archived-urp

[scenic burrow]

built in 😛

[pure arrow]

Hey, have anyone seen something like this in URP?

[meager hare]

I am having a problem

I have a URP/Lit shader on a plane with a normal map

and I have a scene with baked lighting

I want it to have specular highlights so I set it to mixed lighting for the main light

but when I baked the lighting again it was just fully bright even in shadows

[placid laurel]

No that’s for 2000’s graphics

[scenic burrow]

I beg to differ

[placid laurel]

Show proof

[scenic burrow]

sure

[placid laurel]

The-

How—

I want

to see

the method

like, that looks better than hdrp

wtf

the bad thing about built in is it doesn't have shader graph though

[scenic burrow]

there are shader graphs you can get that support BIRP

I don't use any of them however so I wouldn't know which ones, but they certainly do exist

[placid laurel]

no like

you can't create shader graphs

and make shaders with them

[scenic burrow]

sure you can, that is what they are for

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/visual-scripting/amplify-shader-editor-68570

[placid laurel]

oh

you meant like

assets

too bad it's 80 bucks

and a whole game costs less than that

so yeah

[jolly quail]

forward have maximum light that interacted with object, by default it's 4 if i am not wrong, while deffered didnt have any limit

[sinful gorge]

Built in does have shader graph support. Just not all features are supported, but you can get many effects working @placid laurel @scenic burrow

I think in 2021+

[marble vigil]

I know it's good to have realistic goals but are you planning to sell exactly one copy of your game? I guess you'll have to add that $80 to the price
That asset goes on sale pretty often though
Most of what makes those screenshots look fancy are just good assets and post processing

[copper pilot]

Dev Drunk is right, BIRP has shadergraph now.

[wet kernel]

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xinfinite/0xinfinite.github.io/master/img/Cached-shadow.gif
I forked URP 14.0.8 and implemented Cached Static Shadow maps. It use a baked depth atlas map per scene.

[marble vigil]

Awesome! Too bad forking is necessary for this kind of thing

[wet kernel]

Thanks! and I agree with that😂

[placid laurel]

Oh

[haughty garnet]

I use it for some android projects too and it works pretty good

[lusty onyx]

built in On Top!

[supple galleon]

wtf, how did you manage to get that?!?!?!?!?

btw i need help i having trouble with shadows

[marble vigil]

You'd have to describe your issue in detail

[pure arrow]

Yeah but why are they the same color? It seems to get getting from the last instanced light and it happens for all materials.

[marble vigil]

Seems like a bug tbh
Which editor and URP version are you using?

[pure arrow]

2022.3 LTS, URP is the last one

[marble vigil]

I'd update to newest version of 2022.3.

[pure arrow]

it's already on 2022.3.12f1

[marble vigil]

Then I'd consider reporting a bug and/or trying to repro it

[pure arrow]

hmm, I posted on the forums as a bug, maybe some dev will see it

[pure arrow]

it started working again. I got no idea what just happened

[sinful gorge]

Dunk*
It's not Saturday yet😂

[copper pilot]

haha, sorry, reading on phone screen

[flat sinew]

Hello there, is there a way to make a decal material emission lights up the objects around it?

[jolly quail]

what pipeline?

[flat sinew]

URP

[jolly quail]

i didnt think URP have that feature for realtime except using point light, but if you set to use emission for decal then bake it it could work

[flat sinew]

Amazing, I'll test that and let you know! It won't work for my use case thought as I would need to hide / show the decal at game time

I was wondering on how to do small lights in a pinball table, I thought about using decals because it might be the simplest way to do it

[jolly quail]

be sure to check "Affect emission" settings if you want to use it

[jolly quail]

if it just simple small light why not try to use point light or spotlight?

[flat sinew]

yeah it might be the simplest thing after all

thanks

Well might have a simpler solution yet: use emissive and bloom

Well it won't light other objects, but the effect is quite good

[fossil palm]

I'm having a lot of issues using assets in URP, no material upgraders available, etc. Mainly when using older premade assets.

I have't done a ton in 3D, but everyone just told me to use URP for 3D. What I'm wondering is what are some major features I'd be missing out on if I went with the standard renderer. Performance I don't think will be an issue as the game is fairly small in scope per scene. I know decals are one thing that could be useful.

Are their major lighting improvements I'd be missing out on, etc. Stuff like that.

[lusty onyx]

you dont miss anything in built in

BiRP is still > URP

[sinful gorge]

Which is an opinion. I prefer urp over built in

[sinful gorge]

Performance is similar with the same features.
URP has a better workflow for adding new features using render features
URP has VFX graph (and better shader graph support)
Haven't looked much into lighting quality
In 2023 urp has render graph support which is great
And I suggest looking at the urp roadmap to see new features

[burnt sierra]

Hey, in preparation for the apples vision pro we want to build our shaders using shader graph. Unfortunately there is no stencil buffer. How do I recreate my custom shaders, that make use stencil buffers with shader graph, so they can be converted to apples xmaterial?

[copper pilot]

URP still hasn't reached feature parity with BIRP, but in many cases it has better performance.

[copper pilot]

URP's shadow quality is worse(depending on what you are trying to do, maybe much worse), but with generally better performance. URP has VFX graph. BIRP has screenspace reflections. URP has built in decals but BIRP has plenty of decal packages that work with it. There are lots of small reasons to prefer one or the other but a lot of them come down to preferences in how you like your lights to behave, how you like to handle your postprocessing, etc.

[lusty onyx]

Nahh wheres that it has better performance theory from

COD Mobile is using built in

[copper pilot]

Specifically the shadows. Not the entire rendering path.

URP's shadows are ugly but generally fast. Both largely due to being limited to a single 4k map for the main distant light and one for all other lights in the scene.

In many cases BIRP will still be faster, especially with deferred lighting and cached shadowmaps

But it is very project dependent.

[lusty onyx]

Shadows has minimal impact on the game.
In the end developers uses fake shadows

[copper pilot]

...ahahahahaha. Yeah, no, that is very much dependent on the game.

And leaving them out of a feature comparison is silly

I generally have had a lot fewer headaches in my birp projects than my current urp one, but it will absolutely depend on your game.

[jolly quail]

Well you can use third party screen space reflection for urp

[copper pilot]

Yes, you can. But they were asking about features they'd be missing if they went from birp to urp and that's not one. 😛

[fossil palm]

Can you link to a decals package that works with BIRP? That is one feature I could see myself using often.

I haven't done much "graphics" or VFX work before. I've only been working in 3D Unity a few months. BIRP for me does the job, but its the assets and such that are important to me as someone who doesn't know anything about shaders and little about materials. Many are being made for URP, many are legacy and I can't get to work in URP. That where my conundrum mainly is, not everyone has moved on to URP and many have. So there's a split among Unity devs which to me is a mistake they made.

the game I'm wokring on I do not think will have a huge perfromance impact. 2.5D sidescroller where I can make the levels smaller with movement between different scenes if needed for performance.

[copper pilot]

I'd just search on github, I don't have a link handy

[copper pilot]

Just make sure that it is one that is either for forward or deferred based on your settings

[tame canyon]

water (prefab) looks normal, but as soon as i rotate my view a bit or go near an object or in gernel do anything with the scene, it blacks out like this:
this uses an external shader, which not working with urp. (works fine in builtin tho)

[copper pilot]

For the fullscreen pass, is there a way to set the clamp settings for the resulting texture?

[sinful gorge]

Can you elaborate?

[dusty basalt]

I'm new to writing custom render passes for URP and recently wrote this pass that pixelizes the screen and adds outlines. Am I doing anything wrong? I had some memory leak issues but I think I solved them all. https://pastebin.com/tR2YvYz0

[copper pilot]

The texture appears to be black on two edges and repeating the edge pixels on the other two.

[pseudo jacinth]

Hello, recently I'm having the issue where I have a very low fps count in an empty URP scene, now I have a 3070 so it should not take 6.15 ms to render the scene. when I turn on the profiler it doesn't even tell me what's wrong. Can anyone help with this?

For context, I also have no other application open that uses the gpu, neither do I have a process which requires the gpu like rtx noise cancelling

CPU is 7600x

VSync is also disabled

The framerate does suspiciously hang around my monitor refresh rate though...

Alright I figured it out, for anyone else who might come across this, turn off your G-Sync on your display, if it's not working it's because you have to restart your pc for the changes to take effect

[hoary karma]

what is a way to just generally give a scene a more vibrant look?

[marble vigil]

Use assets that are created with interesting colors to begin with
You'll probably want interesting environmental lighting such as a HDRi
Post processing bloom and color adjustments can go a long way for a vibrant look specifically

[hoary karma]

what is HDRi?

[marble vigil]

It stands for "high dynamic range image" which more colloquially means sky or environment texture

[hoary karma]

ah

much easier to understand :)

[marble vigil]

The formats used for a HDRi can store a lot more brightness levels than a normal image or texture, so it's suitable for representing the brightness of a sunny outdoor sky for example so that it can emit appropriate amounts of light when rendered
To work as skies they have to be 360° images as well, which for our purposes is the main functional part of them so that they can be mapped to a skybox

[fathom quarry]

anyone knows why my fish's fins are visible through the fish's main body? (2nd pic)

I made a transparent material so the texture's alpha would let his fins look real (they're note modeled)

just to be a bit clearer, this is the model

[marble vigil]

Inherent limitation of transparency
Try opaque with alpha clip instead

To alleviate it you could also have different materials for the fins and the body, with the fins being transparent and body fully opaque

[fathom quarry]

@marble vigil I think the Opaque with alpha clip is for hdrp/urp only, and I'm just doing this as practice and I'm too lazy to swap from standard.
So I attached a different material for the faces using alpha and it worked! thanks!

[marble vigil]

In BiRP opaque with alpha clip is called "cutout" and it shares the limitations of URP

[tender zealot]

I'm getting some unexpected behaviour from the SRP Batcher and was wondering what it is I'm doing incorrectly.

I am optimizing a scene and wanted to test Static vs SRP Batch vs GPU Instancing for a couple different cases. To get the tests working, I need to make the shader in question not compatible with the SRP Batcher so that it falls back to other batching techniques.

I created a float value in the Properties and explicitly defined the variable outside the CBUFFER declaration. For some reason, however, the engine is still reporting the shader as SRP Batching compatible (and srp batches in a build). Is there some logic I'm misunderstanding about global vs local shader properties and how SRP is deciding if the shader is batching compatible?

This is with URP 10.10 in Unity 2020.3.48

[hollow rock]

does anyone know if it's possible to apply blendshape weights to a mesh which is being rendered with Graphics.RenderMesh()?

[pine frost]

Any way to disable Full Screen Shader Graph in "Scene view" alone?

[dry willow]

Afaik not really, but some options :

• Might be possible to have the feature disabled but make a C# script enable it during play mode
• write your own custom renderer feature that does a Blitter.BlitCameraTexture call. In AddRenderPasses, can prevent it running in scene view via if (renderingData.cameraData.isSceneViewCamera) return; before enqueuing the pass
• or could duplicate the Renderer asset, have one with and one without fullscreen feature. Assign both to the URP asset, mark the one without the feature as the "default" (that's the one used by scene view), but set the Camera component to use the renderer with the feature. No coding necessary, but means you have two renderer assets to keep track of. (example here : #archived-urp message)

[pine frost]

Might be possible to have the feature disabled but make a C# script enable it during play mode
I actually use it for overlaying the ui design reference to match my ui. So I can't actually do this as I need to edit the ui in non-play mode.

@dry willow Thankyou for the second option. Trying it.

Regarding third, how to set the camera component to the renderer? I don't see an option.

[dry willow]

First field under Rendering heading on the Camera component. But first need to assign both renderers to the list at the top of the URP asset for them to appear on that dropdown

[pine frost]

Is it like If no camera is set, it considers all cameras? Thats the cause of my case currently?

[dry willow]

It's the other way around really. You can have multiple renderer assets, and the camera can select one.
Here's an example for to clarify, here I have duplicated my renderer asset and renamed it to SceneViewRenderer. I've set it as the default so it'll be used by the Scene View.
The URP_Renderer has the Fullscreen Feature, while the SceneViewRenderer does not.
On your Camera (and every time you create a new Camera), set it's Renderer to the URP_Renderer one.

[pine frost]

or could duplicate the Renderer asset, have one with and one without fullscreen feature. Assign both to the URP asset, mark the one without the feature as the "default" (that's the one used by scene view), but set the Camera component to use the renderer with the feature. No coding necessary, but means you have two renderer assets to keep track of.

Wow! This worked!

[dry willow]

It's the same idea if you want a second camera that doesn't have the fullscreen feature too.

[pine frost]

So as earlier there is one renderer alone set to urp asset, all cameras used the full screen feature by default. Now I removed it from default and let the camera pick other than default one.

Pretty Clever @dry willow !
🙇‍♂️ 🙇‍♂️ 🙇‍♂️

[dry willow]

Yea. If you have multiple URP assets per quality setting you'd also probably want to make sure the renderer lists are all the same.

[pine frost]

I have one more question.
Is it possible in URP to get a grab of the current color buffer while drawing a transparent object? (I need the grab until I render a specific transparent object)

[dry willow]

There's an Opaque Texture you can enable on the URP asset. It'll be a snapshot of the color buffer before rendering any transparents, if that's what you need.
Sample in shader with _CameraOpaqueTexture, or Scene Color node in ShaderGraph.

[pine frost]

Actually I want the grab to consider the transparent objects I draw till the current one. Scene color node is grabbing only for opaque objects not at the time of calling.
Consider I want to grab after 10 transparent objects are drawn and just before 11th one.
The use-case is not subjected to performance requirement as I will be using it editor time.

[dry willow]

Might need to create your own renderer feature if you want to do that. Can blit (Blitter.BlitCameraTexture) the camera color buffer to your own RTHandle, and pass to shaders that need it via a global texture (cmd.SetGlobalTexture).
But to ensure that texture has been set, would need to move that 11th object out of regular rendering queue (layermask at top of renderer asset) and use context.DrawRenderers, or RenderObjects feature to render it in the After Rendering Transparents event.

[unreal goblet]

Hi. Is there any working fog solution for urp deferred renderer? (To replace fog from Lightning->Environment window)

[shell vortex]

Could you tell me what the texture is called to add this decal? that also has its normal map

[lusty onyx]

I'm Re-do my benchmark on BiRP vs URP.
The results should be more accurate now, if there is a mistake developers can just peek into the project files.

Compared to previous benchmark, I'm afraid the Synty Asset URP's is not that performant rather than build from scratch. Glad the new benchmark uses free asset

Any opinion is appreciated

https://github.com/StinkySteak/unity-birp-vs-urp-benchmark-v2

[unreal goblet]

Access denied for Notion

[lusty onyx]

Oh shi, forgor to open

[lime summit]

cant click anything after using probuilder

[marble vigil]

Probably not related to #archived-urp

[placid laurel]

Is there a way to set the min and max value of properties in URP shaders?

I've seen a video from 2020 which seemed to allow it but I don't see any way to do it in 2023? And it would be really nice to be able to...

He has this

And I only have these options

[dry willow]

Change the "Mode" to Slider first

[placid laurel]

I really misunderstood what Mode was lol

Thanks!

I just noticed it's called mode in his 😅 I feel stupid now

[long igloo]

Hello. Can someone help with the problem: I have a mesh, which is (for some reason) culled when its point of origin is not on the screen; I am trying to turn off the dynamic occlusion to prevent it from disappearing, but that flag just does nothing. I am a little bit out of ideas about this problem at the moment 😕 ...

[blissful zephyr]

anyone happen to know an easy fix?

[marble vigil]

You have some type of vertex shader based material that's scaling the mesh up by a big factor
Frustum culling which is happening here can't account for change in shape or scale that's from a vertex shader, so you shouldn't significantly change the size or silhouette there

[long igloo]

Got it, thanks for help!

[clear sentinel]

You can manually adjust the bounds of your mesh renderer

To allow any kind of crazy vertex shader shenanigans

[long igloo]

Really? I can do it only via code or there is also some way to adjust bounds via editor?

[clear sentinel]

only via code for MeshRenderer

[long igloo]

Got it, will try to look into this. Thank you for help!

[wanton coral]

how do I make the sky in URP look good

[quaint zodiac]

Adding in the "blit" renderer feature makes the UI disappear, what could be the reason for that?

(I'm trying to test out the photo mode package, but it ain't fully working)

[patent rapids]

Are there any custom URP 2d shaders that allow lighting & masking with rect mask 2d?

[vale berry]

RASENGAN! ^^ https://youtube.com/shorts/6ThhICAzjm8?si=CUa7iyWMySl-xtQe

[pulsar panther]

Hey o/
Is anyone here comfortable with Mesh Baker ?
Or with merging scene object and using texture atlas in general ?

I'm working on a VR project with a headset running on Android.
We need to optimize a scene, and I've been given the task (I'm a rigging intern, by the way lol 🤡).

Anyway, I've done some research, and merging the scene's objects into a single "big mesh", as well as applying a texture atlas to it, is an idea that seems relevant to me.

I'm using an addon called Mesh Baker for this, but I'm having a few problems. I know that probuilder can do all this efficiently, but I've turned to mesh baker to save the other intern having to make a texture atlas by hand...

Oh, and the scene has been arranged horribly in terms of hierarchy and prefab... surely that must cause problems. But I reckon there must be a process I'm not aware of

[tender zealot]

I assume you are using URP considering the channel. Getting everything into one mesh and atlas isn't as relevant in URP because the SRP Batcher works per shader variant, not material, so combining everything is a lot less necessary. Have you done any profiling on the project to identify the slowdowns? Are you definitely GPU bound?

[marble vigil]

You don't need any external tool to combine meshes
Enabling "batching static" flag does it by default
It won't do texture atlasing, but as mentioned SRP Batching already very likely makes it an irrelevant optimization (it also makes static batching irrelevant in most situations in my experience)
Definitely do profiling before implementing optimizations
You can also test the potential gains of mesh combining and atlasing by marking them static and assigning the same material to them, to see if there are any
Gameobject hierarchy has no effect on rendering performance

[fringe lotus]

I'm having trouble figuring out a way to get my scene to show my post processing effects. I recently had to add a new layered camera and place Beautify's rendering pass on that. So now my scene view looks extremely dull and colorless. How would I get the scene view to use the top most camera's effects (it's using my base camera), or is that not possible?

[narrow karma]

Not the original asker but I'm curious, are you saying that creating texture atlases as opposed to having many separate textures/materials is a negligible optimization method in URP (as long as they're using the same shader)?

[marble vigil]

Texture atlasing is usually done so materials can be shared to reduce draw calls specifically, but what SRP batching does is make draw calls much cheaper so it's not as relevant
But another side to it is to reduce texture loads
It's not been a huge deal in my experience, but could be worth testing for when optimizing especially on low devices like mobile

[narrow karma]

Gotcha, I feel like this is something I should have known 😅 I'll probably stick to atlasing since I'm targeting quest. Thanks for the info ^^

[haughty garnet]

I've been making some voxels program and been using texture atlases. This was something I was wondering, yet all resources pointed to doing it this way.

also unity's mesh combiner methods seem to require a single material, unless there's more to it I've not read.

[marble vigil]

Post only to one channel please

[sinful gorge]

What do you mean with Unity's mesh combiner?
If you mean batching, SRP batching is shader based, not material based

[haughty garnet]

Specifically this method
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mesh.CombineMeshes.html

Was using it to chunk my meshes but I've changed to editing the vertices manually

the wording on the method makes it seems it will semi merge meshes if materials differ from each other but I've not tested it

[quasi dove]

I have a renderer feature, a full screen pass render feature, that renders an image as an overlay on the screen. However, since the game view has a different camera perspective than the scene view I now have the image being drawn over my scene view at all times. It's making development in the scene view a bit difficult. Is there any way to hide the fullscreen render feature in scene view?

[dry willow]

See this answer #archived-urp message

[quasi dove]

great, thank you!

[verbal light]

Any suggestions on co-existing URP and Built In support for templates? I've seen SteamVR handle this with editor scripting but their implementation seems inconsistent. Has anyone tackled this, and do they have any suggestions?

[tender zealot]

This is the same as static batching but don't in code at runtime. It's an old call and built for the built in render pipeline so it shares the same batching limitations. In general static batching isn't always the right solution and has a few downsides.

[vocal dragon]

I tried to add a greyscale shadergraph to my renderer featuers but i seem to get an error:

what am i doing wrong

[sacred oasis]

I got URP but it's almost like they removed shadows. can anyone help me?

[sinful gorge]

Be specific with the issue. Maybe include a screenshot

[marble vigil]

Show your URP settings as well

[vagrant flax]

is there anything you can recommend to do to my games lighting? this is what i have currently vs before i made changes

any help is appreciated. i am very new to making my game look good lol (programmer)

[hot moss]

trying to make a motion blur post processing effect using a custom render pass by blending previous fames- is there any way i can somehow store the previous frame onto a texture or something so it can be used for this effect? ive tried texture2d.readpixels and graphics.copytexture to copy the source render texture onto a texture2d but that doesnt seem to be working

[sacred oasis]

This is the URP settings and the lighting

[lusty onyx]

a bit off topic, whats the target device to play your game?

[sacred oasis]

Meta quest 2

[lusty onyx]

alright, thanks for letting me know

[sinful gorge]

Put shadow distance at 100 meters.
Also not sure if the first split at 0 can cause issues.

Also disable HDR and msaa 2x or 4x is recommended

Also you will most likely run into many performance issues on Q2 with (many) additional shadows

And make sure this is the actual active quality tier

[sacred oasis]

Thank you!

[strong aspen]

huh, this is unexpected

[marble vigil]

Mobile devices can handle raytracing?
I'd much prefer the option to enable more complex lighting calculations and local light override volumes if they're in the business of porting HDRP features to URP

[strong aspen]

the high end ones that only 0.9% of the population own yes

usualy those phones are purposely made for gaming

but it also means we can have raytraceing on URP made pc games

something has to compete with mobile lumen

[sacred oasis]

That didn’t change anything

[gilded mantle]

Hi everyone, i somehow got my shaders list disorganized. What could cause it?

[sinful gorge]

Different Unity version?
I'm not sure what changes the order

[dim wedge]

How do I import an already textured build into unity? Whenever I do this the build turns pink. I think it's something related to materials, but I've already changed everything and tested it on other builds and I still couldn't solve it.

[orchid meteor]

hey guys question; something really weird (for me at least), i do procedural animations, and in URP the shadows on the guns were just weird. It looked liked the shadow of the gun was lagging / distorted / warped. Most likely some Rendersetting?
Idk, but with built in and HDRP it's fine. Saw it as chance moving to HDRP.

It's difficult to explain for me (non-english speaker), the dark shadows on the gun, looks weird when moving (lagging / distorted / warped), but if i walk into the light source it's fine cuz no shadows.
Can someone help?
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/886316442256027668/1177262971211219094/image.png?ex=6571de94&is=655f6994&hm=a462f0da9e3c78c7b61524a32d7841027b0a4528dc335e651ccccc44382d2450&
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/886316442256027668/1177263046532546640/image.png?ex=6571dea6&is=655f69a6&hm=bb2e1be4d9e2bc928ef7e43762538a2e36154edb6283239447f29d0524094444&

It's a prototype, i didn't care yet about lightning, but that this even happens worries me, never had that in Built in and HDRP

update: it's ACES, which i like 😦

[fringe pine]

I am currently following a shader tutorial, I can link it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bm0McKAh9E&ab_channel=NedMakesGames

I am around timestamp 15:11, and the focus in that section is getting shadows to show up.

I am using #pragma multi_compile _ _MAIN_LIGHT_SHADOWS_CASCADE in order to get my shadows to work; has "_MAIN_LIGHT_SHADOWS_CASCADE" changed between Unity version 2022.3.5 and 2022.3.8 (version I am using)? I would think not right?

there is no option to turn off cascades, and I have soft shadows automatically off as instructed by the video

[fringe pine]

Excuse the lightmode

However, why is it not defined? Ive been trying to dig through documentation for any other keywords to enable shadows, but none that I have found seem to do this

[fringe pine]

I have fixed it

[lost basalt]

who da hell is breaking the naming convention in the URP team

RTHandle, weird snake_Pascal_cased things

Tex2D???

I hate this

[clever prawn]

can someone explain to me in layman terms how to get plastic enabled so this error will stop appearing every 2 seconds?

ive googeld what is unity collaborate and what is unity plastic and all the install "guides" have a link saying click here to learn how to install it, and now i've fallen down a rabbit hole deeper and deeper and still don't know how and where to create this

cause what ive clicked through seems like collaborate and plastic dont work with one another and it makes it difficult to push git commits

is actually possible to still push git commits, and have each member added have the same preset master controlls?

[rapid portal]

unity change all the services

try to update all via pakague manager

[fringe pine]

I want to render a whole scene using my shader with the main camera. I know I should do this with the replace shader function for the camera, but I've tried two different scripts and neither of them render my scene with the texture I want. I feel like it's probably a really dumb issue but as a unity newbie Ive spent about an hour scratching my head and I can't figure it out

Here is the code for the first way I tried to do it

And here is the second

Everything just shows up as it's starting material when I press play

[oblique pier]

I don't think that SetReplacementShader is supported in SRP (URP/HDRP)

You should look into "custom render pass"

(Also please use a dark theme, protect your/our eyes)

[jolly quail]

well you can remove it if you not using it

[fringe pine]

OK, will do, thank you!

[fringe pine]

🫡

[fringe pine]

Does anyone have any good tutorials on scriptable render passes and applying a custom shader material to everything in the scene without doing it by hand? I followed Unity's scriptable render pass tutorial, but it still doesn't work the way I want to and Im ngl I need more examples that aren't outdated to understand it more fully (most of the stuff Ive found online is from 2-3 years ago)

[fringe pine]

The way I am going to kiss nedmakesgames on the lips

[glad cove]

In URP, how do I extend the range of a point light without blasting it's intensity to insane levels? I'm finding my lights just fall off too quickly

[vocal dragon]

if you instantiate a material does this become seperate to the original thus avoiding the need for material property blocks?

or are they still linked so changing one changes both

[broken jackal]

i need help there is a huge problem

why in the default pipeline every object is visible but in the urp the objects are invinsible and i have to paste all of the objects back to the scene so they will be visible again?

[marble vigil]

Yes, as separate as any two material assets would be

[marble vigil]

Light attenuation is for some unfortunate reason locked to real-world accurate logarithmic falloff
You can ensure you're getting the best possible version of that by confirming that your project is using linear color space, HDR and tonemapping
But if you want true linear falloff you'll have to swap out for shaders that implement a custom lighting model or swap out the lighting shader itself which requires branching URP

[hearty solstice]

Anyone know how to pause/slow down/speed up all post-processing effects? It seems to run on some unscaled time as it isn't affected by Time.timeScale

[glad cove]

For context, right now I have an .hlsl I got from elsewhere that gets me the light amount hitting a fragment. I use it so that I can replace the fragment with a black and white dither amount to make a purely black and white pixelated image. Results are pretty good, but I can't see any further than this without ramping up the intensity to a degree where everything around me loses all dithering.

So the .hlsl is used in a shadergraph, light amount converted to a 0 to 1, lerped to 0 to 16, and used to grab from the 17 entry texture array for the right dither to apply.

[marble vigil]

Does this use an actual light component?
Or rather does it need to use

[glad cove]

Currently it does. I tried with just using distance from the camera, which looked good when everything was flat, but it was clear there was no shadowcasting

Maybe I can do some math in the custom function to make it less linear? I can paste it here, it's pretty small

[marble vigil]

True that
https://github.com/Cyanilux/URP_ShaderGraphCustomLighting
I'd use this in this situation to customize the light ramp

[glad cove]

Thanks, I'll play around with these 🙂

[marble vigil]

Good luck
I'm not good at hlsl but the people over at #archived-shaders are, so I'd post there if the challenge proves persistent

[glad cove]

I'm also a near total newb at it, I had to copy that hlsl from elsewhere and get some help in hacking it to the shape it is now. But since this hlsl is meant for shadergraph, I should have a chance of figuring it out, or altering the output in shadergraph

I also saw another solution involving an override on Shadows Midtones Highlights in the global volume. But since that's post processing I'm guessing it would never work here, as this shader is happening before PP

[marble vigil]

Yes, post process methods can make the light falloff appear less harsh in other situations but it's obviously still logarithmic

[mighty cargo]

I'm having a bit of issues with weapon clipping and resolving it in URP without problems. I've seen two options for fixing this. The first is Camera Stacking, which works mostly fine but then overlay camera does not share the same shadowmap as the base camera.
The other is Render object passes, which fixes the shadow problem and renders to a single camera, but requires that the object be rendered twice, which I am not a fan of.

[warped roost]

For the camera stacking thing, light probes will solve that. They are needed for baked lighting anyway so that problem will be gone when you are done with baking your lights in a level

You wont get realyime shadows tho. Just lighting information from your light probes

Also if there was realtime shadows on your weapon, you can kind of see the weapon clipping through walls beacuse you can see the shadows they cast on your weapon

[mighty cargo]

I did notice this issue as well, but figured this was the lesser of the evils.

Can light probes be used in prefab level chunks? Using for procedural map generation.

I think this is possible in 2023, but not sure about LTS 2022

[warped roost]

Not sure

Also there is the way of just, making the size 0.1

It has realtime shadows and is rendered with the rest of your scene

[mighty cargo]

Got it, thank you for the help!

[oblique pier]

I also tried to find a solution for the camera stacking + shadowmap issue for a long time, with no results. Ended up using a single camera and implementing gun collisions.

If you find a way to use stacked cameras with shared shadows, let me know 😄

[fringe pine]

Hey, how did you get this dithering effect? Did you create it yourself or did you follow a tutorial? It's really cool

[glad cove]

Myself. It uses a texture array of 17 images: blank + the 16 bayer matrix dither.

It was a lot of trial and error and happy accidents

[fringe pine]

You did a great job!

[glad cove]

Thanks!

[fringe pine]

Is the final product what is supposed to be shown in the normal vector and remap nodes? If so, why is there an error in showing the final preview (as in, it is only magenta)? No errors relating to the shader graph turn up on console

Will nothing show up because normals don't necessarily have a visual result on their own?

[dry willow]

Magenta usually means the render pipeline does not match the graph's target. If you're using URP, make sure it is configured correctly (see Configuration in pinned messages) and the graph has "Universal" listed as a target (under Graph Settings)

[fringe pine]

Ah, shoot I forgot to configure it 🤦‍♂️ Sorry it's such a noob mistake but useful to know when a similar error happens in the future. Thank you so much

[fringe pine]

For some reason, shader.find("Hidden/myShader") in my custom render pass always returns null, even though my shader exists. I tried moving myShader into the same folder, trying the actual path (like right click, copy, paste the path), and trying the myShader.shadergraph extension. I also made sure the shadergraph was made through URP and I have everything configured correctly now. Is shader.find just unreliable? I am using unity 2020.3 and the tutorial I was referencing along with multiple other tutorials used shader.find just fine

[dry willow]

The value used should be the name of the shader, not the path to the asset. For shader graphs, that'll usually begin with Shader Graphs/ unless you've changed it in the blackboard.

Note that if the shader isn't referenced somewhere it might be stripped from the build. I usually prefer to just expose a Material field.

[fringe pine]

Oh, I did try adding "Shader Graphs/" as well. Do you mind elaborating on exposing a materal? Do you mean that when I add it as a feature, it will have an option for you to pick your own material like this?

[dry willow]

Yes, exactly that. I have an example of some exposed settings here - https://www.cyanilux.com/tutorials/custom-renderer-features/#create

[fringe pine]

I was just looking at that! Lol thank you

yes, I will try to work on getting an option to add your own material 🫡 Thank you

[wispy comet]

maybe a dumb question, but what's the differences between unlit and lit shader graphs? I tried googling but nothing coming up

[fringe pine]

This is what I found online. I was confused about that too

https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/160212/additive-alpha-blended-unlit-lit-differences

I think some youtube guy I watched also said unlit provided more light information or something? But yeah of course someone with more experience can correct me or add onto that ofc Dx

[wispy comet]

if "lit" means effected by lighting in the world I think I messed up - my slimes are colored using unlit shaders but ideally they would be effected by world lighting LOL

[fringe pine]

I mean, I watched nedmakesgames code an unlit shader that had a highlight + cast shadows. maybe it gives you more control or something like that? but yeah ofc someone who is more experienced can help answer ur technical question cuz idk what Im doing lmfao

Oh also this forum gives some more differences

https://forum.unity.com/threads/why-use-lightmapping-with-i-have-the-unlit-shader.125662/

[dry willow]

Yes, lit means it's affected by lights/shadows. Unlit just returns the base color, so is always "fully lit"

[wispy comet]

I, also, don't know what I'm doing

[fringe pine]

🤝

I have a vague idea what is happening. But all of the code I write is broken 🤣

And I have written lots of broken code so far

[wispy comet]

I hate programming programming sucks so I use shader graphs for almost everything

[dry willow]

I should add, You can use unlit graphs (in URP at least) to implement your own shading calculations via custom function nodes. e.g. https://github.com/Cyanilux/URP_ShaderGraphCustomLighting
Useful for "toon/cel-shaded" styles.
Lit graph always uses PBR, like the Standard or URP/Lit shaders.

[fringe pine]

I kind of want to have a good grasp on both the programming side and shader graph side, but honestly shader graph is valid. I think the programming of the shader itself isn't that bad. Once you get some good articles of how the graphics pipeline works and the vert/frag functions it isn't too terrible. it's mostly just the scriptable render features for me. Im mostly struggling with those Dx I am reading through the article Cyan sent right now

[wispy comet]

I have been programming off/on for 10yrs and I hate it, but that's my problem lol I just don't enjoy it so I avoid it when I can

[fringe pine]

I am a cs major 💀

I feel like its very frustrating so I understand

[wispy comet]

so I made a test slime an lit shader but I am confused - where are the clouds on the slime coming from?

[dry willow]

Reflections from the skybox, appears when metallic > 0 iirc

Also see "Environmental Reflections" under Unity's Lighting window

[wispy comet]

interesting, also those dont even look like my clouds because they are randomly generated and not stationary like that LOL

[dry willow]

Yea, the reflection cubemap is baked when you hit the Bake button under the Lighting window

If you have a Reflection Probe it'll also use that instead

[wispy comet]

Addmitedly I have not messed with lighting very much

[haughty garnet]

I call that a feature for the slime imo

[fringe pine]

^ yeah it looks really cool lol

[warped sphinx]

Anyone know how to disable culling from Graphics.DrawMeshInstanced?
I know the doc say it shouldn't do that, but in my case it clearly does some unwanted culling, and looking at the net it's apparently been a thing since 2020 - so I guess it's not a bug.
Is there a way to disable it? I can "fix" the problem by editing the impacted meshes to have ridiculous bounding boxes, but that's impractical as hell long-term AND it mean a big bunch of uneccessary calculations are being made somewhere inside Graphics.DMI.

[crude magnet]

Hello, is it possible to assign a renderer per scene?

I.e. some will be 2d and work with a 2d renderer but others will be 3d and work with a 3d one

[unkempt quiver]

Hi guys, did anyone know why at my MainMenuLayout didnt get the bloom but at the Settings layout there bloom brighter

[glacial zodiac]

How can I optimise my grass for different graphic settings? I have it GPU instanced on a terrain afaik

[marble vigil]

Post processing affects the final rendered image, and bloom is based on brightness
The dark overlay lowers this brightness so it will bloom less, or none at all if the brightness value is below your bloom threshold value

[dry willow]

Yes, you can assign multiple Renderer Assets to the list at the top of the URP Asset(s) and change which one is used on each Camera component (Renderer field, first option under Rendering heading iirc)

[crude magnet]

Thank you!

[fringe pine]

Cyan, I didn't want to ping u but I know u look in this channel often, I just gotta say ur website is a god save 🙏

SRP god

[wispy comet]

lit shader on left vs unlit shader on right... it makes sense for my slimes to have shadows cast over them and things but I get the vibe that the colors are more vibrant on the unlit shader. is there anyway to make the lit shader look more cartoony?

[fringe pine]

Are you able to chain two custom functions together (as in the output of one is the input of the next one) in shader graph? I keep getting invalid subscript error, but I can still do dot product of the output of the custom function if I use the node

[fringe pine]

I think the purpose of the lit shader is to have more realistic lighting. Even though it's not the focus of this video, I think around timestamp 0:40 best illustrates what lit and unlit shader does

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiJbur0CrnU&t=5s&ab_channel=PixTrick

I think this is what the other youtube guy I watched meant by you have "more control" in unlit shaders

There was another gif that I found super helpful but I lost it Dx I don't think I understood the difference really until I saw the side by side moving comparison

[wispy comet]

Thanks I'll watch it after work :)

[fringe pine]

👍 I recommend skipping directly to the timestamp and just watching maybe that 10 second tidbit unless you want custom shadows lol cuz the rest of the vid is irrelevant to what you're asking (but still cool)

[fringe pine]

Also the answer is yes I think I had a typo somewhere

[fringe pine]

I think though, probably the logic between a lit and unlit shader would be the same right? If not the same then very similar? Although Ive never worked with lit shaders so idk if this is true or not Dx. But would it be possible to copy over a lit shader to an unlit shader if you need to make a change like that? Do you know?

[wispy comet]

Yeah I copied the same settings from the unlit shader to the lit one, so they are exactly the same. Tho I am also using shader graph

[fringe pine]

Oh ok sweet!

[fringe pine]

Also, I think you can manually cast shadows from unlit shaders

So you can still have shadows even if it isn't lit it just takes a bit more work 🥲

[wispy comet]

So I could have shadows from say, a tree, cast on the unlit shader somehow?

[fringe pine]

Is shadergraph extremely slow?

Or no? For some reason, results are showing up in my preview, but not my main preview, and not my main scene

[fringe pine]

Yes, I followed a tutorial by nedmakesgames that made an unlit shader that cast shadows and could have shadows cast on it, but it was code, I'm sure a shadergraph solution might exist, but I haven't really looked into it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bm0McKAh9E&ab_channel=NedMakesGames

This is the second part of his series and unfortunately it's mostly in code. But it's definitely doable in an unlit shader

[wispy comet]

did you remember to click "save asset" in the shadergraph?

[fringe pine]

Yes

There is no star, I dunno if its because my custom function is over 100 lines but Ive seen the shadergraph generated code

Its a lot longer than that and still runs D:

Ok its fine I just have an error somewhere

Weird though, I mean I still need to figure out where

Preview

Nothing in main??

No changes in scene??

[wispy comet]

ended up watching the whole video... very cool! Might have to try this to give my slimes a more toon look lol

[fringe pine]

Yayy!! :D Yes it would look super cool

[shut smelt]

Trying to pixelate a trail renderer, anyone know if this still makes sense as a solution? and if so, how can I do that without knowing a ton about rendering

[haughty garnet]

Can look up how to create a pixelated shader and slap one onto it

[shut smelt]

I tried doing that, but it seemed like it required a sprite

Or pixel perfect camera, which I also don't want to use

https://youtu.be/Bmhj7RgVDzc?si=oB2oByKmD35hUdah
This is the one I tried, is it different to what you're saying?

[haughty garnet]

uh, I mean it's just a mesh that's stretched (linked with other quads) and the shader will allow you to manipulate the uvs

[shut smelt]

Yeah I got the UV thing but how do I actually apply that the the trail?

[haughty garnet]

I'm pretty sure you can just drop the material right into it

[shut smelt]

That just made it the UV color, and also not pixelated

Basically I got stuck here

[haughty garnet]

Thought I had a pixel shader but probably buried in one of my other projects

but seems to works fine for a bunch of my other shaders

that video looks fine, what's wrong with it

[shut smelt]

Where do I plug the UV value into?

[haughty garnet]

you need a texture 2d

same as video

[shut smelt]

but what texture do i put here

[haughty garnet]

Oh, you don't want to use a texture? I guess you can just ignore it then

I'm pretty sure it should just use the mesh colors

[shut smelt]

Still not pixelated, and now it's just white

[haughty garnet]

I'm trying to understand what you mean by pixelating without texture or image

because if it's a solid color, you don't really have that distortion

[shut smelt]

It's a gradient

Plus, even if it was just solid, the edges would still need to be pixelated

[haughty garnet]

Ah, true

that's more of a vertex shader though then

or I guess it could work with shifting alpha values

[shut smelt]

So is this anything?

[haughty garnet]

Ah, ok yeah you can just plug the UVs into the base color

but for the hard edges you do need some sort of alpha values and alpha clipping probably

[shut smelt]

On the thing that says fragment?

For me that just makes it the yellow green color that the UV is

[haughty garnet]

once you divide it you can stick it directly into the color buffer (ah, you also need to multiply by the vertex color node if you want the vertex gradient)

I would suggest some texture that mimics some distortion like noise

this way you can then get some alpha to chop off

or even just throw in a noise node into it all idk I'm not sure the target look it all ;p

[forest yoke]

Hi I am relatively new to the URP, is it normal that my UI sprites are not rendering at all when Im assigning a material? Like in my case I want to use a render texture material and it is visible in the preview but as soon as Im starting it disappears (also happens with every other material)

[haughty garnet]

https://i.imgur.com/K0F2JN1.png
Basically just using a noise texture and clipping out the alpha values

if you want that terrible old ps1 AA though that probably needs some more tricks

[shut smelt]

It's 2d lol

[haughty garnet]

can probably do some vertex shenanigans'

[shut smelt]

I'll investigate whatever that means tomorrow

[haughty garnet]

https://i.imgur.com/9CTuJis.png

texture just some noise

can probably use a noise node too

[shut smelt]

I'm basically just trying to have it be low res, I don't need to have those holes in it

[haughty garnet]

there's also a tile method on the line render to pixelate it a bit more, otherwise you can probably divide it again or something

[shut smelt]

But I'll try it when I get the chance

[haughty garnet]

make yourself a noise folder

and what you do is chuck them into the textures

[fervent leaf]

Quick question - does OpenGL es 3.1 support rendering to a texture array, ie. set the render target as a slice of a texture 2d array?

I tried to use texture 2d array to host the shadow maps of additional lights. However when launching the Unity editor with -force-gles31, it gives me the error “Assertion failed on expression: 'rs->dim == kTexDim2D || rs->dim == kTexDimCUBE'”
I cannot see any call stack on this error, so my best estimation is due to rt dimensions

[terse vector]

Hey, I am using URP and I have an orthographic camera, directly placed over the Z axis. I have 2 thin plates, however sometimes they are not being shown or being cut off depending on how I move the camera. Is there a way to make them always shown?

[long igloo]

Hello everyone. Is there a way to fill ("paint") the insides of the cube? So if for example it will have a "transparent hole" in the middle, then the borders of that "hole" will be "painted" as well

[haughty garnet]

You'd probably want to make yourself a custom cube for that in blender then so you can visually map the uvs

[long igloo]

Hmm, I suppose that is the way. Will try, thanks

[blazing gull]

I am doing a "curved world" effect with a shader. I need to move my lights to match the resulting curve (so that the lights appear in the correct position).

I move the lights in response to RenderPipelineManager.beginCameraRendering and then put them back in response to RenderPipelineManager.endCameraRendering.

However, this is causing the lights to get culled early, causing pop-in. See the video for an example.

Increasing the range of a light that's currently not working can cause it to start working, but that's not going to be a reasonable solution (i'll run out of per-object lights!)

Here is how it looks in the scene view.

If I incresae the radius of the first broken light, it will start working

notably, if I reduce the curve strength to zero, all of the lights show up

I messed with https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Light-boundingSphereOverride.html but it didn't seem to do anything

( i tried values like [0,0,0,1000] )

( and i did enable useBoundingSphereOverride there )

I am unclear on what's actually preventing these lights from working. I wonder if Unity is deciding that they're too far from anything that can receive the light, and thus culling them?

https://gdl.space/iqoxivohil.cpp This script is attached to each light.

Ah, that is not correct. If I put a box next to the light, it's clearly working

The box does not have the bend shader on it.

possibly relevant note: I override the bounds of all mesh renderers on the track segments so that they're never culled

[blazing gull]

But still -- perhaps it's deciding that the light can't possibly interact with the tunnel?

Yeah, that's it. If I add some random geometry to the tunnel that sticks out all over the place, the issue goes away

[wispy comet]

so from this tutorial I tried to create a custom shadow using unlit shader graph, however, whenever I apply a shadow texture the texture appears over the whole object instead of just in the shadow. Any ideas?

[scarlet lava]

hi ,
how do i enable the hdr color intensity effect ( to make it glow ) ?
in other urp scenes when i increase the intenisty the object starts to glow

[dry willow]

That glow comes from Bloom, in the post processing volume

[scarlet lava]

Yes thanks ❤️ ❤️

[fringe pine]

Should rim light (in a cell/cartoony shader) be something that is happening up close, or should the distance not matter?
Im not sure when the rim light should disappear, if at all. I know that it might be personal preference in the shader but I don't even have a good idea of what is the general preferred distance for rim lighting to show up in a shader

[fringe pine]

Im about to follow this tutorial now! Im sorry I have no idea :[

maybe check the YT comments to see if anyone had a similar issue? If I run into the same issue and solve it Ill lyk; I just "implemented" rim lighting (not sure if it's actually correct because it disappears when you get too far away Dx), so Im moving on to texturing shadows

[wispy comet]

someone did and he said to message him on discord. I look for the discord link and it is expired x_X

[fringe pine]

Nooo Q__Q

[wispy comet]

it's really weird this is what it looks like if I change the shadow color to white and the texture to black

[fringe pine]

Can I see ur nodes?

[wispy comet]

Yes one second gotta boot it up lol

[fringe pine]

Maybe it might be a bit different depending on the version you are using because that has happened to me a lot following tutorials Dx I cannot follow exactly, just implement the logic, or else my visual result will look funky

I feel like the tweak has to be very minor though

[wispy comet]

it's a lot - 2nd biggest shader I have done after the sky

[fringe pine]

Is the visual result in shadergraph correct?

Oh wait, actually scratch that my shadergraph previews always look bad lmao

[wispy comet]

main preview just shows base gradient I applied and not the shadows

[fringe pine]

Ok i think Im gonna follow the video first Im sorry I couldn't help much! Im using unity v. 2020.3 so if Im able to get it, maybe I could share what I did, although it might not translate

Sorry I couldnt be much help Dx

[wispy comet]

I think I am on 2021.3.23 so only a little bit off lol

no you're fine

[fringe pine]

Does anyone have any good places to start on creating a look like this in Unity? I have edge detection and toonshading implemented, however I think these shadows look pretty neat and would like to branch out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmS5aQEA1Xw&ab_channel=rocketcarmike

I think specifically like this video, where the shadow texture wraps around/seems to grow? I don't know how to describe it, but it's not bounded by a hard edge it just kinda fades off

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/oAZxlB
This is the best example I could find of what I mean

[warped sphinx]

How do I use the non-Matrix4x4 version of "Graphics.RenderMeshInstanced"?
I thought you just had to match the name of the extra variable to whatever is set as instanced property in your shader, but apparently that's not it.
The doc doesn't details about custom data structure (outside of "yeah, that exist") and the only Github I can find apparently gave up and is using Material.SetBuffer instead.

[fringe pine]

https://www.ronja-tutorials.com/post/040-halftone-shading/

Found something if anyone else was curious

[dry willow]

The docs page suggests if using the struct version, it will only pass specific variables to the gpu - Matrix4x4 objectToWorld, uint renderingLayerMask and Matrix4x4 prevObjectToWorld. Any custom ones are ignored, so if you need them you'd probably use your own buffer.

[warped sphinx]

Ah. Guess the doc make more sense then, although it mean the functionality is near useless.
Well, I had already started to write my code without that and using Material.Set instead, guess that was the right call.
Thanks.

[karmic wolf]

I want to negate the normals of an object when you are looking the back face of it, as light does not seem to affect it. Why can't i connect this to the Normal(3)? (i use 2020 LTS)

the problem seems to be happening when i am trying to add the is front face value to the boolean, why is that?

[dry willow]

Is Front Face can only be used in the Fragment stage. You'd want to invert the normal there, not the vertex stage

[karmic wolf]

Isn't the Normal (in Tangent Space) located in Fragment different from the Vertex Normal?

do you mean i should change what am i inverting?

[dry willow]

See https://www.cyanilux.com/faq/#sg-two-sided-shading

[karmic wolf]

ok nvm i understood

i forgot to change the conversion

apologies for the ping

😅

and thanks

[normal orbit]

Hey guys, what's a cool URP asset these days?

[shut smelt]

Still stuck on trying to make a pixelated trail, I currently have something that pixelates the texture but has 2 problems: One, it doesn't actually change the shape of the trail to be pixelated, and two, it requires a texture to work, and I need it to work without one since I'm just using a gradient for the color

[marble vigil]

Shaders have very limited ability to modify their geometry, being only able to move vertices they cannot "pixelate" the shape

Why could you not use gradients with textures?

[shut smelt]

It doesn't seem to pixelate the color change

Only the base texture

Ok I think I remembered it wrong because I can't even get the color to change at all if I'm using a texture

Also I get this like 8 times when I enter play mode, any idea how to fix that?

[shut smelt]

Idk what this really means, but would this be a viable option?

[marble vigil]

Probably not related to what you're doing

[shut smelt]

I mean, the question was "How can I pixelate a trail renderer"

[marble vigil]

I mean the error/warning

[shut smelt]

Ah, ok

[marble vigil]

This is viable but kind of cumbersome, especially if your trail's size changes significantly, as Render Target textures usually have a fixed size
Render Targets are used to output to textures from secondary cameras

Another option is to set the trail width much wider than they need to be relative to the line texture within, so the edges won't be visible after pixelation

[shut smelt]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking I would do

[marble vigil]

Or in some cases you can render a chain of sprites instead of a line, which then can be snapped to pixels

[shut smelt]

I can share a vid of it if that would help

[marble vigil]

More information is usually good!

[shut smelt]

I just want the trail to be the same resolution as the sprite

[marble vigil]

All three methods are applicable I think, each one has some drawbacks

[shut smelt]

Can you explain them?

I really don't have any idea what I'm doing

[marble vigil]

1. Render Target textures, which you'd use to capture a region of the screen around the player of the trail and render it on a quad or a sprite. A bit technical to set up
2. Increase trail width and shrink the trail texture within it so you can use your pixelation shader now with extra space before the pixels spill over the trail geometry edges
3. Make multiple sprites that compose the flame and arrange them in a chain along the trail's length. A bit manual to set up and you need code and math to make the chain
4. Use the pixel perfect camera with Upscale Render Texture, now everything's perfectly and uniformly pixelated. However you can't exclude anything from it and you must follow the pixel perfect workflow in full

[shut smelt]

2 sounds like the best option but I still don't really understand how you get to that point

I can't get any pixelation on the trail at all without a texture

[marble vigil]

4 is the best option unless you have some reason to avoid the pixel perfect camera

[shut smelt]

I tried 4 already

[marble vigil]

And?

[shut smelt]

I've used it for other stuff and it would be a pain to have to make the game with that in mind

I also tried camera layering it

but i couldn't line them up exactly

[marble vigil]

Using a wider trail should solve the original problem of the trail geometry cutting off the pixelation
But it sounds like there's something else amiss with the pixelation shader itself

[shut smelt]

Exactly

It needs a texture to work, and unless I can replicate the trail renderer gradient, I can't use one

[marble vigil]

Why could you not?
Also, when using trail renderers it's best not to use the size over length curve, but instead draw the taper onto the texture to avoid UV distortion issues

[shut smelt]

Well, as I said before, I have no idea what I'm doing

Is it just layed out as a rectangle in the texture or would I need to do something more complicated?

[marble vigil]

The pixelation needs to be done in screen space, most importantly
You could ask about that in #archived-shaders

[shut smelt]

Believe it or not they told me to go here

So that's fun

[visual needle]

any tips for reducing build times for a game in URP

like im certain a lot of this stuff is unnecessary

it is currently a huge fan of taking a shitload of time to prepare a bunch of shader variants

(this is my fourth render attempt; the last one took 11 minutes and I stopped it halfway)

any advice for tightening this up?

[visual needle]

its still going somehow

[fringe pine]

Is there any way to get the halftone shading to stop stretching/wrapping around objects like that? I just want it to look the same no matter where you look at it from

By stopping stretching/wrapping I mean kinda like this, but the texture is constrained to the shadow areas, however it doesn't change from whatever angle you look at it

Do I need to not sample texture UVs or do something with world or screen space or any other space coordinates?

I FIXED IT it was using view space coordinates

[karmic wolf]

I am making a small glitching-like effect for some enemies in my game (Sprite Lit). While the following does what i desire, the colors seem to be affected by their surrounding objects, which is not what i want to achieve. I'm kinda lost, how can i fix it?

[pearl parrot]

Is there anyway on how to make the shadows pure black?

[marble vigil]

Shadow color comes from the ambient lighting
If you set your ambient light source to a black color, the shadows should be so too

[pearl parrot]

If I do that, the walls or ceiling will have some pure black sides.

I'm trying to avoid that.

[strong aspen]

either make the ambient light a slightly dark gray, or bake lighting

[small drift]

Hey folks, since I'm using the URP only, is there a way to hide the built in shaders from the shader picker? Pretty much none of these wok anyway so they're just getting in the way...

[haughty garnet]

Probably can remove them from the directories

Hopefully that won't crash anything when an asset needs to be created with one of them ;)

[sinful gorge]

I'd say make a feature request on the Unity roadmap to hide BiRP shaders when using SRP!

[wild bobcat]

hello, i can't find anything about that visual glitch on internet, is this a known issue ? (happen only when compiled, those glitch are static and are different on every compilation)

[wild bobcat]

I corrected the problem by touching a bit of everything, so I have no idea how I did it (sorry)

[haughty garnet]

looks like you've slid the intensity slider up on some post processing

[spring depot]

I am getting these two errors on android in build and I cant find a sollution to fix them, a cause for it, or anything at all online 🤔
Whats causing this and how do I disable or stop it? Unity version 2022.3.10f1

they fire every frame and the frame debugger and profiler show the slowdown is caused due to stuff I dont really comprehend:

semaphor wait for signal is eating all my performance

Ive tried everything that comes up when you google any of those terms, nothing has worked

the errors only occur on that one device, samsung galaxy A14

no other device that I can test with has this issue

but not using this device / not supporting it is not an option

I require assistance, how do I debug this? how do I find the cause? How do I fix whatever is going wrong?

[sinful gorge]

Are those faster? This most likely a GPU or overheating issue

[leaden schooner]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMqio9NsqmM
I'm following this video for a outline shader. though I'm way in over my head have no idea what to do with the Scriptable Render Feature script which seems to affect all objects in the scene? it should be linked to a shader graph but some things aren't being shown in the video. does anyone know what I'm trying to do? xD

[haughty garnet]

There's actually a more UI approach if you prefer that by using these
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@11.0/manual/renderer-features/how-to-custom-effect-render-objects.html

As you can see from the docs that you can override the material on specific layers

[leaden schooner]

I mean I'm willing to learn

[spring depot]

It does this the instant the game runs so I dont think its overheating
My device is a galaxy A14 so its not a slow or old phone

[leaden schooner]

it's just that I'm missing information from this video. it's not really a tutorial

[spring depot]

https://bgolus.medium.com/the-quest-for-very-wide-outlines-ba82ed442cd9

this is my goto doc if you're looking to make outlines

he covers pretty much every outline method and its failings

[haughty garnet]

The video seems pretty straight forward and he applies the shader to the whole scene view if that's what you're looking for, but bgolus also has a library of info so check their stuff out too.

[leaden schooner]

I think I figured out some stuff, I checked the code and it's looking for a specific shader by name

[leaden schooner]

I keep crashing my Unity for some reason xD I add the render feature to the URP SO and after some messing around and alt tabbing I can't get back in.

[fringe pine]

Holy shit you also doing outlines??

I have something somewhat working, I can send what I used!

I also watched that video and it was also way over my head, even when I started working more with URP so you're not alone

https://roystan.net/articles/outline-shader/

This tutorial is for 2018, but I recommend following along in that version to get a basic understanding of how to get outlines

As for getting the scriptable renderer feature file to get outlines on the screen, lemme see if I can find the resource I used

[leaden schooner]

thanks but these renderer features have intrigued me, I think I should learn more about them specifically

[fringe pine]

https://ameye.dev/notes/edge-detection-outlines/

[fringe pine]

Oh the second article has some more about outlines and getting the scriptable renderer feature to apply them to the screen, but also Cyan in this server has a great website for learning about SRP and getting the renderer feature to work too

https://www.cyanilux.com/tutorials/custom-renderer-features/#edge-detection

This was very helpful for me

It also has a bunch of links cool articles to effects you can try out!

Idk I was very excited when I got mine to first work I guess thats why Im so enthusiastic lol

[leaden schooner]

thanks I'll check it out

I guess I won't since my Unity won't respond the moment it opens now :I

[thin spire]

Hi all

I am having a problem with my URP baked lighting.

For some reason, it becomes all fucked up when it finishes baking (one without the emission).

Never had this problem before, what is it being caused by?

Any ideas? Please help )))))))):

Nevermind, figured it out.

[turbid trail]

Hi I'm missing settings, how do I fix? first is mine, second is what i need

[haughty garnet]

What pipeline you're using?

oh this is urp

[turbid trail]

Yea turns out I had to update unity and get a update for URP

[haughty garnet]

OH

ok it's not urp but it is in the urp channel oh, urp didn't originally have material override

;)

I just noticed there isn't a built-in pipeline channel

[tepid turtle]

I'm trying to make a pixel art shader for my 3d project, and it is working, but I recently discovered that my rendered camera isn't aligning the pixels properly as you can see the crosshairs are either distorted or shaking, and I can't find a way to fix that issue. Can someone help?

I'm following this tutorial to achieve that pixelated look https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8xlPP4qgVo

[blazing gull]

I want to darken everything in the scene except for a handful of objects. Ideally, I'd like to have this effect start at a distance, then close in (imagine fog rolling in)

My lighting is 100% realtime right now

So I can put the key objects on their own light layer and then make the other lights dim

but I'd really like to be able to do a distance-fog effect that just skips the key objects

these objects are also on their own layers

[marble vigil]

I think I'd probably make a shader that can apply custom fog
Either in a lit graph to lerp everything to blackness, or in an unlit shader that re-implements lighting and lets you dim out specific elements of the lighting

[blazing gull]

The hard part is controlling what it affects.

Maybe I need to whack this problem with the stencil buffer?

One helpful thing is that I'm already writing my own custom shader for everything

it's a curved-world shader (just like Arcayle is talking about, haha)

I realized I can just lerp the albedo towards black based on distance to a world point

I'll need to also adjust metallicity and smoothness so that the material goes completely dark

I'd prefer some kind of selective fog effect, but this will work perfectly well for this particular game

[marble vigil]

What's hard about it?
Materials with that shader are affected, ones without are not

[marble vigil]

and AO and specularity (if using specular workflow which may work better than metallic in this case)
If if you want it to be really an accurate dimming you'll probably have to re-implement lighting and dim those out specifically instead

[blazing gull]

If it were a post-processing effect, I mean.

[marble vigil]

Does it have to be?

[blazing gull]

Nope! It was just the original idea I had

It'd be nice to be able to create the effect without every shader in the scene having to support it

if I wasn't using the same shader for everything, that'd be more of a concern

[marble vigil]

Hmm with post processing you could produce the fog from the depth texture, and then use render objects to render the excluded objects after

[blazing gull]

hm, that'd work

I was messing with the render objects pass

so I'd punt the key objects into their own layer, and then draw everything in that layer after the fog is applied

[marble vigil]

But I'm unclear if that lets you still have the render object rendered objects have depth occlusion

[cosmic marsh]

Hey folks. I'm working to debug why my 2D, topdown RTS game is suffering from low rendering fps on fast modern gaming PCs. At the main menu I get 1250fps, and with just the tilemap I get 850fps. The game itself supports a number of graphical options, turning off lights, shadows, the materials on all the gameobjects and so on. The delta between a high quality scene and a high-performance scene is only 10%, which has me wondering if the bottleneck is elsewhere. Analysis is done with Timescale = 0, so all the AI and custom scripts and physics are effectively paused. From profiling a Dev build, it does appear that Rendering and the Script-side of rendering is a bottleneck. I'm seeing about 200 draw calls in high performance mode, and 550 draw calls with all the goodies turned on. Toggling the various batching modes does little to affect performance. Viewing a blank area of the screen is 300fps paused. Viewing with 200 gameobjects on the screen falls to 120. This tells me the 200 objects are still making a significant performance impact even when off screen and supposedly culled. The Render Debugger says the game is CPU bound. Just curious how folks dig into identifying and optimizing URP for maximum benefit in a 2D game RTS like this. Thanks!

[blazing gull]

What's the nicest way to set properties on the material that a Full Screen Pass is using?

The first thing that came to mind was just directly editing the material. This will create version control churn, since those changes persist...

Then I thought about referencing the FullScreenRenderPassFeature assets and setting the material they point to at runtime. But now I'm messing with scriptable object assets...

Although, those changes don't persist to disk (last time I checked, at least), so maybe I'll just do that

ah, but it leads to big spam. i'll have to re-assign the material when play mode ends

It also shows up as a "type mismatch" after assigning a duplicated material to it

[blazing gull]

since we're flying off into XY problem territory here: I want to control a post-processing effect with the volume framework

I think I wound up just writing my own custom pass when I did this a year ago, but I'd prefer if I could just re-use the existing renderer feature...

[blazing gull]

I guess this is becaues the material isn't from an asset. Still works.

[marble vigil]

https://www.febucci.com/2022/05/custom-post-processing-in-urp/ this article has instructions to that

Maybe the new fullscreen pass documentation includes that too but I faintly recall it didn't

[blazing gull]

oh, whoops, that's exactly the one I followed last year, lmao

I forgot about it

okay, yeah, it uses its own render pass

[strong aspen]

URP already has a feature called render scale in the URP quality settings that you can use to get a pixelated look in your game without any shaders or custom rendering

[marble vigil]

That's a good point

Still, the same issue would persist

[strong aspen]

UI should not be affected by the render scale

[marble vigil]

I think the goal is to have the crosshairs be pixelated, but not have the nearest-neighbor roujnding errors caused by sub-pixel motion

Snap them to pixels in other words

[strong aspen]

in that case just have a pixelated crosshair sprite

[marble vigil]

Perhaps that's adequate, though it won't result in an authentic look

If it's UI there's the "pixel perfect" setting that can snap UI elements to pixels, but not to a larger-than-native pixel grid as far as I know

The most accurate solution might be to snap the crosshairs to a grid that's calculated from the real screen dimensions and the pixelated screen dimensions using scripts

[strong aspen]

that feels like overcomplicating it

[marble vigil]

If pixel-perfectness is not the goal, then it would be
Otherwise I'm not sure there is a better solution to ensure that the pixels line up

[strong aspen]

maby if instead of moving the crosshair using floats you use an int, that should give it a snappier look

[marble vigil]

Oh I forgot the scale is also a problem
If the ratio of PPU and scale are not exact, the crosshair will occupy adjacent pixels partially, thus when snapping to it its size will seem to fluctuate by one pixel which also looks like what we're seeing in the video

[marble vigil]

Using ints is like snapping to a grid of whole numbers, but as we measure screen position in either pixel dimensions or a normalized position, that gives us options between snapping to every native pixel, or to each corner of the screen
Neither of which would probably solve the problem

This issue is basically what "pixel perfect rendering" and the pixel perfect component were created to solve

[strong aspen]

should we just wait to see what the guy actually wants?

[marble vigil]

Hmm do we really need him

[strong aspen]

yes?

[tepid turtle]

Hey, and yes I do want my hud to be snappy while letting my game have a pixelated look to make my game truly pixel-perfect. Also, the crosshair and the other hud elements are already pixel art

@marble vigil @strong aspen I have heard about pixel snapping, but I don't know how it works

[vale monolith]

hello guys, if i need some help in custom rendering feature can i ask it here?

[marble vigil]

Basically it calculates the position and scale for the sprite so that each sprite pixel is mapped and snapped perfectly to each screen pixel once
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.2d.pixel-perfect@5.0/manual/index.html

Problem could be I'm not sure if it works with perspective camera

You may have to have one camera where everything is 3D and pixelated, and another overlayed camera where everything is 2D with fake perspective parallax
Or so you would have in built-in render pipeline

URP wants you to go to hell if you ever wanted to mix 2D and 3D

[tepid turtle]

The game itself uses perspective while the hud and crosshairs use an orthographic camera

[marble vigil]

That's a sensible way to do it
Unfortunately URP made the pixel perfect component 2D Renderer exclusive, and in turn made the 2D Renderer disable 3D rendering features

[tepid turtle]

Does that mean I will be unable to use that component at all?

[marble vigil]

You could try
I think the compatibility was slightly expanded in one of the newer editor versions

Pixel snapping of sprites might work, but only on ortho camera
Pixel perfect component normally comes with the option to pixelate the whole rendered image according to the reference resolution but that's disabled without URP2D iirc

If I were making a project with those kind of visuals I wouldn't even consider URP over BiRP as much as I like URP
Whoever decided to arbitrarily disable mixing of 2D and 3D features set back progress quite a bit

[tepid turtle]

I have 2D pixel perfect installed, but i don't see the snapping component in the edit menu

@marble vigil Does that mean it is still incompatible?

[marble vigil]

Snapping is not the component, "pixel perfect camera" is and it's attached to an ortho camera

[tepid turtle]

You mean this?

[marble vigil]

Yes

[tepid turtle]

I tried changing the assets pixels per unit, reference resolution and grid snapping, and it doesn't work

Also, my HUD elements aren't rendered with the pixel perfect camera only

[marble vigil]

UI are not sprites so they can't use the same system, at least not if they're in screen space overlay mode
Anyway, pixel perfect camera is a bit complicated to understand how to set up in ideal conditions, let alone when using only a partially working version of it

If your project was using BiRP then it might be worthwhile to try
Otherwise you may be stuck making your own similar snapping math using scripts

[cosmic marsh]

Hey there. This asset may interest you: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/camera/smooth-pixel-perfect-camera-256262 I've used the shadows/water from the developer, and they have a discord. I've not used this asset myself, but it may have advantages over the built-in one.

[long crest]

Hi, I'm having an issue with building my porject on widows with URP.
It gives me the follwing message :

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
UnityEngine.Rendering.RenderPipelineGraphicsSettingsStripper.PerformStripping (System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T] settingsList, System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T] runtimeSettingsList) (at ./Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.core@16.0.4/Runtime/Stripping/RenderPipelineGraphicsSettingsStripper.cs:43)
UnityEngine.Rendering.RenderPipelineGraphicsSettingsContainer.OnBeforeSerialize () (at ./Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.core@16.0.4/Runtime/RenderPipeline/RenderPipelineGraphicsSettingsContainer.cs:44)
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent(Int32, IntPtr, Boolean&)

Does anyone has any ideay how to debug this ?

[steep fern]

I am reading up on emissive materials and notice that they can only light objects that are static, lightmap static, or dynamic objects with the help of light probes. I am thinking of a game that have a bunch of small glowing emissive objects moving around, and a bunch of non-glowing emissive objects also moving around, and the glowing ones would light up the non-glowing ones a little. I am currently using Unity DOTS. Is this a fool's errand or is it possible to achieve?

[marble vigil]

No such thing as realtime emissives (without raytracing or path tracing)
Closest thing you can hope for is to approximate the emissives using a lot of shadowless point lights with deferred or forward+ rendering path

[supple galleon]

someone tell me why this looks so good?

(im making a tank game)

Pvpmania

just dont look at the tracks yeat

its not finished so it looks very bad

and the suspension settings

[tidal pond]

urp sucks at making night time lighting

either that or im doing it very wrong

[marble vigil]

Not really a common complaint
What "night time lighting" precisely means varies a lot by visual style so it may help to give some more details if you want advice

[tidal pond]

Think phasmophobia.. Do they use URP, how would one get lighting similar to that. Dark, foggy type lighting. Horror style I guess?

[marble vigil]

I don't recall them doing anything special
They had scenes with just incredibly dark ambience and few lights

[tidal pond]

Well for instance I'll remove my directional light hoping it will be "dark" yet its just

not

Still "light"

[marble vigil]

Ambient light from the environment

[tidal pond]

Oh shit yeah forgot about ambient lights

[marble vigil]

The sky is a light source by default, though I believe you'll have to generate lighting if you swap it or set environment light source to something else

(just disable realtime GI and baked GI before generating lighting if you aren't doing baked lightmapping)

[tidal pond]

managed to get pitch black with this

[marble vigil]

You may want to use an actual black skybox material to avoid potential graphical weirdness in the future

[tidal pond]

Okay

🙂

this is great

[tidal pond]

😄

[strange egret]

One of the assets I am using has an alpha mask

How do I connect it in urp materials

[jolly quail]

hi, so i will spawn decals with est total around 1000 and because i will instantiate it i use GPU instancing, and when i check the draw call it's looking good 1 draw call, have many instance object, but for some reason it's still lagging? i thought as long as we have fewer draw call there will be no lag? or did i get it wrong? (this project is for VR with vulkan graphic API)

[jolly quail]

alpha clip

[gentle peak]

i'm getting these errors after opening an empty project. i deleted hub, editor and all the files but the error still exists. never had smth like this before these are new. my editor: 2021.3.19

[plain condor]

Any idea why my texture isn't the size of the plane here?

Is it because the texture isn't square or a power of 2?

[atomic schooner]

I set the roughness to the minimum to achieve a brightness

[hushed dirge]

unity expects the textures with a certain layout that substance may not be using, is there a unity preset?

[plain condor]

Does anyone know why this is a problem in URP?
material.SetColor("_BaseMap", new Color(1.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f));

[dry willow]

_BaseMap is a texture, not a color. Did you mean _BaseColor?

[plain condor]

Ops... I looked it up and then misread it. Can you not set them both, like this:

material.SetColor("_BaseColor", new Color(1.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f));
material.SetTexture("_BaseMap", mapTexture2D);

When I have the color set its overriding the texture?

[dry willow]

It depends on the shader used, but usually the colour should just tint the texture. Should be fine to set both.

[plain condor]

@dry willowYes, it does seem to be working... Its just much stronger (even with the alpha set to 0.01f) than I expected. Thank!

[vital bay]

Why is it that when I just turned everything off for URP, I have FPS 12, and when I decided to use the built-in RP, I have FPS 35?

[plain condor]

I set the red pixels to an alpha of zero, but it isn't transparent?

Code

colorArray[y * width + x] = new Color(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);

// More stuff and then...

mapTexture2D.SetPixels(0,0,width,height, colorArray);
mapTexture2D.Apply();

[marble vigil]

You'll also have to use a shader that renders the whole thing with transparency or alpha clipping

[plain condor]

I thought that shader did transparent renders. What shader do you recommend?

I'm using:

Material material = new Material(Shader.Find("Universal Render Pipeline/Lit"));

Thanks

[dry willow]

The shader supports transparency but it needs to be enabled through keywords/properties/etc - usually set by the ShaderGUI. It would be way easier to create a Material asset for this rather than trying to create one through code. (That also ensures the shader variants required are actually compiled in the build)

[plain condor]

Its been a while since I've used Shader graph. I'll have to go watch a refresher video to see how to set transparency.

[dry willow]

I mean that works, but a custom shader isn't really what I was suggesting. The URP/Lit shader does support transparency, it's just easier to create a Material asset rather than trying to create one in C#.

Right-click in assets, Create -> Material. In the inspector, can change it's shader, but should already be using the URP/Lit shader by default. Should have settings like Surface Type to make it Transparent (or can use Opaque & Alpha Clipping if you don't need partial values)
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@17.0/manual/lit-shader.html

Can still then edit it further in C# by passing a reference to it, like using a public field, or GetComponent<Renderer>().sharedMaterial/(.material if you want a clone/instance)

[daring zephyr]

Any ideas why Inl_UniversalRenderer.CreateCameraRenderTarget is causing GC alloc?

[plain condor]

Almost impossible to find the settings. But this works:

material.SetOverrideTag("RenderType", "TransparentCutout");
material.EnableKeyword("_ALPHATEST_ON");
material.renderQueue = 2450;

I wish I knew how to search Unity help for URP specific things...

[lament raven]

I get the first error too, on 2021.3.6f1 . Deleting the library folder inside the project and re-opening the project from the Hub worked for me

[gentle peak]

Thank you I've figured it out that latest URP package version doesn't support my editor version. Hub tend to use latest URP package when we create a new project, that conflict issued that

[lament raven]

oh i see, thanks! ✨

[gentle peak]

You're welcome

[plucky sapphire]

Hey guys,
I'm trying to do 2D sprites in 3D, and works ok, but the ambient occlusion wont show on the sprite (it works fine on other 3d objects in the scene)
Anyone know how i can make it work?

[marble vigil]

They'd have to be opaque with alpha clip, not transparent like sprite materials normally are

[plucky sapphire]

Got it working, thank you!

[fiery cave]

Hi guys, I am running urp project unity 2023.1 and I propably start it is as 2d project. I switch renderer URP to 3d so textures are working right now, but when I am import textures to project, they are imported by default as sprites. Can I fully switch to 3d ? 🤔

[dry willow]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/2DAnd3DModeSettings.html

[fiery cave]

Thank you so much 😊

[quasi dove]

After updating my project to 2023.2.0f1 my full screen pass features seem to be broken. It seems related to post-processing(it initially states that post-processing is missing, but enabling the basic inverted full screen pass example is also broken, only showing in scene view and not in game. Disabling post-processing fixes the inverted pass, but leaves the screen blurry and does not fix my custom pass). I've followed all the suggestions here: https://forum.unity.com/threads/postprocesspass-render-pass-will-not-execute.1136572/ but none seem to work.

[marble vigil]

Updated from which version?

Double triple checking that you tried to make new fresh pipeline assets since those have some hidden values that can break and can be incompatible between versions

[quasi dove]

latest LTS version, I think 2022.3.15f1

maybe it's the render pipelines then, I'll check them out thanks

[quasi dove]

yeah I created completely new renderer assets and still no luck

[marble vigil]

That's a big leap
The way custom post processing passes are implemented is in flux and likely has changed between the two
May have to follow instructions again for the new version

[quasi dove]

yeah I'm going through the process of just transferring everything into a fresh project

[quasi dove]

turns out that for some reason fullscreen render passes do not work with a render scale < 1 in the pipeline asset if you have the scaling mode set to nearest neighbor

[gleaming yarrow]

Why is this prototype room of mine allowing light through? There shouldn't be any openings (quite a beginner to the graphic side of unity)

[placid laurel]

Are you using probuilder

If so, duplicate the room and flip the normals, I remember having this exact issue before and that's how I fixed it

[pulsar topaz]

Just joined this server and found what I need right away, thank you so much :'D

[oblique pier]

Like pointed out above, your 3D objects need two-sided faces to block light coming from the outside.
Either duplicate and flip the geometry or use a double-sided shader/material

[cosmic marsh]

Awesome! Good luck with it.

[gritty locust]

How to use occlusion culling on one camera and not on both cameras (I have normal camera and minimal camera, each has own layers they can see)

[vital spoke]

Hi everyone. I have a little problem: I´m trying to found an option call "Transparency Sort Mode" in Unity Projects Settings. But I just don´t see it (Maybe bc my project is URP). Somebody know something about this? I´m trying to make a 2D TopDown project

[lusty onyx]

its on the URP Settings

on the SO

[vital spoke]

"SO"? I´m sorry, I´m new on this

[lusty onyx]

Scriptable Object

[vital spoke]

TY so much

[cerulean viper]

does anone know how i can get the urp decal proector to work in vr ? it works in viewport but in vr it just isnt visible

[pseudo jacinth]

Is it possible to give individual tiles in a tilemap their own shader?

Maybe a bit of an XY problem, what I really require is to add color values to every sprite individually, like it starts with 0r0g10b and adding 10g to it makes it 0r10g10b

But of course tile colors are set to multiply instead of addition

[marble vigil]

That a problem? Shouldn't matter that the result is multiplicative if you calculate the color addition in script

[pseudo jacinth]

What do you mean?

Ah sorry, the sprite itself consists of a blue value BEFORE I add anything to it

The image itself is blue and then later with code I need to be able to add green and red

[marble vigil]

You'd make the sprite white, set color in script to blue to begin with

Then add what's needed

[pseudo jacinth]

It's not a perfect blue value, it's multiple blues

Let me show u

[heady marsh]

what's the best way to accomplish a better looking height map? I'm not entirely happy with the default shaders method, it just kind of projects the texture so you end up with a stacked look:

[upper axle]

Is anyone able to open the fancy new URP sample scenes? I try to create a project using them, in 2022.3.6f1 and it crashes Unity on startup. And they don't seem to be available for 2023.2 or 2023.1
(This is aboue the Oasis, garden, Japanese temple, etc examples for URP).

OK, so opening it in 2022.3.15f1 manages to open the fancy graphics samples. It seems that it's the one with URP 14.0.9 and that's the min requirement, and 2022.3.6f1 is only 14.0.8?

[nova bear]

I've noticed that, I got it working by deleting the package manifest and reinstalling things by hand, but it seems that there's a versioning bug somewhere

[placid laurel]

Which version?

Afaik it should work in 2022 lts regardless of which patch

[proven yarrow]

(pictures in bad, good order) Im sure theres an obvious answer here but whats the difference between these scenes that makes the shadows look good vs disgustingly way too dark? I'm talking about the shading on the side of the cube

[normal orbit]

URP 14 buggy for you? many problems with ambient light and SSAO

[proven yarrow]

yeah I'm really not sure, these are separate scenes in the same project

can't tell if its a bug or something that I'm doing wrong

[fair dragon]

is there no way to make an orthographic camera in unity overlay behind the main camera?
works fine with perspective but orthographic it just renders the layer on top of the main camera instead

im trying to have an overlay camera render the background layer, to be behind the main camera which contains the game

perspective distorts the background which is why im trying to use orthographic

[nova bear]

ambient lighting, try generating lighting from the lighting window

[noble hill]

Hello everyone, why my fbx model can't render success in a dots project?

I refer to the project Raycast Car https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/EntityComponentSystemSamples/tree/master/PhysicsSamples/Assets/13. Raycast Car

my code is https://github.com/kulame/CarTest

When I started the project, my model suddenly disappeared, but the map model remained.

[pseudo jacinth]

Still don't know this :)

[marble vigil]

No

[marble vigil]

Make it greyscale with brightest parts white, then apply color tint (tile color property) to get the color you need

You can implement your own color tint math in a sprite shader but it requires one of the newer editor versions if on urp

Color tinting has been hardcoded for the longest time for no reason apparently

[pseudo jacinth]

Which version?

[marble vigil]

I can't look it up right now, probably was 2023.2 or 2023.3

[pseudo jacinth]

Oof, time to upgrade ig

cheers

[marble vigil]

Do a test project first before any big change to confirm it's applicable
And always use version control when upgrading existing projects

[pseudo jacinth]

Yeah I know, this ain't my first rodeo. I just couldn't find a way to add shaders to tiles 😅

Thanks for the warning regardless

[marble vigil]

Technically that's still not an option as a tilemap is just one mesh with one material

But being able to define how to blend tile color aka vertex color is a good option
Still I don't think it's strictly necessary for what you're looking for

[opaque turret]

I make a new VR template project. URP. Okay. Fun. I guess I can work with this.
I set up lighting and bake it. Box projection isn't working despite being checked on the light probe and real time shadows end like 1 foot away from me. Nothing in Graphics or Quality fixes it. GREAT.

Oh. I figured out how to get rid of URP. Good, nevermind ig

[marble vigil]

Which URP / editor version?

[opaque turret]

I'm not that familiar with URP and the built in RP is better anyway imo, I'm not switching back

[marble vigil]

Why rant here if you're not even going to provide any usable info

[opaque turret]

I... figured out how to remove it after posting that...?

[marble vigil]

I mean the issues you were experiencing with probes and shadows
If someone else has similar problems, every clue here could turn out be useful for them

[whole raft]

Hello, I switched my project from Builtin renderer to URP, everything is well converted but I'm procedurally generating road meshes (with dynamic road parameters; lanes number, lanes width, markings...). For the road markings I generate a mesh by script that is the length & width of the road, I send a texture to the shader with the markings data in each color channels, and then I render white color or transparent depending on there is marking or not in the UV position.
With that there are a lot of marking jitterings when the camera is moving, that I mostly fixed with Built in renderer TAA (with jittering value) but in URP there is no such values in TAA settings, which doesn't make the jittering better. Any idea of how I should make a better aliasing on markings?

[umbral bison]

does anyone know of a good Ambient Occlusion solution for URP, that ideally also supports VR? looked into it, cant find anything outstanding really

[marble vigil]

I might not be fully understanding why the jitter occurs in this situation but you could look into using screen space derivates to smooth out the shader's result, as it can be used to make a sort of AA for procedural textures
Maybe also check if newer URP versions possobly implemented the missing feature

[torpid saffron]

Is there a ray-tracing like lighting system, that works on URP and is exportable for Linux and Windows?

[pseudo jacinth]

So, how?

this is 2023.3

[jolly quail]

anyone have an idea how to fix this? this is happend in the build version too

unity 2021.3.29 URP, android

[jolly quail]

ok, the reason was because i am accessing universal render data, and the only think i did was to change the layer so i can disable game object that have speicific layer, but why decal got affected? my decal layer was on default

[marble vigil]

the tilemap renderer component has a material which has a shader wherein you can plug custom sprite shader graphs

Color tinting is done in SG by multiplying output color with vertex color
In all but newest versions this operation was done implicitly for sprite shaders, so you could not for example swap multiply with add

[umbral bison]

am i dumb or how do i download the new URP Sample Scenes? like the oasis

[supple galleon]

anyone know why there is like a grain on objects when i go close up to them? unity urp with no postprocessing

[jolly quail]

can you send the screenshoot?

[umbral bison]

SSAO in render settings?

[sinful gorge]

Did you try them as a single keyword or also as enum like the one highlighted?\

Dont ask in multiple channels, its very annoying

[sand quest]

Many apologies I was looking for a fast answer because it took me a lot of time 😦 ill delete it

And yes, i didnt realise those are 2 separate keywords lol, i basically copied both in the same keyword

[umbral bison]

how do i completely disable shader stripping? it keeps stripping the MXAO im using , disabled it in the preferences already :/

[sand quest]

perhaps add it to always included shaders

I was wondering, is it possible to save a texture that I download at runtime and i place it in a material, like to be saved in the material somehow, in build not editor?

and next time i open the game the material to have it? 🤣

sounds like fantasy indeed

[umbral bison]

i did, gonna check in a sec if it helped

anyone else getting these urp errors?

[umbral bison]

i also have the shader included in build, yet HBAO is still missing

still gets stripped in build i guess

[supple galleon]

sorry wont be able to send now as im not busy, tomorrow?

[sand quest]

Check if you use instancing on this shader and if so make sure you are not stripping the instancing variants

[steel quartz]

Hello, I have a question, how do I ensure that two lights do not overlap in URP 2d. Blend Alpha would work, but what I want is for only this type of lights (room lights) to not overlap each other. But I want other lights to show equally.

The Alpha blend directly eliminates all other lights and that is not the desired effect.

PS: The image is assuming that there is a light in the next room.

[umbral bison]

dont think hbao is using instancing, so what i do

[sand quest]

Is hbao a shader graph? Or it's from unity 2023? If its from unity 2023 id say avoid using betas, could also be a bug maybe

[umbral bison]

asset from asset store

[supple galleon]

@jolly quail

and the terrain when i go close

[supple galleon]

URP does have real good graphics, just placed some trees, grass and bushes and lil bit post processing

another problem is, why is other poeples projects sun intensity set to 6

but mine whn set to 6 comes out like this

my terrain with same textures as the demo

even if the lightning settings is the same

[lost basalt]

built-in is slower tho

should not use it anymore

I hate that material property blocks are not supported and it's a hassle to render additional shader passes but thats just my opinion

[sand quest]

then im pretty sure the creator didnt make it URP16 compatible. A lot has changed between URP versions. You should ask if its compatible. Between URP14 and 16 major changes have been done

[jolly quail]

is this linear or gamma color space?

nvm if this was on same project then that's not the problem

could be ACES tonemap tho

[supple galleon]

i think linear

[supple galleon]

already checked

[jolly quail]

i am not quite sure, but if there's different in the result i always making sure :
-they have same texture setting
-make sure it's not custom materials
-they are on the same render pipeline setting (some scene could change the SRP setting automatically, for example Amplifys shader pack scene where if you open certain scene it will automatically change your render setting)
-they have same volume setting
-it's on the same unity version
-it's not some custom post processing or custom full screen effect (you can found this example on URP new sample where they put the full screen effect not in the render pipeline feature, but directly inside the scene using script)
-the setting of their lighting (is it really realtime,bake or mixed)

[limber crystal]

anybody know how to get tmp text to respond to light as a lit object?

[serene creek]

Hi, I've changed the rendering to URP and this is the sort of thing that displays to me. Having the basic settings and changing the anti-aliasing to a larger one I didn't have this problem, but manipulating the same component in URP in camera doesn't change the situation.

[marble vigil]

What are we looking at exactly and what should it look like

[serene creek]

Essentially, this is how it should look. And it doesn't matter if the camera is next to or far away, these objects are not so big that the computer has to compress them. I just don't want them to distort.

Without URP anti-aliasing took care of the issue, with URP it did not.

[marble vigil]

Is it a texture? What types of AA were you using and are using now?

[serene creek]

No, it's an object made in 2 minutes in Blender. It's meant to mimic tiles and I want it to be objects because I have a cool idea of how to use it, but whatever. Can you write me an elaboration on the abbreviation "AA"? 🙂

[marble vigil]

Antialiasing
There are many types of it
I don't see any one of them in effect in the screenshots
Note that only the game view can benefit from AA in URP
The AA options in the camera are "post process" type AA and are limited in what they can do
Try the AA settings in the URP asset like MSAA or Render Scale

[serene creek]

You've given me food for thought, I've started manipulating the MSAA and noticed that whether on the game screen or in the editor, changing from 2x to 8x doesn't change anything.

[marble vigil]

You're looking at the scene view which doesn't utlizie any AA

Additionally you should make sure in Quality tab of project settings that the asset you're modifying is actually in use

[serene creek]

I was looking at both views, just unfortunate I posted the one from the stage.

PS. I know on the right is AA off in the screenshot but changing that and saving doesn't change anything.

I realised I had added another rendering list, discarded it, but still nothing.

[thin spire]

Hi all. Baking lighting, using the Snaps Office pack, for some reason some of the walls which are facing the light are dark, like in the picture? Does anyone know what this is caused by? Thank you!

[marble vigil]

If you scroll up the Quality window there are multiple quality levels
I'd check that there are no extra levels in use that could be in effect over the one you're changing
Try to verify that there's any effect with changing the URP asset
If somehow it's not the one in use there's no point in trying to tweak it
If all else fails make a new test project with the same editor version using the URP template and try to lift the functioning parts from there

[marble vigil]

Lightmap UV issues
https://forum.unity.com/threads/lightmapping-troubleshooting-guide.1340936/
Chapter 9
Looks like your scene could be suffering from 10 and maybe 18 also
But try to solve them in that order

[serene creek]

Thank you! Such a silly error, I had to ask someone outside to look at it. It's just that the game was launching on "High" and the URP setting was only on "Very High". XD
Have a great day and happy holidays ❤️

[thin spire]

[limber crystal]

found out

com.unity.textmeshpro
3.2.0-pre.6

shader:
TextMeshPro/Distance Field (Surface)

[tropic crag]

I'm trying to make my Tilemap sort well for my Player. I found online that this setting (In the Picture) does that, but I can't seem to apply it. How can I enable this on URP?

This might help you understand more.

[hoary tundra]

Hello. Can I get some official eyes on this possible graphics bug please?
https://forum.unity.com/threads/r8_srgb-is-not-supported-as-a-rendertexture-on-the-same-hardware-after-upgrading-unity.1528036/

[spark crest]

Hey ! Would like some help on an effect I am trying to achieve. I have posted like a month ago for the same effect here but had to put the whole thing aside to work on other features.

I am trying to only render elements that are contained inside and behind some geometry mask (I need to cull elements in front), so I am using a stencil test with that mask to only render elements inside that geometry. Now I need to be able to only render fragments when their depth is greater than the geometry's depth.

For more infos and pictures, here is a forum post I created yesterday (there are solutions I tried but didn't manage to implement):
https://forum.unity.com/threads/render-objects-only-when-behind-some-geometry.1528153/

I'll make sure to update the forum if I manage to do what I am trying to do. Any help and leads is very much appreciated

[dry willow]

Don't know how much it'll help, but similar to one of the solutions you mention in the post: After rendering the exterior (or at least the exterior view through windows/doors via stencils - avoids rendering the whole screen just to cover it up), you could clear the depth by using a shader writing to SV_Depth, e.g. similar to this - https://forum.unity.com/threads/ztest-always-with-sorting.635584/#post-4258261
Then render interior objects (probably with RenderObjects feature).
That would ensure all interior objects are rendered on top, however you may still see exterior objects (nearer to camera) through the doors/windows.

Could maybe calculate some clipping planes in the shader used to render those exterior objects, but would only really work for rectangular rooms. Maybe others have some ideas too.

[spark crest]

Hmm I do think the easiest solution is what he calls z punching, I just don't know when would be the best moment to do it, also I cannot really render exterior then do the z punching then render the interior, as whats isolated is the current room the player is inside of, sometimes you can have other rooms above the one you currently are in, which would technically also be concidered interor (unless I simply toggle the different rooms on the cpu, with trigger boxes ig, but Im not the one that will be building the levels, and thats a lot of work for the level designers and I like to make it easy for them xd) Will do some researches though 🙂

[normal swallow]

Probably a bit of a dum question, but on version 2022.3.12 URP - when I used the lens flare component, it doesnt get affect by the post processing bloom

[hearty pine]

Sooo what's wrong with smoothness in URP?
Setting up smoothness up even a tiny bit causes this objects to light up even though there is no direct light reaching it. That's AFTER bake (and everything is static)

[marble vigil]

Nothing's wrong with smoothness, though if you have a smoothness map with incorrect values using the slider in addition to it can cause unpredictable results
The real problem is likely the lack of reflection probes
Specular (indirect / ambient) lighting cannot be occluded without them even when baked

[hearty pine]

Already figured it out, reflection probe issue 👍

[marble vigil]

Remember to amend your question if it no longer needs solving

[sharp heath]

How can I use a texture with transparent sections in URP? All of the black parts should be transparent

[marble vigil]

Enable alpha clipping in the material to allow the texture alpha channel be used for holes in the material

[sharp heath]

AHA! thank you!

[marble vigil]

You can alternatively set material type to transparent but that's only if you need semitransparency
With a grate you'll want opaque with alpha clipping though, use it whenever you need holes without semitransparency

[rain snow]

Anyone know why these massive lagspikes happen?

All I do is run around in my scene with nothing else going on

Looks like a garbage collection cleanup, but I am really not doing anything. All I have done in my scene is play with lighting

[lilac osprey]

is it possible to disable post effects completelly so that these files won't be included in my build? I don't use any post effect

there are more post effect images and they're all being included in the build

[ripe ocean]

Hello, I have a problem straight after creating a new project. I created it from the native 2D URP template, but I would like to mix the 2D sprites also with some 3d objects (playing dice). The 3d object however doesnt receive shadows or anything from the 3d light I added. The texture is URP/Lit, but it behaves as if it was unlit. I bet its somewhere in some URP settings, but I cant find anything. Would anybody know what I need to do? In the example image the right side and bottom of the die should be in shadow and only the left side illuminated.

[rain snow]

Hmm it seems the little stats widget in the editor is creating a lot of garbage

[marble vigil]

Since it's part of RenderLoop maybe the frame debugger will tell you what
For accurate data you always should profile a build

[marble vigil]

It's funny or tragic you think this is an issue
2D Renderer disables all 3D shaders and rendering features
In turn 2D features like 2D lighting and pixel perfect camera are disabled on the 3D renderer
It's all intentional
No clue what for

BiRP has no such limitations

Unlit shaders work as usual, and you can get lighting but only if you re-implement it into the render pipeline yourself

If you're not willing to go that far you can get some very simple lighting using a shader with N dot L kind of shading or something similar

Or you can use the 3D URP template to begin with
It can still use sprites, just not all 2D features

[normal gust]

I'm doing a custom Render Pass and I just added instancing using CommandBuffer.DrawMeshInstanced, however it only lets me supply one MaterialPropertyBlock for all instances. Isn't there a way to, for example, vary _Color for each instance?

[ripe ocean]

So basicaly you cant combine 3d and 2d in unity?

[marble vigil]

You can freely with Built-In Render Pipeline
You can with bunch of limitations on 3D URP
You can with a lot of limitations on 2D URP

I'd just go with BiRP if you want a 2D/3D hybrid project

[ripe ocean]

Hmm, you said if I go with 3d urp I can use 2d with some limitations; would I be able to use 2d lights on sprites and 2d bone animations?

[cyan talon]

You can create two renderers for URP and use them in the same project on different cameras, and stack them

I wouldn't use BiR (for anything personally). Your project can use many different renderers, you're not restricted to only 2D or 3D, it's set on a per-camera basis.
Only the 2D Renderer supports those 2D lights; though any pipeline supports the sprite animator.

[ripe ocean]

Ok, thank you guys very much for help, I will try to deal with it. 😉

[normal gust]

Found old doc for writing an unlit shader using instancing. I needed to use the special macros in my shader, then MPB.SetVectorArray("_Color", color_vectors); worked: https://docs.unity3d.com/560/Documentation/Manual/GPUInstancing.html

[marble vigil]

That would be intuitive

[cyan talon]

):

[icy dagger]

"are using" 🧐

[cyan talon]

At least you can stack them without using URP's stacking, but that's pretty annoying.

[marble vigil]

This is the only kind of use case where you find me endorsing BiRP over SRPs

[indigo moon]

Anyone knows how to make a URP shaders that reads an external texture made in native android ? For my camera feed, can't get my head around this one. Built in shader works flawlessly.

[copper pilot]

2d bones work on all pipelines.

[marble vigil]

I think 2D lighting might be the only feature that's truly exclusive to 2D Renderer

(discounting third party assets ofc)

[zinc harness]

Guys is there much difference between urp and hdurp?

[cyan talon]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2023.3/Documentation/Manual/render-pipelines-feature-comparison.html

[zinc harness]

Ig URP is better

What do you say @cyan talon ??

[lusty onyx]

what are you tring to buid?

what platform target?

[oblique pier]

Why dont you compare the features and make the decision for yourself? There is no objectvely "better" SRP, it depends on your needs.
Generally speaking, URP is for more stylized stuff while HDRP focuses on realism. But both can do a lot.

And yeah HDRP is for higher end machines

[ionic adder]

Hey there, I was wondering if there is a way with URP's Shader Graph to make the same transparent shader show only the object in front's shader. Basically, I don't want the result of the image on the left, but instead the result of the image on the right. Edit: I learned that what I'm trying to get is a transparent self-occluding shader.

[scarlet lava]

hi ,
how do i add all the surface input properties to my custom fragment shader ?

[scarlet lava]

does anyone knows why is this happening ???

what the hell was that ????

[halcyon kraken]

I'm trying to create a simple ScriptableRendererFeature that draws some stuff to a temporary texture, and then blit the texture to camera opaque. For some reason, allocating a new RTHandle does not work but directly referencing a render texture asset does.

rt = RTHandles.Alloc(renderTexture); // this works

But if I swap with

rt = RTHandles.Alloc(renderTexture.descriptor); // this doesn't work

I would assume there shouldn't be a difference in the output.

Nothing is being rendered to this new texture (if it even exists). I am just doing a simple clear color to red for testing and blitting that to camera color.

[marble vigil]

That looks similar to what you see when something is rendering "nothing"
Usually when there is no sky, but since you have one it may be related to shaders or culling in some way

[lost basalt]

maybe you are trying to read scene color before transparent pass?

https://github.com/Haruma-K/URPGrabPass

you can use this for a grabpass if really needed

[marble vigil]

I've heard a bunch of times that URP "cannot" support grabpass
Is that what it actually is?

[blazing gull]

it's called a "hall of mirrors" effect

as Spazi suggested, it happens when old camera data doesn't get cleared

so you just see whatever was there last frame

this creates some wacky effects

[halcyon kraken]

So I went through hell trying to figure this out. Apparently setting renderTexture.descriptor.depthBufferBits = 0 is necessary to specify target as a color target. I still think this is odd because that value comes from the original texture, which works fine and isn't treated as a depth target.

Anyway, I found this out thanks to Cyan's tutorial here: https://www.cyanilux.com/tutorials/custom-renderer-features/. Great resource to learn how to setup custom renderer features with modern api

Also using profiling scope and frame debugger allowed me to see that the texture was labeled something like _RenderTarget_Depth which made me realize something was off

[waxen gate]

moving channels from #✨┃vfx-and-particles
if i have occlusion off, the lens flare works fine. It's just whenever I move behind objects, I can still see the lens flare with no effect
If i have it turned on, whenever I look at it straight directly, it disappears (doesnt matter if im behind objects or not) but if i can see it on my peripheral. I can still see it behind objects no matter what

[scarlet lava]

@blazing gull @lost basalt @marble vigil well first thanks for all ur input , i thought no one would respond to it at all
but yeah there was some buildings and blocks their that I have removed in run time by turning their alpha = 0 , does this justify what happened ??
is there is a way to fix that? do I need to clear old camera data manually ?

[blazing gull]

That shouldn’t cause a problem by itself. Can you show the material you’re using for one of the broken objects?

[scarlet lava]

I'll when i get home

[dusk frigate]

Hi all, I am doing a project in URP and when I import assets from unity store, they appear dark greyish, anyone have any fix

[marble vigil]

Look in the "prefabs" folder in case they include ready to use versions of the buildings

You can probably find them in the demo scene too

@dusk frigate if the materials appear pink, you should look for an URP-compatible version of the assets or try to use the pipeline converter option to see if they can be made URP-compatible automatically

[dusk frigate]

Got it, Thank you

[halcyon kraken]

Hi, I have color & depth texture thats mostly black/transparent (0,0,0,0) with some rendered objects (color and depth info). I am trying to merge this into camera color and depth. Is there a standard way this is done?

I tried looking at BlitColorAndDepth but that overwrites everything with ZTest Always.

I tried making my own shader but it doesn't seem like it's ZTesting against camera depth.

ConfigureTarget(cameraColorRT, cameraDepthRT);
...
cmd.SetGlobalTexture(Shader.PropertyToID("_InputDepthTexture"), depthRT);
Blitter.BlitCameraTexture(cmd, colorRT, cameraColorRT, material, 0);

ZWrite On ZTest LEqual Blend Off Cull Off
...
TEXTURE2D_X(_InputDepthTexture);
SAMPLER(sampler_InputDepthTexture);

struct FragOut {
    half4 color : SV_Target;
    float depth : SV_Depth;
};

FragOut frag(Varyings input)
{
    UNITY_SETUP_STEREO_EYE_INDEX_POST_VERTEX(input);
    float4 color = SAMPLE_TEXTURE2D_X(_BlitTexture, sampler_BlitTexture, input.texcoord);
    float4 depth = SAMPLE_TEXTURE2D_X(_InputDepthTexture, sampler_InputDepthTexture, input.texcoord);

    FragOut output;
    output.color = color;
    output.depth = depth;
    return output;
}

[halcyon kraken]

Actually nvm, I got something working with this:

float4 camColor = SAMPLE_TEXTURE2D_X(_CameraOpaqueTexture, sampler_CameraOpaqueTexture, input.texcoord);
float4 camDepth = SAMPLE_TEXTURE2D_X(_CameraDepthTexture, sampler_CameraDepthTexture, input.texcoord);

if (depth.r < camDepth.r || depth.r == 0)
{
    discard;
}

Though I still think the above should've worked

[scarlet lava]

hi ,
is there is a reason for this shader not to be invisable ????

Shader "Test/ShaderTest "
{
        Properties{

             _MainTex("_MainTex ", 2D) = "white" {}
             _color("default Color", Color) = (1,1,1,1)
                 
        }

        SubShader
         {
             Tags
                  {"RenderType" = "Transparent" "Queue" = "Transparent"} 
                
            Pass 
            {
                  
                 CGPROGRAM
                 #pragma vertex vert
                 #pragma fragment frag
                 #pragma target 5.0
                 
                
                 struct appdata
                 {
                     float4 vertex : POSITION;
                     float2 uv : TEXCOORD0;
                 };

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

                 sampler2D _MainTex;
                 float4 _color;

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

                 fixed4 frag(v2f v) : SV_Target
                 {
                     return  fixed4(1,1,1,0);
                 }
                 ENDCG
            }

         }
}

Im hardcoding it into alpha zero but I can still see the white box on the scene 😬

anyone ??

even default shaders cant look transparent all the sudden

[dry willow]

You need to specify a Blend operation under the Pass - https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SL-Blend.html
e.g. Blend SrcAlpha OneMinusSrcAlpha
Typically would also have ZWrite Off for transparents.

[scarlet lava]

oh that make sense , thank you ❤️

[scarlet lava]

i have { "RenderType" = "Opaque" "Queue" = "Geometry-1" } Blend SrcAlpha OneMinusSrcAlpha but i didnt have ZWrite Off which causes that behavior you saw on the video

when I add ZWrite off then the camera get anywhere near the object the object seems flickering and showing its inside-out :S

when i change { "RenderType" = "Opaque" "Queue" = "Geometry-1" } the object disappears altogether if there is nothing behind it. For example the upper part has the skybox behind it , is gone , its always invisible but the part that had part of the ground behind it it is still there

is there is a way to make the object disappear on runtime without any issues without having to change the RederType/Queue/ZWrite on runtime ???

[halcyon kraken]

Anybody know why these textures aren't showing in Frame Debugger? I know they are working because I am sampling depth values from them, but the preview is not showing in the left and all the values are blank ("-")

[left raptor]

Im using render features to render my viewport seperately on top of everything else

but I have a grappling hook, and if I include it in the viewport, which gets rendered seperately (with a different fov)

the rope now doesn't connect to the point that you are grappling too

but if i exclude if from the render feature, now it doesn't connect to the grapple hand, which is part of the viewport

[lost basalt]

What is what?

There is no grabpass in URP if thats what you are referring to

for a non-transparent object to show whats behind it you either need to just completely clip / discard the pixel, or use some sort of copy of the background

grabpass copies the frame into a buffer thats why it's expensive

now I don't have any idea what OP is actually trying to achieve with the geometry they have, I just listed something that could have been the solution

[lost basalt]

dither perhaps?

if you try to do transparency in opaque materials it won't work

especially because the skybox is drawn after opaque objects

it could work if you manually draw the object with a render object feature in the urp renderer and with the grabpass grabbing whatever is drawn after the skybox is done

but it's not very worth it if you just want to make things disappear

I'd recommend just dithering it