archived-urp

[marble vigil]

Roadmap says they're in 2021.3, but I don't know of any features that make use of them

[lofty lily]

I just found out how to use them
you gotta call yourpass.ConfigureInput(ScriptableRenderPassInput.Motion); outside the pass

[proud badge]

Hello 👋
I have implemented decals in my project Unity 2022 URP and everything works great in both scene view and game view.
However as soon as I build the project, the build does not show any decal…
Anyone has any clue on what I am missing so decals actually work in build runtime please? 🙏

[marble vigil]

What build platform?

Decals aren't supported in all of them

Also, always remember to check the quality settings asset for the specific platform

[proud badge]

Windows

The build should be 1:1 with what I see in Unity editor

[marble vigil]

If it's the same quality asset too, then the culprit usuall seems to be shader stripping
Not sure how it works specifically but sometimes if a shader isn't assigned directly to object, the stripper gets rid of it and it'll be gone in the build

[proud badge]

I tried messing with shaders stripping parameters but no luck yet 😕

The decals I use are all using the same shader and a material using that shader is directly assigned to that decal (as a prefab)

I’m stuck and not sure where to look at to fix decals in builds

[proud badge]

Ok Found it!
That was Instancing Variants which was set to "Strip All"

[austere bough]

Do you have 'Stop NaNs' active on your urp camera?

[night current]

Is there a way that I can increase the Gaussian Blur post process effect radius past 1.5?

1.5 does barely anything and I want an exaggerated blur effect

This is how it looks with Depth of Field off

and this is with 1.5

And that rectangle makes up a tiny fraction of the screen so it's barely noticable

How can I increase that?

[torn delta]

Does anyone know what could be causing this crazy frame rate thrashing on static scene?

It seems to be triggered by disabling vsync, although not always

It's also more likely to get triggered in a standalone build

[placid laurel]

Hi why has my terrain invisible texture when set to ground with URP?

[silk osprey]

Hi all! I have an issue with Package Manager when trying to import into an empty URP project. Can somebody help? I am importing this: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/essentials/tutorial-projects/foundations-of-audio-183075 And the error I get is: This Unity Package has Package Manager dependencies. When clicking "Install/Upgrade" nothing seems to happen. I then see the list of assets to import, but can't select most of them.

[frank prawn]

Can anyone point me in the right direction for creating a day night cycle with URP?

I can't seem to find anything regarding 3d

and I'm lookin gfor something that allows me to have dynamic lights

[amber bolt]

I just swap to unity 3D URP and convert all martial to urp using the built in upgrade but one of my material become like this in photo 1, how to fix it?

[frank prawn]

What shader was it using before?

[amber bolt]

I didnt change the shader, I just convert the martial to URP

[frank prawn]

afaik the conversion depends on what shader you were using before the conversion.

Which is why I ask what you were using before, cause maybe it was set to something that would make it act wonky after the face.

just my guess

[amber bolt]

the shader is legacy shaders/Particles/Alpha Blended

[marble vigil]

Usually a bright cyan color means the shader is compiling
You should show the new material's properties if the issue persists

[amber bolt]

I dont get what you mean but I guess I can expand it.

[stoic sky]

Hello guys, a question about decal inside URP 🙂
Any idea, why do i get this blue rendering on each diffuse texture containing grey or white ?
I'm in automatic for the decal rendering method, switching to Dbuffer or other, doesn't change the deal.
TY

[sinful gorge]

Maybe the ambient lighting/reflection or shadow color (lighting settings - environment) @stoic sky

[stoic sky]

Hello. You're right, it was the environment lighting source. Thank you very much

[analog sentinel]

Is camera stacking required in UPR or is just an available feature?

[marble vigil]

Required for what?

[analog sentinel]

to have UI render on top of your base camera that's used for a 3D scene/world

I'm having trouble getting some of my UI to show up

[marble vigil]

Canvas UI doesn't need any extra cameras to render on top of everything

It should do that by default when you first create it

[analog sentinel]

right, we have a separate UI camera we instantiate at start

it's set to overlay

[marble vigil]

Why a separate camera?

[analog sentinel]

originally it was so we could cull certain objects, FX and UI and some other meshes that needed the depth texture

it was originally to isolate the depth texture, which otherwise needs an extra draw per opaque object

URP has optimized that now though, so maybe we can do a different camera setup?

I think I sorted it

[marble vigil]

If you want to overlay cameras then the stack is the way to go, unless you have a reason to use something custom instead, I suppose
While the Canvas does overlaying to start with, there are some situations where using it with stacking could be convenient, such as world space UI elements that render on top

[analog sentinel]

could you call the stacking feature a way to enforce render order?

[analog sentinel]

Is there anything that would cause the SRP batcher not to work? I'm just trying to batch some duplicated cubes together and it won't do that

if I tick dynamic on, it will batch them as I expect

does SRP batcher work differently, am I missing something?

it does absolutely nothing when I enable it

[iron compass]

there is a whole page about it in the docs https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SRPBatcher.html

[analog sentinel]

thanks, this didn't quite answer my question but led me to a forum thread that did

[tacit gulch]

I was trying to use the HDRP/Nature/SpeedTree8 shader for grass textures I had so I could add them to the terrain and have the grass sway in the wind. I created a rectangular mesh in blender and got the texture on to it, but it did not sway in the wind. Looking at the "SpeedTreeWind" shader sub-graph then looking at "SpeedTreeWind.hlsl", it looks like it uses the 'w' value of the uv3 channel (compares it to ST_GEOM_TYPE_BRANCH, FROND, LEAF, FACINGLEAF). My question: I am on the wrong track? It is beyond my Blender skills to update the 'w' value of 4d coordinate values of the uv3 channel to see the vertex type...

[late pelican]

Hey guys,

The picture above is how it looks while playing in the editor, bottom picture is how it looks in a windows build? could someone point me in the right direction to fix this? 😉
And its not only the colors, the cat model also looks weird in the build, its like the skinning is not correct for the build while it looks perfect in the editor..

[thorny horizon]

not sure about the shading / skinning but the different colors definitely have something to do with the skybox reflections / skybox ambient light not working correctly

same happens when you switch a scene sometimes, I just forgot exactly how to fix it

but at least you have a pointer now 🙂

[soft lion]

Baking the lights shold fix it (bakes the ambient probe)

[simple crypt]

Where is the option for screen space reflections for urp? I was watching a Brackeys video but its pretty outdated and the option seems to have moved

[soft lion]

There isn`t

[simple crypt]

Yeah I just realized, it's pretty sad. I can only use URP since i'm making a portfolio that needs to be in browser

[marble vigil]

BiRP has SSR and runs in WebGL
I don't know if WebGL itself supports SSR though

[paper folio]

Unity 2022.2.8f1, Universal RP 14.0.6, Mesa 22.3.6, Linux 6.2.1-arch1-1, Intel Comet Lake UHD Graphics, my scene view looks like this:

On an AMD GPU, I only have this issue: https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/linux-urp-the-scene-view-flickers-when-hovering-over-it-with-the-cursor

Game view has no issues

[sinful gorge]

I guess make a bug report and try other versions

LTS 'should' be stable

[void jungle]

Yeah, I tried it but it wasn't the cause of problem.
I was using a Power node in the shader, clamping the input to 0-1 fixed it.

[paper folio]

I haven't tried another version on this computer but the flickering triangle issue didn't occur on early 2022.2.xf1 versions on my laptop with an AMD GPU. I'll try to find some time later to investigate.

[night current]

How can I create a really strong blur in 2D urp?

[night current]

This is my original question

[nova wind]

does anyone else get the error You can only call cameraColorTarget inside the scope of a ScriptableRenderPass. Otherwise the pipeline camera target texture might have not been created or might have already been disposed. with Atmospheric Fog Render Feature? Unity 2022.2.7f1

[rich oar]

Hya, after updating to 2023.1.0 I got a lot of URP errors for missing namespaces, I tried reinstalling urp but this does not seem to go away
Anyone has any idea what I might be missing?

[cold ingot]

hello guys, how do I get a sky that works as expected, as in the sun and moon move properly overhead instead of rotating the skybox resulting the sun moving side to side

im assuming it is an implementation specific to URP

and i cant get an answer in #💻┃code-beginner which this problem also might relate to because there is too many messages there lol

and I havent found anything on google when searching for my problem but maybe i forgor how to google so

[sinful gorge]

Maybe delete the library folder yo rebuild the cache? Also make sure visual studio is up to date and selected in preferences - external tools

[fading tinsel]

You could try asking bing chat or ChatGPT aswell.

[marble vigil]

Never suggest chatbots for problem solving

[fading tinsel]

You're right. I meant for searching for information, not solving the actual problem itself.

[marble vigil]

If Bing's chatbot is the one that sources its claims, then it might not be entirely useless
ChatGPT on the other hand just produces convincing misinfo

[fading tinsel]

yea bing's chatbot is better at finding information than ChatGPT because it searches the web.

[cold ingot]

Isnt making a sky pretty common though? Why doesnt someone here know?

[polar glacier]

People of the URP

I need your help

My decal isn't decaling

URP version is: Version 13.1.8 - May 25, 2022

unity version is: 2022.1.3f

I haven't encountered any other visual glitches

[marble vigil]

It is, but each procedural sky shader is kind of its own specific thing
What do you mean "move properly"
As far as I can tell the sun in the default skybox moves quite properly, though there's no moon

[white owl]

I get this stuff when enabling SSAO (and completely gray screen when i enable scaled rendering)

[cold ingot]

i have a custom skybox tho

so thats my problem im assuming

i want clouds etc

basically tldr: custom skybox with sun/moon moving correctly based on directional light in URP

thats the current objective

no clue how though

[regal yarrow]

Anyone knows what could cause terrain textures not loading in on URP? I feel like i'm missing a basic option check or something to fix this, but google isn't of much help.
Edit: found the reason, unity URP doesn't support ortographic cam in some versions like 2022.1.24

[rare crystal]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/497872424281440267/1080743985989029938/2023-03-02_10-20-27.mp4
how can i fix this? (URP Project)

[marble vigil]

You'll have to be more specific
A "custom skybox" could be many entirely different things

[grim quiver]

By chance anyone tried to use BatchRendererGroup with urp. I am currently struggle with shadow culling as it seems like it includes too many meshes compared to regular MeshRenderer.

[terse raven]

In Urp Metallic smoothness map, white color gives more shine right?

[iron compass]

Smoothness is in the alpha channel.

[analog sentinel]

hey guys, am I interpreting this right? SRP is doing what the other setup is doing in 9 draws vs 65?

[marble vigil]

I'm not sure but note that draw calls with SRP are not directly comparable to draw calls without it
Usually SRP batching shows much more drawcalls, but they're much cheaper on it

[analog sentinel]

yeah, that's the bit I'm trying to figure out now. Because the initial numbers in the stats window with SRP was alarming but I'm learning that they're handled completely differently, which makes the stats window kind of useless?

the unity profiler doesn't seem to show drawcalls any differently than the stats window does for SRP either

I'm trying to figure out if the depth texture is cheaper on URP than BRP. In BRP there is an extra depth draw for each opaque object, to add it into the depth texture.. but in SRP draw calls aren't handled the same way, so how do I check it it's actually working or not. What is the metric to use in URP to check the depth texture performance?

like, this is essentially telling me it's way better isn't it? 10 VS 73?

[marble vigil]

Well, does it run better?
My knowledge on this topic is quite limited, but from what I understand you'd need RenderDoc or some other external tool to actually measure how much time different parts of the rendering process are taking up

[analog sentinel]

I don't think our game is expensive enough yet to really tell the difference on PC. I will make an expensive scene and build it to Android then I guess.

[analog sentinel]

URP doesn't do anything to optimize rendering skinned mesh renderers does it? afaik no

[marble vigil]

I haven't spotted any such optimizations
There are ways to batch or instance animations but they're custom and not specific to a render pipeline

[analog sentinel]

Yea, I'm using a plugin called MeshAnimator for this. It uses GPU instancing.

[marble vigil]

Though if the optimization happens at shader level you'll need to check how it works together with URP's shaders and batching
GPU instancing for example is not compatible with SRP batching

However from what I've read about GPU animation instancing, it's not exactly the same thing as GPU instancing despite the name

[analog sentinel]

I'm not sure how they're different if they are, I assumed they were similar enough though in that they're passing what is as good as a static object, but somewhere along the line the vertex shader as moved some of the verts around. So same object as far as the batching goes, but different presentation on screen.

I also read that SRP makes use of some sort of GPU instancing itself

Enabling GPU instancing on your material won't disrupt SRP's batching process will it? -- as far as I can tell it doesn't seem to

[marble vigil]

Animation instancing indeed refers to using vertex deformation in the shader to move the vertices, as opposed to CPU deformation.
GPU instancing means rendering the exact same thing multiple times, which I assume means they have to be playing the same animation as well though am not sure.
"Static" in the realm of batching has a specific meaning referring to combining meshes into one which reduces draw calls if they also use the same shaders. (or shader variants /+properties specifically?)
Being "similar enough" doesn't alone do anything, but being similar in specific ways is often a prerequisite for specific types of batching or instancing.
SRP batching is totally incompatible with GPU instancing, and will take priority over it unless the renderer has been made incompatible with SRP batching.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SRPBatcher.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/GPUInstancing.html

[verbal light]

does anyone know how I could copy a camera texture's buffer to a different part of the screen without using render textures? I've tried using a shader/blitter a custom render pass but when I try to move the UVs it makes the existing views smaller or cut off rather than moving them to the intended area

would really appreciate any suggestions or broad overview about how to even approach this problem in an efficient way

[analog sentinel]

I think if the vertex positions are a property/array they can be instanced, like material property blocks. I know that the MeshAnimator plugin allows for your instanced characters to be in different animation states/poses, etc.

What I meant by static was not moving/inert, opposed to dynamic, like a skinned mesh renderer.

GPU instancing will take priority over SRP or the other way around?

[cold ingot]

its a cube skybox like 6 faces

and it has a moon in the texture

but i want to expand upon that idea obviously i just started with this

so i want a moon, a sun, and the ability to control the position of the moon/sun using the directional light rotation just like the default skybox

[hardy rover]

SRP will be the priority... you can force it to be incompatible with SRP by using MaterialProperty block OR by exposing keywords in your shader

the latter can be checked if it's SRP compatible or not via your inspector

or the sucky way, by turning off the SRP in your urp asset (which you shouldn't)

[small hound]

Is there a way I can have multiple light sources creating shadows? Or is it only possible to have one making shadows at once?

[soft lion]

Only one directional light shadow map is supported, additional lights can have more shadow maps (well its technically single atlas)

[small hound]

I'm not using shadow maps, im using realtime lighting.

[soft lion]

Realtime lighting uses shadow maps too, the shadow map is just updated at realtime

[small hound]

Oh okay, so how do I create seperate shadow maps?

@soft lion

I have researched it and can't find what you are referring too.

[soft lion]

Are you talking about directional lights or point or what?

[small hound]

Directional

[soft lion]

Then you cant have more than one

[small hound]

So what do I do

[soft lion]

Its known limitation of urp, theres not much you can do about it

[small hound]

What about if I used one directional light and used another type of light for the other areas?

I have a world and a room, I need the light in the room to be separate from the light in the world

I have culling masks so that one light doesnt interfear with the other lights area

but shadows only work on one light

so what do I do

[soft lion]

That should work, you can use one directional light and many additional lights

[dense yacht]

Anyone knows how to fix this?
why some of my assets have edge glows even if I delete all the lightings

how can I fix the metallic issue here?

[marble vigil]

The default skybox can react to sun position because it's not composed of images, it's a shader that generates the skybox procedurally
If you want something similar, you'll have to get into shaders or find one that does that

[marble vigil]

Material Property Blocks would work with GPU instancing, I think yes
In my experience GPU instancing usually loses out to SRP batching in performance, even in ideal conditions

[dense yacht]

I tried that already, and even without light, the edge is still glowing

[cinder kindle]

When you have objects with smoothness you should bake a reflection probe in your scene, or else they will reflect whatever you have set up as your environment reflections under lighting settings

[dense yacht]

I do have lightprobes, and they're still glowing

[cinder kindle]

Reflection probe, not light probe

[dense yacht]

I'll try to understand this, thanks!

[dense yacht]

f these props, still glowing even without lights

[vagrant bough]

if i have multiple lights on in my house at the same time(like 4 0r 5) Some of the lights start flickering.it feels like unity is trying to optimize it or something but doing it terribly because even if im staring a light directly it dosent work meaning theres no light but if i turn off a diferent light from anywhere it starts working

i was wondering if there is a way to up the number of lights that can be on at the same time

[cinder kindle]

Do you have a reflection probe in the scene now?

This is just how specular highlighting works in unity

If you just want to avoid any sort of specular reflections on the objects disable this in the material

[cinder kindle]

Yes, on your render pipeline asset you can set the max number of lights. But it comes at a cost

[vagrant bough]

i only need to increase it by 1 or 2 i dont think it will matter too much

[vagrant bough]

hey sorry to bug you again but i cant find the max number of lights option you were talking about can you tell me exactly where it its

[marble vigil]

URP asset, which is referred to in your project settings>quality>
By default in assets/settings/ folder

[vagrant bough]

there are no setting here @marble vigil

for max number of light

[marble vigil]

You can see where the reference for the URP asset is
Click it and its location is revealed in project window

[vagrant bough]

it working now thank you

[analog sentinel]

looks like a rim light in the shader

[marble vigil]

Worth checking if it is
If it's just a lit shader then it requires a proper reflection probe as discussed

[whole fog]

I can't find anything online. What's the analogous shadergraph node to "Color" in Photoshop / CSP / etc.

[cold willow]

hey im following a tutorial for a simple glow/bloom effect.
in the tutorials theres a checkbox to enable renderpostprocessing, i dont have that on my camera.
on the left, the UniversalAdditionalCameraData script has a public field with that toggle, but unity doesnt show it in the inspector?

What am i doing wrong?

there has go to be a better way, right?

    void Start()
    {
        gameObject.GetComponent<UniversalAdditionalCameraData>().renderPostProcessing = true;
    }

[marble vigil]

It should be on the Camera component, not the additional data script
What does the camera component look when maximized

[cold willow]

oh lol its there

yeah, seems i just didnt see it on the camera. the inspector from the video looks quite different

[cold ingot]

ok sure, any good terms to search?

[marble vigil]

"procedural sky shader" I suppose

[cold ingot]

ok thanks

[dense yacht]

Yes, I will, it's just my deadline is yesterday and they gave me a task that I don't have any knowledge 😄

[dire trench]

Guys i need help. I followed a field of view CodeMonkey tutorial
In his video at the end, he changes the ForwardRendererData and adds renderer features
i was able to add those features, but i don't find the option for "Default Rendering Layers" he has (he has an older version)
so URP is rendering them how it wants, ignoring my features
how do i change that

[dire trench]

basically i can't filter out layers

it was a thing before apparently

[stiff river]

hi, i have a problem with the shadows. Sometimes the shadow caster on an object doesn't work (Look at the video).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmFaY5PhDQs

[brazen cradle]

Hey guys, Box Projection on Reflection Probes doesn't seem to work on terrains in Unity 2021.3, URP. It works on regular meshes but on the terrain, no matter what I do, it just doesn't want to work. Is this a bug or am I missing something? Thanks a lot in advance!

[dire trench]

i kinda solved that

[rain plume]

Hello!
The Decal that my URP Decal Projector is projecting disappears depending on the viewing angle. Is anyone familiar with this? 🤔

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNEWnccrDO8

[mild tiger]

hello. I have made made a custom render feature for URP which is supposed to apply a material to the camera by Bliting the cameras texture to a temporary texture with a material and then Blitting back the temporary texture to the cameras texture. However when blitting back to the camera texture I get a null refferenc exeption.

I am using Unity 2022.2.9 and URP 14.0.6.
The error is on line 46 (tho the error itself is from the ScriptableRenderPass class but line 46 is casuing it. Blitting to the temporary rt works fine)
https://pastebin.com/ZQA1Qf5e

[languid crescent]

Does anyone now how to use the Blitter class with the new RTHandle approach for the URP sample project?
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UniversalRenderingExamples/blob/master/Assets/Scripts/Runtime/RenderPasses/DrawFullscreenPass.cs#L75

// Can't read and write to same color target, create a temp render target to blit. 
if (isSourceAndDestinationSameTarget)
{
    Blit(cmd, source, destination, settings.blitMaterial, settings.blitMaterialPassIndex);
    Blit(cmd, destination, source);
}

I tried to follow the https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@14.0/manual/renderer-features/how-to-fullscreen-blit.html guide but it does not to do what I want
Does

Blitter.BlitCameraTexture(cmd, m_CameraColorTarget, m_CameraColorTarget, m_Material, 0);

Supposed to be working ?

[languid crescent]

If you didn't look at yet this page https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@14.0/manual/renderer-features/how-to-fullscreen-blit.html and this one https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@14.0/manual/renderer-features/how-to-fullscreen-blit.html might help you (as I far as I am concerned the render pipeline is a mess).

[solar coral]

after having unity open for a while, rendering starts causing performance spikes consistently about once every couple seconds, these persist until unity is restarted or until play mode is entered and exited twice. This happens even if the scene is empty. Is this normal, and is there a workaround?

[mystic delta]

Are you using any third party tools or drawing gizmos. And what editor version.

[solar coral]

2022.2.9, dx 11. As far as i know I'm not using any third party tools, and I'm almost certain I'm not drawing gizmos. Also I am using Entity Graphics, which is dots/ecs stuff, so it may be related to that, although I doubt it is.

[mystic delta]

Do you have on the scene anything?

I'm on the same version with URP, but only working with 2d stuff, not noticing any problems

Profiler can be set to editor mode as well, you can track the problem

[solar coral]

only in play mode, in the editor i have literally 1 cube, the rest of the GameObject's aren't rendered

[solar coral]

oh cool, I'll try hunt it down then, thanks

[rotund shard]

I get these errors

[dense yacht]

Does URP have a cookie in light components? or is there an update?

ow ok, URP doesn't really have it

[marble vigil]

Does have starting from URP 12.1 from editor version 2021.2.0b15+

[dense yacht]

oww, I'm using 10.6 URP :3

should I download the latest unity for that? I'm not seeing 12.1 here.

[marble vigil]

I assume you're using an old version of 2020.3. editor
There's very few reasons not to upgrade to 2021.3.
But as always do backups or use version control when changing major versions

[dense yacht]

copy that

I want to achieve the light rays of the window, If I can't use the cookie feature what is the other way round of it?

[marble vigil]

I'm thinking decal projectors
They're another URP 12 feature though

[dense yacht]

owww, thanks for the term! I don't know that, Imma search right away!

ow in latest haha

[marble vigil]

Maybe tiny soft spot lights for the main colors, if you can spare that number of lights

[dense yacht]

I'm too excited that I forgot to read what's next

[dense yacht]

I tried that already but can't achieve the goal

[marble vigil]

URP 12 also introduced deferred rendering path which practically removes the limit and cost of lights (shadowless ones, with some drawbacks)

[dense yacht]

maybe I'll try to switch to 2021 for now

anyways thanks for the big help! I'll try continuing it in other version

[whole orbit]

When making a new, "clean", Unity project, is the old built-in renderer still the default?
If not, is it still available?
If so, have they mentioned any plans to move entirely to the SRP?

[marble vigil]

Yes, yes, no

Ultimately it's probably the intent to deprecate BiRP but practically it'll be years before they can seriously consider it

[dense yacht]

Thanks for the help @marble vigil , decal projector is the one that I'm looking for , it's been 4 years since my last unity project, and I'm not updated 👺

Now just playing with post-process

I can now sleep in peace @marble vigil arigathanks

[marble vigil]

Great! Looks awesome!

[rich oar]

Hi all, a question, is it possible for a render feature to draw "at" a specific sorting layer?

[thorny horizon]

if you are talking about the 2D sorting layers than no

[rich oar]

Thanks for the answer, I figured that out and now searching for some way to render meshes under some sprites and above others, or in other words in a certain sorting layer, what is the best way to go about doing that?
It does not seem like that DrawMesh method has a way to specify a layer

[thorny horizon]

in theory you could use the RenderObjects feature to split up your rendering by layers

but im not sure because i have not played around in 2D for a while

[slim root]

In unity 2021.1, frame debugger doesn't show me any information? Used to though.. what could be wrong?

[sinful gorge]

Update to the 2021.3 lts. That version is really old

[slim root]

yes, I'm in the process of bringing our project up to 2022.2, but in the meantime, I wanted to fix broken batching in our prod builds 🙂

[marble vigil]

Upgrading a production project, between major versions from one tech stream to another?
You fear nothing

[slim root]

Hah. Took a couple days since we target windows, mac, ios, android, most android vr , hl2 and ml2 but it was pretty painless ( and now the fun part will begin by moving the non vr stuff into forward+)
ml2 required me to be on tech stream :/

[sinful gorge]

Vr doesn't support forward+ and 2022.2 has poor standalone VR performance.
I suggest LTS for anything VT related

[slim root]

yep, that's why I said non vr into forward+

and sure, however, I'm not going to start handling custom unity versions in our build pipelines because .2 has poor standalone performance ( but out of curiousity, how bad it is??). I'll just push everything up to a better more stable version when it comes.

[sinful gorge]

About 20%
Here are my test results:

2020:
Base: 90fps 86% GPU 32%CPU
Terrain: 65 fps 97%GPU 24% CPU

2021:
Base: 90fps 90%GPU 40% CPU
Terrain: 63fps 92% GPU 24% CPU

2022:
Base: 73fps 98% GPU 24% CPU
Terrain: 40fps 98%CPU 24%CPU

2023:
Base: 67fps 97% GPU 32% CPU
Terrain: 37fps 98% GPU 16% CPU

[plush fulcrum]

Hi, I'm unsure which channel to post this in but I have a little issue with pink materials. Normally, I will convert materials from download assets to URP and it will work fine. However, I am using an asset pack and some materials convert as normal and some will stay pink. Has anyone had this before and could maybe point me in the right direction to fix it? Thanks.

A material like this converts fine, Im sure its to do with the shader but when i change it to standard and convert it the colour goes very weird

[marble vigil]

The pipeline converter simply looks up from a table to match built-in RP materials with URP equivalents
If it doesn't find a match, it won't do anything

[cold ingot]

What gpu do you have

[sinful gorge]

Quest 2 native
On PCVR it's not that big of an issue since they dont have tiled GPUs and are a lot faster

[cold ingot]

Isnt 65 fps still shit then

Dont you typically want at least 80 so motion sickness doesnt shred

[sinful gorge]

72 is standard on standalone VR, 90 is a good target but impossible for complex scenes

So yes 65 is shit, but the exact same scene is 40fps in 2022.2

[cold ingot]

Yeah

[sinful gorge]

That the start is lower than recommended doesnt matter much when its a comparative test

I did the testing for a bug report, so hopefully it will be confirmed and looked into

[cold ingot]

40 fps isnt a bug its a feature

[sinful gorge]

New cinematic view for VR xD

[cold ingot]

True

[tepid salmon]

how do I convert my materials to URP materials?

Render Pipeline Converter doesn't work for me

it just spits out "failed" next to each material

I only need to convert the built in materials

[simple crypt]

How can I fix this issue? The lighting is super bright after a bake
Only light I have is directional and it's supposed to be dark with shadows since this is inside with only a bit of light leaking in

[static heron]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/one-gameobject-turning-dark-after-baking-lights.1277600/

[simple crypt]

His issue is the opposite of mine

[slim root]

oof that's pretty bad not gonna lie.

[sinful gorge]

Yepp

If you see any big performance regressions definitely make a bug report

[slim root]

that's with the default urp shaders yeah? ( ours are all custom, lots of things we don't need)

Anyway, I'll run some tests 🙂

[sinful gorge]

I tested with urp Lit and terrain shaders yeah

[static heron]

like this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65182889/unity-3d-baked-light-is-too-dark

[simple crypt]

The light isn’t really too dark, it’s actually really too light 😅

[static heron]

😄

[balmy silo]

Is there any way to bake or do anything with emissions and post processing so I can still get the neon effect when not looking directly at the object?

I want to make like light bars but the only way I found was with Post processing and emission which don't work when the material is not being looked at directly

[slim root]

Can you show us your directional light settings and maybe screensots of the materials used in the scene inspector?) So many things can go wrong, but that would be a good place to start 🙂

[slim root]

yes you can bake emissive materials. Have you tried a bake yet?

[balmy silo]

well that was the goal, no idea how

[slim root]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Lightmapping.html or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ4fl-KBDR8 good luck 🙂

[balmy silo]

But what I think is the problem is that Post processing is applied after the scene is loaded, so it wouldn't fix my issue anyways

since the way I'm actually making it neon is bloom

[slim root]

Lightmapping will allow you to bake the GI emission into your scene as a separate texture map that gets blended in with your regular textures. It is exactly what you're looking for to fake the bounces that a light would emit at runtime. ( at least, in a very light way compared to runtime lightmapping)

[balmy silo]

does emission cause GI?

[slim root]

the post processing will just add the bloom on top

[slim root]

yes. Any light source causes global illumination. ( basically, light photons bouncing around, usually controlled by a bounce parameter since you don't want it to go infinite or too high)

[balmy silo]

well yes but the prooblem is is that it's not a light source

[slim root]

your albedo boost and intensity are WAY too high.

[balmy silo]

its just a lit material with emission turned on

[slim root]

yes, that's why lightmapping will take the emissive surface and calculate photons from that surface bouncing around the scene, which will give you exactly what you need.
Take a look at the doc + video I sent earlier.

[simple crypt]

Yep, that sorted the issue. Thank you very much!

[balmy silo]

I looked at that, but baking this reflection probe doesnt seem to do anything

this is what it looks like without PP btw

[slim root]

not reflection probe. You need to bake a lightmap.

Again, take a look at the doc and video, or search for yourself on youtube, there are plenty of great lightmapping tutorials. Just follow them and you will get exactly what you want.

[balmy silo]

Alright, now I just have some mesh overlapping issues that I wasn't having before, could this be the "Max light sources to affect an object" problem? I've had that before but dont remember quite how it worked

[nimble mirage]

Does Line Renderer color alpha not work in URP?

Seems like the material level alpha works with Transparent mode, but the LineRenderer does not register any changes to the alpha keys in the gradient

[spring depot]

what are possible reasons why particles wont render in front of a plane in URP?

the particles show if I turn the plane off, but not otherwise. They are Z in front of the plane, between the plane and camera

the particles are URP\Particles\Simple-Lit shader material

the background is a urp lit shadergraph

I dont want to force them to render at all times, the geometry should occlude them like how geometry normally does

but currently they wont render at all

]

is there a setting wrong in here?

hm, messing with near and far value of soft made them show up

but it behaves completely differently to how it works in the scene view and I dont understand why

ah

the camera was set to orthographic and not perspective

do depth textures not exist in orthographic?

I kinda prefered how ortho looked for this

[desert vault]

does anyone know why my render texture seemed to randomly stop working?

it was working fine before and im not sure what i changed to make it only render a white color

this is my class if it helps

https://hastebin.com/share/fonesokese.csharp

[marble vigil]

I don't think they do

[soft lion]

Depth buffer does atleast, dont know about the texture one

[simple crypt]

Does anyone know how I can sort out this light bleed efficiently? I've been playing around with the settings but wanted to know if there is anything efficient

[marble vigil]

Trying to fix it with biases will never fully solve it and will cause problems elsewhere
The most effective solution is to use shadows-only geometry to pad the walls, or to create an outside surface with some thickness for the walls to block the light

[simple crypt]

I tried this. I even remade the whole level with thicker walls. The only thing that I’ve found changes this for it to be minimal is the shadow distance

[marble vigil]

Did you try padding the corners with shadow meshes?

[simple crypt]

I have not done that yet or know how to, I will do some research when I get back from gym

Thanks for the suggestion

[marble vigil]

Take any mesh and set it to "shadows only", seal the inside of the corner with that
All there is to it
I prefer to use smooth shaded boxes since those are the cheapest and work the best with shadow casting

[simple crypt]

Thank you for this! I will have a look when I get back 😁

[daring cove]

Hello guys, I'm trying to render a "character preview" into a render texture with a transparent background.

I tried to set solid color with an alpha of 0 for the camera, but I still see a black plane behind my character. I tried to uncheck "Post-processing" in my renderer settings, and it seems to work, but I don't think its a good solution? I want post-processing later in the game...

[simple crypt]

I just tried it now, It's very effective. Thank you very much!

[rigid hinge]

Hey all! I have been having a bit of trouble with URP/shaders. I figured out what my issue is after posting in #archived-lighting , but can't really figure out a solution on google. I have a tree asset from the asset store, and I have it urp/nature/seedtree8, this is the only shader that will correctly display the material. However, it does not correctly display shadows, as you can see in my recent post in #archived-lighting . Any help appreciated!

[rigid hinge]

update: it appears I fixed it.... I'm not exactly sure how but it may have been upgrading materials to URP in that broad menu

[sharp ingot]

well can someone answer how to change the settings for a custom settings menu of an urp asset? I mean some things work via script like the shadow distance but others like shadow resolution seem to be not available via script

So my core question is if someone could answer this question from the forum which is basically the same:
https://forum.unity.com/threads/how-do-i-change-custom-urp-settings-via-script.1206034/

[ivory shore]

So, the camera in my project isent rendering anything but the skybox. Any ideas?

The one that came by default on the empty new project didn't work, and so didn't the one I created later after deleting the default one

I'm using urp but i did click a button in the hub that said "upgrade"

[simple crypt]

What solutions do I have to make sure the reflections are accurate? I have to use URP since that's the only pipeline that is supported by webgl

[simple crypt]

Nevermind, I have solved my problem. I never knew I could have Screen Space Reflections in URP

[south horizon]

Hello. I've encountered a problem with camera overlays. I have one Main Camera for the game and one Overlay Camera for the UI. Despite the Overlay Camera being.. well, an overlay, Raycasts give precedence to the Main Camera. So, a Raycast from the Main Camera overwrites a Raycast from the Overlay Camera. Is there a way to fix this?

[surreal tangle]

Hey all, I've got a problem with my back face culling or whatever you call it, I think it's an issue with the texture having transparent parts. I want it to render the front, but not show the back face. I just can't seem to find a good tutorial for this. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[iron compass]

transparent shaders are not z-sorted by vertex, only by object position, so your sorting will depend on view angle and you cannot fix it with out of the box tweaks.

[surreal tangle]

what exactly are "the box tweaks?"

wait oh

sorry I just needed to read it again

[winged notch]

just need a sanity check: recently learned that for URP, I'm not supposed to use MaterialPropertyBlock so as not to break SRP Batching. this means I use Renderer.material/materials, and then call explicitly Destroy on them when the Renderer is destroyed, right? @_@

[marble vigil]

You can't, without a custom asset
I assume you mean a box-projected reflection probe in this case

[marble vigil]

Yes, though note that you can also pool and reuse materials instead of destroying them, which could be useful if you'd be creating material instances very rapidly

[simple crypt]

That would be it, I didn't know this option would imitate SSR pretty well

[shell sluice]

How to fix name space error?

[copper pilot]

WebGL works fine with built in RP and PPS SSR

Better than URP, in fact.

[slim root]

Lights in edit mode let me switch the shadow bias to custom. However, at runtime lights shadow bias sets itself to UseRenderPipelineSetting and I would like to be able to override it on certain lights. However, I can't find a way to do it?

[dry willow]

It's a setting of the UniversalAdditionalLightData class (bool usePipelineSettings). Can get it by using light.GetUniversalAdditionalLightData().
I guess after setting that to false it would use Light.shadowBias and Light.shadowNormalBias instead.

[slim root]

Thanks!

[glacial pike]

is there a simple way to make a duplicate of my shader graph that always appears on top of the other one if they're overlapping? for a simple fake decal quad (i don't want to use the decal system)

[soft lion]

No theres not, but you can make custom decal shaders like this https://www.ronja-tutorials.com/post/054-unlit-dynamic-decals/ (you can create the same shader in shader graph)

[dry willow]

This should help for the reconstructing world pos from depth part : https://www.cyanilux.com/tutorials/depth/#mesh-perspective

[austere bough]

You can add a slight offset in the direction of the camera in the vertex shader.

[placid laurel]

what 3D materials are transparency compatible

[rough galleon]

I have this effect rendering on a different camera, but it looks like URP post processing isn't applied even though I have it checked on both cameras

PP is only applied on the base camera

actually, somewhere down the line I check some setting that completely broke bloom

actually it seems to be working in play mode, but PP is still not working on the second camera

found the solution after clicking random things...
I had to set the this "mask" option to "everything"

[cold gyro]

For a low poly game with solid colors (no texture), is using "palette texturing" (having a single texture with all the colors present in the game, and then change the UV of the model to get the correct color) more efficient than having multiple URP standard materials with a different color (maybe with GPU instancing)?

[marble vigil]

Almost always yes, especially if you re-use the palette texture across meshes

Though it probably won't be expensive either way
Although every new material slot is rendered as another mesh, SRP batching (not GPU instancing) makes it really cheap to have meshes with different materials as long as the materials are similar (in terms of features they use)

[torpid bison]

I installed the URP package but it gave out a namespace error what can i do to fix it

[red tartan]

Make a fresh URP project?

[proven hornet]

Hi! I'm using URP in my project and trying to optimize my graphics. I downloaded the official SRP Batcher profiler to see how the batching effects the perfromance, the stats looks the standard path works with more calls. How can I optimize my shaders/meshes to get more out of SRP Batcher? Also the SRP Batcher path takes 0.00ms according to the profiler, is that ok?

[sinful gorge]

Delete the library folder maybe.
Otherwise try in a blank project first maybe

[sinful gorge]

In general try to use as many as the same materials using atlassing, etc.
Also using the same shader helps already if possible.
Other than that, doesn't look like you have any performance issues?

[torpid bison]

I've tried it. Didn't work

[sinful gorge]

It doesn't work in a new project?
Also not if you use the latest LTS?

[torpid bison]

Yes

[marble vigil]

Your package/editor/hub installs may be incomplete, for example due to firewall or restricted file system access

[rich oar]

Hi, I just upgraded to the latest beta 2023 from 2022 and I'm having some issues.
I have a script that renderes a sprite to a renderTexture with Graphics.drawMesh, for some reason it seems to have stopped working, I dont get any errors or warrnings but the sprite does not show in the texture

Were there any changes made to that api?

[sinful gorge]

I suggest making a bug report @rich oar
Beta breaks things, and not much help can be offered to fix it (best bet is the forums)

[rich oar]

I've also posted in the forums ya

[prisma quiver]

Is there a material or shader that textures objects based on their world position like in Source Hammer? I very recently got URP and have very little idea how the shaders work tbh

[cyan talon]

You can make a triplanar shader for your material in shadergraph

[prisma quiver]

I'm surprised I haven't looked at shader graphs before. The texture aligning with worldspace works, but the normal map isn't working for some reason. Is there an input I'm missing? Am I using the right node?

[cyan talon]

You need to sample the normal map using the triplanar node too

[prisma quiver]

Ahh

Uh, where do I link the nodes? I thought the triplanar's Out would go to the normal's Texture input but it doesn't let me

Oh wait, I just found the normal mode

[copper pilot]

Yes, but using vertex colors will be even moreso.

[cold gyro]

Oh thanks, didn't know about that! Should I then use the Lit URP material?

[copper pilot]

Well, the default material doesn't support vertex colour I believe.

But any vertex color supporting shader is fine.

[cold gyro]

Ok.. maybe I shuold make a custom material (it probably would be even faster because lighting and vertex color are the only things that I need in my material, no base map, normal map..)

[copper pilot]

Right.

Avoiding textures entirely is the main benefit there, especially memory wise.

[marble vigil]

Normal From Texture node generates normal maps from height maps, you don't plug normal maps into it

[marble vigil]

"Textures" in shader graphs refer to texture assets, after it's sampled by a node like Sample Texture or Triplanar, it produces a color which then you plug into the fragment stage block's normal input which also takes a color

[rigid roost]

Okay, I've traced a segmentation fault to URP. Any ideas how to solve this?

Received signal SIGSEGV
Obtained 67 stack frames
0x00007ff75e24c052 (Unity) PrepareDrawShadowsCommandStep1
0x00007ff75e2433f7 (Unity) ScriptableRenderContext::ExecuteScriptableRenderLoop
0x00007ff75d79cd89 (Unity) ScriptableRenderContext_CUSTOM_Submit_Internal_Injected
0x000001cdc7ff5e91 (Mono JIT Code) (wrapper managed-to-native) UnityEngine.Rendering.ScriptableRenderContext:Submit_Internal_Injected (UnityEngine.Rendering.ScriptableRenderContext&)
0x000001cdc7ff5d33 (Mono JIT Code) UnityEngine.Rendering.ScriptableRenderContext:Submit_Internal ()
0x000001cdc7ff5c23 (Mono JIT Code) UnityEngine.Rendering.ScriptableRenderContext:Submit ()
0x000001cc2c74abc3 (Mono JIT Code) UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.UniversalRenderPipeline:RenderSingleCamera 

[cold gyro]

Where are vertices color stored in a fbx file? (because I am using a simplified 3d modelling tool and it doesn't seem to have a direct option to export with vertex colors, so I am writing a script to do it)

[copper pilot]

I dunno

Should be easy to look up though

[cold gyro]

Not finding anything.. (ok I've solved in another way)

[cold gyro]

Why are custom shaders made with shader graph more brighter than URP/Lit?

[marble vigil]

"brighter" how?
The Lit Graph and URP/Lit have the exact same lighting calculations running underneath, but they may have different default properties

[cold gyro]

The log on the left is URP/Lit, right one is the one with my shader

This is my shader

[cold gyro]

Like more white as you can see

The vertex color of the right log is the same color as the base map of the URP/Lit one

[marble vigil]

What color is that exactly?

[cold gyro]

#ECB096

[marble vigil]

@cold gyro I recall something that inspector color field may be mixing gamma and linear color space for the colors it takes vs what it outputs, so that's the most likely explanation
If you want to accurately troubleshoot the problem you shouldn't be using vertex color in your graph, but a similar color field

If it's a texture instead of a color from the picker, the tone may as well be affected by color space and also texture compression and potentially color bleed due to UV mapping

[cold gyro]

oh damn.. I was doing this to try to optimize the game, I'll see what I can do

[marble vigil]

You could convert the colors between gamma and linear space before applying
Or just eyeball them
If you use Lit shaders then using gamma space colors directly and expecting them to look exactly the same is kind of hopeless anyway

[cold gyro]

But I don't know where I should put the conversion.. because what I am doing now is picking all imported 3d models (which come with a material with a color) and replace them with my vertex color material.. And the color of my vertex shader is the same as the 3d model's one, maybe I should put there the conversion?

[cold gyro]

Because it seems like I first need to remove the gamma correction (which now I am already doing), then let the lighting do its calculation, and then add the gamma correction.. But I don't know how to add gamma correction after the lighting calculation in shader graph

[marble vigil]

The gamma bug is only in the inspector's color picker, so you'd have to figure out what exactly it affects and if it's the real problem at all

Anyway, why are you optimizing now

Vertex colors are likely only marginally better than palette textures, if at all, considering how efficient texture sampling is and how small palette textures need to be

SRP Batching makes separate materials on a lot of submeshes mostly a non-issue too, something that most guides tell you to avoid since it produces a lot of drawcalls without SRP Batching

Before you commit to an optimization technique, identify a performance problem that optimization is a solution to
Then profile the different alternatives in a test scenario to figure out what produces the best results in your use case

[cold gyro]

Because I am rendering a ton of objects and it seems like it's a problem..

[marble vigil]

Do this only when your project is far enough that you don't risk wasting time optimizing assets that don't get used, or optimizing for a use case that's no longer applicable in the future

[marble vigil]

2.4ms for all geometry doesn't seem terribly concerning to me
Is the scene lagging in build with your target hardware?

[cold gyro]

I can't build because the lit shader is bugged 😆 https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1076506881163530322 (that was even an excuse to try to build my game.. since I can't for now)

I know that I should profile in build.. but yeah

But ok, I'll continue using the lit shader for now

[limber peak]

A unity light projector might work for that, and then feed it the video from the render texture

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-Projector.html

You should be able to drag the render texture into the image basemap input of the decal for URP too

[rich drift]

what are these lines/artifacts and how can I decrease them?

[marble vigil]

Looks like "shadow acne"
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ShadowPerformance.html
You'll want to keep shadow bias settings reasonable
If you don't know what reasonable is, refer to default values

[rich drift]

they are their default values

only value I changed is shadow distance

[marble vigil]

How much?

[rich drift]

From 250 to 300

[marble vigil]

I don't know what scale your world is meant to be viewed at, but with such a big value shadows are likely to glitch out up close

[rich drift]

Hmm

[marble vigil]

If you're making an RTS, a flight simulator or a similar game where they aren't viewed up close that might not be a problem

Otherwise you'll need to utilize shadow cascades efficiently

[gleaming perch]

I'm having an issue where it seems like my materials are getting very desaturated in scene, but look fine in the shader graph preview. Especially when the light intensity hits 0, then they're just solid gray.

first image is in the shader graph preview, second is in scene

I've tried looking for anything mentioning this online but can't seem to find anything

[charred brook]

Looks like an ambient light setting

[copper raft]

is the minimap black and white because of lighting?

[copper raft]

what can be the reason that when i build the game in somephones the minimap is visible whereas in somephones its just a black circle?

[marble vigil]

Choose for what purpose?

[marble vigil]

The "installing/configuring" link in pinned messages leads you to the most relevant page of the URP docs

URP assets store settings and a reference to an URP renderer
Renderer features are for inserting extra code to the rendering pipeline

[timid sand]

Hey, what's up everyone? Can someone who understands 3D and rendering help me? I made this mesh but the lighting on it looks really strange, like the shadows are being calculated incorrectly. Where there should be light, there's shadow, and where there should be shadow, there's light.

Note 1: This mesh was generated via code, so I think it might be an issue with the normals, but I'm not sure what to do to fix it.

Note 2: I'm only using the Lit material without any textures in this image.

[sinful gorge]

You can try to just call CalculateNormals and see if that works? If not, you might have to manually calculate them @timid sand

[smoky wind]

is it possible to use lightlayers on cameras with urp?

[timid sand]

Yeah, using import mode calulcate normals fixed it, thanks

[clear totem]

guys
i just upgraded to urp
lights are pretty weird
the scene is too dark
and the lights shows only when im sooo near to them
how can i fix tat

[marble vigil]

Sounds like multiple issues
Could you demonstrate them in some way

When in doubt you can always create a project from the URP template scene to get pre-configured settings

[clear totem]

before in builtin was completely right

[cold ingot]

Im attempting to switch to Deferred rendering, but when i set it to that, my trees stop rendering, the asset store trees im using use their own shaders so that could be the issue, is there any way to make them compatible with both rendering paths if I hit some hard wall with deferred rendering that i didnt realize

and more important

how do i make it support deffered rendering in the first place

[cold ingot]

UHHH so i found this rendering debug menu

the Ctrl Shift Backspace one

and if i set any of these settings on

my trees start rendering again

any ideas?

[cold ingot]

rn deffered and forward perform about the same but im going to add a lot more lights to my scene

so making lights cheaper would be helpful

[polar light]

Does anyone know how to deal with this error?
https://forum.unity.com/threads/urp-settings-errors.1298691/
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/750329891383410731/1085072199544750110/what-the-heck.mp4

[hushed sluice]

is it normal that my ceiling doesn't make light? that the light is not visible?

[vocal fox]

Hi,
does anybody know if you can access vertex weights and indices within URP shadergraph shaders?

ah, no worries, looks like you can access them using a custom function and

float4 boneWeight : BLENDWEIGHTS;```

[shell scroll]

Hey, trying to access motion vectors in URP, but having no luck

Do I have to do something special to get them running?

Roadmap seems to suggest they've been in URP for two years already, but I can't find much documentation about them or any examples or tests actually using them https://portal.productboard.com/unity/1-unity-platform-rendering-visual-effects/c/218-motion-vectors

[vocal fox]

Ah, no, that was naive and doesn't work. Not sure what hoops I have to jump through to get shadergraph to do something simple like this but I'm not the only one requesting this
https://forum.unity.com/threads/bone-indices-and-weights-node.972096/
Tried the technique/hack listed there but if gives me an error 'syntax error: unexpected token 'out'', the line number for which is useless.

[vocal fox]

I'm having similar problems trying to get shadergraph to recognise simple things like vertex attribute weights and indices. I struggle to understand why the shadergraph designers thought people wouldn't want access to these things.

[shell scroll]

I actually managed to get something that looks remarkably like motion vectors in the end 😮

I'm still not out of the woods yet, but ... at least I'm getting somewhere

[vocal fox]

So many hoops to jump through though with shadergraph

[cold ingot]

bump, thanks to anyone who takes a look at this!

[ivory shore]

So, i can't see anything from the camera, I didn't get a solution before but it seems like my URP is broken, how do I solve it?

Nothing that has a URP material on it renders through the camera

Although, they do render on the editor

UI do render on both

[sinful gorge]

Can you send a screenshot? @ivory shore

[ivory shore]

#💻┃unity-talk message

The conversation I had previously somewhat starts on that msg

[sinful gorge]

Do you use layers? @ivory shore

Maybe one is culled

[stone panther]

is it possible to use ssr with urp?

[peak pike]

Are there any known issues with geometry shaders on Linux? I get "Internal error communicating with the shader compiler process" on URP 12.1.10 with both OpenGL and Vulkan rendering.

[hard fable]

Anybody knows how can I use fog linear on my custom URP shader? I tried multiple ways and looked up eberywhere but couldn't figure it out

[soft lion]

No, theres no built-in way. You could find some asset that does it but urp doesnt come with ssr, not yet atleast

[stone panther]

Thanks Found the asset i need

[white owl]

Anyone knows why my screen goes completely gray in editor on macos in URP?

[white owl]

also this lol

[copper pilot]

does your hardware support forward+?

[white owl]

I get similar glitches while trying to enable post processing or lowering the render resolution

this is M1 gpu so i assume everything should work

once i enabled postprocessing on the camera

[chilly token]

Hi all, does anyone know which template to use for URP on mobile? Really baffled by the lack of template? Is it just the URP template?

[ivory shore]

Nope, everything was in default and i created new cameras (which i guess would come without layer masking for culling)

[iron compass]

You can sample the scene depth

[iron compass]

Templates are not required to make your project work for mobile. Use the empty or basic URP templates

[shell scroll]

Hey, got a very silly problem setting textures using CommandBuffer for a post-processing effect

I got a temporary render texture I want to sample in a shader. I know the data in the render texture is good, because if I blit it to source, it looks exactly as expected.

But if I use CommandBuffer.SetGlobalTexture to set it, I just get white.

What am I missing? Do I need to do anything special to that render texture?

[grizzled trellis]

how can I make it that when I am behind any wall I won't see whats inside the rooms but if lets say I am around any of the up corners I would see the lightning that comes out of the room

[shell scroll]

Ok so

How in the world am I supposed to change values on Volume components at runtime?

I set the values, and then they disappear again

Documentation is mysteriously silent about this

[shell scroll]

Great, figured that out

[neon verge]

Hi,
Is it possible to enable ES 3.1 Preview in Unity ?
Thanks

[cold gyro]

If I have a large cube (like 200x3x3) is it more performant to have more smaller triangles or just 2 really big triangles for each face?

[soft lion]

One should be better

[stone panther]

how do I change the resolution of the baked shadows

the baked shadows looks so low resolution

[marble vigil]

It's the "Resolution" in your baking settings

Baked lightmapping is fundamentally inefficient at storing sharp direct shadows

An alternative would be to use mixed lights so direct light and shadow are rendered in realtime, and bounce lighting will be baked

[stone panther]

Thank you

[cold ingot]

How do I avoid really banded shadows like this? Also they are quiteeee blocky, so that would be nice to avoid as well

actually if i change shadow max distance it starts to look really nice EXCEPT that there is really painful fade just a little bit away, is there some kind of LOD for shadows so i can keep all my shadow budget for closer shadows but still render shadows far away? it would also be nice if i could just increase shadow atlas resolution

[verbal light]

Is there a way I can control how often a specific camera or render texture updates?

[modest horizon]

I think you can disable the camera and manually call camera.render();

[marble vigil]

What type of shadows are they exactly?

[cold ingot]

Do you mean hard vs soft shadow? Or

[marble vigil]

Realtime or baked, or potentially some other method

[cold ingot]

I turned baked GI off

For now at leasf

I might have to leave it on realtime since im using a day night cycle and idk if you even can bake that

[marble vigil]

Well, that doesn't confirm if a baked light cache exists or not and if that's what we're looking at

Banding happens when there isn't enough color data to display
That can happen because of global color space or lack of HDR, or it can happen per texture, such as in the case of lightmaps

[cold ingot]

How is that confirmed
I mean, when I change my URP settings for shadows it updates very obviously

Turning down shadow atlas res makes it looks worse
And turning down shadow max distance makes the shadows really sharp

[marble vigil]

That suggests they are realtime shadows, but you can verify it by clearing baked light cache from the lighting window, in case you baked lights before

[cold ingot]

But then it looks ugly because the shadows fade so fast

[cold ingot]

Like the baked lightmaps tab or what

There is npthing therd

There*

[marble vigil]

I would look into color space and HDR post processing if you mean the color banding
Though I may misunderstand and you mean the banding between shadow resolution levels by distance, aka shadow cascades

[cold ingot]

Shadow cascades fixed it

It was just really low res shadows ig

And changing how I allocated my shadow budget fixed it

[hard fable]

I have an issue with the decal shadow projector, instead of using the color of the texture I used it's using the linear fog instead

[frank prawn]

Is there a way to get shadow clipping plane to be a bit longer? My shadows for my buildings during sunset and sunrise have look awful at a distance. I can see the shadows closer to myself, but the closer the shadow is to the the bottom of the building, the more it fades.

Its super noticeable with the tree

I feel dumb, the solution was to edit the max distance in the URP Asset and not the near clip plane under my sun.

[dreamy surge]

I usually create an entire spritesheet for each level of my 2d game for better performance with batching, though I have read that URP batches everything even if not on the same sprite sheet? is this true? can I now separate my sprite sheet to different images and still have the same performance?

[copper pilot]

Sprite batching is a thing, but it is separate from urp drawcall batching

[marble vigil]

SRP batching doesn't batch drawcalls but makes them really cheap so practically yes
Besides that there's the sprite atlas which can be used to combine your sprites for you regardless of render pipeline

[copper pilot]

You can do both or either

[dreamy surge]

thank you

[granite galleon]

hi, in my 2D URP project, how can I make the 2D global light also change the intensity of the camera? for example, if the intensity of the global light goes down, the camera will become darker and darker

[solar coral]

ok I've been hunting this from a while and i do notice a pattern where often when there are memory leaks (not from my code as far as I'm aware), then this issue occurs, so perhaps it is related?

[indigo ruin]

anyone know why when I export my game to mobile i dont see any 2d meshes? ui canvas is there. I'm on urp. I have same project on builtin renderer and it exports fine to mobile

[grave rune]

why can't i see my flare, and yes I do have a flare layer in my camera

[west fern]

hey im messing around with a new asset i purchased but to make it work I need to mess with the rederer list and Im not to familiar with what that means, any help?

asset im using:https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/shaders/fullscreen-camera-effects/retro-look-pro-133193#content

[balmy silo]

Hello! I tried to download the toon shader for URP but it spit out these errors, any ideas?

[keen anchor]

Is it possible to change the shape of a ShadowCaster2D with code?

[fierce crown]

Is it possible to make decal projector not affected by the normal maps? If so, how? Like I want to have small bullet holes and stuff but they get pretty messed up by my normal maps.

[nova bear]

Have been pulling my hair out trying to get a simple URP project to look right, when setting ambient lighting to black randomly, I noticed that the shading on a default capsule was pixelated, and that disabling shadow settings and or generating lighting didn't do anything

Any Ideas? I don't even know where to start here, or what to even google.

[iron compass]

That looks like an artifact of the renderer, it’s inherent look (some sort of banding). Maybe try enabling dithering, avoid high contrast gradients like that, add a small amount of post processing noise or ignore and move on.

[marble vigil]

Reminds me of the kind of artifacts that appear with deferred rendering when not using "accurate G-buffer normals"

[cerulean viper]

How can i make custom renderer features work in vr. Because of the whole thing with the game being rendered twice it kinda doesnt really work like usually and i cant find anything about it online

[nova bear]

That actually was it! Thanks. (Why wouldn't that option be on by default??)

[dry willow]

What is the feature doing? If it's a blit :
cmd.Blit doesn't work well with VR but should be able to use cmd.DrawMesh to draw a fullscreen quad (e.g. https://github.com/Cyanilux/URP_BlitRenderFeature/tree/cmd-drawMesh), or use the newer Blitter API. (e.g. https://github.com/Cyanilux/URP_BlitRenderFeature/tree/2022.1)
Those examples might help, though I haven't properly tested them in VR.

[cerulean viper]

thank you so much, im going to try that

[cerulean viper]

i dont really undertsnad how the draw mesh funktion works does the mesh need the mesh i want to render or a mesh to render onto and how do i get a refrence to it. and what transform matrix does it need ?

[dry willow]

Again, it depends what you need your renderer feature to do. You may need to explain what it does or share the code.

But I gave some examples for replacing cmd.Blit since I know that doesn't work in VR (at least with single pass instanced). If your feature is using that, you could instead render a fullscreen quad using that DrawMesh function, with RenderingUtils.fullscreenMesh as the mesh, and matrix as Matrix4x4.identity. But that also assumes you set a render target and override the view projection matrices. Can view my BlitRenderFeature code I linked as an example.

If you're in 2022+ that should still work afaik, though the Blitter class is meant to be used.

[marble vigil]

I'm guessing it has a cost and isn't necessary in all situations
The artifacts only tend to appear in very close-up shots

[cerulean viper]

It will create screen space outlines. The code is supposed to show a material on the screen. The amterial uses normals and depth to detect edges and make lines there. The problem i srendering the normal based outlines on the screen with them enabled i get these artifacts, but the dpth based outlines work

here is my code

i fixed it by changicg when the effect is rendered

[scenic burrow]

have you done a dev build and see if any error messages are output to the console?

[cloud sparrow]

hi, ive been making a game in URP and i'm having an issue ive never had before. When I want to work on the project on my laptop and pull my changes from my desktop using github, URP just completely falls apart. All the URP assets are all missing scripts, all my materials are missing texture, even though URP is still installed through the package manager. When trying to reinstall URP, it just makes things worse and all the URP scripts say they cant reference various built in unity packages.

[cold ingot]

you probably have something wrong in your github

[tepid citrus]

Opaque particles seem to write incorrect motion vectors, even if "Motion Vectors" is set to "Force No Motion". Googling didn't really help. Has anybody faced that issue?

[stoic sky]

Inside your material decal you can select (via check boxes) which channels you want to be active (albedo/NM/metallic/...).

[half kiln]

Hello, I'm getting this error: Library\PackageCache\com.unity.render-pipelines.core@12.1.8\Runtime\RenderGraph\RenderGraphBuilder.cs(39,69): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'DepthAccess' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

I tried reinstalling the URP package, tried new project, reimport, I updated the URP package, nothing work

I'm using 2021.3.14f1 editor, and URP Version 12.1.8

[stoic sky]

Try to erased the package cache inside C://user/appdata/local low/unity.
Maybe that could fix the issue. Otherwise. Uninstall/repair your unity version.

[chrome epoch]

when reading about renderer features, the docs say:

URP draws objects in the DrawOpaqueObjects and DrawTransparentObjects passes
where can I find more information about the draw passes URP uses? seems to be absolutely no information anywhere about this

[iron compass]

You could look at the source code

[indigo sage]

Hi Peeps, I am using Unity 2021.3.8 URP, to Upload to Spatial.io and have a question in regards to materials. I have multiple models with wooden decks with boards of multiple lengths that I need to use the same wood texture. This equates to hundreds of boards of various lengths. Do I need to create multiple materials for each length, for it to tile correctly, or is there some way to do this with one material? Notice how the longer board stretches the material.

[warped skiff]

Youd have to make a shader that multiplies texture by position or something like that

I forgot the exact way to go about it but its called a triplanar so the texture is always uniform

[nova wind]

is there a shader graph version of the lit urp shader floating around?

[soft lion]

What is this supposed to mean?

[sinful gorge]

There is lit output in shader graph? Then you can simply sample the textures you need

[calm moat]

game's colors changing in some devices after build. Don't know what causing it. Any solution ?

[iron compass]

Could almost pass as a feature

[calm moat]

yeah! but feature is too randomize. when change graphic settings, feature updates, and after relaunching game, the old black and white theme becomes feature.

[nova wind]

that's exactly what i didn't want to setup. just the metalic mask is a bit off now, and not looking the same as the default urp lot shader

[sinful gorge]

You can open the lit shader and see exactly what they use in their frag pass I guess

Then just reproduce

[peak pike]

Hi. I'm trying to make a Camera Fade effect with a custom Blit Scriptable Renderer Feature in 2021.3 and can't figure out why a material doesn't change at runtime.

I assigned a material to the feature, and the same material is assigned to a script that changes a float value with a coroutine. The unlit shader itself takes RGB from _MainTexture (as per Blit Scriptable Renderer Feature description) and uses the float value as alpha. But for some reason transparency changes only when I change the float value manually in the Inspector.

Yet Frame Debugger confirms that the renderer feature do have a correct float value in the material at the time of rendering. Should I refresh something at runtime once a shader value is changed?

[barren dragon]

Does anyone know if its possible to use normal maps on a tilemap when using the tilemap in a 3D project?

[marble vigil]

Did you try it yet?

[barren dragon]

Honesty im not even sure where to find documentation. Since searching for using normal maps on tilemaps only provides info on 2D projects

[marble vigil]

I recall you swapped your tilemap to use a material with 3d Lit shader
Doesn't a normal map logically slot into that?

[barren dragon]

It does but it give broken results, I assume because the UV's that the tilemap uses are different to the UV's I have for the sprite

[marble vigil]

Right, the normal map can't have the same slicing information as the tilemap

[barren dragon]

I guess the normal map should have the slicing that the tilemap has?

[marble vigil]

I think it may be necessary to either try to have it as a normal map, and try to sample it in a custom shader using the MainTex sprite UVs, or make it a sprite and do the channel swapping and color space conversion in shader which is normally done by the importer for normal maps

But I'm not totally sure

[barren dragon]

Hmm ok not the end of the world for now. Was just hoping it was an easy setup. Thanks for trying!

[warped skiff]

The 2d extras package had a tilemap shader that worked with normals

Its for built in tho

[warped skiff]

example of it working

another reason not to use urp lol

[marble vigil]

In turn I get is an example of it not working

[warped skiff]

Weird

[marble vigil]

This is the kind of error one would expect when trying to do this in URP by having the normal map of type sprite instead of normal
I would've presumed the shader converts the sRGB sprite texture to a normal map, but in my end that's not happening

[river wolf]

How would I make a shader that writes the maximum possible value to the z buffer?

[rich drift]

is it possible to implement portals using render textures in URP

I've been trying to for the past 3 hours or so

followed every tutorial out there, but it is broken

what I've done is:

1. set up a script that transforms a camera relative to some "portal" which in this case a plane
2. each camera has a render texture, connected to a material that only renders according to the screen position UVs
3. each portal shows the other's render texture

this is what I get instead

what's so infuriating is that the player's camera has no render texture

where is it getting these pixels from?

[river wolf]

When stacking cameras, I can see how it's pretty easy to stop an overlay camera from clearing the z buffer, but is there anyway to also prevent it from clearing the stencil buffer?

Nevermind, I had something set up wrong, it doesn't clear.

[river wolf]

I don't know if this will help (I've watched this video, but haven't actually tried setting it up like this myself), but I'd recommend checking out this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkGjYig8avo

[rich drift]

I'll check it out

hopefully it does help

[polar trout]

Hello, I am trying to get a transparent render texture in Unity 2021.3 URP. I have a second camera rendering to a render texture, but the background of the camera still shows in the render texture when I want it to be transparent.

For context, I am trying to render a Lens Flare in URP. But since I am making a 2D game, and lens flare does not render in orthographic mode, I have another camera set in perspective to render it. I previously had my camera stacked in overlay, but found it to affect the performance too much to render this static lens flare every frame. I am now trying to render it only once and overlay it as a render texture and ran into this problem. I have attached an image of the problem, the black part of the image is what I want to be transparent.

Any help regarding this would be very much appreciated

[terse osprey]

So i just installed myself the fancy URP. But now my main camera is just showing all black in my game tab. Allthough it does render in the small preview window in the Scene editor.
Anyone got any clues?

[gentle flare]

Hello Guys,
I am trying to update my matérials from built-in To Urp so i am getting that error for all materials:
There's not uppgrader to convert shader to selected render pipeline .
Actually my project is broken need help plz Thx

[sleek nacelle]

can we set material props with MBP in URP? have been tryin to do it on shadergraph shader, but no luck 😦

[dry willow]

Technically it should work provided you use the same references (that's a field under the property settings, can be different from property name for display purposes)

Note that for MeshRenderers : MPBs will break the SRP batcher compatibility for those renderers so can affect performance greatly if you use it on many objects. You are instead meant to use different materials in URP. Can also create materials at runtime by referencing Renderer.material. https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Renderer-material.html

If you're intending to use gpu instancing instead, this may help : https://www.cyanilux.com/faq/#sg-gpu-instancing

[knotty tiger]

Any good volumetric fog assets for URP?

[iron compass]

plenty, which one is best depends on your needs. The "default" choice would probably be https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/shaders/fullscreen-camera-effects/volumetric-fog-mist-2-162694

[sleek nacelle]

my current need is I have a lots characters with same material but I need to change their color properties ( such as skin, hair color ) using the pixel replacement shader, do you have any advice to approach this kind of need in URP? thanks in advance!

[placid laurel]

Can anybody help me? im trying to add Decal Projector to make a flashlight but i dont understand how to configure it

[knotty tiger]

You dont need to add a Decal for the flashlight

Theres a "Light Cookie" propety in the Inspector of the Spot Light that you can attach an image to

[placid laurel]

hi guys i just moved to URP and have a question. How do i convert Default-Material to URP? I converted other materials but idk how to convert default ones

[placid laurel]

oh

[stone plover]

Edit -> Rendering -> Update or Upgrade existing materials

[placid laurel]

I cant find Default-Material

its not in assets folder

its this

[stone plover]

These are materials auto generated by Unity. Right click one of your models, reimport. Let me know if it fixes the material

[marble vigil]

The pipeline converter should be able to convert Unity's hidden materials

[placid laurel]

where do i do that?

[marble vigil]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@12.0/manual/features/rp-converter.html
Find instructions here for your specific URP version

[hasty warren]

Hello, is this the right place to ask shadergraph related questions?

[marble vigil]

#archived-shaders is probably more fitting

[knotty tiger]

Can I change the default URP Terrain Grass Shader somewhere?

[red tartan]

Hi, I need URP wizards to help me with something, I upgraded from 2021.3 to 2022.2, and things were messed up in the move from RenderTargetHandle to RTHandle.

I can't figure out what Unity did to RenderTargetIdentifier in RTHandle, it seems completely evaporated.

[dry willow]

If you're referring to shader graph, View Vector is a vector from the vertex/fragment position (Position node) to the camera position. View Direction is the same, but normalised.

[mellow inlet]

Hello guys, I'm doing a portal effect for a VR game. On desktop with a basic camera (and with the preview in the game view when the headset is on) it works juste fine like on this screenshot.

But in the headset, only the left eye display the portal and the left eye just display nothing.
I'm on Unity 2021.3 URP, and I don't know how get each eye render and apply the portal effect on both eyes.

Someone has an idea ?

[mellow inlet]

update, now the renderTexture is correctly diplayed on both eyes, but the camera aren't sync correctly and each eyes has a little offset on the opposite direction.

I'm not supposed to see the border on the right.

[lapis basin]

hi

I don't know whats wrong with my camera

in the build its just a blue screen

butin editor play is perfectly fine

[placid laurel]

Hello, i am building a game for android and the frames dont run smoothly. I already checked the profiler and it runs on 30 fps all the time so this isnt the Problem, it seems like the Frames lagging behind by a tiny bit. Any of you know what could be the Problem?

[placid laurel]

Its happens on many different phones 😦

[stone plover]

Are you sure the build is set to the right scene? You may have the wrong scene added in your player settings. It may not be the scene you're in on your editor.

[stone plover]

If they're all being locked to 30FPS, maybe you'll need to write "Application.targetFrameRate = 60;" in a start method when you load up the game.

[errant isle]

Can someone direct me to some ressources that explain these settings on the srp renderer asset in-depth? I have vague ideas of what the settings do and how they interact, and I can get about 90% towards achieving what I want. But there's rendering bugs that I will never be able to cleanly fix until I truly understand these settings 🥲 my google fu is failing me

[dry willow]

They are equivalent to the ZWrite, ZTest and Stencil operators in ShaderLab (shader code), so these docs might help
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SL-ZWrite.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SL-ZTest.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SL-Stencil.html

[fickle helm]

How does render features Render Objects work?
im attempting to make a worldspace canvas (with all children) render after post processing, but it's not doing anything.

pictures provided is what I'm doing. all children of this canvas have the same layer.

[dry willow]

I imagine you'd want Queue (under filters) to be Transparent since that's where UI would be. But no idea if the feature even works with UI.

[fickle helm]

you're a ⭐ Cyan

[dry willow]

Nice!

[dry willow]

Oh and you'd also want to remove the "No Post Processing Layer" from the default Transparent Layer Mask at the top of the Renderer asset, if you haven't already. Otherwise you'd be rendering the UI twice.

[fickle helm]

Ooo I see I see! Performance++ thank you once again

[rocky hawk]

hey could someone help me with my URP lighting. I have deferred rendering on on but on 6 or so of my mixed light fixtures are rending in realtime.
https://youtu.be/uuGPMJSDbTI

[fickle helm]

I've just noticed this dialogue box. How do you make cameras not use render features? for example I have my first person camera, and also a minimap camera.

[dry willow]

I guess with this feature in particular, you can put other cameras on a different Layer and remove that from the Camera Layer Mask there.

But to prevent other features from appearing on a second camera, you'd need to create multiple Universal Renderer assets, assign them to the list on the URP Asset. Then under the Camera component, there's a Renderer dropdown.

[marble vigil]

Don't crosspost to multiple channels please

[rocky hawk]

for sure

[calm furnace]

Does anyone know why Shader Graph's Position (Object based) node are keep changed in specific view? (seems incorrect)
(2021.2.5f1 / URP : 12.1.2 / 2D Renderer with perspective based sorting, perspective view)

[calm furnace]

Solved : It caused by dynamic batching

[novel creek]

Can anyone tell me how can I get Sharp Shadows? My Render Texture and all other settings are set to point filter. (Left is Game view and right is Scene view)

[marble vigil]

You can't normally get totally pixel sharp shadows because even with soft shadows disabled the shadow outline still exists and would be spread across multiple pixels

Perhaps you can mitigate it by using shadow cascades to guarantee that the shadow edge is drawn at a relatively high resolution to minimize the filtering between shadowmap pixels

It might not be possible to force shadows to use nearest-neighbor filtering without modifying URP itself

[novel creek]

is it this?

[novel creek]

ohh okk

[marble vigil]

Yes, cascades are a tool for focusing more of the shadowmap resolution closer to the camera where it's seen most clearly

[novel creek]

Ok thanks I will play around with it hopefully it will somewhat work

[novel creek]

Thanks for the help! 🙂

[marble vigil]

[frank prawn]

If I had a material with, lets say a grass texture, but I wanted to apply a dirt or mulch texture on top of it, maybe for like the ground underneath bushes and things, what would be the best way to do it?

Or another example, like crosswalks on a road.

[warped skiff]

a terrain shader

[frank prawn]

Does this work on any mesh? I't not a terrain I am trying to do this with

[warped skiff]

hm maybe

[frank prawn]

Did some more digging and found something called polybrush that might be a better solution perhaps

[cosmic marsh]

Hey guys, been fighting Unity 2D URP sprite batching. Got the UI nice and batched, but my NPCs which all share the same sprites/animations are not batching due to "Having different materials". I've set them all to use Sprites-Default and still no luck. Doing extensive reading, I'd thought perhaps it was my Shadergraph with defined tint and color properties causing the issue. But that doesn't seem to be the case. Any ideas?

[chrome epoch]

afaik you can't pack sprites into an atlas if they use different materials. My understanding is that the whole point of reducing the draw calls via batching only works if they use the same material

unless you're saying the sprites are saying they're using different materials when they actually aren't?

[copper pilot]

You can pack them, but they still won't batch.

[cosmic marsh]

I've set them all to use Sprites-Default. That is the same material.

[tender wasp]

@cold ingot

[cold ingot]

turn on HDR

[cosmic marsh]

After much testing it appears that any sprite touched/affected by a point light is ineligible for batching but the error message is incorrect as to why.

[cold ingot]

and add tonemapper to your global volume

[tender wasp]

It fixes it a little bit

[cold ingot]

send SS

[tender wasp]

https://i.imgur.com/rwA9J9J.png

My screenshot software makes it look 10x dartker

let me try something else

[cold ingot]

yeah at some point it becomes a limitation of monitors

but

i think it can be fixed?

like a touch more

try adding the ACES tonemapper to your volume

[tender wasp]

Now it is completely dark in the room

[cold ingot]

ok ig turn it off

thats weird tho

[tender wasp]

Thanks for the help, i'll take a look on google, now that i know what its called

[celest pelican]

I'm using the camera stacking feature for 3D skyboxes

but I'm also using cinemachine

a free look camera to be exact

and when I move my camera with a mouse, the 3D skybox objects move as well

any known fixes?

Also I noticed it's not just a cinemachine issue

every moveable camera seems to influence those objects

or at least a third person one

[marble vigil]

By this you probably mean that the skybox camera doesn't move

All the cameras in the stack must move in the same way

Either by using the same input, or by copying the motion and rotation precisely from the main camera

[celest pelican]

Okay, I'll try that

[wicked nacelle]

what are those lines

This only happens in the game camera

Not the scene

[celest pelican]

I don't think that's the issue actually

Because the overlay camera is actually moving with the normal game camera

But it does that in a sort of weird way

I'll prepare a video

I have no idea what to do about it (ignore the weird particle issues)

As you can see the rotation changes

but is it the fact it's not entirely accurate to the normal view camera?

I just checked

the rotation values are the same on both cameras

A first person free look camera seems to work just fine though

[marble vigil]

If you're copying transforms, you'll need to make sure it won't lag behind
Using LateUpdate could do it, though since cinemachine also uses it there still could be a script execution order issue
You're changing the main camera fov but not the skybox camera fov

[celest pelican]

I'm not copying transforms

I'm using the script that came with URP Samples

and it does that on it's own

[marble vigil]

Well, does that copy the transforms?

[celest pelican]

I'll check

See if it uses lateupdate too

[marble vigil]

You'll probably want the skybox camera get its transforms from the virtual camera rather than real main camera, because real main camera will also be moved in LateUpdate by the cinemachine's vcam

[marble vigil]

Or do that
The cameras will likely be synced if they have the exact same vcam settings and input

[celest pelican]

This is the script

I'll change it to lateupdate, and if that doesn't work I'll change the camera object to be the vcam

But there's one issue with that idea

The vcam object itself doesn't rotate

So that won't work, unless you meant duplicating the vcam for the skybox

It behaves slightly different now

But still has that weird moving effect

And I don't think it's just because of cinemachine

because I tried it with a different third person camera controller

and it does the same thing

what else can I do to solve this?

[marble vigil]

It could be doing the exact same thing as cinemachine does which causes the problem

[celest pelican]

I see

But what could it do then just rotating a camera around a pivot?

Maybe I gotta sync the skybox with the player somehow

[marble vigil]

Depends how and when "rotating" happens

Did you try script execution order to make your skybox camera script run after cinemachine / the character controller

[celest pelican]

Nope

How could I set that up?

[marble vigil]

There's not much to set up, it's just a list field in the settings somewhere

[celest pelican]

Okay I'll check that

[celest pelican]

That didn't do anything

I also changed the cinemachine brain update method

still nothing

Oh though I did try another orbital camera controller script

and that worked

[mellow inlet]

Hi, is there a solution to exclude meshes from SSAO in URP 12.1.17 ?

I'm having weird behaviour when my hands (main character) comes near another mesh. I can see the SSAO cage and it's really bad looking.

I've tried to use overlay cameras to render my hands without post-processing. It worked but in exchange the hands are always render on top off everything and it's not a solution in a VR game.

Someone have an idea ?

[iron compass]

Ssao is a post effect so not much you can do about it besides making your own variation of it that responds to stencil/object masks

[mellow inlet]

ok, thank you for your answer

[hollow plinth]

Hi i'm getting this trying to build:

This is with all of the latest packages including URP / Entities Graphics / etc on Unity 2022.2.12

[mellow inlet]

Hi, how do you setup a stereo rendering camera in URP 12.1.17 ?

I have setup the render mode to "Single Pass Instanced" in both OpenXR and Oculus.
Create a camera, have a headset setup, but when I debug.log if "Camera.main.StereoEnabled", it appears false (like the stereo isn't setup.

[dreamy gyro]

Hey everyone! I just switched to URP and for some reason the shadows on my model is extremely pixelated and has holes in it, How do I fix this?

[iron compass]

Use soft shadows, make sure the shadow map resolution is high enough and tweak the cascades to match your camera distance

[dreamy gyro]

Alrighty thanks!

[iron compass]

To fix the holes you need to tweak the shadow normal bias and/or make it a double sided shadow caster

[dreamy gyro]

I think I have it set high enough (4098) but it still looks kinda bad, also there are lines allover the floor sfor some reason

[iron compass]

You need to tweak the distance settings and biases

add more cascades too

[dreamy gyro]

Ahh yeah cascades did it

[marble vigil]

Too low bias values result in this specific issue
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ShadowPerformance.html

[dreamy gyro]

Gotcha, thank you.

I'll have to do some more research

I'm not the very artistic but I'm a solo dev, so I'm trying to find an art style I can do aha. Even experimenting with ai textures and such 🙂 lots to try

[marble vigil]

Any kind of texturing is a lot of work
I'd recommend you check out toon shaders on the asset store which can render lively patterns and outlines even on solid color meshes

[dreamy gyro]

Definitely something I've also been looking into

I was also looking into coronoid textures

Voronoi

I might also look I to a similar art style as RuneScape 2009 hd

This kinda textured yet not, look.

With a bit more cleaning probably aha

[iron compass]

This style is called ‘low poly with ugly/blurry textures’, there would only be sentimental reasons why you’d want that. A toon shader and crisp textures or controlled blur would be much more appealing and be an actual style, not a technical limitation.

[dreamy gyro]

I think that's very subjective to call it "ugly" I think a mixture of this and toon shaders could bring some nice effects but it'd be something to you around with

Haven't got around to shadergraph yet. Will look at toon shaders when I get home from work. Not looking forward to making the many hundreds of needed models ahahhaa.

[iron compass]

Absolutely, that’s why it works for sentimental reasons or ironically. But if you look at it from the perspective of what one would do absent the tech limitations that gave birth to it, you’d have a plethora of artistic choices that would be more expressive. So in my humble view, if this style isn’t the best way to solve a problem for the artist, it’s not a style, it’s appropriation (which is fine too, no feelings are being hurt by it)

[late monolith]

I have a small question about the metallic/smoothness in a URP lit shader
so i assume the smoothness comes from the alpha in either the color map or the metallic map based on the source settings?
Does the slider just like make the value smaller like 1 = the value like it's given in the map and 0 is no smoothness

[dry willow]

Basically yes, it multiplies them together. map.a * _Smoothness

[late monolith]

thanks, gonna try and make a model in blender now and do the proper workflow with baking textures and all that

[frail tartan]

what is UniversalRenderPipeline.RenderSingleCamera in frame debugger?

[frail tartan]

.............. Frame debugger cleans up all collected data on the fly and replaces it with "RenderSingleCamera"

[muted oriole]

Hello I installed URP to my game and for some reason it made everything very dark, I have tried switching to linear color space but it still looked bad is there anyway I could fix this?

Especially the tank, it was made in blender and looks like it just eats up all the light

[muted oriole]

nwm I fixed it after playin around with linear color space and light intensity it worked

[dreamy gyro]

Wandering if somethings just wrong with my model for some reason.. ever toon shader i use breaks the outline

[marble vigil]

Did you try with other meshes?
It seems likely that the outline shaders are meant to work on smooth-shaded meshes
Additionally it might be that you have overlapping geometry or inverted normals

[dreamy gyro]

I dont THINK theyre either overlapping or inverted

Ill have to take a look

[marble vigil]

Just the lighting looks pretty messed up so I'd guess there's some kind of problem with the geometry

[dreamy gyro]

hmm maybe

Honestly im wandering if there are just issues with my urp

testing out a water shader I found

and its different in the game window than in the scene viewer..

I tried ti in build aswell, same issue

Gonna make a from scratch urp scene.. See if thats the issue

[spark jasper]

are there any must watch videos or must read articles about URP / SRP been wading through the docs and finding it difficult to get deferred rendering working

cant get the gbuffer to come up in the frame debugger

[solemn zodiac]

watched this yesterday, probably most newbie friendly video about URP and SRP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fa4uFm1eCE

[spark jasper]

i saw that too, is there more stuff like this?

[floral wolf]

there is an article series by catlikecoding, which covers making an srp from scratch

though it’s somewhat outdated

[cold ingot]

ahh i just saw this too. is there any good documentation for this anywhere? id really like to see if i can solve some problems with custom render passes like my UI getting an exposure effect but not the depth of field effect that i have

[solemn zodiac]

Not really, it is still pretty bad documentation vise, more likely you will find someone making their own projects etc. that have better docs and you will learn more than from official documentation.

[cold ingot]

i wish this was just documented lol

unfortunate

[vocal skiff]

i want to add "blit" render feature, to display shaders on camera, but i got split screen (two cameras), how do i display different blit material on the two cameras?

[dry willow]

You can create multiple Universal Renderer assets for each camera, assign them both to the list on the URP Asset then change the Renderer dropdown on the Cameras.

[vocal skiff]

here?

it shows only the asset i provide here under the camera's renderer option

[vocal skiff]

oooh nvm i got it

thanks

[storm oriole]

oof I´m having the weirdest problem - new urp project, camera won´t render anything but the skybox

second time this happened and I forgot what I did last time 😅

[storm oriole]

I got it down to opaque textures only being renderer in the scene view. (Transparent textures work) 🤔
edit: opaque materials appear when Depth Priming Mode is disabled.

[marble vigil]

Did you create it from the URP template?

[storm oriole]

I did, the 3d one (v 2.0.6)
Unity 2022.1.0b12

[scenic grove]

how do i fix this weird lighting on my model?

[icy dagger]

Please do not cross-post

[opaque ocean]

Hey everyone, im not sure if asking in right place. But I've got some shading or rendering problem in URP.
For some reason as you can see on the screenshot, there are 2 drawers more whiter than the others any idea why it might be ?

[icy dagger]

Is it possible that they are set to receive lighting from probes?

[opaque ocean]

With lights off

@icy dagger

• settings

Gizmos on to see where are the lights and where it is comming from

Also now i've noticed that the bottom one is getting whither too, from right side if you look

[marble vigil]

@opaque ocean You seem to have a warning about overlapping lightmap UVs

[opaque ocean]

Some of them are, but shouldn't be that big of problem, on that big scale tho

[icy dagger]

What about your lighting settings? I see that you're using realtime lights 🤔

[opaque ocean]

normals of the faces are also ok, facing in correct direction

oh crap

u were right

Realtime global illumination caused it

But why is that ?

[icy dagger]

They are separate systems that need a lot of tweaking to not collide sometimes. It's best to either pick fully realtime or fully baked lighting.

[opaque ocean]

For point & click 3d adventure probably better baked one tho right ?

[icy dagger]

Yes I'd say so!

[opaque ocean]

Thank you for help! 🙂

[marble vigil]

I didn't know it was possible to have them on at the same time!

[icy dagger]

It's a supported workflow, but not great. Usually just leads to weirdness because of how different their use-cases and technical designs are. The problem is that Enlighten is not an in-house tool, so we don't have the power to improve or refactor it as easily as the engine's needs change. 2024 LTS is the last version that will feature it as our RTGI solution.

[cursive owl]

hi, Do we need to do anything special to our shaders in unity URP in order for them to be lit like the default shaders?

[cursive owl]

found it. they were set on custom sprite lit. I have no clue what this is suposed to be for but I switched it back to sprite lit and it works just fine now.

[cold ingot]

Cannot wait for 2025 then

Very pog

[blazing gull]

I wound up doing it by accident. It turned out to be pretty handy for a horror game I'm working on: realtime GI makes your flashlight illuminate the world more convincingly, whilst the baked GI makes all of the fixed lighting look good

It's a lot more performant than screen space GI (this is in hdrp, mind you)

[cold ingot]

Does baked GI still work with moving shadows like the player?

[blazing gull]

I use mixed lights when I need shadow casting for moving objects

but that doesn't affect the baked GI

[cold ingot]

Also not specifically to you, is it possible to make volumetric fog in URP or at least some way of making cool looking lighting rays?

I wanna have good looking lighting without spending 1 billion hours on
A) configuring HDRP
B) trying to figure out why my fps is 10

[marble vigil]

You can get pretty good light rays with sprites, particles or geometry

[cold ingot]

Do you have an example of what that looks like

Like what does pretty good mean

[marble vigil]

https://rakeshmalikblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/01/volumetric-light-using-particles/
https://youtu.be/kbsd6askiCY

[iron compass]

they are fake and need manual placement but look perfect if authored correctly

[cold ingot]

I have a moving sun though, and I have nighttime

[iron compass]

Time to buy an asset and start profiling/tweaking

[cold ingot]

What

What asset do you mean?

[iron compass]

https://assetstore.unity.com/?q=Volumetric fog&orderBy=1

[cold ingot]

oh you mean volumetric fog

arlgiht

[bold timber]

is there any way to debug mimap view in urp?

[sinful gorge]

What do you mean?

[rich drift]

I'm getting these weird shadows on trails

any fixes?

[novel schooner]

It's my first time trying to edit any Unity source code and I've found I need to clone the graphics repository. My project uses URP 14.0.6, but on the github the most recent tagged branch is 10.10.1, am I looking in the wrong place? https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/Graphics

[sinful gorge]

@novel schooner
I think they use unity versions for later ones. So 2021.3 etc

[novel schooner]

Ah I see, so probably 2022.2.0a9.1292 should be close to 14.x.xthen?

[blazing gull]

I guess you want to pick the newest version of unit that's older than the one you're using

[novel schooner]

Good plan, using 22.2.11, so I guess 2022.2.0a9.1292 is pretty close. Just hope it's got all the correct features I've been using because I know Decal shaders didn't come into URP long before this build lol

[sinful gorge]

Check 2022.2 staging @novel schooner

Don't use alpha versions for no reason

Check branches instead of tags

[novel schooner]

I never even realised there were more which weren't tagged. I was just following the guide to cloning repository's on the git page and it tells you to reach by tag

[rich drift]

I honestly want to know why would you even try and edit the existing repository instead of building on top of it

through my experience making new passes or feature through the SRP is pretty straight forward

its lacking in documentation, but nothing that anyone at that level can't figure out

[novel schooner]

Specifically all I need to do is change the Decal render pass to after post processing so that it effects transparent shaders

[rich drift]

well, you can make this a render feature

so you can specify where exactly this pass happens

I did that once with a custom outline renderer, it had to be done before transparent

[novel schooner]

I'll have a look into render features before I clone the repository, I'm essentially following a solution someone else shared on the forums regarding an issue I was having

[rich drift]

I say follow through with that as far as you can

I think playing with the URP repo it self is a huge undertaking

[novel schooner]

I've discovered this also! I wasn't even aware I couldn't directly edit source files without them reverting automatically till I tried this today lol

[rich drift]

oh

well that makes more sense

I've tried that a bunch

they have it this way for a reason, so any bugs you encounter are easily replicateable

phrases such as "AS IS" comes to mind

[fierce crown]

How do I get my TMP material to work?

[novel schooner]

You have sent me down a dark rabbit hole lol

So first I found by default (as far as I can see) you can only effect Opaque and Transparent layer within the custom render pass.
No problem I thought, instead of moving the decal layer forward, I'll move the transparent layer back. This actually worked(sort of)
The only issue (which would have been an issue anyway) is that now the decal mask is being applied on top of the opaque layer AFTER the transparent layer is drawn, so the opaque parts of the transparent textures are now also transparent in those areas.
The only solution I can think of is to find a way to create a custom render pass for the decal layer so I can perform 2 separate passes, one only for opaque then another later for only transparent. Is it possible to create passes for other layers?

I already tried changing rendering on light layers, but this doesn't work for transparent materials for some reason

[rare fern]

Is there a way to render object using something other than layer?

since drawing doesn't support multilayers

My use case: I need to implement custom effects, like freezing, drawing objects behind others, highlighting and many other things

thus if multiple layers are required

I am out of luck

[marble vigil]

Render Objects feature sounds a bit like what you're looking for

[rare fern]

I was referring to it

[marble vigil]

Maybe also by drawing onto overlay cameras while masking by depth buffer of the base camera somehow

But it kinda also sounds like there could be simpler shortcuts to doing the effects you're thinking of

Freezing maybe could be done with the object's shader, or with a shader override
And as always fake it if you don't have to make it

[rare fern]

that's the problem

either I create one big shader

that supports all of it

but degrades performance of everything dramatically

or I use additional render pass

but the limitations are painful

[dry willow]

You could use multi_compile keywords/shader variants so it doesn't affect performance. Though would increase build times.

[rare fern]

eh, I just don't want to do it through shader

it really is something that SRP should be responsible for

and I'm looking for a way to achieve it accordingly

[iron compass]

don't we all want URP to implement photoshop

[twin forge]

I've used Renderer.renderingLayerMask
Unfortunately Render Objects feature doesn't support it (at least in 2021, not sure for modern versions)

but it's fairly easy to implement. FilterSettings https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rendering.FilteringSettings.html (this one you pass to ScriptableRenderContext.DrawRenderers) already contains a mask for rendering layer, it's just Render Objects feature not using it for some reason

I see there is a discussion (as usually leads to nowhere) https://forum.unity.com/threads/renderobjects-rendere-feature-is-missing-support-for-rendering-layer-mask.867391/

[rare fern]

Does rendering layer mask support 32 multilayers?

[twin forge]

yeah

[rare fern]

nice