archived-urp

[rigid roost]

Okay so. If I were to make a shader that would cut a hole in a mesh, like a cylinder, how would I go about doing that

[ripe pumice]

you need to be more specific about what the end result and the hole looks like

[rigid roost]

doing more research I found that what I want to accomplish can be done by a CSG so I might just do that instead, though I'd rather use a shader if possible.
the blender term im looking for is attempting to do a boolean operation

[mint trail]

Okay, so uh
Everything in my unity project that uses URP textures is just pink, even if I update all my textures.
I would really appreciate a solution for this

Seriously.

Even in a Unity project built with the URP settings, the URP materials are still a bright pink.

[marble vigil]

Is a project template with the URP sample scene pink as well?

[mint trail]

Not the initial template, funny enough

[dry willow]

It looks like you deleted the Settings folder then, which contained the pipeline asset.
You can recreate it though, see https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@13.1/manual/InstallURPIntoAProject.html

[mint trail]

Oh! Aw crap, that sounds like that’ll do it.

Thank you very much!!

[lament canopy]

I am using URP for pc project for the first time and I noticed this bug.

[soft lion]

Could you use words to describe your problem?

[lament canopy]

URP is using Shadow atlas technique for Addational light. Instead of using the light shadow resolution to calculate the soft shadow, it uses the shadow atlas resolution. which means faulty soft shadow.

atlas resolution 1024 - Spotlight shadow resolution 1024
correct soft shadow.

atlas resolution 4096 - Spotlight shadow resolution 1024
wrong soft shadow

[violet bison]

I cannot stack my cameras. The "Overlay" option is for some reason greyed out...

[iron compass]

are you using the deferred renderer?

[violet bison]

Yes. I am.

I think?

[iron compass]

then change that to forward

[violet bison]

doesn't that mess up the lights?

[iron compass]

it messes up performance if you have many light sources

[violet bison]

yeah, that's be my project currently...

so no stacking if I've got deferred?

[iron compass]

correct

[sand zinc]

does anyone know how to access URP decal components through script?

[violet bison]

can I even layer a camera on top of my current one?
As you'd do without URP in the first place.

[iron compass]

thats what stacking does

[tiny quail]

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

model not displaying material

[violet bison]

right, is there no other way to achieve the stacking effect then?

I don't want my items clipping into walls.

[iron compass]

put colliders on/around them

[violet bison]

that'd make them affect the world around them (I don't want that). I want them to only be visible in front visually.

[solemn isle]

Deferred rendering camera can be used as a base, stacking cams should be forward.

Alternatively, you can use RenderObjectsFeature or write your own to display stacked stuff.

Does anybody know, how additional lights work in URP? I get very inconsistent results with them with a fullscreen shader.

How does Unity pick which additional lights are available?

[fossil lily]

use render objects for it
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-prevent-weapon-clipping-unity-urp-without-

dont know if unity will ever make a blog post or video for it since it's something a lot of people ask and end up going with 2 camera approach

[ripe pumice]

my guess is they're tied to light probes and it makes a best guess based on that

[timber glade]

There's a limit to how many additional lights are available

And if it's a low amount and there is more around than the limit it'll just ignore the further away ones iirc

[solemn isle]

Additional lights count seems to always be zero, then randomly corrects value, then randomly goes to zero again.

It works fine with normal surface shaders, but fullscreen blits behave weirdly.

I have some suspicions, but I'm still going trough urp source code

Funnily, renderingData.lightData.additionalLightsCount always contains the correct value of visible lights from C#.

[warm cliff]

Hey guys, I'm creating a top-down stealth game where making a loud noise triggers a visible sound wave. I want the sound wave to be an invisible sphere the expands from the sound's origin point and renders a lightly-colored line on wherever it makes contact with the environment sort of like so:

Does anyone know how would I do this in URP?

[merry monolith]

@warm cliff search for keywords: intersection shader graph

you should find some tutorials on the topic with that

[warm cliff]

Thank you

[soft lion]

Seems like depth texture magic

[merry monolith]

in the nutshell you basically check from scene depth and vertex position if they are close enough to be drawn as intersection

it's not a whole lot of nodes to implement this

[sweet flower]

Why is the camera preview and in-game view so shitty compared to the unity editor view? The colors seem to have lost their HDR. (URP)

[marble vigil]

Does your camera have the post processing checkbox enabled

[sweet flower]

yes. there is a noticeable difference in game when i turn bloom on/off

i think the camera does not have HDR tone mapping enabled but i don’t see a way to enable it

[marble vigil]

There is a setting for it on the camera component but it may have shifted around in recent updates

Not a switch you would easily hit by accident

[sweet flower]

That’s what i have it set to. Maybe i accidentally disabled in the pipeline asset? Where is the pipeline asset config?

[marble vigil]

In the settings folder, but those settings should affect the scene view as well

@sweet flower Well, since the mystery wasn't solved with the obvious stuff, I'd test and see if it happens in a blank scene, if so, in a blank scene in a new project

[sweet flower]

Fixed it here:

[ocean quest]

hey so I followed a tutorial to install the URP and I need to upgrade my materials as everything is pink right now. However when i go to "Window > Rendering > Render Pipeline Converter" my materials dont show up, does anyone know a reason or fix to this? im not sure why

[ocean quest]

Update, its now broken my project .-.

[placid laurel]

sorry to hear that

[ocean quest]

No worries. Somehow managed to fix it aha

Took me about 2hrs to figure out tho

[placid laurel]

big oof but at leas t it is fixed

[ocean quest]

All fixed and got my shaders working

Character is just temp, was just testing stuff aha

[mystic crescent]

Hello. Is there a way to mask smoothness in URP/Lit? I have an object made of wood and metal, I don't want the wood to have any smoothness but the metal should be nice and shiny.

I have made a metallic map which works fine, but the smoothness slider seems to affect the entire object

Ah ok, I figured out I can use the alpha channel of my metallic map to "mask" smoothness on the object, where alpha values of 1 respond to the smoothness values and values of 0 ignore it

[pastel pagoda]

Is there a way, to tell to the RenderObject to ignore ONE layer?

What i mean is to render on top of it while being rendered behind everything what is infront of it.

[pastel pagoda]

I want to fix this

I found the solution, but it is a little too cumbersome

[jagged dock]

why does my shader's alpha is red?

[exotic hare]

Anyone know why I am getting these effects in game view, but not scene view?

https://gyazo.com/6629bdec181fe5590bc237454636aa89

[wanton roost]

anyone know why a SpriteRenderer with flip ticked no longer shows up via a RenderObjects material pass?

flipped sprite on the left, unflipped on the right

seems to also be the case with any negatively scaled objects

fixed it in my shader by disabling backface culling

\o/

[lilac scaffold]

How would i be able to make this scene look better?

[balmy hearth]

quality wise or interior design wise?

if interior design wise this would be my ideas

[warm cliff]

@balmy hearth is absolutely right. Lighting would also work wonders on this. The outside light coming through the door and casting shadows across the floor, perhaps some interior lamps or light coming from the floor above, etc ❤️

Now that I think about it, pinging kx actually wasn’t necessary lol

[balmy hearth]

its alright, i was in this channel lurking anyways

[lilac scaffold]

oh very interesting, those are amazing ideas both of them, thanks for the feedback👍

[warm cliff]

Np! I wish you really good luck with this XD

[balmy hearth]

good luch

i dont know what the game is about, but maybe you could add some hunting guns?

as show obviously

[lilac scaffold]

sure ill add some, for show cause its for a game jam so I don't have much time to add many features and very small details

[warm cliff]

You could always look up reference pics

[ivory prism]

why is my shadow so chunky

shad res is 4096

shadow is set to hard shadow

tried setting normal bias to 0

soft shadows also look bad

i've checked vertx's guide and there's nothing about it

idc about the performance i want the shadows crispy

[mystic delta]

Setup cascade shadows, so it will use more detailed one up close.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@13.1/manual/universalrp-asset.html

[ivory prism]

thank you this fixed it, didn't think about making more cascades

nothing I read suggested doing that.. !yw

[jagged dock]

why does my shader's alpha is red?

[soft lion]

Also keep the shadow distance as small as you can to get sharper shadows

[slim vault]

For some reason I don't have any shadows in game build, while I have no problem in editor itself.
I know about quality settings, but even changing it in game doesn't help.
Any help? 2021.2.8f

[warm cliff]

@slim vault Could it be that your camera is too far away to render the shadows?

[slim vault]

nah, but I fixed it by updating unity to 2021.2.13f1

[warm cliff]

Ah classic

Welp good for you! XD

[tired fable]

sometimes it's related to cascades and the quality setting that's chosen

you should set your directional light to important

turn off all other realtime shadows other than that one

and modify your quality to have one cascade

you can add more cascades back to what makes sense for your scene physically later

[marble vigil]

2021.2.12f1 fixed a lot of weird bugs, especially the sort that appeared in only builds

[rain condor]

hey guys i have a problem in a URP project w/ world space canvases

what is up with the blue line? it should not be broken like that but straight

googling about this sadly only brings up line renderer issues

[dense cairn]

I'm trying to follow the instructions to create a Universal Render Pipeline. I have a 2D project and went to Assets > Create > [this is where Rendering should be]. The option for Rendering to create a Pipeline Asset isn't there. Anyone know the reason/how to fix it?

[copper pilot]

Do you have URP installed?

[dense cairn]

Yeah that'd be it. First time working with it. Thank you.

[copper pilot]

Don't worry, happens to everyone 😄

[unkempt pivot]

hey, I'm getting this weird shadow thing
unity 2020.3
Using URP

[pearl parrot]

whats so weird about it?

i don't really see anything wrong about it

[cyan talon]

you have not baked a reflection probe so that is the sky reflecting off of the ground. You can bake a probe and reduce the specular/smoothness of the ground's material

[pearl parrot]

ohhh

[subtle harness]

adding the "decal" render feature on my pipeline asset tanks my framerate even without any decals spawned, basically cuts it in half from 40 to 20fps. Anyone know what I can do to optimize this? Or are unity decals just unusable?

[clear sentinel]

looks like a texture filtering/antialiasing issue

[ocean quest]

the "bright" outline/casted shadow?

[copper pilot]

@subtle harness I switched to Driven Decals on github. Unity's decal feature is hot garbage.

[echo pier]

Hello, I have one question about URP and bloom, I'm working on a URP 2D project and want to use bloom, but I want to use bloom only on specific objects, can this be accomplish and if so, how?

[soft lion]

You can increase the threshold of the bloom and make the intensity of those certain objects high enough to get affected by the bloom. If you use HDR you could set the treshold to 1 and use HDR color for those objects

[echo pier]

So sprites that don't use HDR color don't get affected?

Or i still use HDR color on them and decrease intensity below threshold?

[soft lion]

I think you have to make sprite shader graph in order to use HDR colors for sprites

so if you set the threshold to 1, only objects with that shader/material should be affected by the bloom

[empty drift]

Hey I kinda need help here, i made some assets in blender and now wanted to import them to my unity project where im using URP.
But if i import materials to my unity project they just turn grey or atleast dont look like they looked in blender. Does anyone know how to import them properly?

[warm cliff]

Hey there @empty drift What you should probably do is import the materials separately and apply them Unity

[craggy echo]

Hey. I had URP in my project, with all my materials upgraded to it. for some reason, I've decided to switch back to the Built-In Renderer. How can I again upgrade my materials to the default renderer?

[candid forum]

no you just need to find the option that exports your textures correctly. are the textures even included?

[thorn pulsar]

Hi guys, i have trouble understanding something about the packages and package folder. Basicly, when i include something like #include "Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal/ShaderLibrary/Core.hlsl", the file is not actually located into the Package folder but in Library/PackageCache/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@10.7.0/ShaderLibrary/Core.hlsl
I have trouble to understand how it works and why it is that way. My issue here, is that i try to setup VSCode to recognize my #include files with an hlsl intellisense extension, but since it is referenced in the Packages folder but there is nothing in it, it doesn't work. Does anyone has a solution around this?

[sand zinc]

does anyone know how to make a decal only affect certain objects/layers/materials?

[maiden crest]

hey, i cant add bloom on my volume

it gives an error saying: InvalidCastException: Specified cast is not valid.

when i click it i get sent to a part of code saying: var pipeline = (HDRenderPipeline)RenderPipelineManager.currentPipeline;

It seems like its trying to use the HDRP, but i dont have that one enabled, can anyone help me out here?

[undone mulch]

uhm do i need to do anything special when making Vr and using URP

[pearl parrot]

is there anyway to make the 2d backgrounds effected by the 3d character shadows?

and make the background having some depths

like the character not being able to be seen through walls

[verbal fern]

what if i dont have mettalic map

but i do have specular map

can i replace with it?

on RED channel

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.high-definition@7.1/manual/Mask-Map-and-Detail-Map.html

can i use this same method for URP shader?

because i took this from HDRP documentation page

[marble vigil]

URP doesn't use the same mask maps as HDRP
The textures are the same (depending whether you're using metallic or specular workflow) but packed in different order

[placid laurel]

A multisampled texture being bound to a non-multisampled sampler. Disabling in order to avoid undefined behavior. Please use Texture2DMS in the shader.
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

i swear to god

I am OVER

with this

help

THAT

and

i seem to be not able to change a camera type

to overlay

[marble vigil]

Sure it's not the main camera you're operating on?

[placid laurel]

100000 percent sure

[verbal fern]

where to put my smoothness map?

im using URP

[dry willow]

It's typically combined into the alpha channel of the Metallic map or Albedo/Base map, can switch between those using the "Source" dropdown under the Smoothness slider.

[placid laurel]

How would you add decals in URP in Unity 2020 or lower?

[bronze briar]

I think there's a free asset for it

Question: which is less demanding, 2X anti-aliasing or setting Render Scale to 2?

[violet bison]

Just straight guessing I'd say that the anti-aliasing is incredibly more performant. I believe render scale 2 would mean rendering at twice the set resolution which always has an impact on performance.

[bronze briar]

I see

I kinda thought AA would have to work by just rendering more

[violet bison]

I want to achieve this effect with some sort of material; it might need to be a shader though. The problem is of course that black emission isn't really a thing, black doesn't emit any light. Settings the emission to white and the base colour to black doesn't help though, as the emission overrides the material's colour. Is there a way to force the material to keep a certain colour while emitting another (that can have bloom)?

[undone mulch]

does anyone have a good tutorial for day night cycles in urp, or can i just do a general day night cycle?

[lime ridge]

You can make a simple Day Night Cycle by just rotating the Directional Light X axis (if you're using a procedural Skybox).

[undone mulch]

im not rly sure what kind of skybox im using

[lime ridge]

The default scene already starts with a procedural Skybox setup, so you just need to open the Lightning Window (Window > Rendering > Lightning) and in the Environment Tab check if the Skybox is there, and also the Directional Light of your scene is set as the Sun source)

After that, change the Directional Light X rotation value and it should change the sky color based on it (you should even see the sun passing by the scene)

Although it is not one of the best effects, for a simple day night cycle it works fine \o\

[undone mulch]

ok, i do wanna make a better day night cycle tho

[bronze briar]

All of these materials show up as magenta in the asset view, but they look fine in the scene view and inspector

[dull breach]

hello! i checked the pin, not sure if this is the correct place to ask but, when creating a new project, I dont seem to see a "universal render pipeline template" https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@12.1/manual/creating-a-new-project-with-urp.html

any idea where I can this this template? did i forget to check some box when installing unity hub?

nvm, i think im blind and it was renamed to "3D Sample Scene (URP)"

[soft lion]

Ig you just changed your render pupeline? The asset preview is sometimes very slow at updating (and I don’t know how to force them to update, let me know if someone knows)

[undone mulch]

does anyone have tips on how to make a day night cycle

[pearl parrot]

help?

[latent wigeon]

does xr work not URP?

[split edge]

does 2020.3.19f1 unity version not support URP?

ah it's a package i have to install, i see

[pearl parrot]

can somebody help me

please

[split edge]

What is this?

nvm it's a redirect node

[marble vigil]

For both effects you'd need to recreate the 2D background in 3D mesh form that matches the background image
For shadows you'd find a shader that allows it to recieve shadows and apply them to the background image, and for occlusion you'd use the z-buffer of the invisible mesh to mask the character out of the background

Though that's all massively convoluted compared to just using a 3D background to begin with

[placid laurel]

WHY CANT I CHANGE CAMERA TYPE TO OVERLAY :CCCCC

for a couple of days ive been asking

on google

nothing works

if u have a fix

please

please

help :C

[soft lion]

is that the only camera in your scene? ig (don't really know) you have to have one base camera in order to use overlay cameras

[placid laurel]

no i have got two

the one im highlighting is supposed to be

the overlay cam

the other is base and main camera

[marble vigil]

@placid laurel And the other one is a Base Camera?

[placid laurel]

yep

ill have you know that im using unity 2021
and im using deferred rendering

[dry willow]

If you're using URP's deferred rendering I think it doesn't allow camera stacking (for some reason)

[placid laurel]

:CCCCCCC

is there anyway

i can make both work

[marble vigil]

I thought it should work by falling back to forward rendering
But I don't think I tried it

[placid laurel]

okay ill see

works but

no more infinite lights :C

AHAHAHAHAHAHA

I TRICKED THE ENGINE

I SWITCHED BACK TO DEFFERED AND IT WONT F#$*&# MY S&$^# UP NOW

[soft lion]

chill mate

[marble vigil]

Either way overlay cameras don't support deferred rendering

[placid laurel]

sorry it was an issue that made me eat away at myself for 2 weeks

[soft lion]

is there some technical reasons of why camera stacking doesn't work on deferred rendering?

[placid laurel]

thats true but i finally found a way to trick it into doing overlay cameras
i used forward to make overlay camera work
then i switched again to deferred
i had the cake and ate it at the same time

[soft lion]

Highly doubt that is going to work either way

[placid laurel]

well

it did

[marble vigil]

No idea what the technical reason is, but this page says it's possible but falls back to forward rendering
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@12.1/manual/urp-universal-renderer.html

[placid laurel]

the cameras layered
and at the same time the lights arent flickering

[soft lion]

lights won't flicker if pixel light count is high enough (on deferred, there's no pixel light count, pixel light count is only for forward path)

[dry willow]

In that case maybe to unlock the Overlay Camera option the camera needs to use a renderer set to Forward rather than Deferred
(as in, can have two renderers assigned to the URP asset and select the forward one for the camera you want to switch to overlay)

[marble vigil]

This seems to be the way it works

Kinda weird how the documentation implies the fallback happens automatically, like it does for transparent materials

Maybe it used to

[dry willow]

Yeah it should really be updated if that is how it works. The camera stacking page also has no mention of this since that was written before deferred was introduced.

[soft lion]

deferred is still very new stuff on urp

[marble vigil]

I think we'll be expecting you to return once you realize that the cameras are either not being overlaid or not actually deferred at all

[placid laurel]

non of these statements are true

yep it got ruined as soon as i selected the overlayed camera

[placid laurel]

ill use the method on the link

i hope to god it works well

[placid laurel]

yep it worked :D

[wooden arch]

Sprite Lit URP Shader, has same Light Values under shadow or light. Particle is directed towards view

[stable solar]

I'm trying to get both 3D and 2D lights working in the same scene, but camera stacking just seems to be broken?

It will show the 3D rendered scene in the game view, and the 2D rendered scene in the scene view for some odd reason

[marble vigil]

What scene view shows is independent of any cameras or camera stacking

I can confirm that camera stacking is not "broken"

[stable solar]

Any ideas what the issue could be? I have the 2D and 3D renderer set up, and the 3D camera as my base

The scene is simple with a cube throwing a shadow onto a plane, and another sprite that is completely lit, even though it should be partly shadowed

Ah, it seems scene view uses the "default" renderer

[dry willow]

Yeah, scene view uses whatever is marked as default

[stable solar]

I don't know if this is me, but it seems absolutely broken on my end. If I select cameras during playmode, the game view changes to the scene view...

It will also cycle through multiple odd renders if I select the cameras in the hierarchy

https://streamable.com/eygnx1

Why is the game view showing the scene view...

I think something with the camera data just broke, after re-creating them multiple times the strange behavior is gone. However, I still don't have any lighting on my sprites..

On a somewhat related note, while I try to figure this out, do you think the following approach is realizable?

I would like to use the 2D lighting system, but I would also like to render 3D "sun shadows". My idea for this was to tell the 3D part of the rendering how "high" a sprite is in the scene, and in the shadow pass the shader would need to rotate the sprite 90° around a pivot that is the height distance away, basically propping the sprite upright in the scene, making it cast a shadow onto a tilemap.

[terse stag]

ok so, I'm trying to make a mirror, and this is how it looks

what am I doing wrong?

[soft lion]

I mean what is wrong? doesn't that look fine already?

[terse stag]

well

moving around doesn't seem to change the view point of the mirror

and it also appears huge

[soft lion]

oh you mean the box?

[terse stag]

yes

why is it moving with the main camera

[soft lion]

well, obviously you're not getting perfect results using reflection probes. reflection probe is just way to approximate reflections with minimal cost

[terse stag]

how can I make a mirror then

[soft lion]

if you want flat mirror, you can use second camera and custom shader for the mirror

[dense canyon]

try looking up how to make planar reflections

[terse stag]

ok

[peak pike]

Is there something particularly hard or impossible in making Unlit Height Gradient for URP in the object space? Is it because surface shaders are not supported?

Most solution I've seen uses either world position or UV coordinates. And few with position axis just use them to lerp between colors. Therefore I don't know how to tune values beyond lerp(_SecondColor, _MainColor, saturate(i.position.y)).

[marble vigil]

I really can't wrap my head around how you plan to combine the 2D and 3D shadows using overlay cameras
It might be best to try to make the effect entirely in 3D space with 3D lights

[dry willow]

If you want to pick a start/end (min/max) point can use an Inverse Lerp before saturating (i.position.y - min)/(max - min). And rather than a lerp, you could sample a gradient texture if you want more control over colours.

Surface shaders indeed aren't supported in URP. But they are more for lit shaders anyway. It's usually easier to use Shader Graph though.

One main issue with object space is that the range of values depends on the mesh. Different meshes can have different ranges, and possibly also aligned to a different axis. But you could assign different materials to them. The draw calls would still be batched via the SRP batcher as long as the materials use the same shader (and variant), and assuming the shader supports it (all shader graphs should).

[stable solar]

Yeah I'm not sure if it can even work at all, I was mainly inspired by this "post" https://answers.unity.com/questions/1734167/combined-3d-and-2d-lighting.html.

I think you are right in that it is easier to do entirely in 3D, the unity 2D lighting system is just really easy to use and doesn't cost me anything, so I thought it would be worth a shot. It's a real bummer that it just doesn't work together without any additional work. The docs seem to hint it does somehow work with camera stacking however.

No interoperability with 3D Lights and 3D Renderers
Currently both 3D and 2D Lights can only affect 3D and 2D Renderers respectively. 2D Lighting does not work on or effect 3D Renderers such as the Mesh Renderer, while 3D Lighting will similarly have no effect on 2D Renderers such as the Sprite Renderer. While interoperability between the respective Lights and Renderers may be developed in the future, currently a combination of 2D and 3D Lights and 2D and 3D Renderers in a single Scene can be achieved by using the camera stacking technique.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@13.1/manual/Lights-2D-intro.html

[marble vigil]

The post seems misleading
Sure you can overlay 2D and 3D cameras but they won't "interact"

[stable solar]

Yeah that was something that confused me too. E.g. how would the 3d shadows shadow a tilemap that is being shadowed by 2D lights (since that would require it to use the 2D renderer, which doesn't receive 3D shadows...)

Do you think my idea for rendering the sun shadows in the first place could work? I've not done much shader work so I'm not entirely sure. Basically I want the shadow pass(?) to "prop up" the sprites so they can properly cast shadows, if such a thing can be done somehow

I could duplicate the sprites since they aren't seen by the camera since they don't have depth when propped up anyways, but I rather it work automatically with only a single sprite

[marble vigil]

I can think of many convoluted ways to fake shadows and shadowcasting with sprites, each with various limitations
Overall I guess it'd be easier to just make the sprites using textured quads with ordinary 3D lit materials, if you want them to interact with 3D lighting

[stable solar]

Basically this is what I am trying to do

Combined with some form of "fake" 2d shadowing for local shadows (such as e.g. https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/particles-effects/2d-lights-and-shadows-119920 or something similar)

[peak pike]

Wait, do you mean that object space in shared behaves differently than in the engine?
In my understanding position.y should be between object min and max bounds, but clamping the values should make this irrelevant. Ans since it's a space rather that UV unwrap, a complex geometry on static meshes should be also irrelevant to the final gradient.

[marble vigil]

Rendering a drop shadow like that is not terribly difficult
Making it interact with obstacles and 2D shadow casters would be, I predict

[stable solar]

I'm fine with it not being perfect. Do you have any resources on how I would go about modifying the vertices during the shadow pass to "prop up" the sprite? Or how would you go about adding a drop shadow?

[dry willow]

Object space is just the vertex positions directly from the mesh. It's not normalised based on the bounds of the mesh or anything. (0,0,0) is it's origin. But you can have vertices at any point within that space.
e.g. The default unity plane spans 10 units, so a range of (±5, 0, ±5), while a cube is a single unit (±0.5, ±0.5, ±0.5).
It may be easier if you use a shader/graph to output position.y and see for yourself how it maps on various meshes.

Also, since you mentioned static it reminded me that if you mark GameObjects as static ("Batching Static" in particular, as there is different types of static on the dropdown), Unity will combine meshes which will change their vertex positions to be more like world space.

[marble vigil]

Frankly I have no idea how to mix custom shadows seamlessly into 2D light's shadow pass and I can't find resources for it either, which is why I predict it would be hard
And probably not worth the effort if 3D lights can already do the same thing

[stable solar]

Yeah I mean in 3D entirely

My bad if that wasn't clear

[marble vigil]

Then I might've misunderstood

Prop up?

[placid laurel]

Hey guys don't know if this is a urp or shader topic but does anybody know how to create a transparent bottle which will not change the inside color? The pic with the eagle shows what I want and the other one shows what I got .. the problem is that it seems like my colors are not powerfull under the glass 🙂

[stable solar]

This is basically what I want to do, but in a shader.

My idea was to rotate the vertices along a pivot depending on the z-"height" of the sprite, and then render into the shadowmap

[marble vigil]

Does it need to be a shader? I mean it looks good as it is

[stable solar]

🤷 is it fine to just duplicate all sprites? I have a lot of objects that are made up out of multiple sprites, e.g. a sword is a grip, a pommel, a connector and a blade

Code wise it's not really an issue, I'm just wondering about performance

[marble vigil]

I kinda doubt you can make anyone's machine chug with a few extra sprites

[stable solar]

What about CPU performance? Since I'll need to mirror all positional changes for child objects onto the Z axis (if that makes sense)

e.g., the character's hand

I guess I'll just try it. The shader approach seems "neater" in my mind, but I have no idea how to go about it

Thanks for all the help!

[marble vigil]

It might be, but without any knowledge of how to implement it it's probably not a very practical solution
Which one's more optimized comes down to testing them, and considering the target hardware

And if it makes no difference at all, it's not good effort to optimize

[hybrid cloud]

Has anyone ever had a problem with culling performance when using URP + Hybrid Renderer? I spawn ONE entity with a mesh renderer that's like 10 vertices and suddenly I lose 3ms of CPU time, mostly on culling

I added more screenshots here:
https://forum.unity.com/threads/urp-loses-whopping-3ms-of-cpu-time-once-a-single-hybrid-renderer-entity-is-spawned.1250653/

[fast hill]

I asked in #💻┃unity-talk but maybe this is more appropriate to ask in

I haven't touched Unity in a very long time, and I don't really know what these render pipelines are

I've read up on the manual a bit but I'm not sure what is more appropriate to pick: BiRP or URP

By my understanding, BiRP is virtually depreciated, but if I wanted to just... use Unity like I used to, will URP be more complex?

I'm going to start my project on URP then, but please do answer anyways, I am still curious

irk... It's more complicated...

[azure charm]

1. URP performance optimization of multiple cameras
2. How to set BuildAssetBundleOptions.DisableWriteTypeTree when Unity Addressables is packing
3. Unreal can be used in a hot update solution for commercial games
4. UGUI SpriteAtlas is in use, callback instantiation, AtlasRequested, and the order of Start is reversed.
5. The rendering pipeline is dynamically loaded from the AssetBundle, and the post-rendering is abnormal.
   URP Performance Optimization of Multiple Cameras
   https://blog.en.uwa4d.com/2022/03/10/urp-performance-optimization-of-multiple-cameras/

how about this one, this is the URP performance optimization

[soft lion]

In my opinion, urp is not more complicated than birp. Its very similiar with birp and its very easy to get used to

[sudden mirage]

Hi, does the vertex color not work in URP?

[soft lion]

It definitely should work. Is the color (don’t really remember the name) under that set to black?

[sudden mirage]

changing the shader color works, but this means I have to make a new material for each different color text?

since this is a universal material

[cyan talon]

If it's just set to white does the inspector work

[sudden mirage]

white dosent work too if i do not change the material color

[cyan talon]

that's black

[soft lion]

Because those colors are multiplied together, when its white, vertex color should have full control over the color (because a*1=a)

[sudden mirage]

o i get it. material change to white

then i can change the vertex color

thanks!

[fast hill]

I see... I wasn't used to having UniversalRenderPipelineGlobalSettings, and it scared me

[amber barn]

quick question, i have a 2d game with 3d elements sometimes, i usually just bake the lighting but here i'd like it to be dynamic however the light here doesnt work, the model is completely flat, why is it? very new to 3d in unity

i use the urp2d

[marble vigil]

Flat? As in shape or lighting?
If it's a dynamic 3D mesh it would need a realtime 3D light to light it

[amber barn]

lighting is flat

i guess its a dynamic 3d mesh

it follows the player around to emulate perspective

i might just go with some texture work and postFX to make it work as it's just a room and from what i've gathered i have to work with multiple cameras and i dunno if this single room is worth the hassle

[stable solar]

What's a good base shader to use in URP for 2D objects that need to be lit? The normal Lit shader seems to work fine, but it isn't respecting the Sorting Group script

Oddly it seems to work if I set the surface type to transparent, but then the object won't cast any shadows...

I'm guessing I'm missing some kind of shader feature / keyword

[marble vigil]

I do wonder that

Seems that you either use a 3D shader and miss out on some sprite compatibility, or a sprite shader and miss out on 3D lighting effects

[terse stag]

so, I'm making a vr game rn, and I want to use HDRP for desktop users, but I wanna release it on the Meta Quest 2 and other platforms that are way weaker. Is there a way I can make my own Scriptable Render Pipeline and disable steps in the rendering process based on platforms and #if statements or is it just not possible to make such a flexible RP?

I know this is about URP but it has to do with both RPs and yeah

[grim sequoia]

Hello! I don't understand what is happening, some objects partially disappear and when the camera changes location it appears, it only happens with the shadows and particles, what could be happening?

[shell seal]

Hey, have a question about rendering pipelines in game engines in general.
Since all the rendering stuff happens in GPU, the vertices data needs to be copied to the GPU memory.
Since games are rendered many frames a second and vertices and objects are always changing position, does it means that the game engine (such as unity) has to copy into the GPU memory all the vertices data every single frame from scratch?
Doesn't that seem a little overkill for the CPU? specially with scenes that have millions of polygons

[soft lion]

I don't really know but id imagine vertices really gets copied to GPU every frame (don't expect i'm right). One incorrect assumption in your message is that vertices changes positions every frame. Well, obviously objects tend to move in games but very rarely you really need to change the vertex array. Position, rotation and scale of object is represented using single 4x4 matrix per object in a way the vertex positions (positions on vertex array are saved on local space so those are not affected by pos, rot, scale) can be transformed into world space using that. Also when using GPU instancing, not every objects vertices needs to be moved to GPU separately because then GPU can render multiple objects at once using the same mesh (and same shader)

[stable solar]

So anyone have an idea how to get sorting groups working with opaque alpha clipped shaders?

[spice jacinth]

I'm trying to implement a first person weapon rendering system where the gun would always render in front of the environment. I tried using the camera stacking but the weapon is unaffected by the shadows in the scene and doesn't cast ambient occlusion. Is there a better solution?

[marble vigil]

https://youtu.be/5AmI2yOx0Nc have you looked at this tutorial?

It's a bit old so things may be in different places, but RenderObjects feature should still allow you to do the same things

[spice jacinth]

aha

I have seen this one previously but glanced over it as it's a bit older

will give it a try

[spice jacinth]

Well

it's still clipping

but I think I have a fix

thanks a lot!

[restive quarry]

Hi, so for some reason the roof of my testing area is poop colored but I want it to be the same color of the floor color. I recently converted to the URP lighting and this happened, could anybody help me?

[marble vigil]

It's likely reflecting ambient scene lighting

The lighting window will let you control this

[restive quarry]

which settings would help me?

[marble vigil]

You could try changing this to gradient or color

Though from your image I can't know for sure where it's getting its color
This is just an educated guess

[restive quarry]

Me neither

Alrighty that fixed it, thanks

[restive quarry]

When I set the light intensity to 0 the scene is unaffected.

[meager harbor]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/srp-batch-problem-node-use-different-shader-keywords.728522/
is unity fiexd this bug?
i still have the same issue with 2021.2

btw why urp only support single pass?
in my case, i have fur shader from birp which it have 20 passes, and i successfully convert it to urp by separate all passes into 20 materials and drag it all into mesh renderer array.

i know the urp single pass setup is benefit for performance.
but like what i did, separate all passes into 20 material, is this better than one shader file but multipasses?

[placid laurel]

Can anyone help me with this error?
I was trying to make an object glow using the component volume
after making a new profile in volume component
when i start using bloom and intensity this happens:

[marble vigil]

Are you sure that's possible? Post processing volumes are triggers for cameras, not objects

[spice jacinth]

So I tried fixing the clipping and still no luck

I mean, I managed to prevent the weapon from clipping through the environment

but the hands model now clips through the weapon

[placid laurel]

idk it was a youtube tutorial about glowing objects
btw i kinda solved it i just made another project and it did well

[marble vigil]

I'm interested in seeing the tutorial as well ^^

[spice jacinth]

alright, fixed it

will post the solution to my problem

[placid laurel]

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=make+objects+glow+in+unity
There you go

[marble vigil]

I do know how to search for tutorials, rather I'm wondering what the specific one you used is

[placid laurel]

oh sorry that was the wrong link

[placid laurel]

https://youtu.be/6SKHDaSe768

[fresh anvil]

Hello! I am trying to have a transparent background on a webgl canvas with urp in unity 2020.3.30.
I tried this script in a .jslib and with a solid color camera with 0 on alpha, but it doesn't work

    glClear: function (mask) {
        
        if (mask == 0x00004000) {
            var v = GLctx.getParameter(GLctx.COLOR_WRITEMASK);
            
            if (!v[0] && !v[1] && !v[2] && v[3]) {
                // We are trying to clear alpha only -- skip.
                return;
            }
        }
        GLctx.clearColor(0, 0, 0, 0);
        GLctx.clear(mask);
    }
};

mergeInto(LibraryManager.library, LibraryGLClear);```
Anyone has a clue?

[exotic jetty]

Hello ! Is it normal that in unity 2021.2.15 i only have 2D / 3D and 2D URP as template when creating a new project ?

[exotic jetty]

Ok so i think it was because my unity hub wasn't updated

[timber glade]

Hi, I've got a material being added to certain objects in a scene via a URP Render asset feature

Is there a way do a setfloat/setvector type operation via script to those? When I look at what materials are currently attached to one of the objects gettting the override material, said OR material doesn't actually get listed

[clear sentinel]

can you just reference the material directly?

[timber glade]

Actually yes, that was the ticket! Thanks!

[vale tide]

Hi guys. I have 2 effects. One is fog which uses 2D renderer. Second one is heat distortion effect which works only when I set Heat Distortion universal renderer to default. Otherwise is that grayed. Is it possible to use both of these renderers together?

[vale tide]

Nevermind. I just created new camera, set universal renderer (distortion one) as default and created overlay camera with 2D renderer and fog effect and attached it to the main camera with universal renderer.

[odd fog]

Hi, I'm having this issue with my shader where it doesn't render at all in play mode and bugs out in scene mode where the emission doesn't go all the way down when I'm viewing it up close

I'm assuming it's to do with URP cos in the shader preview it works finehttps://imgur.com/a/U1FlfX9

but this is what it looks like in scene and play https://imgur.com/a/k4KQim8

Sometimes it works normally in scene but never in play mode

[soft lion]

Um… why are you multiplying sine time by deltaTime?

[odd fog]

The fade out goes in really quick if I don't add the deltatime

I've been trial and erroring so and that worked for the effect I wanted

[soft lion]

Thats absolutely not gonna work

That can work in shader graph preview but that doesn’t make much sense atleast for me

[odd fog]

Why would it give me that effect in preview if it isn't actually what it's gonna give me?

[soft lion]

Because deltaTime most likely doesn’t update on preview

Correctly alteast. It may be some constant value like 0.02

[odd fog]

I'd have to change the deltatime value to .02?

[soft lion]

Maybe

You could replace it by something like that but even then it doesn’t make much sense. You could just do the same with the existing remap node (ig? I think I’m done today. I’m quite tired rn)

[swift rain]

Hey everyone, I'm sure the solution to this is super simple - I'm not finding it though. I started a new URP project (without Sample scene) in 2021.2.15f to do some PBR emission tests - and my PBR materials are not displaying correctly.

**Pic 1 ** is the URP project without the sample scene
Pic 2 is the same object/materials in a URP project with the sample scene.

I've checked the render pipeline settings, and tried to make sure they were identical. What am I missing here?

[timber glade]

Missing normals for one thing?

[placid laurel]

Your probably missing something equivalent to the hdrp sky and fog volume. However I’m not sure because I don’t use urp

[dusky badger]

sometimes need to bake lighting at least once, but I agree normals look missing

[timber glade]

And are you using scene lights?

(The little light bulb icon next to the "2D" icon in the viewport's top toolbar?

[blissful kite]

In my unity Project i have a problem that there is made a bunch more Tris then normaly should be there. I have found out that at least lighting has to do something with it. If i turn of the lighting my Tris Counter goes from 3M to 1.3M

Obviously i dont want to turn of the light for my game. Is there a way to get this problem fixed?

[marble vigil]

When using forward rendering each mesh affected by a light is rendered again per light

If deferred rendering is an option for your project it's better in that regard

But in either case it's prudent to keep light ranges at minimum, to not have huge continuous meshes under punctual lights and use LODs to reduce these runaway polycounts

Also, baked lighting gets around this issue, but it won't be realtime

[frozen palm]

hi

i have a problem with reflections probes , its not reflecting correctly

[blissful kite]

Yeah i should try to do LOD for everything

[marble vigil]

Yes, for everything that can be viewed from more than 20 meters or so

If you can use baked occlusion culling, that helps greatly as well

[soft lion]

I think one reason your vertex count increases when using lights is that shadow pass renders the mesh again

[soft lion]

I’m not 100% sure what you mean by this but either way I don’t think this is the case. As far as I know, all lights are calculated in for loop and no extra passes are required for each light

[blissful kite]

Is this something i can change?

[soft lion]

Well, *decrease amount of shadow casters or light sources casting shadows (or decrease shadow distance). Shadow pass is still quite cheap so I don’t know if you really have to be concerned about that increase in tri amount. Using LOD and and different culling systems is good idea tho

[marble vigil]

I'm probably mixing it up with shadow pass

[blissful kite]

OMGGGGG i fixed the problem lol! You guys are Amazing!

I had the Max shadow Distance to 5k i reduced it to 1k now and instant 2x less tris!

[soft lion]

5k? Thats 5 kilometers right?

[blissful kite]

I guess yes i used it once to make some Clips of Big Structures

[soft lion]

Very rarely in games you need shadow distance higher than 100m

[blissful kite]

This is the Map

Its quite big thats why i had it kinda in the first place i will play around with the Value and i heard i can make the Shadow Distance as an Option in my Game

[soft lion]

Could you just bake those lights and use distance shadowmask to use relatime shadows for only objects near to camera?

[blissful kite]

I cant Bake because the File Size will get big. Its a Browser game

currently i have the filesize down to 11MB

[soft lion]

Fair enough

[blissful kite]

I cant thank you enough for helping haha i am so happy now!

[soft lion]

In general its good to keep the shadow distance as small as possible to get bit better performance and increase shadow quality

[blissful kite]

Yeah i see that now! I learned the Hard way but sometimes that is best to appreciate specific Options

[marble vigil]

@soft lion https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/inkh0/what_are_the_differences_between_forward_and/

...with forward rendering you're doing lighting calculations for every triangle, not just the ones that are seen.
Incorrect to say that the mesh is rendered again for each light, but apparently every vertex is still taken into calculation

My knowledge about the technical side is probably more spotty than yours

[soft lion]

That still doesn’t take more triangles into account when light count is higher

[dry willow]

I think you're mixing up forward rendering in the built-in pipeline vs URP. Built-in does extra passes for each point/spot light iirc, but URP is all single-pass using a loop

[marble vigil]

I see!

[soft lion]

Oh it does? Interesting, always learning something new. Why is it like that tho? (I mean why does birp work like that)

[marble vigil]

So the cost doesn't stack that much with shadowless lights on URP?

I guess profiling can answer that pretty definitively

[blissful kite]

So with URP i am able to have more lights and it doesnt make a difference?

[soft lion]

The light count should still make a difference

[blissful kite]

Alright

[soft lion]

But it doesn’t change the amount of tris rendered (if they don’t cast shadows)

[blissful kite]

Ahh okay!

[soft lion]

May be bit cheaper than birp tho

[blissful kite]

I think i need to have a good read on how Lighting and rendering works in a deep fashion

[soft lion]

If the light per object count is high, its better to use deferred rendering path

[blissful kite]

So for example if i use a directional Light as the "Sun"?

[soft lion]

Deferred path is added very resently to urp so it doesn’t work for older unity versions

[blissful kite]

Ahh okay it doesnt work for the 2020 ?

[soft lion]

I meant to say light count

So if theres lets say more than 4 point lights per object, deferred could be good choise

[blissful kite]

Okay yeah i think in my case it doesnt really matter i am currently only using 1 Light for everything

[soft lion]

Its added on 2021.2

[soft lion]

In that case it would not help

[blissful kite]

Alright then i will not be an option for me at the moment i am using the long lasting 2020 version

[spice jacinth]

I am trying to create a material that's only visible through another transparent one. How would I do that? Tried searching up some info but got nothing

Nevermind

got a solution here

https://bdts.com.au/tips-and-resources/unity-create-windows-portals-using-stencils-with-the-universal-render-pipeline-urp.html

[whole fog]

I'm not sure if I should ask here but I can't find the proper channel.
What is happening with my transparent images in Unity and how do I make them resemble the lighting to the right (the original png)?
I'm using URP.
This weird "opacity posterization" remains when I posterize the image beforehand (lowering color ranges) or lowering opacity, etc. It clumps values in a very unpredictable way so I can't really "hack" it
(@tag me please)

[marble vigil]

This could be caused by the way your photo editor / image format stores/compresses alpha channel data, but definitely worth checking if the switch between gamma and linear color space in unity has any positive impact

Though it's also possible that you have a lit material in unity and it's recieving light, or has a custom shader that changes its appearance

[whole fog]

Import setting changes do nothing.
I'm using Linear, but let me try switching to Gamma.
The photo editor is not the problem (I think) because in all sorts of viewers and editing programs (CSP, GIMP, Krita) the image displays correctly
I'm not sure about that last point

ok, it just finished doing the Gamma changes and now it works properly. Strange though, I thought Linear was supposed to be better?

does using Gamma have a negative impact on the project somewhere

at least according to this, one should use Linear

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

But.. anyway, thanks a lot for the help guys 🙂 Really appreciate it. This was bugging me for some months now..

[slim talon]

I've got a UDP project where I made rotating swirl around floating (prefab) pickups in the game. The project has one main scene in addition to a title screen, but I added a simple "testing" scene to work out my Vfx. There's a rotating sphere on which the effect is mapped. On the testing scene, the effect works perfectly, but in the main game scene, using the same prefab, I see a pink circle which implies a URP problem.

Here's what I see in the main scene.
Any ideas?

It's all the same project.

Unity version 2021.2.7f1, if that matters.

My only other thought is that I put both of the objects seen in the first screenshot into the scene, whereas the one below is instantiated during play.

Might that have something to do wit it, and if so, why?

[marble vigil]

Depends on your project
Linear color is much better at simulating HDR lighting in 3D space
In 2D unlit it probably only makes a difference if you do very fine gradients and blending

[marble vigil]

By the last point I mean that if your texture has a lit material and it's recieving light, it'll naturally be whiter than the texture alone
Or if it's got a shader that messes with the brightness somehow
but it's hard to guess without any info

[whole fog]

Yea actually my shaders completely broke in gamme but my lighting is arguably better now

regardless, I found something interesting

(these are cuts from screenshots taken from the ingame camera)

(I made a fake scene where I imported a sprite to test the color transitions. Its a 0% opacity to 100% opacity black gradient on a pure white bg. I wanted to see how it clamps transparencies

and gamma just works better. According to some forum posts, linear is a bit bugged)

[marble vigil]

Are you using custom shaders and are your sprites lit? It'd be an important clue

[whole fog]

custom shaders yes. Its ok I guess ill just go fixing them by hand

most are UI elements, others use Sprites-Default

something else, for the 3d objects (there are a few here and there): the lighting got better when I switched to gamma

and at this point im sharing this for anyone who might find this interesting

shaders broke, but I guess that makes sense given that they were made for Linear

but if you notice the Transparency bleed is much higher now. I was struggling with that in the shadergraph cuz it was cutting off too harshly

So I guess its actually more usable now, even if the colors are temporarily a mess.

All in all, gamma seems to work better for sprites using transparency. So.. would recommend xD

That should be a bit more noticeable here

it seemed very hard to lightly bleed edges (or so I thought) using Step n Lerp nodes. With gamma, might not be such a hassle. In case anyone might find this useful.

Anyway , sorry for the flood spam, thanks a lot again guys

things work just perfect now 🙂

[whole fog]

can I see the material & lighting settings? this is a common problem with an easy fix usually. Just search pink materials online

[slim talon]

Thanks, @whole fog, for the tip. I'm familiar with the pink lighting issue and that wasn't it. As it turns out, I am using an asset from the store that does a whole lot of cool effects with shaders, etc (the Allin1Vfx toolkit) and it needs to treat prefabs differently. I contacted the author of the asset who explained it like this.

By default this asset doesn’t save the Material you are using, instead it keeps it as part of the Scene in order to avoid having too many objects cluttering your project. This means that by default, when you turn a GameObject with an AllIn1VfxShader material into a prefab, the prefab won’t render correctly since it doesn't have a reference to the Material inside the Project Asset files.

What you need to do there is save the material (the effect) and apply it to the instantiated prefab. Once done, it worked perfectly.

Again, thanks for replying.

[whole fog]

sounds like a more uncommon pink material problem

cool that you figured out the cause quickly 🙂

[ripe palm]

this keeps happening

when i turn on URP

happens across all surfaces tht have light on them

[marble vigil]

You could provide more info, like a less cropped image, URP version and quality setting asset

[ripe palm]

here is no.1

Version is 11.0.0

and idk wht ur last demand is

[ripe palm]

(gonna quickly reply so u see this)

[marble vigil]

URP requires an asset which includes graphics settings, including shadow settings
I've not seen this type of issue before but anything could be an important clue

[ripe palm]

u mean this?

i just realised its thr

[marble vigil]

There should be more shadow settings in the section above, but there's unlikely to be weirdness there if it's a freshly created asset

I would try to see if the issue persists in a blank scene with new lights and some default cubes
If so, then try in a new project created with the URP sample scene

[ripe palm]

alot of work but finee

[thorny moon]

how do i get UI to be affected by light with URP?

[plucky sapphire]

Hello
I'm trying to get a better understanding of the shadow casting and draw calls

Right now i have a scene with just a dude an some environment, no doors, walls and such:

My total draw calls are at 700, with 533 being shadow-related.
A lot of the calls are for doors, walls etc that are outside of camera, and i dont think the shadow could reach the camera view at all. Also, in the preview they are pure black.

Is there a way to optimize this, and where do i even start with checking what exactley is happening?

[whole fog]

According to the unity help images Linear should give better results but so far it has performed worse for Shadergraph nodes; 3D objects and 2D sprites. Im not sure if I'm doing something wrong here

but things like Overlay, Screen, etc. blends work properly in shadergraph with Gamma. Before I was wondering wtf was going on

and 3d models were washed out with Linear

[obtuse girder]

Is it not recommended to use URP with low/mid-poly flat-shaded models? Light bleeds through the edges of the faces. I can only get rid of it by setting Normal Bias on Shadows to 0, but that causes some freakout banding effect (inset pic bot-left). Thickening the model does not help.

[marble vigil]

If you have custom shading or lighting (or post processing), you can't expect same results with the same settings in gamma and linear, though neither is strictly "correct"

Without knowing what shading or lighting your materials have, it's impossible to guess why they look different

[whole fog]

what I mean is that the blends in shadergraph only work the way they are supposed to (in CSP, GIMP, Krita, etc.) when using Gamma

at least there id expect same results

[marble vigil]

If you switch the photo editor to linear color mode, do blend modes work as they do in unity with linear color?

[whole fog]

Im not even sure those programs have that option, let me chec

regardless I doubt many use it

[marble vigil]

Gimp might have

The math is probably the same, but if the data is different so will be the results

[whole fog]

yea but GIMP isnt exactly the best art software. its more for editing

thats all there is in CSP

[marble vigil]

(Though if you get down to the technicalities it's the art programs that are doing it "wrong")
https://youtu.be/LKnqECcg6Gw

[whole fog]

while I understand Linear is technically better, if it messes with the workflow with other programs its worse (for me at least)

So even if those programs do it wrong, thats fine. I get the values I want 😄

[marble vigil]

It's a hugely convoluted topic though
I'd just forget trying to make everything match exactly and just tweak stuff until it looks good

[whole fog]

if we're gonna talk about wrong I would never use RGB, LAB is the best but... no one uses it.

Well yea but tbh it was impossible to get smooth shadow drop offs in shadergraph with Linear precisely because it groups tarnsparencies

and so there's a huge cut off. Which was useful for some shaders, but mostly a bother. And you cant properly "expand" black-white texture areas because of this. I was wondering what I was doing wrong.

Granted, switching to gamma I had to spend 14 restless hours converting my shaders but

I expect the workflow will be much better from now on. For Diablo 3-like shaders at least

My point is: Linear is causing far too many problems with transparent sprites. You import an image and it looks way way different

I dont know if thats fixable and I was doing something wrong, but according to my tests thats just how it works

aanyway, Im taking up the channel here. That's all I have to say on the topic on my end 😄 If anyone wants to see more of my tests on the differences best PM me

[icy mountain]

I think this is a common problem. What settings do I need to do to get rid of jaggy shadows?

[soft lion]

higher shadow quality/more cascades/smaller shadow distance

[icy mountain]

@soft lion I think it's max, is there anything more i can do?

[soft lion]

does those settings have any affect to shadows?

[icy mountain]

Yes, if i uncheck "Cast shadows" the shadows disappear

[soft lion]

ok, then ig you're modifying correct asset 😄

[icy mountain]

I reduced the shadow resolution to 256 and it looks better somewhat... fuzzier to be expected, but its no longer a train wreck

OK, the shadow resolution isn't the bottleneck that's for sure

Oh found a solution, I increased the number of "Shadow resolution tiers"

thank you

[south pagoda]

Does anyone know where we can see up to date URP changelogs? Apparently 12.1.5 + 12.1.6 have both been released already but I don't see their changes?
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@12.1/changelog/CHANGELOG.html

[heady jewel]

Hi, I am having trouble with urp in unity version 2022.1.0b12, I start the URP 3D Project and then it says (1st Picture)
However when I click ok and try to build my game I get these(2nd Picture)
Can someone please help me?

[stable solar]

Any idea what's going on here? Unity is culling my shadows very weirdly when they are near the top of the screen. This doesn't happen if the object is at the bottom...
https://streamable.com/yu6bna

The tree is made up of multiple sprites, and I assume unity is culling sprites from the shadowcaster pass when it shouldn't, I just have no idea why or how to fix it :[

Disabling Light.useViewFrustumForShadowCasterCull fixes the issue, so it is definitely due to frustum culling.

Guess I'll disable that for now until I find an actual solution to the issue 🤷

[stiff basalt]

Hi, I am having issues with Dots 0.5 / Hybrid Renderer v2 which I posted in detail in the DOTS channel but if I could fish some kind tech artist to help me, I would be grateful!
#archived-dots message

[placid laurel]

Have you opened the project previously in a different version of unity ?

[heady jewel]

first one yes but then I created like 3 more

in the newest one and started it as urp project

[placid laurel]

And also created in the 2022 version ?

[heady jewel]

yes

told you completely new project started in a newest version of unity

[placid laurel]

Ok give me a sec

[heady jewel]

as soon as project opens I got a message from first pic then when I try to build it errors on 2nd pic

[heady jewel]

any updates?

[mystic delta]

@heady jewel Don't spam unrelated channels. Did you follow the instructions for the material upgrade in the warning?

[heady jewel]

I didn't spam in unrelated channels, just in unity-talk (because I didn't see this one at first and later because nobody replied), urp only asked once and hdrp just now because I didn't get any help here in unity talk or here, and second I do not have any materials in my project it's a new project I just started and instantly got these errors when I try to build it

[mystic delta]

Your templates could be corrupted. Start new project using one of the default templates. If you get errors again, reinstall cleanly, preferably to a new non-system location and make sure system didn't block any install features with third party security programs.

[heady jewel]

don't have any third party av just windows defender with everything off other than real time protection and I gave unity and unity hub admin access so I doubt that's the case, also I tried starting a new project that's not urp then installing urp from package manager that didn't help

I already tried all the things I can try my self and I couldn't find anything online on this problem

[mystic delta]

Using admin on Editor itself blocks some usability features. It should function without it

[heady jewel]

I've had experience with alot of programs and I am 90% sure that won't fix my problem but sure let's try it

[mystic delta]

If you have permissions problems, they could manifest with part of Unity not able to write into its folders. So installing into a clean directory would fix that.

[heady jewel]

well as you can see I do not have that problem

my problem is connected to urp as far as I can tell and I am building other projects in older unity versions and before installing urp with new version completely fine

[mystic delta]

Other errors are not related to URP, it could be corrupted packages, which could be a result of lack of access at some point. Again reinstall cleanly to a new location or research the exact errors.

[heady jewel]

researched the errors but there is nothing online and ok I will try reinstalling unity now

[mystic delta]

If you open the same project after, make sure to delete its Library folder, or problems will carry over.

Also make sure project folder is not in the system directory

[heady jewel]

I'll make a new project just to be sure

[heady jewel]

all my projects are in D/Unity Projects and all my Builds are in D/Unity Builds

Unity is installed on C

[mystic delta]

Install it into a new directory on C if you want to keep it there. It's all just to create ideal conditions and exclude OS weirdness.

[heady jewel]

just one question

should I start my project as 3d URP or just 3d

[mystic delta]

Just make sure not to use downloadable templates while you're testing for stability

[heady jewel]

just tried it with this one same error, now I am starting a new empty 3d Core and wil ltry to import urp my self but doubt it will help

[mystic delta]

What was the same error?

[heady jewel]

let me open that project and I will send you ss

[mystic delta]

Oh you're on beta as well

[heady jewel]

yeah so was my friend and he was able to build the game

we used unity collab

I mentioned all those details yesterday

[mystic delta]

If you're not into problem solving should not use beta

[heady jewel]

what version should we use then and what do we lose when we downgrade?

[mystic delta]

Templates were known to be broken for new versions sometimes

The one that is not beta. The Hub recommend the version to use

[heady jewel]

latest LTS is 2020 or 2021

is there any way we can get stable 2022 version?

see

[mystic delta]

2021.2 is pretty stable

[heady jewel]

ok, let me try installing that one then and will let you know if I get any more errors

[heady jewel]

yeah downgrading the version to 2020.3.31f1 fixed it instantly, really hope they'll fix 2022 version too because UI looks so much better there

[stoic quiver]

Is there a way to make the pixel perfect camera have the same height limits like the normal camera has? There are places in the game that arent supposed to be seen

[marble vigil]

Pixel Perfect component doesn't change how you control or limit the camera's movement or position

The notable difference is that the component will override the camera's orthographic size, so you need to check what value that is before coding limits around it

[stoic quiver]

it changes how much it sees depending on the resolution of the window...

[marble vigil]

Same is true for any camera resolution and size, regardless of Pixel Perfect
With Pixel Perfect you can't use Free Aspect in game view, it will give you an incorrect view

hence the warning

[stoic quiver]

well how am i supposed to "restrict" the amount of stuff one sees

[stoic quiver]

that has nothing to do with my issue

as you can see

this thing seems to stay 1:1 no matter what setting i do

[marble vigil]

@stoic quiver The process is the same either way
You choose an aspect ratio for your game to use which will define the edges of visible area
Then you restrict the camera's position based on those edges
With pixel perfect you also need to set resolution in addition to aspect ratio, following the restrictions of pixel perfect rendering

In both cases you need to view the game window with the target resolution to visualize visible areas accurately

[stoic quiver]

yeah well it doesnt seem to be working "the same way"

the normal camera only extends the view horizontally, but pixel perfect its both

[marble vigil]

You need to get the pixel perfect reference resolution and pixels per unit correct first
It's not immediately obvious how it works

[stoic quiver]

how do i get those 🤔

[marble vigil]

https://blog.unity.com/technology/2d-pixel-perfect-how-to-set-up-your-unity-project-for-retro-8-bits-games should be instructions for it somewhere here

[stoic quiver]

myeah this isnt working

the article is also from 2019 which i assume decent amount is changed; and considering im using the URP pixel perfect component, theres a decent amount of differences there also

[marble vigil]

Nothing looks to have changed and the settings are identical between render pipelines

[stoic quiver]

well its not fixing my issue

theres no such setting that seems to fix it

actually theres one way to fix it, and its a bad way

[marble vigil]

Do you know what resolution and aspect ratio you want your game to display as?

[stoic quiver]

considering this isnt a development for an arcade rig with a single resolution and aspect ratio, no

[marble vigil]

Pixel perfect rendering doesn't work with every resolution or aspect ratio, and as pixels can be only scaled in integer increments you will need to know how much scaling you want

[stoic quiver]

yeah, thats dumb as hell

[marble vigil]

That's the mathematical nature of rendering pixels perfectly

[stoic quiver]

i see no reason why they couldnt do it in a way to be able to work as a normal camera, but without the issues it has for pixel games

the only reason im trying to get the pixel perfect one to work is because of these built parts of an object for example showing "gaps" in certain resolutions

[marble vigil]

That's a tricky problem to solve if you don't want to go through the whole process of figuring out a correct reference resolution
Still a workaround you could try is to either make sure the problem sprites are perfectly on unit grid
Or if that fails move them a tiny bit inside of each other, even half a pixel should suffice

[stoic quiver]

ugh

quite the pain

[silk blaze]

hi, is there any way to have very soft shadows on border? I can only have hard edges and can't find any info on soft shadows. And on the assetstore there's only NGSS but it's not compatible with urp :(

[marble vigil]

By hard edges do you mean jagged or sharp type?
Jaggedness can be fixed, but there's no soft shadows for realtime lights

[silk blaze]

not jagged, soft shadows. but yeah that's what I thought, no soft shadows for realtime lights. that's quite bad 😦

[marble vigil]

I believe this is for optimization reasons, for now anyway
Even just high quality shadow filtering is expensive, and proper shadow softening that can consider light source size and distancing is very challenging for realtime graphics overall

HDRP's high quality filtering does something like that

[granite pecan]

hey!
i've got this problem where the FPS rig i've attached to the camera weirdly pops in/out as you move it. i've changed the near plane on the camera and tried to move it around but parts of the model dissapear randomly; changing materials doesn't seem to fix it either :/
here's how it looks in action; https://youtu.be/ZKKyiFPUc0Y

[charred siren]

hey guys, im trying to get an HIZ depth texture in URP using unity 2021.2. I found a github that does this for versions before 2021.2, using the CustomDrawing and Drawing classes. issue is, it doesnt work in 2021.2, as those classes were removed

what is the best way of going about getting an HIZ depth texture for use with occlusion culling?

[brave geode]

How do I import pbr textures to Unity from polyhaven.com? Unity uses some weird R channel for metallic and alpha for smoothness (roughtness).

textures from polyhaven have R,G,B for AO/roughness/metalic

[viscid scarab]

Hi, I have two projects, one for my main game, the other for VFX test. In my VFX test, I'm able to use URP / Particles / Unlit, and my VFX look okay. I started a new project (using SteamVR which may be the issue), and i'm not able to access the Unlit. I think that's why they look so different... If anyone has a fix, please let me know! Thank you! (Edit, they're both using the exact same settings and material)

[quiet umbra]

Do ambient occlusion exist in urp?

[pearl parrot]

third party ao exists

[merry monolith]

there's built-in URP SSAO since Unity 2020.2 / URP 10

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@12.1/manual/post-processing-ssao.html

[quiet umbra]

Yeah, i found it, but it's kinda weird tbh

[merry monolith]

it's not great but it exists 🙂

there are 3rd party solutions which also come with their own issues

would recommend HBAO from asset store myself

[quiet umbra]

HDRP also have ao but hdrp really laggy for me

[merry monolith]

HDRP has quite big initial overhead so it won't run nicely on weaker hardware

[echo moth]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/is-there-any-way-to-add-a-material-with-a-normal-map-to-a-spriteshape-sprite.760145/ anyone know if support for normal maps on the spriteshape fill material is planned soon?

(or if there's a workaround to make it work)

[placid laurel]

cant find a built in renderer channel

so heres my question

is there a built in decal system for the built in rp

[soft lion]

I think birp question could best fit in #💻┃unity-talk . afaik built in decal system doesn't exist atleast yet. projectors could be used to achieve something similiar. As far as I know, the projector system is not the most efficient tho

[placid laurel]

Ooooo
Could u link a page on projectors ?

[soft lion]

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

[placid laurel]

Thanks

Ay this is what I want I don’t see any issues

[warped zephyr]

Is it possible to use default-material on a tilemap with URP?

It comes up as pink for me, even if I upgrade the project.

[crimson rivet]

I'm having an issue where all ShadowCaster2D components stop rendering when the camera moves outside of a certain y or x point, and renders again when inside. And I cannot figure out why this happens

[tepid sundial]

Hi! Currently having issues with URP out of nowhere, post fx works completely fine in a different scene and in editor but nothing when in game

yet it works completely fine in another scene

[toxic yarrow]

anyone know why the fragment shader nodes are greyed out? I can't apply alpha to anything

[copper pilot]

@toxic yarrow you need a vertex master node to feed into the fragment.

[cyan talon]

Creating a shader graph from one of the suitable templates is probably a better way to start

having to change the base to get where you were going in the first place is just adding an unnecessary complication

[pearl parrot]

do you have post processing on the camera enabled?

[inland saddle]

Any idea why this Render Texture is taking up only the topleft trriangle of my screen?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/497874081329184799/956119220607934484/unknown.png

[tepid sundial]

Yep

Same layer too

And layer mask is selected

Global volume too

[kind harbor]

Confusing weirdness. Our game is running on URP 7.7.1 and using HBAO. All was good until we upgraded from 2019.4.9 to 2019.4.36 (latest LTS)
Now the alpha pass is drawing as if the zbuffer is empty, unless I either disable HBAO or disable MSAA.
Disabling HBAO makes the game look crap.
Disabling MSAA fixes the alpha pass, BUT now it's doing a depth prepass and HBAO is using THAT depth buffer instead of the real one, which means it is ignoring any of our custom shaders that don't have a DepthOnly pass.
Is there a fix for this that doesn't involve adding DepthOnly passes to a bunch of shaders for a pointless prepass (because it isn't even being used to optimise the main pass until 2021.2)?

[stoic cosmos]

anyone an idea what this error means? https://gyazo.com/e8c158612b0060e68161925c16bd178f

[kind harbor]

I was having a similar error when I had a Microsplat TraxManager on the player but the level wasn't set up for it. Try disabling anything you recently added to narrow down where it's coming from...

[stoic cosmos]

i just updated unity from 2021.1.23 to 2021.2.16

so thats weird

[kind harbor]

A lot of stuff might have changed by moving from one revision to another. Upgrading the minor version ONLY is supposed to be backwards compatible, but beyond that all bets are off...

[stoic cosmos]

damn, ok i will downgrade again xD

[tepid sundial]

I'm still having this issue and my brain is about to blow up

legit works fine in the next scene and in editor but nada in actual game

got it, changed the canvas to camera space and works now

[marble vigil]

Well found
By "in game" did you mean in build or in playmode

[tepid sundial]

playmode

[glossy wyvern]

Looking to copy the camera data from one camera to a render texture or array / native array efficiently using command buffers or another efficient way to copy the pixel data from the main camera into a byte array (native or otherwise) does anyone have any pointers?

[proper tree]

Hello hello
Got a VR (on occulus quest) project wich is using spacewarp, the build work on quest 2 but not on quest 1 (i have just a black screen on quest 1)
I saw a git project, wich make work the spacewarp on the quest 1 too (i tried the apk and it work), but there are no infos on how to use this on quest 1
If somebody have an answer, or something, tell me

the git app : https://github.com/nukadelic/unity-application-spacewarp

[modest delta]

Hello, my trails are drastically different between the Play Mode and the actual build. And "Camera Fading" is not working at all in the build.

The build seems to struggle with opacity of the trail.. ?

Left is how it looks in Play Mode, right is the actual build.

Any ideas?

[quick helm]

Hey, having an issue with a gradient shader i'm trying to get working. Right now it's working horizontally for some reason, and I can't figure it out, can anyone help me?

Here's the shader and what it looks like working improperly.

[quick helm]

Nevermind, found my issue

[merry monolith]

Gigaya livestream's VOD here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1435336001?t=2h46m28s

[stiff basalt]

Hello! I am working on a wooden box that, once it hits something else, it explodes into several splinters (you can see them in the bottom-left).

My issue is that I set this shader graph for transparency as I want the shards and box to fade out (then be destroyed at alpha=0) and there's a weird sorting issue going. You can see in the giant box on the right side, it's big because it's super close to the camera, yet an object further away is above it in visual sorting (to the left of the giant box).

I am a total noob regarding shaders and URP so I gave you all the details in relation in hopes somebody can help me. Or perhaps does this post belong in #archived-shaders ?

[grim matrix]

Is there a way to change the default material on a sprite renderer component? I don't want the 'Sprite-Lit-Default' material.

[clear sentinel]

Yep using the preset manager

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

[floral comet]

are you using particle system?

[stiff basalt]

I am using the VFX system to add some "fire" on top of anything else, but everything you see there are game objects with the same shader/material

[floral comet]

check out this setting for particle systems. should change how sorting behaves for meshes spawned by the particle system.

[stiff basalt]

But I am using VFX aka VisualEffect, not the Particle System component. And my elements are not related to particles

[dry willow]

This is a common issue with anything transparent. Transparents don't write to the depth buffer so they blend correctly, but also means they can't easily be sorted. Usually it should sort based on the object's distance to the camera so not sure why that isn't happening here, unless these are all a single mesh/gameobject.
It would make sense to keep objects opaque and switch to a transparent material when they need to fade.
Or always use opaque and dithering to fake transparency. e.g. https://danielilett.com/2020-04-19-tut5-5-urp-dither-transparency/

[floral comet]

yes above is the correct answer. or maybe try this

[stiff basalt]

Oooooh thank you! I definitely can live with faked transparency, especially if the transparency is applied after the entire object is rendered (I don't want to see the backside of the back polygons)

[grim matrix]

Thank you. I didn't know about that

[split stone]

Just wanted to share this if you have not seen it. We've been building a larger project in URP 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S6J8zm_w1E

[soft lion]

can't wait to see that on editor...

[cyan swallow]

if I have a custom render feature that uses custom shaders (e.g. for a full screen pass), how can I get the shaders to be properly serialized so that they are identified as required for builds by Unity?

[fossil lily]

Add them to graphic settings always include list. You can also drop the shaders in Resources folder if you need to load it via script at runtime

[cyan swallow]

but that requires a lot of user intervention and isn't well suited to assets (it's probably one of the most frequent support tickets I get)

I did find a way in the end, following from how PostProcessPass does it in Unity - I defined a ShaderResources class with Serializable that holds references to Shader properties used in my post process. I then have a reference to this in my ShaderFeature so that it gets saved when the shader feature gets saved

then Unity at least can figure out which shaders to use

[potent smelt]

how to make a sonar shader using URP

[soft lion]

More #archived-shaders question

[warm gust]

Hi all - I am trying to change the Volume mask on a URP camera via a script instead of the inspector but I can't for the life of me find out how to access it.

Google has been leading me in a circle with the same unhelpful pages - anyone have a lead? Thank you!

[warm gust]

Disregard - stumbled across an answer for HDRP that lead me in the right direction.

You have to use UniversalAdditionalCameraData in order to access the volum mask on the camera

[stiff basalt]

This technique worked so well! Thank you again Cyan, you are a pillar a confidence for me that any problem has a solution V_V

[somber oasis]

Hi! What is wrong with point lights and normal maps in URP? why light is always facing in -z/-x direction?

maybe triplanar node is broken? should this look like this?

[distant edge]

does anyone know why when I load my scene using something like LoadScene() my lit textures are black unless they have an emitter

if I open the scene then just play it, its all normal

[autumn pulsar]

anyone know why when I added URP my 2d characters dont use their pivot points correctly to show whats in front and whats behind

[marble vigil]

This happens in most 3D software if the normal map is using wrong color space or wrong gamma

Usually the "type: normal" is enough to convert to the right color space, but I guess it's possible that the texture already has a color space baked in

[placid laurel]

Hi, does anyone know why my Unity shadows in URP look like this?

It's not really noticeable sometimes but other times the lines make a "distortion" effect

[marble vigil]

@placid laurel https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ShadowPerformance.html
"shadow acne"

[placid laurel]

Oh, thank you! I searched about it but I didn't find anything

[charred siren]

does anyone good with shaders know how to create a good HIZ depth texture in urp or built in?

[somber oasis]

Sorry, was my fault: Seems I forget to set the texture type to normal when importing from the older 2019 LTS project. (don't think upgrading the project to a newer editor causes this) Now everything is fine!

[distant edge]

does anyone know why when I load my scene using something like LoadScene() my lit textures are black unless they have an emitter
if I open the scene then just play it, its all normal

[marble vigil]

Try generating lighting for the scene manually

[somber oasis]

Hello,

Don't know what happend, but the Post processing bloom effect is suddenly broken.
The thing is: it is not completely gone, but with the old setting nothing to see, it now needs a much lower treshold to work at all, but then it looks odd and the scatter somehow does not work anymore.
Maybe I changed the wrong setting somewhere?! As a restart of Unity did not help and in the compiled game it still works as expected.

[somber oasis]

LOL, after trying to figure out for about 3 hours, finally found it, in main camera, hdr was turned off. off course shortly after asking …

[placid laurel]

how to get gra[h editor window

[soft lion]

what is that?

[marble vigil]

You need to start asking clearer more detailed questions if you want anyone to be able to help you

[somber oasis]

Anyone knows how to get things in the shadow only lit by ambient light? so the same from all sides in URP? in built-in it is like that - and I would prefer it.
But even more wondering about the ugly transition between shadow cascades?! Tried the same settings as with built-in, so 4 cascades and 150m, but still ugly as hell:

similar shadow in built-in (also the point light shadow is not so dim):

and more important: transition not even visible

[somber oasis]

better comparison (roughly same distance) - you have to look extremely close to see any transition at all, with URP it more than obvious.

[barren nest]

Anyone know if there's a good way to get better control over the render order of alpha blended materials in URP? I know depth buffer accuracy for alpha blending is expensive in general, just wondering if there's a way to presort or write custom depth information. For example, these papers are rendered in the wrong order for their Y values, but I'd like to keep them relatively flat since they're essentially floor decals:

[cerulean quarry]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/821413518896398419/957496229871357962/RPReplay_Final1648355264.mp4

anyone know why the map is cut off?

it isnt rendering the whole thing, it just cuts to a black void that seems to shift with the camera

i assumed this was the far clip plane, but apparentally not

[wintry sluice]

how do I setup a 2D renderer for URP? I need to use a pixel perfect camera

[warped sphinx]

Anyone know how to tweak a camera's scale effect?
I have a game were you can play both as a person and a mouse, and right now the only solution I found is to have the entire level be scaled up/down to make the effect, which prevent a lot of static/precalculating features from being usable.
Surely there must be some way to tell the camera to just multiply all vertex distance by a factor, or something like that?
(Bonus point if it work in VR)

[marble vigil]

Do you have trouble finding instructions? Note that the 2D renderer only handles 2D lighting, it's not required for pixel perfect camera. URP isn't required either

[wintry sluice]

Yeah I found tutorial only for older version of URP

[marble vigil]

I believe perspective camera size as a concept doesn't exist outside of VR
In VR it would be controlled by the eyes' distance from each other

[wintry sluice]

also the pixel camera itself is quite hard to understand 😐

[marble vigil]

It definitely can be

[fluid vigil]

Hi! Not entirely sure where to put this, but has anyone made experience with the new fullscreen playmode option?
I was originally thrilled to see it, but it seems to halve my Playmode FPS compared to Maximized. (FPS in an actual built also reflects the better framerate)

Just wondering if you've made the same or different experiences

[void frigate]

Oh neat, we get a Fullscreen button now? I've been using that asset from the store.

[random badger]

Hi! Any ideas why my shadows look like this? I've been following tutorials on how to make a cell shading effect in URP, but for some reasons the shadows are messed up

It's taking the whole scene and rendering it weirdly

[fluid vigil]

probably need a comparison shot in how you'd imagine it looking - because for a pure shadow pass it seems fine (?)

[random badger]

oh sure sorry

it should look like this (but cell shaded)

[fluid vigil]

have you followed the tutorial to the end? Seems like your current result could be an between step.

[random badger]

yes I did, I'll rewatch just to be sure but in their setup it works right away

[fluid vigil]

so, do you have additional geometry in the scene or is it just the sphere?

[random badger]

Nope there is more geometry, maybe I can try putting it in one scene!

[fluid vigil]

was just wondering if the square shapes were part of the unintended your experiencing.

if not - the issue are just the hard surface shadows?

[random badger]

Looks like it yeah everything but the shadows seems to be working fine

I put it in another scene just to check and there is no shadow cast by the sphere

[fluid vigil]

does your new shader have shadow casting support or do you only get diffuse shadows?

[random badger]

ok nvm, at another angle I can see shadows

So I used the keywords for shadows? is this what you're referring to?

[fluid vigil]

(just incase check, that shadows are enabled in your pipelineasset & on the mesh renderer)

[random badger]

yup everything is enabled

what I'm seeing is the shadow cascade it seems, as it's chaging when I change the amount of cascade

but I'm quite new to all this so not sure how to troubleshoot that

[fluid vigil]

As I don't know the tutorial you're following - I don't know how shadows are setup in your shader. Generally you'll have to compute diffuse shading (basically the shading from any lightsource) and application of shadowcasts seperately.

yeah, realtime shadows in URP are kinda annoying to setup - just fiddle with the sliders until you have something that you like.

[dry willow]

If it helps, this is how I handle custom lighting in shader graph : https://github.com/Cyanilux/URP_ShaderGraphCustomLighting

[random badger]

ooh so you add another mesh that will receive shadows?

[random badger]

ok I'll double check the tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC91uxRTId8 <- this one) to make sure

What's strange is that I'm on the same Unity version

[dry willow]

That tutorial looks a little outdated, even if you can get it working in editor you might have trouble with builds due to stripping shader variants. Ned has another one here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQyCPaThQnA (One main difference would be using _MAIN_LIGHT_SHADOWS, rather than MAIN_LIGHT_CALCULATE_SHADOWS)
Alternatively could use the Sub Graphs provided in my github repo linked above.

[random badger]

Oh wow thanks I'll check that out! And yeah I looked at your repo and it looks like what I might need, I just want to understand what didn't work on my end before

thanks for the help!

[torpid matrix]

Hello everyone. I'm pretty new to Unity (in Level design). I was wondering if someone in here could tell me, how I copy an object, place it somewhere else and get two different light maps. For each object one. So if I drag and drop one in the sun, then copy paste it and put it somewhere indoor they still sharing the same light map, which leaves one object looking terribly wrong...

[marble vigil]

Baking lighting again would redistribute the lightmaps accordingly

[torpid matrix]

Tried that. Still gives one light map to all object

[marble vigil]

That's not quite normal
I would clear baked data and even restart the editor and bake again
Also worth checking if the meshes have "generate Lightmap UVs" checkbox on

[lofty yacht]

Hey, does anybody have a good resource to start learning how to scriptable render feature works and just the URP in general?

[boreal rapids]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLl4yzaYMBY (has bunch good URP vids)

[stoic quiver]

Is there no way to change all the measured materials to the URP lit one easily?

[lofty yacht]

Sound super great, thank you!

[timid nova]

hello

does anyone know how to get URP asset?

[cyan talon]

pinned to this channel as I said

[timid nova]

ok

[dark tide]

I'm using a model from the asset store (https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/props/guns/sci-fi-gun-162872#reviews), but after switching to URP the text from the canvas renderer changed to just being blocks roughly the size of the individual letters:

[boreal rapids]

did you use the urp converter to convert the text/material asset ?

[tight crescent]

how do i make a material tile. im trying to use a asset that tiles per every unit but instead it just stretches across the entire thing

i dont remember having to deal with this issue with regular pipeline

[dark tide]

I used the "convert materials" option from the menu

right now the shader also shows as URP/Particles/Lit so I assume it worked

changing it around to just URP/Lit doesn't have an effect

[placid laurel]

hey ive set up urp on my 2d project and upgraded materials but it doesnt work what so ever

[modest merlin]

How would you get this lighting effect in urp for my meshes ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqYW7Z2GMYM&t=819s

When using a point light, it reflects way to much on the ground

[marble vigil]

The same way I told you in #archived-shaders
Find a shader that can control the light falloff like toon shaders do

[boreal rapids]

you probably haven't configured it properly. Are you following a guide?

[wispy vale]

i've been unable to find a tutorial or anything on this, but I'm just learning Unity and made a 3d project with the URP template, and I need to make a 2D scene. I seem to need to get a 2d renderer set up, but I'm not sure how to keep my 3d scenes working the way they are right now

[boreal rapids]

Are you using Unity 2021 by any chance? they have a 2D URP template in hub

[wispy vale]

i am using 2021, but I need to get the 2d scenes in my existing 3d project, so not sure how I'd use the template

[boreal rapids]

a 2d Scene is just a 3D scene with an orthographic camera

[wispy vale]

that's what I tried to set up, but I needed the URP pixel perfect camera and it says i need the 2d renderer

[boreal rapids]

that's because the camera renderer was setup for 3D

[lofty yacht]

Hey guys, I'm back with questions, @boreal rapids I looked at many video of the guys and learned a lot about it! He explains a lot more then the unity doc itself although I'm not gonna lie I am still confused. I tried making a pixel art material to change the view and only render it on specific layers.

First of all, I don't know why but my Feature doesn't work when I put it to "After Rendering Opaques" but it does when I put it to "After Rendering Transparents" :/ . Also, I want to filter by layer. So I created another feature for that but this one does nothing and I am confused now. Can anybody help me on this one? Even a small lead would be super helpful

The first File is my Filtering Feature

And the Second one is my BlitMaterialFeature that will apply the pixel art shader

The result gives something like this normally

But, it isn't filtered by layer and only works on "After Rendering Transparents" like mentioned

[placid laurel]

Can you send a link to the said guide?

[boreal rapids]

I asked if you used one to guide you

[placid laurel]

I have not

I just added the urp file in project settings and upgraded materials

Which didnt work well

[boreal rapids]

you have to add the pipeline asset in Graphics in project settings

[placid laurel]

I have done that

[boreal rapids]

you mean the Package Manager URP ?

[placid laurel]

That too

[boreal rapids]

What "doesn't work" exactly?

can you show some screenshots or something

did things turn pink when you switched to urp ?

[placid laurel]

Currently i cant send stuff cause i'm on mobile

[boreal rapids]

show your Graphics settings in Project Settings

[boreal rapids]

ok

[placid laurel]

After adding the pipeline in settings one trail turned pink

Didnt change after upgrade

[boreal rapids]

that means its working

[placid laurel]

The thing is lights didnt work

Nor i had dark areas

[boreal rapids]

thats not what you said earlier

[placid laurel]

I forgot to mention it

Its my first time using urp

[stark nova]

Does anyone have a good tutorial for clouds? Kinda hoping I can get ones where I could like, fly above them

[merry hemlock]

Hello all! I have a question regarding shaders for URP.
I am trying to replicate the Genshin Impact shaders as close as possible and I found a decent breakdown of what to do. But I have no idea how to, for example, convert this code from the image into functioning HLSL code.
Any advice on where I should start? Or maybe a useful tutorial to get to the point of doing it myself? I still new to this.

[merry hemlock]

I tried asking in servers related to unity, contacting the creators of the shader, friends of friends that might know. Idk where or who else to ask this to

[marble vigil]

Googling "URP sobel filter" gave me quite a few results, did you see those?

In more generic terms what you want is a specific type of convolution matrix post process, there definitely should be guides about that

[merry hemlock]

I will try! I tell if I'm having troubles

[placid laurel]

anyone can drop me a up-to-date tutorial how to get urp and the fancy lights on unity 2021?

if so ping me

nvm used the offical one in pins

while i have configured everything lights dont work

[placid laurel]

i have found the cause but i have no idea why it doesnt want to upgrade

[hollow scroll]

Hi there, How can I access the Pixel Perfect Camera Component of the URP through code ?

MainCamera.GetComponent<PixelPerfectCamera>().pixelRatio; not working (worked with the Pixel Perfect Camera from the standalone package)

Okay found out, forgot to add using UnityEngine.Experimental.Rendering.Universal;

[stark nova]

I just wanna ask about Viewmodels - what approaches to these are used? I was thinking of an overlay camera that renders it then on the character's physical body camera, I use a render objects to hide the player body

Although - I might want to include mirrors you can see yourself in. so maybe a render texture with a camera that stops rendering when the mirror isn't rendered?

I'm looking at making a shooter. If I can't figure out third person, I may just do a full physical body

as far as I can see - with a physical body, I'd only need one animation set. With a viewmodel I need two animation sets and I still need to deal with clipping and such for the worldmodel

[cyan swallow]

Did the option to disable the SRP batcher vanish in the newest URP? I used to find it on the render pipeline asset, now I cant

[somber oasis]

btw. found settings how the shadow-transition (between cascades) in URP are ok, similar to built-in: reduce Normal Bias to 0.1 (somehow it seems different, as with built-in you get similar results with a Normal Bias of 0.4)
Don't know why this is set to 1.0 by default, does not match at all …
(beside that i did set shadows size of main light to 2048 and shadows to 4 cascades - max distance of 150m - but this things can also be lower, depending on max. distance and quality/speed you want)

[sinful gorge]

Does anyone know how to cast realtime shadows onto transparent materials?
I work in the URP. Right now as the transparency of the material fades, so does the shadow, but I want to use an invisible mesh used by meshing and cast shadows of digital objects on it

Edit: got it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbAY963xp0c

[lime niche]

I have no Universal Render pipeline in the create/shader menu but URP asset is selected in graphcs and I have a shader graph in a scene but I can not create a new one.

[lime niche]

I can read in the samples but not create one.

When I switch to URP asset the shaders go pink. Am I missing something too grand for my conception?

The shader graph editor comes up only when I click on a sg shader. It creates tabs in the window top frame. Right clicking on those has no add tab/ shader graph editor.

I had the wrong version of the manual up gotten through generic searches. PBR Graph is the entry.

[lime niche]

It looks like there are massive changes between the version in the video and 8.20.

[lime niche]

I completed the Circuit card shader and it moves in the SG editor but not on the mesh in the scene or game windows.

[stark nova]

Anyone able to find me a tutorial on viewmodels and such?

[fluid spoke]

Hello i have question, Why i can't see thru glass from both sides but only from one? anyone have fix for that?

[stark nova]

@fluid spoke are you using urp?

When you want glass, you need to set it to transparent, and then you adjust the alpha values to change the transparency. If you have both faces set to render, it might cause that issue

[fluid spoke]

yes

[stark nova]

could you show me the material in the inspector when you can?

[fluid spoke]

okay wait a min need to start unity

Here you go

[stark nova]

Try changing it from premultiply to multiply or additive

[marble vigil]

https://youtu.be/5AmI2yOx0Nc pretty old but should still be relevant

[bitter sentinel]

Where do i find the pipeline setting for the volume update mode?

[merry monolith]

where did you hear there are in editor settings for it?

afaik you can only adjust these from code

[bitter sentinel]

That option is on the camera component, but i can't find any option to change the default pipeline setting

[stark nova]

@marble vigil , ive watched that one before but it seems to only be relevant in the case of one character and then that's actually on the rig. I was thinking of a way to render the two separately like in half life games

[marble vigil]

One character?
The viewmodel is separate here, just like in half life games

[stark nova]

huh, it is?

damb

silly me

I'll figure it out at some point

[high shore]

hi i have a general question about pipelines
im following a tutorial and the person is setting his pipeline to the lightweight pipeline, however, I dont seem to have that
(im using normal unity without urp or hdrp)

[marble vigil]

Lightweight Render Pipeline is what the Universal Render Pipeline used to be called long ago

[high shore]

oh okay thanks

[marble vigil]

Though it's changed a lot since then

[high shore]

alright

thanks have a good dday

whats the pbr graph equivalent for the new version?

imma do lit graph cuz a guy on the forum said that

[merry monolith]

Lit Graph

@high shore

[high shore]

okay thanks

[merry monolith]

basically only reason why PBR Graph existed in past was that it was cross-SRP compatible between LWRP and HDRP.. but now you can stack different targets to SG so there's no real reason to have it anymore

[high shore]

alright

[empty yew]

Why wont and image textures work

i can only use solid colors

in my urp

(im using Vr)

[stark nova]

Could you share a screenshot of the renderer settings in the inspector panel

[polar kettle]

https://gyazo.com/a6c06751dcf098f40eec41e79d6032d9

Wouldd anyone know why i get those jitters/flakes in my normal map

• i have no compression
• In substance painter it looks fine, but in unity it looks like shit

[stark nova]

It could be the resolution? what are you using it for

[polar kettle]

4k, baked in substance with 4k and 8*8multisampling

Importsettings in unity with 4k and no compression

[stark nova]

Try checking your rendersettings

there might be something in there

[polar kettle]

Ill have a look, thanks!

[placid laurel]

Use .tga, .tiff, .png files

Unity uses .tga in their samples

[polar kettle]

I used PNG, both 8 and 16 bit. Made no differencw

[placid laurel]

Try TGA

Or choose Low Quality or None in Compression Mode

[polar kettle]

i allready set it to non

[upper lake]

@polar kettle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D5tBEjS-N0&ab_channel=CGCookie