now it wont let me

[marble vigil]

That shouldn't be an issue
You'll have to provide more information

[cinder kindle]

It's totally doable but you're right it's not very well documented

[tribal steppe]

I made my own explosion effectes in HDRP shader graphs

[tribal steppe]

did you notice a big performance jump when going back to URP ?

I feel like from a graphical perspective I could fake most HDRP things (except the volumentric lights, which I dont have it down yet from condig-wise) and because my game is kinda bullet hell wanted to see if i could get some extra performance with switching from hdrp to urp

[tribal steppe]

other thing is that I want to implement a split camera and I find it hard with HDRP

[copper pilot]

Is that an 'artifact' or just the shadow of the torch the light is inside?

[slate spade]

It's the shadow, if I adjust the Near Plane setting in the Light's Shadow settings the black square changes/goes away. But different values are needed to make each light/shadow look right so I'd have to go through them all which is a pain. Still trying to figure it out

[copper pilot]

Can't you just change the shadow settings on the torch mesh?

[mint juniper]

I have a camera with a culling mask set to 1 layer (just the water in the gif) that is outputting to a render texture (RText_Channel_1 in the gif). You can see the output of the camera in the gif bottom middle.
For some reason the render texture is capturing objects the camera isn't (shown left in the gif).
The render texture works as expected though when I disable Enable Compatible Color Format in the render textures settings.
Anybody have any clue why this is?

Further testing it seems to be because I have 2 cameras rendering to 2 separate RTextures (each camera is rendering different layers), and both of those textures are using the same color format. If I switch either to a different format there is no issue

Enabling Mip Maps on 1 of the 2 also works

[mint juniper]

Root cause was actually the camera have the background type set to Uninitialized

[hardy rover]

lol wrong place to post 🤣

will delete it

[wheat leaf]

ah then sorry i dont know which more information to give

[stray scroll]

is there any way to upgrade only selected materials to urp?
(instead of initialize converters and uncheck one by one)

[marble vigil]

No idea what it means that it "won't let you" create a renderer

[final swan]

Hi guys. Can you recommend a "good way" or low resource consuming way to play a video in additive mode (making black areas transparent).
I'm looking for a way to play some videos (complex particle animations I have) floating in the space with a glowing effect.

[marble vigil]

Flipbook/spritesheet animations, I would presume

[candid owl]

meet a bug

new Texture2D

then SetPixels32, then texture.Apply(false);

then Material.SetTexture();

but the shader can't access it

a black texture.

[soft lion]

Most likely not a bug and not #archived-urp related either. Could you show the code to make sure its not flawed in some way?

[candid owl]

I finally find it, if I update, it meets the bug

Color32 data = new Color32((byte)12, (byte)15, (byte)miplevel, 1);
dataCache[0] = data;
tex.SetPixels32(ID.x, ID.y, 1, 1, dataCache, MipLevel);

tex.Apply(false);

this is the update code.

I only update a pixel, then Apply(false);

not all pixels

[candid owl]

need help, still don't know why

in my old project(2022), it works.

but when I create a new project with URP template, it fails.

[candid owl]

I also find it's corelated to color space

if I use gamma space, it works.

switch to linear space, fails.

[vestal acorn]

Does anyone know how to achieve the same affect as GL.wireframe = true, but in URP?

[wraith kestrel]

just switched to urp and converted my materials now the color is gone in my scene

[wraith kestrel]

something to do with post processing

[eternal parcel]

Is there a way to make a blur effect on ui with urp

nvm

[marble vigil]

URP and built-in RP use different post processing
Instructions for each pinned in #💥┃post-processing

[wraith kestrel]

thanks buddy

[solar coral]

doing some fluid rendering and need opaque texture to be turned on, wondering which of the urp pipeline assets im meant to turn it on, on, if that makes sense?

[solar coral]

nevermind, i turned them all on and that seems to have worked

[restive sigil]

Are the any plans to try to get volumetrics built-into urp, like Godrays and such? I find it a big pain in the ass to try to make them myself 😆

[marble vigil]

https://portal.productboard.com/8ufdwj59ehtmsvxenjumxo82/tabs/3-universal-pipeline
You can view here all planned features and their statuses
Volumetric fog is "under consideration"
Which I take as practically meaning "check again after a year or two"

[sour bronze]

another issue:
I have a UI camera that I'm used to draw the UI with its own post-processing volume, and that camera has the highest priority and only renders the UI.
it works fine until I adjust the viewport rect of the maincamera, where it just turns black and doesn't update unless its own viewport rect matches the maincamera's viewport rect. This would be fine if I wasn't trying to implement splitscreen local multiplayer and needed the UI to draw on top of everything.
is there a solution for this? is this expected behaviour?

the canvas is set to render on world space and it definitely has the UI camera selected.

hang on maybe the problem is the renderer I chose for the UI camera

no i dont think it is

basically the second the viewport rects dont match the only thing it renders is whatever it can see in the culling mask

and it doesnt let everything else pass through

oh and the 2nd camera is also makred as maincamera but it seems to only work if its on the 1st camera, which is higher in the hierarchy

oh weird actually

as long as the viewrect sizes match, the UI camera actually renders both what the 1st camera can see and its own UI on top of that

so even if I offset them the UI still renders cam1+itself

i wish I could send pictures to help

this was the best I could get

ignore the white on the right, snipping tool added that itself

basically is there a way to do a UI-only camera with an uninitialised background type that essentially transparently renders over everything

but is also screen space - camera or world space

[sour bronze]

heres this with both cameras at 0.5 width viewport btw

man thats really frustrating, the post processing makes it look like 90x better

i suppose I could concede and try designing a questionable paused indicator for the other half of the screen and make the UI shrink into player 1's side since they are the only one that has control anyway

but that would certainly be not ideal

[hollow creek]

Did you figure out why locking/unlocking your android phone made your game run smoother?

[cold geyser]

I guess it was SSAO not sure though, I do not remember.

[tender wasp]

I want to stack cameras, but my second camera isnt rendering my item

[cyan talon]

Screenshot your setup so there's some context to the problem.
If your second camera's an overlay camera with its culling mask including the item's layer it should work fine

[tender wasp]

I got it working

[wet kestrel]

hey guys i have downloaded urp and i cant import any texture onto a object like im trying to use a render texture but it just turns white when i apply it what do i do to fix that?

[restive sigil]

You need to most likely apply your textures to the material again

A little repost from #archived-shaders from yesterday.
I made a water shader a while back, decided to upload it to github yesterday. It's a mess, but still quite amazing.
https://github.com/Tespinen/Unity-URP-Water-Shader-Graph

[wet kestrel]

how?

sorry im a begginer

*beginner

[restive sigil]

Press on the material in the editor, and assign what you want to assign in the inspector

If you've used the built-in renderer/standard renderer it's the same thing.

[wet kestrel]

usually i drag the texture onto the object and it just works but now when i do that it becomes white and i dont really know what todo

[restive sigil]

You need to assign the textures into the material in the inspector, as I said. If you find this confusing, check a youtube tutorial about creating materials in Unity.

[wet kestrel]

i just figured it out

thanks so much for the help

[restive sigil]

Glad to be of assistance. 😄

[wet kestrel]

have a good day

[restive sigil]

Thanks, ya too.

[drifting summit]

Hi, was hoping someone would be able to help me. I just installed the urp for my mobile game and trying to use decals for my character's mouth.

All is going well but whenever I build and take a look at the game on mobile the decals aren't visible. Searched this up and found lots of posts and forums about it but nothings helped sadly. Wondering if anyone else has had this issue before and knows how to fix it?

[marble vigil]

Decals sound like an overcomplex solution to that problem

You could have a bit of extra geometry for the facial features which you swap between different expressions by animating material changing or UV offsets

[drifting summit]

Hmm I think I understand what you're saying. Not sure how to do that stuff but I can see what I can come up with

My character is fully customisable (so could have a sphere face, cube face, pyramid face, etc.) which is why I thought decals might be the best choice for the mouth

Thanks for the advice!

[soft lion]

I see what you mean, custom shader for the face would be much cheaper solution

[marble vigil]

Seems like a reasonable situation to use decals for, though you could just as easily model the facial meshes for each head
I don't have time to dig up resources for either approach right now

[soft lion]

Why not custom shader that uses x and y coordinates of the head to display the face/mouth texture?

[drifting summit]

I'm decent with Blender so I should be able to pull that off I'm sure

[drifting summit]

That sounds like a good idea for efficiency. Only problem is I have absolutely 0 knowledge on making shaders. Always struggled with them

Unless there's some resource out there explaining how to do that specific thing

[soft lion]

Maybe try to ask on #archived-shaders

[drifting summit]

Will try that once I get back to working on the game. Thanks for the help 🙂

[gentle charm]

is there any way to have blueish shadows in URP ?

[restive sigil]

Pretty sure there's a post processing option for shadow coloring and other settings too.

[soft lion]

I think ambient color from lighting settings should do the trick

[rocky sphinx]

Hi guys,

I'm testing Dots on the Quest 2. I was wondering: does Hybrid Render supports Quest 2? From my googling it seems it doesn't yet but I'm not sure...

[nova mica]

Hey, I'm trying to figure out how to convert this shader to URP, can someone help me?

Shader "Custom/MaskShader"
{
    Properties
    {
        _Color("Main Color", Color) = (1,1,1,1)
        _MainTex("Base (RGB) Trans (A)", 2D) = "white" {}
    }
        SubShader
    {
            Tags {"RenderType" = "Transparent" "Queue" = "Transparent"
    }
            Blend SrcAlpha OneMinusSrcAlpha
            ZTest Always
            Pass 
            {
                ZWrite On
                ColorMask 0
            }

            UsePass "Transparent/Diffuse/FORWARD"
    }
        Fallback "Transparent/VertexLit"
}

[marble vigil]

Stick to one relevant channel please

[solar coral]

it seems neither #archived-code-general nor #✨┃vfx-and-particles could help me, so i come asking here, how can i get my particle system to always render, even when the origin (0 0 0) is not visible in the camera's view (i can send a video if my question is too vague)

[solar coral]

after a bit of research, it appears that it is not possible to disable culling on a particle system, atleast most places seem to say so

[normal orbit]

boy that's gonna be a shit show https://discord.com/events/489222168727519232/1022565846717050932

[cyan talon]

They've done it before with UI and it was fine

[rocky sphinx]

Has anyone attempted to use the DOTS hybrid renderer on the quest 2?

[marble vigil]

Particle Systems aren't culled by their origin point, but by their bounding volume

[solar coral]

ye, and the bounding volume is really messed up

[marble vigil]

So, that sounds like the root issue

[solar coral]

ye, and the only solutions i can see to it are to either set the bounds to be way too big, or to use time travel

[marble vigil]

You still haven't really described the problem itself

Which is likely why you don't get many answers

[solar coral]

i cant see particles when i should, due to the bounds being nonexistant, i can only see them when i see the origin

[solar coral]

ye, sorry lol

im not the best at describing stuff...

i can send a vid though?

i think this is the right vid showing the issue?

oh i forget discord doesnt like mkv, brb while i convert it

[earnest raft]

How do I fix this type of error?

I transferred some urp materials to a new project

including the urp pipelins

[cyan talon]

close and reopen unity and hope it fixes it

if something can't be opened, then something might be holding onto the file forcefully. Even a proper restart might be required. Though I can't say whether that's the actual problem, it's not in the code!

[earnest raft]

it has been like this for the past weeks

but can you tell me

how to do this

[cyan talon]

Close Unity, find the folder called Library at the root of the project, delete it, reopen Unity

It will force Unity to do a full project reimport

[earnest raft]

aight ty ty sir

Imma test this in another project file to see if it works ty ty

[earnest raft]

wait this one?

[cyan talon]

Yes

[earnest raft]

jsut making sure ty ty

@cyan talon is this the reimport process?

[cyan talon]

Yes

[earnest raft]

I'll give an update if it work, hopefully it does

BRO

wtf

it worked

Thank you so much

[marble vigil]

The suggestions in forum threads often do

[earnest raft]

I was weirded out on the "reimported everything" part

If I have to reimport the assets that caused or something

[surreal valley]

For the submeshdescriptor, what's the difference between the basevertex and indexstart? Thanks.

[lime moth]

uv debug material is black

what does that mean

[digital wharf]

does anyone know of any good free tree assets that work with urp?
i cant find one where the mat isnt bugged

[toxic forum]

Materials don't bug. As you've been told before, if they're not URP compatible, they won't work.

This isn't a bug, this is normal, expected, behaviour.

Here are your options:
https://assetstore.unity.com/?free=true&q=URP Tree&orderBy=1

[placid laurel]

How come when I use deferred rendering in my project, and I build it, the probuilder material doesn’t get rendered?

[marble salmon]

Is there a way to make bloom effect without enabling HDR in quality settings? As I really want to be shinny, but dont want to hit performance too hard as platform is Webgl... nad it sucks. Any tips?

[marble vigil]

I don't think HDR is a requirement for bloom, but you'll be limited to working with brightnesses within the visible color range

[marble salmon]

But how to make it shine then. for example we have material, and i want it to shine. Without HDR is will be just Very red, and will not go ino bloom trigger field.

[marble vigil]

Bloom threshold must be sufficiently low, by default it would cut off all brightness below 1
But without HDR there can be no brightness brighter than 1 or "fully bright"

[marble salmon]

oh. So then I should adjust bloom threshhold at or 0.9999 but then make every single material not to get even close to that color level? hmmmmmmm

[marble salmon]

oh got it, I need to make bloom effect at 1.1 then make material with HDR. Dissable HDR on settings. But just crank BLoom intensity to the max 😄 works fine, will check performance differences, might be good idea. thank you

[vestal acorn]

Does anyone know how to achieve the same affect as GL.wireframe = true, but in URP?

[hardy rover]

With custom shader you can do that pretty easily, see this -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX7_ArmNftY

[marble vigil]

That's not really a wireframe shader, rather a projected grid

[marble vigil]

https://github.com/marcozakaria/URP-LWRP-Shaders one wireframe shader included here

[hardy rover]

yes, just randomly searched that without watching it 😄

[placid laurel]

I'm running into a nasty layering bug and I'm starting to think it's unity's fault (I use sorting groups) first is intended, second is the bug. Deleting all of the objects and undoing the deletion fixes it but that's not a good way to fix a bug like this.

This bug doesn't occur in the unity editor

[soft lion]

Everything is possible. How is this URP related btw?

[tall python]

I wasn't sure which channel this belongs to.. sorry!

[tall python]

but do you know how to?

[soft lion]

By stretching you mean same as scaling?

[tall python]

I mean that instead of copying the same object over and over, I could stretch it and it would copy itself. I have done this in a 2d project before(it was called tiled or something)

[soft lion]

This is not possible in all general cases but in this case simply scaling the cube and changing the tiling from the material could work

[tall python]

are you from Finland?

[soft lion]

Lets focus on the problem yes

[tall python]

sama, so where do I change the tiling

[soft lion]

Its the higher one of the Tiling properties (under Emission). The second one is only meant for detail maps

[tall python]

I got it working, Thanks

[serene orbit]

I turned on Screen Space AMbient Occlusion in my URP project, but I am unable to get it to affect the project. Is there some checkbox that I am missing somewhere? I have been trying to figure this out for two hours and watched a couple videos. They all always just check the box and it starts working.

[proper basalt]

Is there an easy fix for if your render pipeline just disappears?

[haughty garnet]

Does anyone know how I can access the width/height setters for the URP decal projectors? The general script does have a size Vector3 variable but seems like it contributes nothing to how it's rendered.

[surreal jungle]

Just added an overlay camera to the stack of a base camera (the main camera) and now my Raycast doesn't reach objects on the scene! How to fix it?

[placid laurel]

hey how do i upgrade a project to use urp?

nvm just saw pins

[placid laurel]

Raycasting from the camera? Make sure you raycast from the correct cam.

[surreal jungle]

OnMouseDown

[placid laurel]

i didnt ask in which event you raycast

show your raycasting code

ok does anyone know why this happens after installing the URP and setting it up properly?

[coral ravine]

I want to upgrade from Built in to Urp

after installing the package

what should i choose here

[proven ether]

No I believe you should go to the project settings and then quality after that click on the choose the urp thing and select one of those

if one of them doesn't works switch to the other

[coral ravine]

i did follow this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KM16tivA4Y&t=71s

but she had a different menu

[proven ether]

Don't worry

try my method it worked for me

[coral ravine]

well

It's been 2 months and i have this problem

I don't know why but upgrading to urp gets this problem

creating a whole new urp project don't

Everything is pink again

This is really stupid

[placid laurel]

why do i need this many shaders... i have like 10 materials only... using the default urp mats

[limber spade]

Convert your materials to urp materials

[opaque plume]

How can i get anti aliasing in the scene view?

[marble vigil]

Never found a way to do it so I assume it's not an option

[opaque plume]

well thats fcking dumb

but thanks for clarifying that

[marble vigil]

Would be nice to have, but not gonna ruin my day

[opaque plume]

was quite confused since it was always there with the old render pipeline

[marble vigil]

From what I can tell it stopped working there at some point too, though post processing stack package was able to return it

[opaque plume]

just wow

[coral ravine]

The lit shader failed to compile

it's making the whole urp useless

[marble vigil]

Googling your error suggests that deleting the library folder and letting unity regenerate it could be a fix

Aside from that you need to follow the render pipeline upgrade instructions exactly
When switching pipelines, before converting materials they will be incompatible and appear pink, even if everything has been done correctly so far

[coral ravine]

i had googled it many times , yet never seen any person to day that

Might do it again

[coral ravine]

Any updated guide on how to upgrade to urp ?

I think the ones i've seen are outdated

[marble vigil]

The official documentation is always up to date and a good place to start, direct links in this channel's pinned messages

[coral ravine]

i'll try this right away

is it important to have the latest unity editor version ?

[marble vigil]

Well no, not the most latest, but preferably the most recent LTS version with the most recent bugfix patches

[coral ravine]

then lts 2021.3.7F1 is fine iguess

[marble vigil]

That's the most recent LTS editor which is good, the newest patch is 10f1 which isn't critical but may fix bugs like this

Fixing the "couldn't open include file" error one way or another probably should be your priority, in case it prevents URP from working properly

[coral ravine]

it prevents urp from working at all (almost)

So yes that would be helpful

[marble vigil]

I don't know what exactly causes it, but it sounds like something went wrong within the editor or its packages, rather than something you did

[coral ravine]

i think that too

im new to unity but not dumb enough to mess editor files

i did install it when i just started the project and there were few stuff in it

yet it never did work so i didnt use it at all

[marble vigil]

Removing library folder could work, as might uninstalling and reinstalling packages
If all else fails you can also make a new project with URP preloaded, first to make sure that it does work, then move your game's assets over to the new project

Tedious but rarely fails

[coral ravine]

Making a "new urp project" works just fine

and the progress would be a bit haard to move but that would be the last way to solve it

[coral ravine]

MAN IT DID WORK !!!!

im so greatfuk for you

Thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!

[limber spade]

Yeah removing Library folder as well as Re-importing All can work

[fading seal]

anyone know or have a link to the benefits of forward+(clustered) vs deferred?

[hardy rover]

forward+ is just that you can have more lights in the scene...

As for forward vs deffered, these are common terms, you can find this on google... just to add, deffered is useful for highend rigs, and the implementation in Unity is still experimental even in the latest versions

[soft lion]

Forward+ is definitely not just forward with increased per pixel light count limit