archived-urp

[blissful zephyr]

has anyone ever successfully created a URP global settings asset file via C# instead of going via the unity editor? if so, how was it done

[drowsy flint]

how can i fix this?

[coarse rune]

fairly confused, I have no idea what's causing this extreme white glow other than maybe a material not loading properly? it looks fine on mobile builds

ah. i think it was the compression method

nope, i was wrong. this is what it looks like the second before i press polay but then it returns to that white mess

[chrome cliff]

Is that unity 2022?

[coarse rune]

nop. you reckon i need to update it?

[chrome cliff]

Nah I was just curious

Try disabling gizmos

[solar jackal]

Hi there! ✨ I'm working on a game where we want 2D sprites in a pixelated 3D world. I've been following this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpNhymnBDQw and it works fine for 3D objects, but as I said I want 2D ones and sprites are either rendered on top or at the bottom of everything regardless of where they are in scene so it's not viable I think.
We've tried using a quad with a texture, but we have to make the object transparent because our sprites have alpha BUT that makes them transparent objects which are rendered at the end of the rendering queue I think - long story short this method also breaks the shader from the video.
So what we've come up with is having a 3D object the shape of our sprite but it's not a very classy solution.
Would you know a better way to go about this?

(sorry if this in the wrong channel, but I think the solution might be to render things differently (but I've no idea how to do that ))

[lost cliff]

particles?

[drowsy flint]

how can i fix this?

[cyan talon]

See Configuration / Upgrade pinned to this channel

[lilac plume]

Hello everyone, don't know if it's the right place to share this but i have a issue with occlusion culling in URP with Unity 2021.3.11f1 :
When i bake and i want to clear that bake, this message pop up and i need to restart Unity (Unity crash)
Anyone have the same issue ?

[pseudo jacinth]

How can I turn this off programmatically , or maybe automatically

Reason is, my app makes new images during runtime but they are compressed and I can't change the quality of them during build ofc

[exotic bobcat]

been toying with materials and shaders lately, i've noticed that according to the MaterialPropertyBlock documentation, i should not use it if i'm using URP (since it'll likely result in a drop in performancec)

however, looking at the documentation for the SRP Batcher, it states that for it to work properly, the gameobject requires a mesh or a skinneed mesh. The shader i'm working on is for usage with SpriteRenderers (i'm working ona 2.5D prototype)

ergo, should i use MaterialPropertyBlock on my use case or not? i'm a bit confused

[iron compass]

SpriteRenderers should benefit from batching so long as you don’t change reference values (like the sprite) on them. A property block would break that. Would advise experimenting with it (profiling) to see if it matters for your project.

[marble vigil]

Which batching, SRP?
By change reference values I assume you mean at runtime

Most of what I've read indicates that sprite renderers don't utilize SRP batching but I'm not sure
Might misremember or might've changed

[iron compass]

They very easily break batching that’s for sure

[iron compass]

sprite renderers with different sprites won’t be batched, doesn’t matter when/where they are made different

[marble vigil]

"Break"? I don't think SRP batching breaks like other types of batching do, unless compatibility is outright removed

SRP batching doesn't have to combine drawcalls, rather optimizes their cost, right?

[iron compass]

It somehow violates a required condition and therefore become excluded from a batch that has the same properties with only a variation in let’s say tint

[iron compass]

That is my understanding

All this is just extrapolation from a very simple test I made a while back. Not remembering all the details.

[marble vigil]

Hmm maybe it was dynamic batching instead of SRP batching

[iron compass]

Might have been

[untold hound]

yo! How do I switch from HDRP to URP? I installed URP. Now I have both of them. As much as I know I am supposed to change the shaders to urp lit and in the project settings too. But I can't find the urp assets. Help?

[dry willow]

You need to create the URP asset. The docs goes through it - https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@15.0/manual/InstallURPIntoAProject.html

[untold hound]

which one is the best one? HighFidelity, Balanced or Performant?

[exotic bobcat]

Got it, I'll see what Ill do in the end, the project is still at its infancy so profiling might be a bit difficult

[sharp notch]

Does anyone know if in my 2d game I can render stuff normally covered by a sprite at runtime while a mesh is over it?

[lunar garnet]

Hi guys, what's the best way to make it so a line renderer has an outline?

[toxic forum]

Honestly, probably just putting another, thicker line underneath it. 🤷‍♂️

[lunar garnet]

oh yeah

LOL

thanks

[marble vigil]

Not fully sure what that means exactly but you can combine 2D and 3D stuff perfectly fine as long as you are not using the 2D renderer

With the 2D renderer all non-2D shaders stop functioning entirely

[sharp notch]

well i never used urp before

and i need my screen black

but witl a hole

i followed a tutorial but cudent finish it cus it was to outdated

so i have a mesh thats where i need the hole

and thats it

[marble vigil]

Is the mesh the hole or you need something with a hole for the mesh?

[sharp notch]

the mesh is the shape and posision of the hole i need

[timid hedge]

does urp works with webgl builds?

[modest horizon]

it should work I think, there was a few bugs that break urp on webgl back then on 2021.2 (iirc) but should be already fixed in 2021.3

[timid hedge]

Doesn't work on 2021.3, I'm gonna try 2022

[marble vigil]

All versions of URP work with WebGL

Specific rendering features might not

[timid hedge]

Like custom shaders?

[marble vigil]

They work as well, within the WebGL graphics API limitations

[timid hedge]

What are the limitations?

[marble vigil]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/webgl-graphics.html

[timid hedge]

Thanks

[sharp notch]

https://youtu.be/CSeUMTaNFYk?t=1097

does anyone know how to do this part on urp?

i coped the link in a way that it starts when i need it to

[sharp notch]

i think i got it working somewhat

i dont understand much but it works

nope nvm

i got it working but the objects are always visable

the object layer is above the black layer and everything else works

idk how to fix it tho

nvm the walls were on the bad layer my bad

now the object are invisible and the view cone passes thru them

it only works while on the mask layer but then i cna always see it no matter what

I got it to show but the rays pass thru it

nvm i must have changed some layers on accident all works now

[modern star]

I have noticed that when I swap my URP project to use DX12 I am getting a lot of Internal: JobTempAlloc warnings. I haven't changed anything to do with the graphics settings other than setting the project to use DX12 and I am getting warnings both when in play mode and just by clicking around in the editor opening panels etc. without running Play mode. Is there a fix to this? The only thing I could find online were warnings caused by code people had specifically written, which I haven't done yet

[midnight oar]

Hello guys. I'm quite new to a custom RP and i'm trying to understand how things work.
Right now i'm trying to make my camera use custom depth and color buffers using ScriptableRendererFeature/ScriptableRenderPass, but the way i'm setting it up does not work as i thought it would, but i can't see where the error is.

The way i'm doing it is using this CustomScriptableRenderPass that is fired on RenderPassEvent.BeforeRendering, to setup the new buffers before doing anything.

On CustomScriptableRenderPass.cs

private int _colorBuffer = Shader.PropertyToID("_PixelColorTarget");
private int _depthBuffer = Shader.PropertyToID("_PixelDepthTarget");

public override void OnCameraSetup(CommandBuffer cmd, ref RenderingData renderingData)
{
  cmd.GetTemporaryRT(_colorBuffer, 320, 180, 0, FilterMode.Point, RenderTextureFormat.Default);
  cmd.GetTemporaryRT(_depthBuffer, 320, 180, 16, FilterMode.Point, RenderTextureFormat.Depth);
}
...
public override void Execute(ScriptableRenderContext context, ref RenderingData renderingData)
{
  CommandBuffer cmd = CommandBufferPool.Get("Setup Custom Buffer");
  context.ExecuteCommandBuffer(cmd);
        
  renderingData.cameraData.renderer.ConfigureCameraTarget(_colorBuffer, _depthBuffer);
  CommandBufferPool.Release(cmd);
}

This seems to almost work.
But: The screen becomes black. Using the frame debugger, It seems that everything works as intended until the command "FinalBlit", which turns the screen black because it is blitting nothing to this final image.
It also seems that clearing i need to manually clear the depth and color buffer this way. Is this intended?

I tried creating another pass that would fire on RenderPassEvent.AfterRendering that would do a blit to the CameraTarget.
Then, in the frame debugger, i can see a proper image that fits the whole screen, but the final blit is still a black image.

public override void Execute(ScriptableRenderContext context, ref RenderingData renderingData)
{
  CommandBuffer cmd = CommandBufferPool.Get("FinalBlit");  
  cmd.Blit(_colorBuffer, BuiltinRenderTextureType.CameraTarget);
}

Does anyone know why this is happenning and how to fix it?

[left shale]

Hey! Not sure if this is the proper place to post this, but I couldn't find something specific for Cameras. I'm going crazy... i don't know how but I somehow broke the production build... WHen I play in the editor, everything works just fine. But when I create a build, suddenly the camera only sees the 3d world but not the canvases... Has anyone ran into this before? It used to work fine, and I'm not sure what I changed to make it break...Thanks you

[sinful gorge]

Which Unity version? Maybe it has been fixed already
Do you get any errors?

[left shale]

i finally was able to pinpoint it to adding the GameSDK from Discord... makes no sense, but remove that fixed everything... will try to figure out exactly why that was happening later

[upbeat hearth]

Anyone run into issues upgrading their project to URP and having every TextMeshPro Button rendering at the same spot, when the canvas is using Screen Space - Overlay?
The UI looks fine in the Editor, but when it's built for my Google Pixel, it looks like all the buttons are stuck at the anchor point. I'm able to replicate this on a New project using the 2D (URP) template.

Here's what it looks like in scene

Here's what it looks like on my phone

[sinful gorge]

@upbeat hearth

1. Can you try your phone's aspect ratio in editor?
2. Is unity up to date?
3. How is the UI set up?

[modest swift]

What ui scale mode is the canvas using?

[upbeat hearth]

1. In the simulator, it looks correct
2. I think I am, it is 2022.3.3f1
3. The canvas is on the root hierarchy, the with the buttons inside the canvas. The only odd thing I can think of is that the anchor is in the center top for the buttons.

[upbeat hearth]

I tried it with each of the Scale settings and it still has the same result

For now, I can get away with using Screen Overlay - Camera, but I was just wondering what I am doing wrong to mess up Overlay

here's the rect transform for the top most button

[chrome cliff]

How practical is it to use complex lit for mobile projects?

And are there cheaper alternatives? Specifically to have mask maps

[sinful gorge]

The fastest is probably an unlit shader with custom lighting and custom textures. Otherwise benchmark it and try. There are too many variables to say how practical it is. If it's just a few objects and the poly count is low, it's probably fine

[chrome cliff]

URP Is like 10-15fps slower in my case

But pretty sure it's just me using complex lit for the rocks

Urp

Built in

[sinful gorge]

But you also load more textures with complex, right? So it can be that the texture adds too much bandwidth and it's not necessarily the shader

Ah those are big, then it might impact performance. Simple lit, baked lit, or custom shaders are the best for mobile. Decals can also work nicely for better visuals on simpler objects

[chrome cliff]

I personally like Urp for how easy it is to get a good looking post processing profile and the depth based lens flare. Also the mask map support for terrain. It's just perfect but I needa find a way to make it perform as good as built in rp

[chrome cliff]

Alright got it!

Appreciate you

Also does the terrain mask map decreases the performance alot?

[sinful gorge]

Terrain in general has terrible performance on mobile.
You can export the terrain to mesh using open source/free tools to make them run faster

[chrome cliff]

Alright I'll do that

Unity should have stuffs like that built in

And maybe should auto convert the terrain to chunks of mesh before building

[small nova]

Hello! I'm new here so I don't know if it's good place to post this.
I have problem with some kind of outline when I'm using Shadow Caster 2D it look like in image.
How can I fix it?

[marble vigil]

I would check if disabling any antialiasing both from the camera and quality settings will help it any

[small nova]

It wasn't antialiasing but I found "Render Scale" because of your help and it was on 0.5 so I changed it to 1.0 and it work now. Thanks 🙂

[marble vigil]

I wouldn't have expected that, good to know!

[tight furnace]

Hey, could somebody experienced in URP guide me towards good resources for learning?

I'm currently developing a small mobile game with the default renderer and it runs 100% smooth on my phone

Out of curiosity, I copy+pasted the project and imported URP, created a new Asset, Renderer, Settings etc and build the game, and the difference in performance is significant

Basically, I need a resource towards setting up URP properly for Mobile Projects that need to run on low-end devices, I'd love to use URP for it's PostProcessing and Shader Graph capabilities

Also, the startup in URP is taking like 10 seconds more time then Default Rendering, anything to do about that? Or have it initialized manually/async to at least show a (fake) progress bar?

[upbeat hearth]

I've noticed the performance gains for high-end mobile devices and but worse performance on low/mid-end devices, after swapping to URP. It seems like some optimizations needed to be do on the engine, according to some threads in #1116741337543360542

I also noticed disabling Auto Graphics API makes it builds faster from this post https://blog.unity.com/games/optimize-your-mobile-game-performance-expert-tips-on-graphics-and-assets

There's also settings in Project Settings -> Graphics -> URP Global Settings that seems like could make builds faster, according to the docs, but I haven't played with them.

The profiler might help you find more places to optimize. I also had my project on Unity 2019 and updated URP on it, but it was very slow performance and builds, not all shaders were converted after doing the Convert Materials to URP (I think it was still including the old shaders in the build).

I ended up just making a new Unity 2022 project and manually copying over all the files and objects over to a new scene. The builds become faster than my old upgraded project and seems to perform better on high-end devices.

[jolly quail]

you have LOD?

it could be the material of the LOD is not yet convertet to URP

probably

[heady marsh]

it's been a long day and I'm feeling stupid, but how do I get my portal stencil to hide the floor of the scene as well?

[dry willow]

Render the floor with the NotEqual comparison

[heady marsh]

I need to add another render object just for the floor?

[heady marsh]

got it figured out, thanks :)

[cold pier]

Question on volumes: Does URP only use volumes for postprocessing?

[zinc dirge]

Hey people! Talking about 2D rendering. I am trying to figure out if it's possible to have 2 sprites in 2 different game objects overlap in the way I want, also if they are on the same layer and same sorting order. I did some googleing and found this: https://discussions.unity.com/t/same-sorting-layer-and-order-in-layer-rendering/104875, also checked the video part linked in this post, but when I try to play with transform Z nothing seems to change.
I am using pixel perfect camera, tried to disable it but no good news. Any idea?

I kind of need this for tecnical reasons, but I am quite sure I can handle it differently. Just curious if it's possible since this would be the laziest way possible to solve my issue 😄

[haughty garnet]

Can you clarify what you want to happen with your two sprites?

Such that you want to force one particular sprite to always render first, ect

[zinc dirge]

I have a bed and a blanket on screen. I want the blanket to be always on top of the bed, and both of them correctly placed and oredered on screen with respect to other objects and the character. It's convenient to have them have the same sorting order because, like so, I can easily control the overlay of "the entire bed" as a whole, with respect to other objects, but I would like to keep the bed structure and the blanket separate objects so that I can, for example, change blanket.

I can of course approach the thing in a different way, but you know...

Let's say I am curious to understand if it's possible

The same logic can be then applied to objects on a table etc

[haughty garnet]

Well, how sprites sorting works is first it checks the sort group, then the sort order (of that group), and if there's multiple sprites overlapping with the same ordering, then it will use the closest pivot (to the camera) to determine what is rendered in front.

SpriteRenders actually have an option to render from the center specifically, and you can also change the transparency sorting order inside of the project settings.

Not entirely sure of your question, but if I were to make a bed and a blanket which a player can use, then I'd order them for which I want to render first (bed -> player -> blanket)

So, 3 sprites and 3 different game objects

[marble vigil]

There are multiple 2D sorting methods used by Unity in priority order
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/2DSorting.html
You can utilize them strategically to categorize your objects by depth

For example you could have different Sorting Layers or Order in Layer to differentiate characters from furniture, and different pieces of furniture from each other with depth position

Or have all objects at different depths, but designate certain depth ranges for specific purposes

[zinc dirge]

What I have now is 4 layers, Background, Floor, Default, Foreground.
Forniture, Objects and Characters are on the Default Layer, and I use Order in Layer to control the sprite "stacking".
I tried to tamper with Position Z of sprites with the same Order in Layer, but nothing really happened, perhaps due to project/camera settings...? Not yet sure

[marble vigil]

The third sorting method is distance to camera
Z position usually corresponds to that, but not necessarily

It does so with an ortho camera that directly faces the Z direction but not otherwise

[zinc dirge]

Seems like I can make the sprites go behind the camera, and so disappear from the screen, but I can't change the way they overlap

Well... I guess I'll have to find an other way!

But I still am willing to understand this

All I can think about is that probably I messed up something in project settings

[marble vigil]

If you've defined a custom sort axis I believe that will override distance to camera

[zinc dirge]

Yeah I was going to check that right now

[zinc dirge]

Well.... I might be.... 😅

[marble vigil]

Yeah a zero vector will not be sorting very effectively

[zinc dirge]

Ok now it works, thanks! 😅

[main flint]

Hi, I've got a question. I was following a tutorial about Shader Graphs with URP. I have the issue, that whatever I input, the Main Preview (and applied shader) is this weird purple texture. I was following the exact instructions and everything seems to be correct for me. I tried it in different projects with different versions. However I dont know what I'm doing wrong. Any ideas?

[dry willow]

Make sure URP is configured (see pinned). Otherwise assign the Built-in target under the Graph Settings instead.

[main flint]

ohhh

thank you

[rancid path]

So, I have a question:
Over here https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/render-pipelines-feature-comparison.html
It says that URP has motion vectors.
I want to get a texture of the motion vectors in C#, but I cant find how.
I guess its possible, because TAA uses motion vectors, right?

[jaunty pebble]

You would have to enable the motion vectors on the camera and then create a fullscreen shader effect that can render the motion vectors to a temporary render texture

Motion vectors are created via a special render pass whose result is written to the depth buffer

It is automatically generated when the camera has the correct flags on it set

And this stage occurs before the opaque pass

The motion vector buffer will contain 2d vectors that combine camera motion with object motion, and there is a github project called simple object blur that demonstrates the effect

I should also add that I'm not sure which operations you wish to perform in c# as in most cases, c# is merely used to queue rendering and buffer operations, while anything that is calculative usually occurs in hlsl/cgsl

[barren mural]

Hey everyone:). What is the most effective way to get depth of field and saturation reduction for the background? There's a lot of tutorials but clearly most are not up to date to the new LTS update. I'm currently using Volume on the main camera with color adjustment and depth of field and it shows the blur for the whole scene regardless of settings. I'm also using URP 2D.

[rancid path]

Like this?

Camera.main.depthTextureMode = DepthTextureMode.Depth | DepthTextureMode.MotionVectors;```

And, what is that special render pass?

Also, I want to then read that texture so I can use it in C#

[jaunty pebble]

There's many things that could cause DOF to affect everything in 2D. It come down to how your camera is set up and how your scene is set up. I'd check to see if everything is sitting on the same depth plane or if the camera focal settings are incorrect, for starters.

[jaunty pebble]

Yeah those are the camera flags that tell the renderer to render depth and motion vectors to the depth buffer.

[barren mural]

thanks moat

[jaunty pebble]

When I get back to my desk I can send the link to the object blur effect.

[jaunty pebble]

https://github.com/Estradel/URP-Simple-Per-Object-Motion-Blur/tree/main

It still works on 2022.3.3f1

[rancid path]

Where is the render pass thing?

[jaunty pebble]

The depth/motion vector render pass is internally created and executed and can only be accessed in a fullscreen shader

[rancid path]

Whats the difference between a fullscreen shader and a normal shader?

[jaunty pebble]

upon opening up the shader graph provided with the PerObjectMotionBlurShader I get:

a fullscreen shader is used in post process effects and is not applied on scene geometry

[rancid path]

Writing to the screen itself?

[jaunty pebble]

sort of

the screen renderbuffer is treated like a texture and rendered THROUGH the shader onto a fullscreen quad

[rancid path]

Ok

[jaunty pebble]

well, they USED to use fullscreen quads

[rancid path]

And I could write that to a RenderTexture and read it from C# later on?

[jaunty pebble]

yes

one easy (but INEFFICIENT) way to do it is to target a camera to render onto a render texture, and to use that shader, but modify the shader to render the motion vectors directly out as-is instead of applying the blur effect

I say that it's inefficient because telling a camera to render under URP incurs an overhead penalty (where it sets up command buffers and allocates/deallocates render buffers, etc.

the less-easy but more performant way is to create a custom fork of the fullscreen renderer feature that can directly dump to a render texture, that way it doesn't require a separate camera that is targeted to a render texture

It should also be noted that the shader graph for the effect is a FULLSCREEN material

I would recommend using the former method first for prototyping purposes

If you decide that you like the results that it's creating then you can look at the performance hit that it creates and then decide whether it's worth your time to pursue a more performant but conceptually difficult procedure

[barren mural]

I have the assets at different depths on the z axis. I think my focal settings are correct but I clearly must be missing something somewhere.

[jaunty pebble]

try the Bokeh mode, it's a little easier to work with

has additional controls

it lets you directly specify the focal distance

[barren mural]

It definitely blurs just doesn't have any control for blur per depth. The whole scene maintains the same amount of blur.

[jaunty pebble]

also it allows for a greater range of blur

There's Focal Distance and there's Focal Length

Focal Distance is the distance by which an object will be clearest

but focal length is how "close" the object has to be to the distance before blur begins to set in

so a reduced focal length will make the blur occur sooner. If the blur is affecting EVERYTHING then you may have to increase the focal length

and Aperture affects how much blur is applied overall

Also there is "sprite depth"

and then there is actual world placement depth

sprite depth is merely used to control draw sorting

but actual world placement depth will affect blur effects

[barren mural]

so the focus distance should be the main character and walking path

but no matter the focal length never works out

my background is set to 50 z axis, my mid is set 30 z and my main path is 20 z.

Thanks for the help btw been losing my mind on this going through useless tutorials for a few days.

[jaunty pebble]

Focal Distance should be distance between camera and main character

Focal Length of 0 means that anything nearer or farther than that focal distance will fall out of focus and become blurred

a greater Focal Length will make it more forgiving and keep things sharper

and your Renderer Data Asset MUST be set to create depth information

otherwise the filter won't know how far or near objects are to apply depth blurring

[barren mural]

okay yeh, im using the renderer2d should I be using the universal renderer?

[sinful gorge]

You could start up the 2D URP template and see how that's set up

[jaunty pebble]

I don't know how the renderer2D pipeline handles depth -- my work is all in 3D 💀

[barren mural]

@jaunty pebble still thanks so much I appreciate you

@sinful gorge ill give that a try

[hardy violet]

how many fps should I expect when using URP on a gaming mobile device?

from what I have read its commonly laggy when using URP on mobile

[lusty onyx]

yes true, also check your graphics rendering API

vulkan mostly the default and they ran worse on low-end

change to OpenGL 3.0, it improves up to 15%

[hardy violet]

I see

Thanks for answering

[marble vigil]

URP is designed to be suitable for all kinds of mobile devices
What kind of performance you realistically get depends entirely on the graphics API as mentioned, the graphics features you've chosen to use and how well your game's visuals are optimized

[rancid path]

After using that, I got a black image, so I did this

And now I have this:

This is the normal scene

Using the non multiplied version is fine?

I sometimes see something on the non multiplied version though

[jaunty pebble]

the Motion Vectors are signed meaning they can be positive/negative

so if an object is moving in a negative axis it will have a 'negative' brightness

and just to confirm, those objects ARE moving, correct?

Also I would test with the unmodified object blur shader to make sure that objects are actually blurring before making changes to it

[rancid path]

Yes, the objects are moving.

The cube is rotating, and the ball is bouncing

I also managed to make a custom render pass that writes the motion vectors to a render texture

So, thank you for everything 🙂

Also, I think that you asked why did I want to use the motion vectors in C#, right?

Im trying to use a class I found on the namespace UnityEngine.NVIDIA for DLSS on URP

And it asks me for motion vectors

Im having more issues with DLSS now though

Issues never end

[rancid path]

Someone told me to continue using this channel, so, here is the issue:
Im using this https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/NVIDIA.GraphicsDevice.html to use DLSS on URP.
The thing is, that my code is crashing. And I dont know why. I have checked multiple times, and everything is initialized. The only thing Im not touching is something called DLSSCommandExecutionData, since Im not interested on inverting the x axis or other things like that. The docs are terrible, and there are zero resources online about this. Any help is welcome
Here is all the code that uses DLSS
https://gdl.space/memudumabi.cs

My graphics card supports DLSS (RTX 4070)

[marble vigil]

There's zero resources because URP doesn't implement DLSS, and it seems unlikely at this point for someone to have made a third party implementation of it
If they have, they haven't published a writeup about it

[rancid path]

I have that class, and Im able to initialize it

So I guess it possible

[marble vigil]

It's probably possible but I assume you'd be the first, and likely requires you to make your own branch of URP that implements it

[rancid path]

Wait rewritting URP?

[marble vigil]

I expect so

[rancid path]

That sounds like a lot of work

[marble vigil]

If it only took a script to get it working it'd likely be in already

This is outside of my wheelhouse, but considering that implementing a custom post processing effect takes more scripts and assets than that, and that's an officially supported functionality, I expect this to be much much harder

[rancid path]

The docs say that DLSS is in on the core of unity, but only HDRP implements it

How Im supposed to "Implement" it?

I hope the docs are good

Wait I just found the HDRP code that uses it

[sinful gorge]

Unity is working on a system for upscaler implementations for both render pipelines more easily.
Maybe you can find a WIP in the alpha branches on github

@rancid path

[rancid path]

Do you have a link to an article or something like that about it?

[sinful gorge]

Nope, just seen it mentioned by devs on the forums. If you look throught the last few blitz days archives you might find it

[dense delta]

I want to create magical trail particle animation in unity canvas so i followed some tutorials but they are using URP but i have doubt that it will not work in canvas. Any Suggestion guys

[maiden hatch]

Hi guys, I am new to the server, I am trying to solve a problem and I could not find the answer , I have a simple decal projector, it works in the editor but I can't see the decal after build , I am using URP projector and I have tried every single config suggested on unity forums/google, could anybody please help me ?

This is the image of the project running in the editor and the build on the right hand side

[jaunty pebble]

Im still using a gtx1080 so this is as far as I can go.

[rancid path]

Im watching the HDRP implementation, and its very low level

The main objective of DLSS is performance, and getting the motion vector and depth textures without loosing fps is kinda hard

[jaunty pebble]

Not using any addressables, right? (Sometimes this causes issues where something works in Editor but not in a build)

[jaunty pebble]

Ok, so if you're using a camera to specially dump the motion vectors out to a render texture, it's slower because you're invoking a whole new pipeline along with its overhead penalty

What you can do at this point is to duplicate the full screen render feature

[rancid path]

No

[jaunty pebble]

Then give that feature the ability to point at a render texture

[rancid path]

Im using my own render feature that directly writes onto a render texture

[jaunty pebble]

Oh cool

And not using an extra camera, right?

[rancid path]

Yes

Just one cam

But fps dropped from 700-600 to 500-600

Also, I need the motion vector texture to change resolution based on the output resolution

On a 1080p I would need a 1920x1080 render texture, on 1440p a 2560x1440 and so on

I managed to do that, but fps dropped to 25-40

[jaunty pebble]

Oh damn.

Is the motion vector texture used as a mask to inform your system where to apply/ignore an area to use an algorithm?

Because if this is the case, you might not need so much accuracy and resolution in the motion vector texture

[rancid path]

It can be lower res

[jaunty pebble]

Additionally you may consider changing the format of the rendertexture you're writing to

[rancid path]

But I dont understand this https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/NVIDIA.DLSSCommandExecutionData-mvScaleY.html

And depth HAS to be the same resolution as the color input

[jaunty pebble]

In the end, you're blitting from the actual motion vector texture into a new render texture through a shader that is applying an operation

Maybe it's possible to get some savings by performing the blit without the shader altogether, and as long as the texture is the same format as the motion vector texture, the data should be preserved.

[rancid path]

What do you mean by that?

[jaunty pebble]

I was assuming that you were using a variant of the shader from the simple object based motion blur

[rancid path]

I made my own

[rancid path]

Is this without the multiply

[jaunty pebble]

Blitting can be done with no shader specified, in which case it's more like a direct copy using the interpolation settings from the output render texture

[rancid path]

And how could I do it?

At the moment Im using commandBuffer.DrawMesh

With the material and all that stuff

[jaunty pebble]

You're using some sort of blit operation to write to the render texture, correct?

[rancid path]

No

Unity is telling me to use that though

But I dont know how

[jaunty pebble]

I'll ping you when I get back to my desk. I need about 25 min.

Having a late lunch

[rancid path]

I might be sleeping then

Stupid time zones

[jaunty pebble]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rendering.CommandBuffer.Blit.html okay, so there's commandbuffer.blit

and it has a TON of overloads

if you choose the ones without a specified material then it will just be a simple duplication, applying whatever interpolation settings there are on the target RenderTexture

[rancid path]

And how can I get the texture without a material

[jaunty pebble]

and you'll find these settings on the Filter Mode

[jaunty pebble]

choose the ones that don't have a Material parameter

OH

hang on

right

[rancid path]

I dont understand

[jaunty pebble]

you're using a fullscreen material to access the depth buffer in the first place

[rancid path]

Yes

This is interesting though

Can I use textures of different resolutions?

[jaunty pebble]

using (new ProfilingScope(cmd, profilingSampler))
{
    if (requiresColor)
    {
        // For some reason BlitCameraTexture(cmd, dest, dest) scenario (as with before transparents effects) blitter fails to correctly blit the data
        // Sometimes it copies only one effect out of two, sometimes second, sometimes data is invalid (as if sampling failed?).
        // Adding RTHandle in between solves this issue.
        var source = isBeforeTransparents ? cameraData.renderer.GetCameraColorBackBuffer(cmd) : cameraData.renderer.cameraColorTargetHandle;

        Blitter.BlitCameraTexture(cmd, source, copiedColor);
        passMaterial.SetTexture(m_BlitTextureShaderID, copiedColor);
    }

    CoreUtils.SetRenderTarget(cmd, cameraData.renderer.GetCameraColorBackBuffer(cmd));
    CoreUtils.DrawFullScreen(cmd, passMaterial);
    context.ExecuteCommandBuffer(cmd);
    cmd.Clear();
}```

this comes from the FullscreenpassrendererFeature.cs

it's the part that does the actual blit transfer

[jaunty pebble]

yes!

it will upscale/downscale, using the Filtermode setting specified by your render texture

[rancid path]

Thats interesting

Because DLSS requires for some textures to have the same resolution

[jaunty pebble]

blitting does not involve any 3D operations (as opposed to older legacy operations that drew a fullscreen quad

[rancid path]

And not being able to resize a RenderTexture was an issue

[jaunty pebble]

and blitting is a very basic (but frequently used) operation for copying information from one texture to another, sometimes applying a fragment shader in the process

[jaunty pebble]

There are provisions for getting a temporary render texture from the pipeline that is automatically sized to match the viewport / rendertexture that the camera is targeted to

[rancid path]

My fix to the resolution issue was something like that

Creating intermediate render textures

[jaunty pebble]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rendering.CommandBuffer.html

[rancid path]

Oh, so with this I dont have to create one?

[jaunty pebble]

correct

[rancid path]

I get the one I need and copy it with the Blit to the DLSS texture list?

[jaunty pebble]

I recommend looking at FullScreenPassRendererFeature.cs (which comes with Unity) for an example of Blit

also look at CustomPostProcess.cs which has some instances of GetTemporaryRT

[jaunty pebble]

yeah looks like it

with the fullscreenpassrendererfeature code I posted above:
var source = isBeforeTransparents ? cameraData.renderer.GetCameraColorBackBuffer(cmd) : cameraData.renderer.cameraColorTargetHandle;

that will get you the viewport rendertexture (or RTHandle) which probably has a depth channel already inside it

renderingData.cameraData.renderer.cameraDepthTargetHandle

use that! That's the RTHandle for depth (and blur!)

@rancid path

you probably don't even need shaders OR blitting. Maybe all you need to do is send that off to DLSS.

[kind harbor]

Presume you mean make them sharper? Looks like your shadow resolution is too low. Thread here:
https://forum.unity.com/threads/how-to-make-a-better-shadow-quality.1136731/

[ivory prism]

I'm getting some really awful banding after rendering to a render texture and putting it through to another camera
HDR is enabled, dithering is enabled

Post processing is off

Here are my URP settings

I tried looking at the render texture settings and the only thing i can think of is the color channels, but theres like 80 options and i dont know what any of them mean

changing the colorspace to gamma fixed it...
with the cost that my game is now in gammaspace..

now theres no color banding but it looks gray and washed out

just to confirm i swapped back to linear, and yep, still there

welp by pure luck i chose the right color format for the render texture thanks guys

[marble salmon]

For particles what is more performant in project that uses URP:

1. LegacyShaders/Particles/Additive
2. URP/Particles/Unlit
   ?

[sinful gorge]

Try both with 10k particles and run the profiler with GPU profiling enabled (or just check GPU frametime)

[marble salmon]

Testing my self would be great, but then I would need to test it on multiple platforms, webgl and etc. That would take quite some time to build it prepare and etc. That's why I asked in discord, so maybe who already spend that time would be so nice and share their knowledge. Is it lazy approach? yes. But at the same time maybe someone knows something I dont.

[modest horizon]

I would need to test it on multiple platforms, webgl and etc
Why not just test it on your target platform?

[soft lion]

Id imagine one platform would be enough to give some estimate. Id just maximize the amount the particles cover from the screen and test it on one

[sinful gorge]

I would recommend to test both on a mobile device and desktop device to see the difference between mobile/tiled GPUs and desktop GPUs, as these can differ in performance wildly

But yeah you don't have to test all platforms

[marble salmon]

WebGL profiling on PC and Mobile gives totally different results. Also GPU profiling and some other information is not accesable on webgl. And you cant even profile it on WebGL mobile. It is really pain in the ass... I just want easy apporach asking for others. I guess I will need to build that HTTP developer build, create interface to spawn particles and in msot cases create new project for testing only.. Thanks guys

[terse ledge]

Why my object's color doesn't change after I set it?

public void Paint()
        {
            _meshRenderer = transform.GetChild(0).GetComponent<MeshRenderer>();
            Material material = new Material(Shader.Find("Universal Render Pipeline/Lit"))
            {
                name = "HexMat"
            };
            _meshRenderer.sharedMaterial = material;
            _meshRenderer.sharedMaterial.SetColor(BaseColor, _baseColorMapper[type]);
        }

This function will called after the object instantiates

The inspector can show the color, but the object is white

[glossy lake]

The green color in the inspector is not the object's color, it's what's selected in the color picker

You'll have to show how _baseColorMapper is defined, I'm guessing this is another Color/Color32 mixup

[terse ledge]

That color picker is that object's, if I click it, the color changes

[glossy lake]

Yup, that's how color pickers work but it's not really relevant to your problem

[terse ledge]

private readonly Dictionary<HexType, Color> _baseColorMapper = new()
        {
            { HexType.Grass, new Color(0x89, 0xF0, 0x73) },
            { HexType.Water, new Color(0x5F, 0xC6, 0xEF) },
            { HexType.SnowCovered, new Color(0x1E, 0x1E, 0x1E) }
        };

the Color here is UnityEngine's

[glossy lake]

Right, Color takes values between 0 and 1. If you want to use 0-255 you have to use Color32

[terse ledge]

Ah! I forget that, thanks for your help

[stiff knoll]

hello

i have been trying to animate the Opacity property of a URP Decal Projector but it just doesnt work
the slider for opacity moves thanks to the animation

but visually there are no changes

[sinful gorge]

Is the material set to transparent? (been a while since I used decals, so might be completely off)

[stiff knoll]

no that isnt the option with the material

opacity option otherwise works, i cant animate it

[marble vigil]

Your RT texture needs a higher bit depth

[sinful gorge]

Ahh I see
Maybe you have to directly change the material alpha?

This property lets you specify the opacity value. A value of 0 makes the decal fully transparent, a value of 1 makes the decal as opaque as defined by the Material.

[stiff knoll]

the material only has these 3 options,
the Opacity is in the URP Decal Rpojector

they are blue cus they are animated, and i am in the animation preview

[kind harbor]

I would guess that it needs to apply the opacity as a parameter to the decal shader, and that is done by the editor when you move the slider but not when it's animated.

[stiff knoll]

it has come to my attention that nothing in the URP Decal Projector can be animated, not just opacity

the values change but are not updated in scene

[kind harbor]

Probably same reason. All these settings are on the script component, but need to be copied into the material to take effect.

[stiff knoll]

i cant rly animate any properties of the material, and i am using Unity URP Decal Material
probably will have to try make my own

[kind harbor]

If the C# is exposed you can probably find a function where the mtl is updated and call it yourself. If not you're going to have trouble :/

[soft lion]

I guess no one have tested that specifically here. Unlit shaders for particles are really really simple tho (looking at the source code, the built in particle shader for example just outputs the main texture multiplied by vertex color and tint property and applies fog + deals with particle fading in case soft particles are enabled). id assume the difference between those two is very negligible, if something, the urp one could be slightly faster because it supports SRP batcher but because theres propably not many particle systems at the same time, it may not matter that much.

[ivory prism]

idk what that means

I mean I kind of do but I don't know how or what to change it to

[marble vigil]

Try this color format

[marble salmon]

Could anyone help me with where should I start? Pipeline is URP. Effect that I want to get is:
Lets they there is a sphere, I want to use invisible plane or cube, which when moving on top of the sphere would dissolve it, or make sphere invisible. Invisibility should be gradual, not just enabling disabling renderer.

I found how to make edge lines or show game objects behind objects, dissolving by coordinate and etc, but that is bit opposite that I want to achieve. If that object would have one material, I could just hack the way and feed coordinates and dissolve it, but that will limit objects I can use this effect on.
Effect I trying to make is similar to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFC_UzknThY

Anyone could guide me with key words I should be searching for?

[jolly quail]

found bug where UI wont render when i use opngl and enable MSAA in VR (unity 2020.3)

did anybody experience this?

[sinful gorge]

Are you in the latest 2020.3 version?

[jolly quail]

yes

oh wait

is the lates 2020.3.3f1?

[jolly quail]

let me check it first

[sinful gorge]

No, there are more than 40 new versions @jolly quail

Get .48f1

[jolly quail]

oh, yeah you are right the latest is .48

thanks, will do

[frigid willow]

how do I control sprite sort order inside a URP project?

(this is for a 3D urp project where we recently added sprites into the 3D scene for performance reasons to replace other things we used to have)

[haughty garnet]

sorting group -> sorting order -> pivot relativity

[frigid willow]

thanks Mao.., but where do I find that then? Project settings?

[frigid willow]

writing a response like this so I get your attention in a better way 🙂

[haughty garnet]

They are on the sprite renderer itself

[frigid willow]

ah right.., so how do I set the sort axis then? I'm used to that being a separate vector I can tweak

[haughty garnet]

If you're doing something isometric though, you want to sort pivots by the bottom usually, otherwise change the transparency sorting axis to x:0, y:1, z:0 in the project settings

[frigid willow]

thing is there doesn't seem to be a sort axis setting anymore when using URP?

I'm not sure if I'm missing something basic though.., how do I check if a project is using URP? (I'm pretty convinced that's what we're using.., the one where you can set up your own scriptable render pipeline)

[haughty garnet]

Project Settings -> Graphics

[frigid willow]

yeah.., no such thing in there

[haughty garnet]

oh yeah they moved it I didnt know that

[frigid willow]

I'm not supposed to program my own in the render pipeline script then?

kinda feels like it hehe

[haughty garnet]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/graphics-custom-axis-for-universal-render-pipleline.808254/#post-5368344

setting the pivots to the bottom of the sprites and sorting by pivots works fine too via spriterenderer

[marble vigil]

Darn I really wish that wasn't another baseline feature locked behind the URP 2D renderer

[vocal topaz]

So, i'm using a srp from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8xB7i3W4CE in URP version 13.8.1, and the tutorial is on 7.3.1. Since i can't downgade my URP verrsion to that one (I'm using unity 2022.1.16f1) , i'm using another one.

I'm getting this warning, beacause the _CameraColorTexture Texture isn't creating.

CommandBuffer: temporary render texture _CameraColorTexture not found while executing BasicFeature (SetRenderTarget)
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

How can i fix this?

[jolly quail]

hi, if i already bake light and doesnt have real time light, does it matter whether i use baking lit material or lit material, or did lit is more expensive than baked lit?

[marble vigil]

Iirc baked lit shader only uses the lightmap so it's cheaper

[jolly quail]

ah ok,thanks for the info

[vocal topaz]

Anybody knows?, in version 2019.4.1f1 works.

[arctic parcel]

I have a 2D Freeform Light configured with Overlap Operation to Alpha Blend and color to black. In the Scene View and when I run the game the light it's good, but whenever I leave the scene and enter again the light just disappears. It's in the hierarchy but it's just invisible in the game view. Anyone has an idea of why it's happening?

[marble vigil]

I've seen the same problem reported a few times but with no follow up solutions
Does it seem there's anything you can do to prod at the problem when it occurs? Such as enabling/disabling the light, changing its target sorting layer or transform position during Play mode

[arctic parcel]

If I enable and disable the light, it shows up again. Though this only happens with freeform light, if I use a Spot light, with the same configuration, it doesn't happen, which is weird.

I'll just use the spot light instead

[marble vigil]

Could be a bug
I'd try to make a repro case to file a report
The 2D lighting system isn't known to be very robust

@arctic parcel Could be worth checking if the problem persists in build
A workaround might be to enable and disable the light via script when it loads in on scene change

[vocal topaz]

som1?

[marble vigil]

URP has changed rapidly since that, I'd simply recommend you upgrade your project (with all appropriate precautions) and find up to date tutorials
I doubt anyone here is familiar with an old tutorial that likely was relevant only for a short while

[vocal topaz]

It's like it wasn't creating the texture. I suppose there is a line to create it right?

[dusky tiger]

I updated to URP can someone please tell me why this is happening?

[marble vigil]

I think your sky has no valid material, or your camera's background type is uninitialized

[split pier]

Can I blend lit and unlit materials in shader graph? I've made a shader allowing switching between two unlit colors for a pulse effect, which I want to apply onto a lit material. However, using the Emission property results in an unwanted color mix with lit material. I need the pulses to retain their exact color.

[marble vigil]

No
A mesh can have only one material/shader

[split pier]

Is there any other way to overlay a solid color onto it?

[marble vigil]

I would try changing the Emission color of the lit material as you said you did
What was the problem with the result that way?

The Emission property is basically what an unlit material is

[split pier]

It only works as intended for pure white. If, for example, I wanted it to be grey, it would just make it a little brighter. If it was red, it would just increase the R channel. If I wanted a black pulse, it would do nothing at all.

I'd like to have the solid color.

I might be able to do some shenanigans by setting the lit material to pure black when I do it

It looks like a metalic factor of 1 + no color makes it pure black

[marble vigil]

That is an option if you have the patience to control all those properties manually
Note that modifying material properties from code creates a material instance which is not automatically destroyed from memory even if the object is

[split pier]

I am modifying the asset directly

[marble vigil]

Then it's not a problem

[dusky tiger]

Oh yeah the skybox somehow doesnt apply correctly? It should tho. The material has no error and the skybox is set in settings

[half ridge]

Anyone ever work with DrawingSettings.overrideMaterial? is there a way to copy original material properties to the override material?

[marble vigil]

Checked camera's background as well?
I'd try setting skybox material to Default-Skybox to see if it helps

Also if you have multiple cameras, disable all but one

[dusky tiger]

I have all Cameras Disabled except for the main camera

Setting it to anything will make the background remain black

Oh

i just read

Skybox is not supported by 2D Renderer

How sad

[marble vigil]

Oh, 2D renderer
Barely anything is supported on that

[dry willow]

There's also DrawingSettings.overrideShader (in 2022.2+ iirc?) which keeps properties. Though it doesn't work with the SRP batcher currently, so is more expensive to render.

[half ridge]

Yeah that's the main issue why i'm testing overridematerial. Kinda sucks that override shader doesn't support srp batcher

[dusky tiger]

Quite Sad Actually.

[marble vigil]

Basically anything that isn't explicitly a 2D component, shader or rendering feature is no longer a thing in it, unlike Built-in render pipeline which can combine 3D and 2D features without any limits
I can't imagine why they made it that way

[gritty void]

do anchor overrides for reflection probes work for anyone in forward+?

[placid marsh]

does someone know how i can fix those black lines in my game? they are like everywhere randomly

[jolly quail]

using SRP increased my batches instead, is it ok to disable it?

[marble vigil]

Ok to disable what?
SRP batching doesn't reduce the number of batches, but reduces their cost
It's almost always more performant to have many batches with SRP batching than to try to reduce batches using other batching methods instead

But if you're unsure, profile the build performance and compare different batching techniques

[jolly quail]

yeah just figured it hour ago, thank for the clarification tho

[half ridge]

Oh,i find a way to render custom pass with SRP batcher without having to override Shader or Material. Bit Clunky tho but it works 😬

[daring light]

How do I get my polygons to look more like this? The individual poly being discernible and just... Nicer!! Mine appear smoothed and... Weird!

(First one is blender, second is my Unity)

They're both 3D...

[fringe lotus]

Switched to Forward+.. it's absolutely beautiful.. Anyone have any idea why everything would flicker like crazy?

[midnight oar]

How am i supposed to include "Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal/ShaderLibrary/Lighting.hlsl" in a .shader file?
If i include this i get several redefinitions errors

[soft lion]

Is there something special about those flickering objects or do everything flicker equally? Do all of them use custom shaders for example?

[soft lion]

What shader are you using in unity? If the default lit shader/material, its probably the lighting thats messed up

[daring light]

It was actually the fact that I was missing UV!

I made a triangle from code

I extruded it downwards

most of the UVs are perfect

And then there is this one...

How could I fix it?

public Mesh createMesh(List<Vector3> vertices, float thiccness, float offset)
{
    Mesh mesh = new Mesh();
    float topHeight = thiccness * (offset+1);
    float botHeight = thiccness * offset;
    //Set the vertices
    Vector3[] meshVertices = new Vector3[6];
    meshVertices[0] = vertices[idA] * topHeight;
    meshVertices[1] = vertices[idB] * topHeight;
    meshVertices[2] = vertices[idC] * topHeight;
    meshVertices[3] = vertices[idA] * botHeight;
    meshVertices[4] = vertices[idB] * botHeight;
    meshVertices[5] = vertices[idC] * botHeight;
    mesh.vertices = meshVertices;
    //Set the triangles
    int[] triangles = new int[3*8]
    {
        0, 1, 2,    //Top
        0, 2, 3,    //AC Top
        5, 3, 2,    //AC Bot
        4, 1, 0,    //AB Top
        0, 3, 4,    //AB Bot
        5, 2, 1,    //BC Top
        1, 4, 5,    //BC Bot
        5, 4, 3     //Bot
    };
    mesh.triangles = triangles;
    
    // Set the UV coordinates
    Vector2[] uv = new Vector2[6];
    uv[0] = new Vector2(0, 1);
    uv[1] = new Vector2(1, 1);
    uv[2] = new Vector2(0, 0);
    uv[3] = new Vector2(0, 0);
    uv[4] = new Vector2(1, 0);
    uv[5] = new Vector2(0, 1);
    mesh.uv = uv;
    //Calculate normals (optional)
    // mesh.RecalculateNormals();
    // Return the created mesh
    return mesh;
}

Here's the code I used!

[fringe lotus]

Everything flickers. Except the skybox. They all mostly use amplify shader editor. I even detached all of the nodes of one of the shaders and it still didn't fix it.

[soft lion]

But does the default shaders work? It may be that amplify doesnt support forward+

[ebon bramble]

Uh... is this normal? I'm on Unity URP 2022.3.2

Only happens when going into a prefab from the scene

Found the reason of this bug, this error is triggered by post process button

[narrow venture]

I'm working on some assets to import into someone else's mobile game, and I'd like to know which texture format would use the least VRAM on a Quest (2) for a normal map.

not asking about png or what not I'm asking about etc2, dxt1, and such. Import settings.

[jolly quail]

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

[jolly quail]

so, i already test it up to newer version of 2021LTS,and the UI still didnt render when using MSAA and opengles3, and when i using vulkan the performance is very bad,some people write in unity forum that by disabling opaque texture it will fix the issue, and this was from very old forum,cant belive this bug still exist (UI didnt even have image component and diidnt have any costume shader)

*confirmed, diasbling opaque fix the UI didnt render

[sinful gorge]

Interesting. Is the bug already reported on the issue tracker?

[jolly quail]

i believe so,here is the forum link : https://forum.unity.com/threads/lwrp-ui-not-displayed-on-oculus-quest.697922/

and i just submit too, thought they still didnt review it yet

[sinful gorge]

Thanks for reporting!

[jolly quail]

[cerulean viper]

where did the option for the pipline asset go ?

sorry its right there

[last snow]

https://i.gyazo.com/ca50c7899a6c5f0c6b6bc9250ac7537a.mp4

How do i fix the 2d sprite sorting issues in a 3d world??

[marble vigil]

What sorting methods are you using for the character's parts?

[last snow]

they have sorting orders set, but these sorting orders cause overlapping with the other characters that use the same or higher values, even though theyre much further away from the camera

[marble vigil]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/2DSorting.html Looking here you can see distance from camera is the lowest priority sorting method, but also the only one that works in 3D
The sprites must be in the same sorting layer and have the same order in layer and render queue so that distance sorting can work

You should be able to use Sorting Group component to internally sort the parts per character without losing ability to sort them by distance to camera

[last snow]

Oh good call!, its like the opposite way

i'll try that

[last snow]

"Sorting Group" is where exactly?

[marble vigil]

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

[last snow]

Thanks!

Think it still has the same issue edit: or maybe i set it up wrong

It works! Thank you so much

[tight elk]

Hello peeps. Why does my sofa look so shiny?

• I made the textures using Substance Painter
• I exported using Unity URP Metallic
• I marked my normal map as normal map
• I marked my Metallic/Smoothness as non-sRGB

[placid marsh]

Does someone know what pixels of my pixel art change when placed in the game? the top of this fence for example, is supossed to look like the second picture, but changed when placed in game

[placid marsh]

Basically they deform in game vieuw but not in scene view

[jolly quail]

did anyone know where can i get these costume version of URP from oculus is?

[cinder kindle]

Follow the developer guide https://developer.oculus.com/documentation/unity/unity-asw/

[red tartan]

Hello everyone, just today I started a new project on 2022.3.2f1 with URP
And the editor runs at an horrible frame rate, If I put my game view in "Full HD" with an empty scene, I can't reach 40 fps, on free aspect it goes to 65 max (and that is with vsync off)
I tried to look at cpu and gpu usage, cpu usage is less than 25% and GPU usage goes all the way up to 95% when I hit play or move around the scene in editor, that's terrible performance with an empty scene, it's kind of impossible to work
The scene view laggs...
My specs:
Ryzen 7 5800X
Radeon RX 6800
32 GB Ram
850W PSU
And a MSI dual vents AIO watercooler
Everything works fine in built-in
Do you guys have any idea where does that URP terrible performance comes from?
All my graphics driver are up to date

[misty turtle]

Hi, i was using materialpropertyblock. but now I have to test performance using srpbatcher that isn't compatible with materialpropertyblock. I imagine that I have to clear the current propertyblock to makes srpbatcher works, how to?

[eternal geyser]

Anyone have any guesses why my water shader looks different (neither of them right) in scene and game views? The colour should vary according to the a depth texture, but instead it's full deep in the game view and full shallow in the scene view. It works correctly in another scene and turning off post processing has no effect, so I'm not sure what could be the reason it's not working as it should.

[sinful gorge]

On git there also are repos with updated URP versions if you want to use app sw

[sinful gorge]

Disable SSAO, that will probably go a long way.
Otherwise share all your URP and quality settings you use

[mortal jolt]

Hi so i enjoyed making visual effect based on YouTube tutorials. Thing is that there's very few kf them and far few of what i want to creste is there. I wanna learn it, nit buy it. Is there any good resource for learning visual effects and shaders

[red tartan]

Disabling SSAO doubled my framerate but how can it be that demanding on a near empty scene o_o

[sinful gorge]

Since its a screen space effect the calculations always happen, so changing scene content does not change it that much (i think?)
There are many more urp settings you can tune if you want to use ssao

[red tartan]

Mmmh I see, gonna have to dive into that then

[sinful gorge]

For shader graph there are plenty YouTube tutorials. Start with a simple shader with base texture and normal textures as input and then move to more complex shaders.

For vfx graph there are a bit fewer tutorials on YouTube, but there still are some. And there are sample vfx assets online you can take a look at

[solar coral]

I don't know if this belongs here or in #archived-shaders or somewhere else... but I'm getting odd behaviour with z ordered alpha... I don't know how to describe it, but it is like it is doing alpha correctly below, but incorrectly above... Does that make sense?

here is what it looks like in game view with orthographic camera (and sprite size increased)

[thorn rampart]

Im having an issue with decals in urp, when I use the dbuffer technique it works perfectly fine and I can modify the base color and everything, but when I switch it to screen space it’s just white and I can’t change anything in the shader??

I need to use the screen space method because the dbuffer method doesn’t render on mobile

screenspace:

dbuffer:

okay so with screenspace i can modify alpha but not base color?? seriously please help

oh and it works fine in deferred but not forward

ohhh so the base color is being overidden by light probes

everything i found on this says update unity, so im going from 2021.3.27 to 2021.3.28 , i cant use 2022 because mirror doesnt support that version yet

[thorn rampart]

unity version wont install, so im resorting back to google, please please please if you know the issue help

[mortal tiger]

Is there any one with another URP shader knowledge that could make a deformation shader for me as a commission?

[marble vigil]

!collab

[past cape]

📢 Collaborating and Job Posting

We do not accept job or collab posts on discord.
Please use the forums:
• Commercial Job Seeking
• Commercial Job Offering
• Non Commercial Collaboration

[dusk orbit]

Hello, I really stuck at finding on how I can render my UI Images ontop of everything regardless the hierachy position.

[marble vigil]

You mean on top of everything relative to other UI images or relative to non-canvas gameobjects?

[dusk orbit]

Other UI Images in canvas, screen space overlay

Some googled solutions give shader code but it not working, so I thought it might be URP prob.

[marble vigil]

As far as I know canvas objects are always sorted by hierarchy
You can use multiple canvases though, and sometimes it's good to

[dusk orbit]

For this situation this aren't applicable.

[marble vigil]

What kind of situation is it?

[dusk orbit]

I don't know how to explain in text, maybe if you're interested in helping me a call would be a great help?

[marble vigil]

Sorry no
I'd try explaining the problem in #📲┃ui-ux even if it may seem difficult
There's more knowledgeable people there about this kind of stuff

[kindred plume]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/characters/humanoids/3d-wizard-238212

I found this character. It says it's not compatible with URP. Only Built-In. Is there no way to make it work?

[marble vigil]

What that means is that it doesn't come with URP compatible shaders
You can make your own, or even convert it automatically if it uses built-in render pipeline's standard shaders

[fast coral]

anyone here with BRG knowledge/experience?

I'm wondering if BatchDrawCommands are sorted amongst themselves. Basically, do I create 1 BatchDrawCommand for each transparent object, or 1 for each transparent material/mesh set. For opaque I can do per set, but per set doesn't seem to work for transparent

[jolly quail]

hi, i want to turn off bloom, in runtime, but whenever i tried this it always throwing error (i am using 2020.3.3, URP 10)

whups,nvm, turn out it because i have post processing package on my URP project and prob it clashed between each others? idk

nvm i take it back

still error

[cyan talon]

Have you made your own type called Bloom?

[jolly quail]

uh, you mean in the inspector?sorry i didnt quite understand

[cyan talon]

No, a class you made yourself

[jolly quail]

oh,do i need to do that? because this tutorial that i following didnt do that :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7zg3JhLhI8 (3:31)

[cyan talon]

No, if you did that it would be the error you are seeing

[jolly quail]

oh

yeah, i didnt creat that, wait let me check first

whups

yeah there it is

lol, thanks for the help

[neon dove]

Hello ! Does somebody know if the 2D Renderer of URP is fully compatible with Nintendo Switch ? While it's part of the URP, I presume it is but I would like a confirmation before starting working with it

[cinder crown]

Console related stuff should better be asked in Nintendo developer portal or Sony devnet than a public discord sir.

[zenith dirge]

Will the HDRP water system ever be supported for URP?

[jolly quail]

for right now? no it wont, probably we need to wait quite loong time

[sinful gorge]

You gotta make water using frag and vertex shaders instead. Hdrp water relies too much on compute shaders @zenith dirge

[glass gorge]

compute shaders work fine in URP

theyre not porting the water because they dont work on all mobile devices, so people using URP for pc or consoles dont get toplay with the nice things either 😦

[hybrid tundra]

Could these lines between tiles be related to URP? I read somewhere that it has something to do with ambient occlusion, but upon disabling it, nothing changed.
I also tried playing around with texture settings and occlusion culling, but to no avail. I feel like making minecraft-style culling where you can only see the faces you need to see would fix it, but i have no idea where to start

Oh, and this only appears in the Game window, you can't see it in the scene itself

These are the settings for the dirt and water textures

oo nvm i fixed it, the problem was that i had everything in one texture for the objects

[bleak cave]

Why does it take so many CPU time (~20.0ms)?
It takes only 35 batches!

[marble vigil]

You can use the profiler to figure out what the CPU is doing
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/profiler-profiling-applications.html

[mortal furnace]

Hello! Anybody know real production state games which uses 2D URP as is?

[vague gale]

how can i add an additional renderer to specifiy for cameras?
my idea is to add a different renderer to the top most camera on the camera stack.

[sinful gorge]

Have different renderer files?

[vague gale]

i have

but they don't apear in the selection

where do i have to reference them ?

[vague gale]

but i think i have an other solution now without an additional renderer. would be still nice to be able to specify different renderers tho

[low oracle]

Why does my game look almost deepfried in the game view in comparison to the normal looking scene-view?

[sinful gorge]

Which unity version?
Any post processing?

[low oracle]

2021.3 using the default settings

well

except for the skybox

[sinful gorge]

Maybe they need to be in a quality tier?

[low oracle]

but changing to normal doesnt change it

[sinful gorge]

Latest 2021.3 version?
And any post processing? Look for the volume in the scene for it

[vague gale]

they are 😄

[low oracle]

deleting the volume didn't change anything, but i updated to 2023 and it seems fine now so 🤷‍♂️ fixed i guess

[sinful gorge]

Hmm weird, then I'm not sure. If you need it maybe post on the forums?
And make sure unity etc is up to date with all bugfixes

[sinful gorge]

Interesting, but nice

[empty grove]

Its the camera

Well probably was

[placid laurel]

Hi folks: Getting some wonky results in Unity -- this is supposed to be a log wall -- I know the diffuse is off -- I'll fix that later -- the results from the normal look odd to me:

heres my normal map

im very new to URP, so it would not suprise me I have something set up wrong

heres a screen shot from blender where I created the model and baked the maps

[placid laurel]

ok, fixed -- still looks wonky

@marble vigil

[marble vigil]

Your normal map itself is wonky as well

[placid laurel]

Ya, I thought it looked funny -- I just did a straight up bake in blender

heres the model it was baked from

[marble vigil]

Probably not correctly

[placid laurel]

LOL -- ya probably not

[marble vigil]

Remember to set color space to non-color when baking

Your normal map doesn't have uniform reflections, which becomes apparent when you line it up with a rotated version of itself

[placid laurel]

huh -- how did i manage to cause that?

@marble vigil im trying reconfiguring the model a bit to get rid of some hidden faces and gonna try re-baking the maps

[main canyon]

i finally found why 2022 LTS is leaking memory. It was because I set rendering path to Forward+ in URP asset

[copper pilot]

That's still 4.2 million tris.

[copper pilot]

It could be shadow bias settings.

[final crater]

Why are my point light shadows so jagged

[plain kayak]

is there a way to force pixel light count above 8 or am i gonna need to divide the floor up even more?

[bleak cave]

That's not so much.

Really.

It shouldn't take so much CPU time when I use DX12.

[worldly goblet]

i made a new urp project to test smth but for some reason i cant move or use probuilder etc?

[lunar bloom]

How can I get realtime shadows on moving objects in URP?

Like viewmodels or balls rolling

[lunar bloom]

You've tried restarting right?

[lunar bloom]

In general my imported objects seem weird colour when compared to other software like blender / unreal

[worldly goblet]

i was in the game view instead of scene xD

fixed it anyways thanks

[marble vigil]

If shadows are enabled on lights and meshes then they should be casting shadows

[lunar bloom]

Sorry I may not have explained myself well

I meant shadows cast onto these moving objects

I don't need them to shadow each other but having shadows from the environment would be great

I don't want my stuff looking worse than games from like 2004

[marble vigil]

Anything with a Lit shader receives shadows, and casts them as well if Cast Shadows is on in the mesh renderer
There isn't particularly anything you must "do" to achieve that
Even by creating default cube gameobjects into a new basic scene should you be seeing shadows being cast from the cubes onto each other

[lunar bloom]

Hm, I'm using the VR template

So it might be disabled from optimization?

Unsure

All the objects seem like they aren't getting shadows from like directional light or anything

they just sort of blend they're entire shading between light probes

[marble vigil]

Likely; shadow casting is expensive
You could have a look at shadow casting settings on lights, meshes and project quality settings as well as check what shaders they're using

Or fully rely on baked lights with light probes and reflection probes for lighting, though you won't get any projected shadows that way

[lunar bloom]

Yeah that would kind of suck

From what I can tell this is pretty solid

As is this

[marble vigil]

This all looks correct
The quality settings (URP asset in this case) will have more shadow options

[lunar bloom]

From what I can tell the quality urp config has the same options, unless I misunderstood sorry

[marble vigil]

Ah that above image was from the URP asset
I'd check the lights themselves as well
The Project Settings>Quality tab tells you what URP assets you're using and what your target platforms are using, and may provide some more clues
Besides that I don't have really ideas
Maybe it's some template thing I'm not aware of

[lunar bloom]

Hard to get a good screenshot but yeah no casting or receiving it just looks so bad

Do I need to set it to mixed or something?

[lunar bloom]

Okay setting things to mixed gives ground shadows

But shadows from other objects dont cast onto my moving objects 😦

[worldly goblet]

how do i make it less bright? cant see anything xD

[lunar bloom]

if your scene is white, that won't help.

But turn your directional light brightness down and maybe change its color

[worldly goblet]

brought the intensity to 0,7, looks alright

hmm nvm it doesnt

[lunar bloom]

Feel free to show again, focus on your light

[worldly goblet]

idk it feels weird

[lunar bloom]

Looks like a white scene would to me

[worldly goblet]

hmm alright then, thanks!

[lunar bloom]

Recommend turning your lower layers brown, helps you keep reference of realism

[worldly goblet]

lower layers? wym?

[lunar bloom]

as in further down those hills

if you're not used to seeing a lot of snow I can see hopw that might look weird to you

[worldly goblet]

you mean something like that?

[lunar bloom]

Honestly it doesnt matter haha my main point is it's hard to judge lighting stuff with hard blacks and whites

[worldly goblet]

xD alr tysm!

[lunar bloom]

np

[marble vigil]

Lighting and visual brightness of a scene are affected by:
-Light components' color and intensity
-Scene environmental lighting including ambient lighting and cubemap reflections
-Post processing volume overrides such as tonemapping, post exposure and bloom
-Project color space and HDR quality settings
And of course material properties

[worldly goblet]

Thank you!

[tall mica]

Hey guys, I'm pretty new to unity and I have a weird problem. I'm participating in a local game jam right now so I've been experimenting with shaders and assets in my own project (3D URP) however my team used just 3D when creating the main project so we've been trying to make it URP compatible. It should work now, but when I try to import a water asset that works fine in my project it breaks in the main project. Anyone have any ideas as to why?

[lunar bloom]

Shaders are different, check the materials etc

I'm also still having an issue getting non-static objects to receive shadows in my scene

[tall mica]

Not sure what to do if the shaders are different or materials don't work

[hidden pawn]

how to fix image pixelated in unity canva ui? so i make vr ui in unity and using ui image. but the image is pixelated.

[slate spade]

My high setting for my urp game gets my 3080's GPU usage to 50% just sitting in the menu with vsync on. What are some common things I could tone down or look at to lower this a bit without affecting the graphics fidelity of the game much?

[sacred gale]

not exactly sure is this is the right place to put this, but I have been making some basic 2d tilemaps and I created a shadergraph which just applies some pixelated noise to the base color, yet for some reason this appears to break the rendering of the tilemap.

the same problem appears by simply creating a sprite lit shader graph, making a material from it, and applying said material

any ideas on how I can use materials with tilemaps

[lunar bloom]

Would be good if you could show or describe your main menu

If it's a 3D scene main menu with is pretty popular these days, it'll obviously depend on that

[marble vigil]

You could show the shader graph

[sacred gale]

it works with any shader graph

like you can just make a new sprite-lit shadergraph

make a material from it

and apply it

and then it breaks

[marble vigil]

According to your description you're applying noise to base color, which seems to imply you're not utilizing the base texture at all and the result is consistent with that
That's why I want to see your node setup

[sacred gale]

I mean the issue isnt the node setup I think

since the issue is still the same when using a blank shader graph

[marble vigil]

Can you please show the nodes

[sacred gale]

I mean I can go open unity and make an empty one if you want

[marble vigil]

An empty one doesn't have the required nodes for displaying sprite textures

[sacred gale]

all I am trying to do is apply a material to a tilemap, and yet for some reason it seems to be different than doing it with anything else

tbf I am also very very new to using shaders and materials

[marble vigil]

I'd have preferred to advise where exactly you need to put them but with this info I can only tell you that you need to utilize the _MainTex property

[sacred gale]

I am not really sure what other info you would need to be honest

the result appears to be that it is overwriting the sprites with the base color

and all you need to do to replicate it is make a tile map with some tiles in it, make a new urp sprite-lit shader graph, make a material from it, and apply the material to the tilemap

actually, this extends not just to tilemaps

[marble vigil]

Sprite Renderer uses the _MainTex property for the sprite texture reference
Sprite Graphs do not utilize it by default, so you need to create that property yourself and use it in your graph

[sacred gale]

hmm

this appears to basically solve it

[marble vigil]

Indeed

[sacred gale]

will do some further testing to be sure, but thank you

[marble vigil]

I can give more pointed advice if you can describe how you want to apply the noise and show the node setup you had for the earlier example
But generally just need to combine the MainTex with your noise and optionally with BaseColor

[sacred gale]

For my purposes taking in _MainTex as a texture2d, sampling it, and multiplying that with the desired effects was enough to work

So I do thank you

[marble vigil]

I should've said to do that a lot earlier, but I assumed it wasn't working despite you doing that so I wanted to see the nodes to confirm what we were working with

[flat escarp]

does anyone know what causes these weird concentrated patches of light that appear when baking lightmaps?

[marble vigil]

Always first rule out UV overlap issues using the debug scene draw view modes (as well as other problems using the debug view modes)
Beyond that it looks like it could be "fireflies" as in chapter 14 here
https://forum.unity.com/threads/lightmapping-troubleshooting-guide.1340936/

[flat escarp]

Thank you

[last eagle]

hmm any ideas why i'm getting this error?

okay the error seems to be only in the editor

[tepid turtle]

Hello, I am new to using URP and I could use some help

[last eagle]

what's up?

[tepid turtle]

I am trying to import some 3d models I made in Blender, but my materials aren't showing properly

But I am not getting pink materials like others said

It worked just fine in SRP, so I am a little confused to how I can fix that

[marble vigil]

What's the material like in blender

URP and HDRP are SRPs aka scriptable render pipelines

[tepid turtle]

@marble vigil Sorry for the late reply, but what am I looking for in the materials exactly?

(This is the other material for the remote)

[marble vigil]

That's what I wanted to see, just to confirm your blender materials weren't incompatible with unity
Previously it looked like the embedded materials weren't imported with the mesh which should happen regardless of render pipeline
That's not a big problem though because you'll usually always want to make new materials anyway, as the fbx format doesn't seem to store material properties in any kind of accurate way

[tepid turtle]

Does that mean there's nothing I can really do to fix the problem?

[tepid turtle]

I mean no way other than making new materials for the model when I import it to Unity

[marble vigil]

Actually I think the materials were imported now that I'm looking at it again, just that they're missing textures
If you place the textures used in Assets/Textures/ folder in your unity project, they should connect automatically to the embedded materials

If that works you should also be able to use the "Extract Materials..." button to place them in your materials folder while keeping the references, and then be able to edit them if their properties are not correct

[tepid turtle]

I got the issue fixed now after I had set the base map to its texture, thanks!

Although, it looks a little darker and a little glowy than when I put the same thing to SRP

[marble vigil]

By "SRP" do you mean the Built-in Render Pipeline?

[tepid turtle]

Yes

[marble vigil]

Post processing by default and sometimes lighting conditions are different are different between render pipelines
You'll have to tune them to suit your scene

[tepid turtle]

Ah I see

[marble vigil]

BiRP if I recall correctly doesn't start with any tonemapping or bloom

[shut needle]

Hi there, updated a project which i didn't touched some time to 2022.3 now i have spotted a issue with a missing renderer feature, may it was already missing, but i can't remove it, when i click the 3 dots i just get the error msg you can see in the console... Do i have to create new ones or is there another way to remove the missing reference?

[marble vigil]

If making a fresh renderer asset fixes it then that's likely the easiest solution

[slate spade]

is it possible to use different renderer pipelines for different cameras? i have a ui camera and one more in addition to the main. was wondering if i could just set them to use the low profile while the main camera uses whatever is in the settings. i only see the high one showing up in the dropdown

[marble vigil]

I've heard it may be technically possible to have multiple RPs in a project, though I don't know how and it's not supported
Multiple in one scene probably won't be possible unless the upcoming SRP coexistence feature allows it

[noble igloo]

2d lights don't appear when i use urp

any solutions?

[ocean hinge]

With this amount of information, you could google as well xD

[noble igloo]

doesn't work cuz every tutorial i've seen when they install urp and set it up the lights appear

i have not seen any solution on youtube or google

[ocean hinge]

Could have dozens of reasons.
Maybe you are not using a 2D light. Maybe you are not using a 2D Project. Maybe your shader is Unlit.. etc.

[chrome pagoda]

U probably set it up as a 3d project instead of 2d

[lunar bloom]

Hi I'm having difficulties with particles in editor and ingame. Soft particles aren't working, and my particles seem to be drawn underneath objects that are children of it.

I've checked my depth texture is enabled

[lunar bloom]

It seems like the option for soft particles should be here:

But it isn't

[marble vigil]

It's there only in built-in RP
We should stick to just one relevant channel
What editor version were you using?

[lunar bloom]

I'm on latest I believe, updated last week

[marble vigil]

There are multiple latest ones

[lunar bloom]

Oh sorry let me check for you

[lunar bloom]

Assuming it's this? 2022.3.4f1

[marble vigil]

I've got the opposite problem using the same version, it seems

I've got this warning and made sure no settings asset has depth texture enabled
Yet I get soft particles no matter what if the material is checked to use them

As far as I know there are no options beyond Depth Texture in the URP Asset that controls this

[lunar bloom]

Yeah I don't even get that warning.

Which I see a lot on the forums

Let me check in a blank project

could be a vr thing, a lot of shader stuff can be messed with due to stereo rendering

[marble vigil]

True

[lunar bloom]

Where are these options?

My particle setup looks a bit different

[lunar bloom]

Uh oh....

[marble vigil]

What does yours look like uncropped

[lunar bloom]

I think I might have made an oopsy

[marble vigil]

Ah that's a logical explanation
Which is good in this business I believe 😄

[lunar bloom]

Copied a standard dust particle to make it work, wish it warned me it wasn't setup right for URP

Having not done much with particles that would've been great

Yeah looks great now thanks

[lunar bloom]

Is there any way to make the particles clip with other objects like it's children is a nice way, currently I have to choose either above or below completely using order in layer, which seems strange given the particles do have a 3d position

[marble vigil]

They rarely do warn even if the discrepancy is obvious to the system

[lunar bloom]

Yeah I saw the thread where the guy made the PR for the warning you received above

Seems few and far between

[marble vigil]

To my knowledge hierarchy doesn't have anything to do with render order (except when working with UI)

If the child object material and the particles are both using alpha transparency, then they are both sorted by their origin relative to each other

[lunar bloom]

They are indeed using transparency, but it doesn't seem like it's ordered on a per particle basis

but I guess that could be expensive

[marble vigil]

It's not indeed
A particle system is one procedurally created mesh

[lunar bloom]

Thanks for your knowledge, it's been really helpful to me, I really appreciate it

[slate spade]

how come my game uses 50% gpu just sitting in the main menu? there's really not a lot going on, 13k tris 10k verts. it's capped at 144fps. behaves the same way both in build and editor

a much busier scene only goes to 76% from the 50% it starts out at

i have another urp project i was working on and see something similar with that too, 40% usage sitting in a menu, actual gameplay only goes up by 20% more or so

[stoic umbra]

Super basic problem I'm sure but could someone point me in the right direction with this issue? https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/934467467160485948/1131348115765600316/send-help.mp4

The outer dial is blinking in/out, it's not a z fighting issue as far as I can tell

[marble vigil]

Is it transparent? Did you check in scene view that it's still there when it disappears from the camera's view?

[stoic umbra]

Yes and yes

@marble vigil Thank you. A coworker had tried to mess with the shader and had forgotten to change it back to an opaque material, we didn't need it to be transparent so this actually solved the issue.

You're huge

[slate spade]

figured out what my issue was, the rendering scale was set to 2x, so using twice as much gpu as it should

[lunar bloom]

Does your editor have a blue light filter theme? That's pretty cool

[stoic umbra]

It's his playmode tint :p

[bleak cave]

Culling Mask for Light doesn't work.

[cyan plover]

So I have a weird issue with post processing rn

I have a simple setup : one base camera with one overlay camera. I want the stuff in the overlay camera to NOT have any post processing effects (its not being rendered in main cam), but whenever I try to control the culling mask for the post processing volume from the base camera, it doesn't change anything. It only changes when I mess with the culling mask on the overlay camera and affects all objects in scene with post processing, which is not what I want. Anyone know whats going on

[marble vigil]

Is it the urp 2D renderer, per chance?

[cyan plover]

Yep

is that why?

[marble vigil]

Yes, seems to be a bug that came up recently

[cyan plover]

Oh I see. Was it ever fixed though

[last eagle]

hmm any ideas why with this line of code it's rendering at lower res than the camera?

the "camera_color_target_handle" is the camera's colour attachment texture

which i set like this

[marble vigil]

I don't know, make sure your editor is on the latest bugfix version, or test it in newer feature versions of the editor

[last eagle]

:< so weird

and no docs on this

[cyan plover]

alr!

[last eagle]

well this is a lead... some downscaled version of the camera col tex is input to the shader??

[dry willow]

Should use _BlitTexture in the shader to obtain the source texture of the blit, rather than _CameraOpaqueTexture. It's also common to blit to a temporary target and back to the camera to avoid using the same target as source & destination as that's not always supported / can be buggy.
I've got more info/example here - https://www.cyanilux.com/tutorials/custom-renderer-features/#blit

[last eagle]

oh omg thanks, i was using CameraOpaqueTexture in the shader. Thanks for the info, i'm very familiar with gfx coding so should be fine in terms of pingponging and etc!

great tutorial

[last eagle]

No graphics API supports this actually! So if it's supported, Unity is doing some magic to get it working?

but it still doesn't always work?

cool, works now :))

https://www.cyanilux.com/tutorials/urp-shader-code/
also great reference! needed exactly this

[last eagle]

thanks for this as well!

got it working in post proc pass :)

[lunar bloom]

Are there any planar reflection solutions that work for VR in URP?

[sinful gorge]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/shaders/fullscreen-camera-effects/mirrors-and-reflections-for-vr-212493
Definitely

[lunar bloom]

Yeah I was hoping to find something slightly more performant than having extra cameras.

But needs must I think

I think instead or rendering a camera for each eye you could probably get away with one if you could parallax correct it somehow

I think that's what source2 does

[marble vigil]

Extra cameras are the only option for real mirrors (save for ray tracing)

[marble vigil]

That's basically what SSR does
It's cheaper than extra cameras only if your renderer/platform can handle the required back end stuff to run it

[lunar bloom]

Yeah I'm just looking to get some nice water reflections and stuff, I was hoping the distortion could prevent it looking too off

[lunar bloom]

Problem with screenspace in vr is the player tends to look around a little too much I think

they look up and down a lot more than say a normal fps player

[marble vigil]

Doesn't really matter how much the player looks around, but how visible the reflective surfaces will be in general
And how different the SSR reflections would be from cubemap reflections

Speaking of, box projected cubemaps can produce perfectly acceptable reflections on unclear surfaces, though without dynamic objects

But really you don't have much options

[last eagle]

can i sample the AO pass texture with some helper function in a text shader?

ao

iii think it's this

found it =)

okay how can i sample the normal gbuffer in a shader?

okay found this

[tired creek]

any1 if its possible to have a camera just for scene gizmos and disable gizmos for my main camera? I'm doing some downscaling/upscaling to the main camera render texture that breaks gizmos. would be nice to just have gizmos not effected by that on a seperate camera in edtior

[leaden granite]

Why does unities fog causes the floor to glow when the camera faces a certain direction?

And is it fixable?

[west wing]

The fog based on the pivot of the object and requires enough vertices iirc. Make sure the pivot is close enough to the camera and not far outside the level. Tesselate the mesh abit to have more verts for the fog to create the gradients in between.

[marble vigil]

What kind of fog are you using?

And with what variables

Moreover what kind of material/shader does the ground have

[leaden granite]

Ah I'm sorry guys. I fixed the issue. My bad I forgot to delete this particular question

[marble vigil]

It might be a reflection instead of fog

[leaden granite]

I had a number of problems this evening and when I fixed this one it slipped my memory

It was a shading error due to ... I can easily show than explain

Sjors was on the right path

Basically adding in these cuts in the image fixed it. Before I did that the face was a non-convex ngon, I think that's what it'd be called.

[marble vigil]

Still I'm curious if it really was a fog problem

[leaden granite]

this was the problem

[leaden granite]

It was. I tried all 3 fog settings and the materials are all 0 smoothness

and when I turn fog off it was fixed 100% of the time

[marble vigil]

Interesting

[leaden granite]

This face was screwing with the depth buffer, is that what it's called?

Anyway thanks for replying and trying to help 🙂

[marble vigil]

I'm learning all the while ^^
You may want to consider patching your editor if your project allows for it
2020.3.5 is two years of patches behind 2020.3.48

[leaden granite]

0.0 true

I'll consider it. Thanks

[glass beacon]

i dont know why it does that. it used to work normally. does anyone know what might be the problem?

[sinful gorge]

What's 'that'?
If you want support be specific

[glass beacon]

In the video the lighting changes when pressing play

Reimporting gets it back to what it was but pressing play again messes it up again

[sinful gorge]

Check the lighting settings and maybe remove post processing.
Did you delete the library folder already?
Any custom scripts on there?

Also a slight chance the latest 2021lts fixes it

[marble vigil]

That's not supposed to happen, but implies a missing environmental lighting
You should be able to click "generate lighting" on the lighting window

[rocky creek]

why does my flat-colored, smooth-shaded low-poly model look like this?

i imported the same model back into Blender and it seems ok

these are my import settings

changing my project quality a step lower seems to fix it, but i lose some of my drop shadows

[marble vigil]

Screen Space Ambient Occlusion

It's in the renderer asset

[rustic patrol]

Hello. I moved my project to another computer by making it a package and replacing the project settings folder. Unforunately all my urp pipelines and urp related files are now giving me this issue :

I did install the urp package again btw

[marble vigil]

You can re-create all the necessary URP assets and URP renderer assets

[rustic patrol]

It works now. I fixed all the errors an everything worked out. But now all the lighting is messed up

I had a soft purple volumetric light before

[marble vigil]

Volumetric light in URP?

[rustic patrol]

not a literal one, I just used regular 2D lights to give a nice tint. But now it gives all the objects a hard light and it looks horrible. same for all the other lights. The image I sent before is not loading unforunately.

but now its comepletely overpowering

nice it loaded

yea so in the past additive lighting worked properly but now its just covering everything

[sacred gale]

yo

can anyone link me to a thing that has all the texture properties URP uses for 2d textures

like I know _MainTex exists

but I need the one for alpha value, yet I cant find it anywhere

nvm I got it

nvm nvm

this did not fix this

this is with the "Alpha as transparency" enabled in the tileset

this is it with the alpha turned off

wierd

none of those seemed to help

[marble vigil]

You have not stated what you are trying to do

[sacred gale]

render a transparent tileset

urp seems to not like base transparency in 2d sprite lit shaders

or maybe there is something I am not getting with these inputs

from what I can tell URP is just rendering the textures as solid white or sometimes mostly white, but not the actual sprite itself

I have a custom shader which creates a pixelated tiling effect for the path shown above, and this is what I have the URP default inputs set to

[marble vigil]

What if you just set the alpha as 0.5 direcetly

[sacred gale]

wdym

you mean setting the color of the sprite to be transparent?

because I can easily make the path transparent as a whole

but part of the texture is opaque, while another part of the texture is transparent, and urp wont render them

it just flips its shit when it tries to render the transparent parts

idk whats going on tbh

[marble vigil]

I mean unplug this and just type in 0.5

[sacred gale]

wouldnt that make the whole thing 50% transparent

[marble vigil]

Yes, but it should prove that semi-transparency does work

or confirm rather

[sacred gale]

I can make it all transparent

or at least in theory I should

can you use alpha clip or something in this?

adding it makes it grayed out

so I am guessing not?

[marble vigil]

Semi-transparently textured lit tilemaps work fine on my end, both with and without alpha clipping

[sacred gale]

ah wait that could be it

yes that was it

[clever vapor]

i have a question, how can i access these node systems in the engine

[sacred gale]

I had input the _AlphaTex thing, but not multiplied it with the alpha value of MainTex

so doing that fixed it

banana

[marble vigil]

In what way do you mean "access in the engine"?

[clever vapor]

like, how/where can i find the node editor dont know what its called

[marble vigil]

Shader Graph
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph@14.0/manual/index.html

[echo notch]

So I want to create a Character Profile similar to world of warcraft, I created a render texture and 2nd camera, the problem is, the fps is tanking hard, from 500 fps to 15 fps, anyone knows how to fix it? (I tried most you can find on google)

[clever vapor]

im trying to use the Voronoi noises texture and im not sure why nothing is working

[sinful gorge]

What does the note say at the right of the node? Might be an error

[marble vigil]

This occurs when your graph has no active targets
Are you sure your project is using URP?

[west wing]

Add a far distance culling value to your 2nd camera that makes sense? E.g. set it to 10 units

[echo notch]

It increases from 15 to 100, but the main fps is 500

[west wing]

Do you need the render texture? Unity has camera stacking

[echo notch]

I just want to display the character in character panel, exactly like in world of warcraft and it's very easy to do it with a render texture.

[modest horizon]

what is you rendertexture size?

[inland spoke]

yoo :)) this is a 2D URP Project and i was playing around with some lighting for a game idea but as you see in the image, the light isn't as smooth as it should be. I don't really know where these "rings" are coming from but i am hoping some of you could help me :) (Default 2D URP project, nothing changed, just played around with shader graphs for glowing effects etc., that's a normal 2D Spotlight in the image)

[marble vigil]

Enabling Dithering on the camera may solve it

[inland spoke]

oh okay :)) i'll try that

[inland spoke]

didn't solve it unfortunately :/ but ty anyways

[marble vigil]

Did it have any effect? Is the project using gamma or linear color space?

[west wing]

Enable hdr in the renderpipeline settings or player settings whereever they hid it

[compact stump]

Does anyone know how to fix URP causing transparent materials from becoming black?

figure out the fix: needed to go to the material that isnt being transparent, press the drop down, then surface type choose transparent

oo actually thats done something a bit strange

thiss is trippy as balls and i dont have the google skills to search for whatever the hell this even is

pls help

[marble vigil]

That is transparency
Materials of transparent type are depth sorted by their polygon winding order within each mesh
So, the windows should have their own separate material slot / submesh

[compact stump]

the windows are part of the model for the whole exterior of the building,
its comprised of 2 materials

[clever vapor]

sorry i didnt respond, my project is using URP ill look into this more