archived-urp

[placid laurel]

its functions like in shader graph menu that you can disable or enable

[solar lotus]

How do you use shared material in URP

[soft lion]

Is there problem with that?

[solar lotus]

yeah I'm confused on how to use shared material for URP

im trying to use a unlit material for perlin noise

[soft lion]

What you mean by shared material? Have multiple object use same material?

[solar lotus]

never mind its a coding thing i dont think you'd understand

[soft lion]

Why did you ask if you are not willing to explain your issue

[solar lotus]

So with standard 3D core you are able to use sharedMaterial.mainTexture = texture; (somehting like that) but in URP you are not able to use that anymore or at least I don't think you can so I'm asking if there is a way you can use sharedMaterial in URP

[solar lotus]

exactly you wouldn't understand 🤷‍♂️

[soft lion]

Im pretty sure Renderer.sharedMaterial works exactly same way in birp and urp. Why you think it doesnt work?

[solar lotus]

it doesn't not anymore

[soft lion]

It should

You should show what you have done and what happens, saying something doesnt work isnt helpful

It can be bug or problem with your code, without seeing it its impossible to tell whats going on

[pliant cipher]

Hi, I'm working with the unity 3D URP Template, but am making a 2D game ( just feels easier to do 2D parallax without having to do coding etc. ) , would there be any way that I could still achieve the pixel perfect camera effect on this 3D project? or should I just go stick with the Unity 2D template and try to figure out parallax?

[soft lion]

It doesnt matter much which project template you use but Im pretty sure the pixel perfect camera doesnt support perspective projection mode. Making perspective camera pixel perfect sounds much more painful than parallax effect so id stick with 2d

[steep furnace]

After upgrading to URP, TextMeshPro does not function properly (the text is getting blurred). I have tried the following methods but none of them worked for me:

1. Turned off anti-aliasing on active cameras.
2. Tried switching to 3.2.0-pre3 package of TextMeshPro, after upgrading, changed the TextMeshPro material's shader to TextMeshPro/Mobile/Distance Field.
3. Ensured that HDR is turned off.

If anyone knows how to fix this, please help me out.

[steep furnace]

This is fixed when updated TextMeshPro shaders with TextMeshPro/Distance Field SSD.

[pliant cipher]

Okay, thank you!

[crystal pebble]

I'm coming from a different engine (LOVE2D), where I built a special post-processing effect - basically, camera rendered to a backbuffer, then the backbuffer (texture/canvas) was rendered into a luminance buffer, where all kinds of luminance-based things happen (excitation/decay/aberrations) etc to simulate a nice warm glowy/blurry CRT. Is it possible to build something like this in URP post-processing? Mainly what I need is: render camera to texture, render to offscreen texture one or two more times, then render that back to camera.

The key thing being that the luminance buffer is stateful, and persists frame to frame, so I can't just chain a bunch of stateless post processing to do this

Is ScriptableRenderPass where I start?

[dusty sequoia]

I am working with ScriptableRenderPass and I have a set up where I render multiple cameras, but have work I can do that is shared between cameras. From what I can, tell Execute is called per camera, I need to figure out how to delimit the frames. Is there a way in URP to get frame start/end events?

[crystal pebble]

fwiw to answer my own question this video helped me get started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLl4yzaYMBY

[crystal pebble]

in a scriptable ScriptableRenderPass, if I've created a temp texture and have a RenderTargetHandle to it, how do I "bind" that to a (non-main Texture2D) in a material I'm blitting through?

I assumed I would be setting a material's texture to the RenderTargetHandle's identifier, but I don't see a way to manipulate a material/texture binding through a CommandBUffer

[crystal pebble]

So far all I've found is by setting global shader props. If there's a local way that'd be great... is there?

[late monolith]

I have a small question about forward and deferred lighting, i was wondering which one of the two seems best for an open outdoor scene with realtime lighting, there is a possibility of procedural generation

[brittle jewel]

Hello,
Is there a way to implement triplanar UV mapping in URP lit shader?

[merry monolith]

I hate to be the guy asking this but did you google for this?

there's no urp lit triplanar but you can do it with URP shader graph

[brittle jewel]

i did, but i didn't find ready shader so i assumed that it is not so simple

so the only way is to write my own shader?

[merry monolith]

write, use existing custom SG's, buy one from asset store etc

for example https://cyangamedev.wordpress.com/2020/01/28/worldspace-uvs-triplanar-mapping/

[brittle jewel]

thanks a lot, and sorry for asking that simple question

[marble vigil]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph@12.1/manual/Triplanar-Node.html
There's a node for it built in which also discussed in Cyan's article

[brittle jewel]

thanks

[queen cloak]

Is there an easy way to determine the lighting intensity of a point light in a shader in URP?

Im very sure Light.color is the base color * intensity

[placid laurel]

half lightIntensity = max(max(light.color.r, light.color.g), light.color.b);

[queen cloak]

Thanks I'll give this a try

[queen cloak]

hmm i guess its close enough, but not want I'm looking for. I might have to write the intensity into a buffer and access it similar to how URP accesses the light via lightIndex. (there's no guarantee that r, g, or b will be 1 which will provide the intensity)

[open raptor]

Can anyone tell me how to fix URP giving me the wrong color attachment to a scriptable renderer feature?
Im using renderingData.cameraData.renderer.cameraColorTarget to get the target but its giving me attachmentB when the previous feature outputs to attachmentA

[snow egret]

Have been trying to make a jelly cube with a slight distortion on it in Shader Graph using a mixture of Screen Color and the distortion I wanted but it's end result means that I can't have a transparent material behind it or it's ignored. (gif to explain)
Does anyone know of another way of having the distortion that'll allow transparent materials behind it or a way to fix the current method I'm using?

[desert vault]

Hi, does anyone know why im getting this weird alpha effect when my trees are overlapping my water? its URP deferred with depth & opaque texture enabled. the water is a lit alpha shader graph and the trees are a lit alpha cutout shader graph

trees are alpha cutout, so idrk why the color of the water is fading through

[merry monolith]

@open raptorjust to be clear, you are using ScriptableRenderPass.ConfigureInput when you add the pass?

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@13.1/manual/upgrade-guide-2022-1.html
"URP expects Renderer Features to declare their inputs using the ScriptableRenderPass.ConfigureInput method. The method provides the information that URP uses to determine automatically whether rendering via an intermediate texture is necessary.". if you don't config this properly, maybe it uses the wrong buffer?

I definitely don't know much about this, just throwing this out there

I remember having some trouble in past when dealing with these targets but then just mirrored what URP did on SSAO on newer versions

[dark pelican]

So I'm using the urp for it's 2d lights since my games protag has a flashlight, yet even with shadow casting bounding boxes (with the attached settings), it only sometimes works

here's an example of it actually working

oh I'm dumb turns out the problem was Self Shadows lol

[daring swan]

Does anyone happen know how to add/edit custom tonemap(s) to URP project?

[merry monolith]

@daring swanyou mean custom tonemap curve or just LUT?

for LUT, there is volume component called "Color Lookup"

I don't think official docs even mention it but it's there

[daring swan]

custom tonemap

I saw a few people claiming to be using custom tonemaps in urp

but I couldnt find any info on how they did it

[merry monolith]

that doesn't really tell anything itself

[daring swan]

I would imagine its the same custom tonemap curve as in HDRP

[merry monolith]

there's no such thing on current URP

pre URP 8 you could have used old PPv2 with URP which still had custom tone curve

if you need something like that on any modern URP version, you have to implement it yourself

[daring swan]

ah

alright, thanks

[merry monolith]

I don't know why that's not there tbh, I guess they thought just exposing color curves was enough?

I've manually edited the URP source code for tonemapper part in past.. it's not horribly complicated to change but it would mean you'd be stuck on custom URP version then

if one really needed something like this and didn't want to maintain custom URP version for this reason alone, I guess trying to do this on your own renderer feature would be only option

that is, if Unity actually exposes HDR data for this to work

@daring swan have you tried that "color curves" thing though?

[daring swan]

I haven't really tried anything yet, just looking into it

[merry monolith]

you can get quite far with the existing overrides

[orchid glen]

Hey is it possible to skip certain UsePass calls on builds. I only want a specific UsePass for Editor.

[atomic olive]

Does anyone know a way of making "Excel"-style graphs in Unity, WITHOUT making each cell an individual GameObject (my current solution)? See image for insight..

[marble vigil]

Tilemaps would be one pre-existing way to render a lot of tiles from arrays, but I don't know how if the colors can be freely defined or if you're limited to an existing tile palette
I think a surefire solution would be to learn procedural mesh generation

[atomic olive]

Ye thanks. Seems like generation the mesh will be the way to go, although im still considering doing it through shaders 🙂

[dire trench]

baiscally, (that's my first project) i upgraded to urp shaders, and, in the editor, all materials and other things works 100% fine but when i build project, half of the things are pink. i searched online, and someone was having my same problems. some link i didn't understand, and some others what they tried to fix didn't help me. what are the main causes of this issue?

[placid laurel]

im having trouble converting project to urp using the latest LTS

[placid laurel]

how do i change all materials to URP/2d-lit?

without manually doing it

[dire trench]

I have done like that

Select the materials

Go to edit

In the bottom there shiuld be a button "rendering" then materials and click convert to urp materials or something like that

In olders version is similar

[placid laurel]

How do I change the color its just showing me this?

[marble vigil]

Sprite color is controlled by the sprite renderer via vertex colors

[placid laurel]

oh ok

[proven hornet]

Does anybody know about this error?

[dire trench]

Someone?

[runic sparrow]

have you checked the render queue value on your materials?

[dawn tusk]

Hi, i have a pixel perfect camera in my scene, everything works fine in editor both play and edit mode, but doesnt work in the built .exe

[dawn tusk]

fixed that with setting built game setting to windowed mode, and setting the right resolution manually

[hasty prairie]

Hello, very new developer here. Is there any reason to select the "Core" version of a template rather than the "URP?"

[empty path]

What do you mean?

Core shows many options, 3D, 2D, URP 3D, HDRP 3D

3D is the old render pipeline, no new features or improvements just bug fixes, URP and HDRP are the new render pipelines

[hasty prairie]

Hmm. Give me a second.

[empty path]

URP 3D and HDRP 3D are new RP's

[hasty prairie]

This is what I'm looking at. From my very minimal understanding URP is the simpler more accessible option to use Unity's *newer RP.

I'm wondering if there is any positives to choose the Core render to start out with.

I understand there is value in learning the URP, but as I am just starting to learn I don't want to overwhelm myself. I guess I'm wondering if URP is easier to render with than just the Core render.

[empty path]

Both are easy, scripting and what not is the same when it comes to game scripts. Render pipelines are mostly visual features, like SSAO, antialiasing, decals, shaders, etc. Both of them have the same "core" of unity (UI, loading/scene system, etc).

If you're new I suggest 3D/2D, since it's easier to find things about it online (been there for much longer).

so if you face an issue, there's probably a fix one search away

[hasty prairie]

So start out with just the core?

[empty path]

Yeah, select 3D or 2D (whatever your interested in).
Core is wrong name for it, it's called built-in render pipeline (or legacy render pipeline)

most games made with unity use the built-in render pipeline

[hasty prairie]

Fair enough. Thank you by the way!

[empty path]

Sure thing

[oak oak]

Hello folks! I have a small problem. I'm new to Unity's tree system and wanted to create some trees to place. The thing is, that apparently I NEED to use the "Tree Creator Leaves Fast" shader for the material of my leaves. That shader however, results in only pink for me (my render pipeline is URP).
Some tutorials say to just change shader type, but then I have to drag the material onto the tree which doesn't put it in the "real" slot and won't let me modify the leaves after.

Does anybody know how to apply materials to URP trees? (My version is Unity 2022.1.3f1)

[timber glade]

@oak oak there may be more than one material slot on the tree, for instance, bark &leaves. Make sure you're getting the correct slot

[oak oak]

I am putting the mat in the correct slot, but it tells me that whatever I chose (like Lit or URP > Nature > Speedtree8) isn't a tree shader and I should use the one that doesn't render :/

[timber glade]

Ah, kk. I've not worked with those specifically so I can't make further suggestions. Sorry!

[oak oak]

Okay, thanks anyways!

[ancient harness]

anyone know why my renderer features don't work in game but they are visible in the scene view

nvm i checked the main camera's culling mask

[rare totem]

Anyone had this issue with Unity 2021.3.4f1 and URP 12.1?

Can't even run a build since I have strict mode enabled.

Ok, nvm. This happens when targeting Web GL 1.0

[placid laurel]

can you have light cookies in urp

[soft lion]

on unity 2021 and later that should be a thing

[thorn pollen]

Is there a resolution setting or something somewhere? I'm admittedly new to this, but have been spending a lot of time learning 3d models in blender and now that I've imported everything to unity and setup a scene with them they are very jaggedy / low resolution looking. I am using URP for this.

just lots of jaggies

[soft lion]

Could you share some screenshots with us to vlarify what your issue looks like?

[fallow garden]

ive tried using both https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/textures-materials/sky/allsky-free-10-sky-skybox-set-146014 and
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/textures-materials/sky/skybox-series-free-103633#description
but they both show up as black. Trying to use edit > rendering > upgrade materials didnt work.

[placid laurel]

Is there any way to have different runtime ambient lighting values within volumes? Like, have a volume with an ambient light, and another volume with another ambient light and they work kinda additively and objects could be affected by more than one (kinda like in the hpl2/hpl3 engines) I've been trying to look this up on google but can't find anything short of making your own lighting solution/shader thing.

[marble vigil]

I think not
Ambient light is sampled from reflection probes, so you can have your own lighting in custom cubemaps
In recent URP versions the cubemaps can be blended together with local volumes I think, but not applied additively

[wicked trellis]

Hey, trying here instead (deleted in lighting). I'm wondering if area lights in the URP are supposed to give the same result as spotlights? I'm using Unity 2021.3.0f1. The image shows an area light angled straight down from the ceiling and the light it casts on the wall (Baked Lightmap viewing mode).

[marble vigil]

Not supposed to, no
Baked lights should also bounce around somewhat
How many samples do you have?

I'm having flickering white 1 pixel lines at the screen's edges, anybody recognize it?

Happens regardless of quality preset or renderer, but doesn't happen in a new project using the same version and same starter asset scene

Turning off post processing volume doesn't change it either

[wicked trellis]

Hmm, interesting. These are my low/quick bake settings

What is strange to me, is that it lights up the area like a spotlight even though the shape of the area light is rectangular.

[marble vigil]

How big is the rectangle?

[marble vigil]

I'd assume that would work like an area light, not a spot light

[wicked trellis]

Yeah, I tried in a test scene and it's the same

😂

[marble vigil]

Strange! What if you make it long and thin

[wicked trellis]

It was like this in my last project as well, never managed to solve it and it's quite annoying 😄

[wicked trellis]

I will try

[wicked trellis]

This was interesting (moved it down and increased the strength).

Maybe I've been using it the wrong way 😅

[marble vigil]

Looks better at least

[wicked trellis]

For sure, always appreciate your help and input Spazi!

I will adjust the shape of my other light. Will probably work better

[wicked trellis]

I think it might actually be the range that messes it up. I had it way too low and in those instances it will look round.

[marble vigil]

A range of 0.1 is unusually short
I forgot range even was a thing for baked lights

[wicked trellis]

Yeah, I didn't realize that was affecting it. I don't seem to understand the range for the area light. Doesn't seem to work the same way as other lights.

[brazen isle]

Is it possible to have the same functionality as this node (Scene Color) in HLSL shader?

[dry willow]

The node basically samples a global texture named _CameraOpaqueTexture.
But there's also an include file that handles it for you, #include "Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal/ShaderLibrary/DeclareOpaqueTexture.hlsl"
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/Graphics/blob/master/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal/ShaderLibrary/DeclareOpaqueTexture.hlsl
Can then use it's SampleSceneColor function, with the screen position as uv (positionNDC.xy / positionNDC.w)

[brazen isle]

Thanks a lot! this have given me a good direction, but importing this gives me an error that breaks the shader

Shader error in 'Unlit/ToonShader': redefinition of 'PackHeightmap' at /Library/PackageCache/com.unity.render-pipelines.core@12.1.7/ShaderLibrary/Common.hlsl(1301) (on d3d11)

[red eagle]

Hey 🙌
I am trying to make a physically accurate URP camera.
What I want to calculate is the Exposure value from the ShutterSpeed, Aperture and ISO
Found some formulas online for both EV and EV100 but none of them map to the PostExposure value in the ColorAdjustment volume
This is what the documentation says: "Adjusts the overall exposure of the Scene in EV (not EV100)."

This is the equation I am using "http://endoflow.com/exposure/"

The normal exposure I know ranges from 0-15 while 2 being at night and 13 being while the sun is at it's brightest value.
The other exposure values I found ranges from -6 to 17 where (-6 is for the night and 17 is while sun is at it's brightest value)
The PostExposure in the volume is weird!
when it's night time, to increase the brightness, the exposure value is increased so night would be something like 8 and day time would be something like -7
So, the range is completley different from the rest

EV (0 - 15) Eq1 https://www.omnicalculator.com/other/exposure
EV (-6, 17) Eq2 https://photographylife.com/exposure-value
URP (8, -7)

I am just going to map the result to this range. But if you know any info about this that would be great

[merry monolith]

@red eagleI don't think you'll have huge success with physically correct exposure values as long as URP itself can't handle physically correct lighting values

any reason why you are not using HDRP that supports all this out of the box?

[red eagle]

HDRP costs a lot of performance and our target is not high-end devices

Remaping seems to fake it kind of well but I wanted to know if there is a cleaner and better approach

Thank you!

[knotty hemlock]

Hola, I didn’t know where to write😅 Is it possible to create a decal w animated (external) texture?

[odd vault]

Hi, I'm working on a mod for kerbal space program that enables postprocessing effects...I'm actually not sure if KSP is built on URP or HDRP but I'd assume URP...are there known issues when enabling HDR on the cameras under URP? For the most part things seem to work but there is a strange artifact where meshes that should be hidden are affecting the application of HDR...seen here, there is a ladder on the far side of this object that you can kind of "see" in the right-hand image (HDR enabled):

[merry monolith]

@odd vaultI'd be very surprised if KSP used either.. it has to be using built-in renderer

[odd vault]

why's that? Or, is there anything I can look at that would tell me?

[merry monolith]

because KSP is an old game.. from times before these SRPs existed

first versions were made on Unity 4... they ported it to Unity 5 at some point, haven't followed what the latest versions use

[odd vault]

most recent ksp runs on unity 2019.4.18

[merry monolith]

sure it would be possible to port to SRPs but almost nobody ever does that for already released unity game

[odd vault]

ok, so URP is new in 2019.3? or at least that's the oldest docs I can find. you're probably right

[merry monolith]

URP was called LWRP before that

[odd vault]

do you know where I could look to find out what it's using?

I'm able to attach a debugger and everything, I just don't know where to look

[merry monolith]

there would be traces of Universal in the files if it used that... but it's highly unlikely it does

[odd vault]

hm...well all the mod is really doing is toggling allowHDR on the Camera...got any idea how that might be related to "seeing" the meshes through the object? Or is there a better channel where I should be asking? #archived-shaders perhaps?

[final crater]

Guys, can anybody please tell me how to get rid of this blockiness in my shadows

and what is this ugly transitioning this is unacceptable

[marble vigil]

Those are called shadow cascades, which let you prioritize the shadow resolution closer to camera where it's needed the most
Using cascades is the only reasonable way to get high quality non-blocky shadows
Filtering of shadows and cascade edges likewise costs a lot of performance, which is why I believe it as a feature has been delegated to HDRP

[final crater]

Guess who's switching to hdrp then

Because this feature sounds good on paper but in effect its just terrible

Also ha, you're the same guy who helped me when I first had this issue lol

[marble vigil]

The best systems are the ones that best fit your project
As always it's a choice of tradeoffs
I recommend studying the manual of whichever pipeline you go with
They all should have a section which explains all the functions and terminology, like shadow cascades here and many more such which you'll run into for sure
HDRP especially requires studying to be used effectively

[final crater]

Hmm alright

I guess my issue here is expecting things to just work out of the box

Which in my opinion they should but what can you do

[marble vigil]

Realtime graphics as a whole are all about faking it and hiding the flaws, things just aren't going to be flawless out of the box even though we're at a point where most of them do work out of the box at least
That's why tech art is a whole paid profession by itself
Heck, you can spot limitations like these in triple-A productions if you know to look for them, and the whole illusion crumbles when you move the camera somewhere it wasn't designed to be

[cunning flint]

For some reason my unity scene view is glitching, this does not happen on 2d urp, or 3d built in renderer, (so far, as i haven't tested the other ones yet) only in 3d urp. When the skybox is turned off or when the global overrides only have bloom enabled or only has vignette disabled, or some random weird cases, it appears cyan. Verision: 2022.1.2f1. Os: Ubuntu 22.

[cunning flint]

also when both the camera and the global volume is deleted it looks like this

[empty path]

KSP uses built-in, most games out there currently use built-in.

[empty path]

Sure thing, but URP takes it to another level. Imagine not having LOD crossfade in this day and age. Maybe I can let shadow cascade blending pass, but they're really making it hard to pick URP over built-in, even when built-in is bug fixes, and even then it's low priority. It doesn't stop there, so much is missing. Things you just expect as a fact that they will be provided in a PBR game engine. Random rant but URP really has been an utter disappointment. I see value in HDRP, URP provides absolutely nothing. You know if URP was a stable render pipeline (relatively speaking), with higher quality features (both have SSAO, yet urp's SSAO is a joke) then I might say yeah, URP does something well at least. That isn't the case though, somehow the team ended with shader variant hell, a ton of time compiling an extremely simple scene. It's not like URP came a year ago, tired of waiting for the next version.

just thought of all this when I read your post, random rant, I'll stop here 😄

[odd vault]

thanks, I think I have a lead on it: my hypothesis is that the alpha channel goes over 1.0 in high-specular areas. Then when it goes to blend over the previous color, it ends up doing (alpha * new) + (1 - alpha) * old. The old colors seem inverted; darker areas become lighter and light areas become darker; the blue sky becomes orange, etc.

Unfortunately I think the fix is to completely replace the stock shader...

[keen anchor]

how do i get unlit particles to support transparent sprites?

[cyan talon]

Your textures are not transparent, unless for some wild reason whatever you've saved them in has written checkerboard to the colour in the transparent section. You should be able to use either alpha clipping or transparency and it'll work fine—only if your textures are actually transparent.

[keen anchor]

damn, I don't understand the point of fake transparent images.

it wasnt transparent 😩

[marble vigil]

Shader variant compiling is not supposed to take long, but it's a pretty common bug it seems
From the looks of it it happens with editor version upgrades, all fresh projects have compiled perfectly fast for me
The new default URP settings 2021.3. comes with are probably the biggest UX improvement in a while, since it starts with all the features on and correctly configured

URP's selling point is its cross-platform optimization, rather than features
If your project needs features it doesn't do well, and you're comfortable doing the optimization yourself then the choice should be obvious

[elfin forge]

Hey, not sure where to put this, but: I'm calling Graphics.DrawTexture on a sprite, and want to be able to apply an already-generated matrix transformation to it. How should I go about this?

[placid laurel]

Hey, i'm just new to URP and i don't know how to convert custom shader to urp graph shader. If not, that's okay (if yes, pls ping me before rep)

[ocean hinge]

i think you cant convert a written shader to a shadergraph.

[fading flame]

I'm trying to use URP's Spherical Harmonics in a custom render pass, but it looks like SampleSH() and OutputSH() are both returning 0 when called during custom render pass stage, anyone have any ideas for how to access SH data during a render pass?

[daring swan]

You cant directly, you'll have to do it manually (as far as I know)

[soft lion]

small tip: by using custom functions, you can skip a lot of work by copy pasting large portions of the handwritten code as it is. obviously you're not going to get those portions as a shader graph nodes but if your only plan is to make the shader graph work, why not

[pastel ice]

hey guys,

I'm trying to add a skybox to my scene but it doesn't seem to show up.
I even tried creating a brand new project and comparing it - but it works on the new project, and not in my existing one.

Any tips on what could I be missing?

[lament canopy]

2022.2 Alpha 16 - Graphich repo URP

[soft lion]

great, I have been waiting when it's out. have you tried what is the max pixel light count you can have? unity have only stated that it's going to be much more than 8 but nothing specific

Imo Forward+ is huge step bringing urp closer to birp in terms of features, 8 lights isnt really a much (ik birp doesnt have forward+ but 8 is really a tiny amount and deferred is quite limied)

[wheat smelt]

I was gonna ask about lighting, how do I go about setting objects as lit/unlit with the URP? 2D btw

[lament canopy]

There are 216 lights here. Forward+ divides the screen into tiles and each tile has a light limit. that is, if the lights visible on the screen are far apart and their radii are small, you may never reach the limit. I don't know exactly how big the limit is. HDRP is 24 per tile.

forward+ takes URP much further than BIRP. In BIRP Forward, the light limit can be set more than 8, but it affects the performance a lot. Forward+ processes a lot of light much faster.

[soft lion]

Yeah, ik but that theres no way to increase the limit over 8 is just frusturating (especially for beginners it is frusturating to deal with light flickering, seams etc.). Now that forward+ exists, it doesnt really matter aymore

[wheat smelt]

so

Do I go to #archived-lighting instead?

[lament canopy]

AMD 6900XT 3840x2160
256 spot light

[pastel ice]

hey guys,

I'm trying to add a skybox to my scene but it doesn't seem to show up.
I even tried creating a brand new project and comparing it - but it works on the new project, and not in my existing one.

Any tips on what could I be missing?

[pastel ice]

that is already set

also environment settings in window -> rendering -> lighting

[marble vigil]

Deleting the Library folder and letting the editor regenerate it may solve obscure problems like these if there really is no culprit to be found

[wheat smelt]

Anyone?

[marble vigil]

Same way as with all render pipelines, use a lit / unlit material

[pastel ice]

@marble vigil same thing 😦

[wheat smelt]

How do I make that? I am new to unity

[marble vigil]

Every render pipeline ships with lit and unlit materials which you can choose in mesh / sprite renderer component
Sprites use sprite lit / sprite unlit (or sprites-default or something like that)

[wheat smelt]

Lemme see

[marble vigil]

Well, that suggests it's not a bug so there's still something you may have missed

[pastel ice]

@marble vigil make sense. Any tips on how to find it? how to debug it? I tried to look at the settings we talked before + the renderer data, but couldn't find anything in there either.

[wheat smelt]

Is it the one that's called "New 2D Rendered Data" by default?

[marble vigil]

No
The sprite renderer component would have a material slot

[marble vigil]

Could be anything anywhere
I don't have any good ideas or I would've suggested some already

[pastel ice]

😦 @marble vigil any tips on how to find it? e.g. logs, creating new project and comparing, uploading somewhere, or something else?

[marble vigil]

Comparing and trying to re-make the sky material / texture
Testing in another scene, anything

You'd want to rule out and confirm everything you can
Are all textures/materials broken in your project or just the sky one? Does the material work with a different texture or the texture with a different material?

Are all custom skies broken or just one?

[pastel ice]

sky material / texture
fyi I didn't make it to begin with, just used the default one

[marble vigil]

So not even a new Basic scene has a working sky?

[pastel ice]

@marble vigil it does, but in both cases I'm using the default skybox material - I didn't even get to the part about creating my own.

[marble vigil]

Both cases meaning this project and the test project? Does the custom skybox work in the test project?

I thought I understood the problem but it seems I don't

[pastel ice]

Both cases meaning this project and the test project?
yes

Does the custom skybox work in the test project?
There is no custom skybox - only the standard one.

[marble vigil]

So the default sky works in both projects?

[pastel ice]

no. the default sky only works in a new test project - in my own existing project it does not.

[marble vigil]

Oh, I thought this "it does" meant that it does have a working sky

[pastel ice]

@marble vigilSorry my bad, I actually read the "new basic scene" as in "new basic project" 🙈 let me test that as well and summarize if it doesn't work to clarify everything.

ok yeah doesn't work either.

• New project - skybox works.
• Existing project / existing scene - skybox doesn't work
• Existing project / new scene - skybox doesn't work

[marble vigil]

Good summary
To confirm, you did make a new scene with template Basic (URP) or Standard (URP), rather than Empty?

And the sky defined in environment tab is "Default-Skybox"

[pastel ice]

@marble vigilnope, I used an empty scene. Wasn't familiar with these scene templates ?

[pastel ice]

yes on that one

[marble vigil]

Empty scene starts with no lights, sky or environment lighting, that's the primary difference

[pastel ice]

@marble vigil yeah which is exactly what I have. Just not sure how to create a scene with template in an existing project?

[marble vigil]

Creating a new scene usually shows something like this

[pastel ice]

oh didn't even know there was a "new scene" menu xd I just right clicked an empty area which showed the context menu -> create -> scene.

but yeah same thing

[marble vigil]

So this scene has default sky enabled in environmental light settings?

and in the dropdown behind this button skybox is set to visible?

[pastel ice]

sorry it was not in that picture; but it just changes the color to black:

[marble vigil]

Okay at least I'm now up to speed what's happening but not a clue why
I'd try hitting the generate lighting button to see if it does anything
Have you upgraded project version or made such big changes recently? Usually the first thing you see when you make a project is the default sky

[pastel ice]

so I don't really use the sky in my project. Been working and upgrading for a while and some versions, but the game mostly doesn't need it.

I honestly just want to create a more interactive/fun menu so I need the sky there - hence why I started playing with it.

[shut needle]

Show your cam settings pls

also you assigned the URP Asset correctly in the project?

is it a build in project which is converted or a URP Project Template?

[pastel ice]

@shut needle

also you assigned the URP Asset correctly in the project?
I believe so, but is there anyway to verify that?

is it a build in project which is converted or a URP Project Template?
I think converted, but honestly it's quite an old project that I keep working on, so I'm not sure. Started it long time ago.

[marble vigil]

Upgrading from an old version always risks breaking stuff in odd ways, moreso if you do it multiple times
At some point it may be worth it to make a new project and move all your assets and scripts over to the fresh one as .unitypackages

[pastel ice]

@marble vigil I'm usually checking every time before I upgrade, but this is a "feature" I never used before.
I disagree with the idea of just moving stuff to a new project; there must be something I'm missing here.

I guess trying to re-create the entire game in a new project would reveal the issue, it would just take a lot of time though.

[marble vigil]

Maybe there is something you're missing, maybe there isn't
It's pretty complex stuff and finding the "correct" solution isn't always worth the time, if it's possible at all

Scripts, all art content and prefabs can be moved from one project to another pretty seamlessly, and anything in a scene can be made into a prefab for moving
The only thing you'd have to re-create would be scene data such as lighting, navigation and occlusion and graphical settings assets if you want those in some specific way

Far cry from having to re-create the entire game

[pastel ice]

@marble vigil sometimes it's not worth the time, agreed. In this case I think it is since ( A ) It's not like I'm working for a company or anything or I'm on a tight schedule, and ( B ) I don't want to be forced to move every time it happens / if it happens again.

[marble vigil]

Whenever you upgrade editor feature version (not just patching it) you need to be prepared to either roll back if it breaks or do a clean move to a new project

[pastel ice]

right, and I have the rollback data every time I upgrade - but this wasn't a feature that worked and got broken due to an upgrade.

[marble vigil]

Right
I'd personally move projects just to be sure there aren't more unpleasant surprises under the hood we haven't run into yet, as it seems stuff for sure is broken in there

You shouldn't need to upgrade or do this process often at all

If you want to keep a project stable, only upgrade from LTS version to another

[pastel ice]

I really don't think this is due to an upgrade but due to a mis-configuration. But I'll do something half-way;

I'll start by configuring a new project the same way I did my own and moving some stuff.
in my opinion I will reveal the issue that way, but if not I'll continue on and move everything to a new project.

And thanks for spending the time and trying to help out @marble vigil !

[marble vigil]

Good luck!
Before the move it's definitely worth making sure the new project doesn't break the same way with similar settings

Especially in regards to 2D URP renderer
You probably already verified that the sky works in the new one with that enabled but that could be significant, I dunno

[pastel ice]

I did, but I didn't use the exact same assets - but rather created new one with the same type.
I vaguely remember also doing some code in regards to the renderer, but I didn't see anything in the code and I'm not sure if I stopped using it or not - so my initial guess is there now. Will look and find out more, only next weekend sadly xd

[marble vigil]

There's also the option to export assets like the renderer out from the new one into the old one

[placid laurel]

is using URP for VR is ok ?

or would it be bad for performance

[wicked trellis]

Yes. We are doing it. Currently working on our second project

Probably good for performance

[random badger]

hey! What would be the best texture format to use in Unity? I've always used PNGs, but I've just read that TGA are a good thing as well. If sources files are larger, does that mean that they will take more space in the build? Or will it be the same thing as a png?

[peak flame]

Hey everyone! So I ran into weird behavior with specifically URP that has me stumped...

So when I run my AR app on play mode on my iphone, it works fine (granted low framerate because editor)

But when I build the app through xcode and run it on my phone, I just get full screen colors

Play mode:

Then when I build it as an app...

This is specifically with the URP build. In the standard shader it works fine in both modes

Does anyone have any idea what could be going on?

[warped dove]

what is the current/latest version of urp?

i'm having a issue where

in urp 12.1.6

opening a project with it.. well, i can't

it stops loading halfway and closes itself

for other versions, a million compilation errors show up

[grim pebble]

how do i fix my player character not being brightened? this is using urp 3d lights

[soft lion]

Is the light actually in front of the player?

[grim pebble]

its on top, i would prefer if direction for the lights didnt matter cause some other problems have occured becuse of direction

[soft lion]

If its on top, its not supposed to light it… lights doesnt do anything to surfaces at 90 degree angle or more

[grim pebble]

is there a way to change that? the camera is orthographic tilted at a 45 degrees angle facing at the player so colored lighting also affects the player in a way that looks odd

[soft lion]

What sort of lighting effect are you trying to achieve for the player? Could you just use unlit shader?

[marble vigil]

A shader could find the distance to lights and light the whole material based on that

[grim pebble]

one sec, gotta figure out a way to explain what i mean

what i want is where both sides are affected by the light no matter what side the light is on

[marble vigil]

A shader could also replicate the lighting recieved by a face onto the backface, used often for leaves and fabrics
Not sure how to go about making one such, though

[soft lion]

I think its little dangerous to know bit of shaders because I start seeing shaders as a solution to almost any problem 😁… but I would probably use shader for that, I dont know if theres better way to do that (assuming simple unlit shader/material isnt a solution)

[grim pebble]

they are already using simple lit

[soft lion]

Oops, meant unlit

[grim pebble]

maybe i can get 2d lights to work in a 3d space somehow

[soft lion]

I dont think thats possible (without doing that yourself using shaders 🤔) because 2d lights exists only on the 2d renderer (afaik)

[grim pebble]

oh ok

[marble vigil]

I don't think this is possible to solve without shaders
and trying to modify 2D lights would be an excercise in futility

[warped skiff]

😂

if only unity made it so using 2d lights didn't disable almost every rendering feature

then you could just use a light source for sprites and a light source for 3d objects

there was a 2d unity tutorial vid that uses 3d lights as a position and it ignores the lights z position so maybe you could look into that

back before 2d renderer existe

[marble vigil]

That's so weird
Up until now all 2D and 3D features have been technically compatible with each other

[red shuttle]

Hi,
Unity URP 2D renderer question.

=> Simple scene with 2 cameras: the main one & one which renders to a render texture, any GameObject with the layer called "RT". MainCamera.Priority = -1 & RenderTextureCamera.priority = 0
All my sprites have the Sprite-Lit-Default shader.

When I add a global light & a sport light 2D in my scene, my sprites are black on my render texture.. Don't know why and if there is any magic setting I missed :/

[marble salmon]

basic or URP whihc one uses more recources if both setup on same quality?

[marble vigil]

There's no straight answer to this
Performance depends a lot on your target platform and the kind of graphics your project has
URP is generally more optimized for low-end hardware with simple graphical freatures than built-in

[marble salmon]

Thanks. I just wanted to be sure that URP doesnt hjave some kind of big overhead in performance as my target was WebGL

[livid verge]

I'm getting some z fighting between a Lit shader (should always be behind) and an Unlit/Transparent shader (that should be in front) when the camera moves more than 5-10 meters away. I don't want the transparent shader to be in front of everything, just the one lit shader. I tried setting the Lit shader Priority to -1 and Render Queue (in debug) to 2999, but doesn't seem to work. Is there another way to set the render order to make sure it's always behind?

I should add that this happens on a Quest (VR) build, but doesn't happen in-editor when testing

[boreal lantern]

why is my water material being covered by even when im super close?

the material should look like this without fog

[ocean hinge]

looks like its just very reflective

[boreal lantern]

I tried changing smoothness and metallic but it did nothinh

[boreal lantern]

I found the problem, the cube was wayyy to big and the bigger an object is the more it was affected by fog? sadly, I do need the cube to be that big. Does anyone know how to fix this?

im just going to sue a different system

[left hedge]

is there a way to use multiple UDIMS on one material in Unity?

[teal patio]

Hi, I am using a Custom Render Texture to render some UI to the screen on an object (basically making it look like paper on a desk that you can interact with like a UI), but it seems like the UpdateMode doesn't seem to work at all, it always renders in Realtime, I even tried to set the update mode in code and it still updates every frame. Does RtT's not work with URP or something, not finding much on the UpdateMode issues online.

[marble vigil]

First of all how dare you question, second - screen space shadows are a new way (for URP) to draw shadows in a way that sacrifices memory to save computing cost of shadows, but mostly in forward rendering where shadows are considerably expensive
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@13.1/manual/renderer-feature-screen-space-shadows.html

[marble vigil]

I don't know how it works under the hood as they don't explain that
It does use depth texture like screen space shadowing commonly does, and is usually limited to geometry that's drawn on screen which I assume is the case with this one too
Helpfully there's instructions how to view the shadows in frame debugger to compare to ordinary shadowmaps
I guess you probably don't benefit from it much if you're on deferred rendering path anyway, but it could be worth testing
(you don't need to apologize for asking, I was poking fun at that ^^)

[granite citrus]

Hi guys. I see low perfomance at my blank scene, when i create new 3d urp project

In other project perfomance in unity is well

When i create new project in urp 3d, i click at upgrade button

And my fps in unity editor is 5-10 😦

[flat vessel]

Does camera stacking work in VR? im having trouble getting a UI overlay working. I got it with cavnas set to overlay, but only for the right eye. which i guess is halfway there but were going for "experience tranquility" not "first person nick fury simulator"

[vale nebula]

How can I include/exclude objects to be affected by URP Decal Projectors?

[empty path]

Not possible currently, the feature is in progress and might be added to URP 2022.2

[dusty gate]

how do i access a 2d light in a script

[marble vigil]

The same way you access any other type of component in a script, presumably

[dusty gate]

i tried that, but light 2d option didnt appear

[cinder kindle]

You probably need to include the namespace @dusty gate

[marble vigil]

There seems to be threads about this

[cinder kindle]

If you just type Light2D your IDE should help you import the right dependency

[dusty gate]

i searched that, and tried what it said and it didnt work

[marble vigil]

Did you read the whole thread? The process is different depending on URP version

[dusty gate]

ive tried all of the things it suggested

[vale nebula]

Thanks, someone else provided me with a forum diacussion saying the same. There was a workaround there that I used, though sadly I have to use screenspace decals for that, reducing the quality.

Oh that was Ole, who is right here in chat

[cinder kindle]

Can you show your script then?

[cinder kindle]

Image from yesterday 😄 fresh out of the overn

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/207773616874586112/986365327447293982/unknown.png

[dusty gate]

I have tried these: (none of them work)

using UnityEngine.Experimental.Rendering.Universal;
using UnityEngine.Experimental.Rendering.LWRP;

[cinder kindle]

...

UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal;

That's what it says in the image I shared

[dusty gate]

that also doesnt work

[cinder kindle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@14.0/api/UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.Light2D.html

This is from the latest version 14. Find the version you're using and refer to the docs for that

[cold geyser]

any idea why would these spikes happen? Unity version: 2021.3.4f1, URP 12.1.7, Android, Device: Xiaomi Redmi Note 7
VSync: Don't Sync (however Unity says this does not affect in Android, iOS)
generally in android devices there are spikes like this but it's fine in iphone devices
edit: i realized now, while I'm playing the game if I lock my android phone and then unlock it, something is happening like initialization (game window is refreshening) then the game is being smooth

[sinful gorge]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/text-not-rendering-on-different-layer.1295373/

Still desprately looking for help

[split stone]

So Device.Present - What has happened is that you have submitted a lot of work to the GPU for rendering and before Unity can start simulating the next frame it's waiting to be done with all that data. There is a secret option to move this sync paint to the next frame. Might be worth trying GraphicsDeviceSettings.waitForPresentSyncPoint

But it would be nice to see what the render thread is doing in your update too

[placid laurel]

Hi, so everything worked fine until i put the BG there now everything is black except the 1 green plattform that I set to sprite default material and it does not react to light. Edit: Fixed by deleting everything and replacing

[ocean pollen]

Hello, tried a URP project (default)
Does anyone know what this artifact is? The plane's outlineish thing is getting mirrored in the editor and in scene

Tried disabling everything until it's just the plane
Still there

Boop
Reloading the project broke immediately lol

Lmao what do I do if the default is broken

Apparently the default URP shaders are all broken? Switching back to old non-URP BuiltIn ones work and remove it
Then what's the point of URP

[proven hornet]

Why does my SSAO brokes while using render objects feature?

[ocean pollen]

Lmao I made a new default lit URP material and it's broken already

[soft lion]

the default lit shader is most likely not broken. you just haven't configured the render pipeline correctly and the render pipeline therefore falls back to built-in render pipeline

[ocean pollen]

The render pipeline is also default

[soft lion]

just downloading the urp package isn't enough to make urp work

[ocean pollen]

I started on a default URP project, not upgraded from built in

[soft lion]

wait why Shader Graphs/DefaultLitURP?

[ocean pollen]

That's what I named it
It's made from one of the default settings of shader graphs I could pick from right click

[soft lion]

but are the all default shaders really broken or only shader graphs?

[ocean pollen]

All the defaults are broken for some reason, I was trying the shader graph to see if only non-shader graphs were broken and custom made ones are fine, but it wasn't

[soft lion]

what if you make built-in render pipeline shader?

[ocean pollen]

I can't make a decal renderer that way
I wanted to use decals but a bigger roadblock was there

[soft lion]

I meant have you tried if birp shaders work in urp. if that's the case, that means urp isn't active/configured

for example, make new material and select the Standard shader

[ocean pollen]

Lmaooo

I'm just confused now

[soft lion]

have you checked if Edit > Project Settings > Graphics > Scriptable Render Pipeline Settings exists?

[ocean pollen]

Yep, and it's the default which I haven't touched either

Unless somehow all my editors or 3D URP templates offered by Unity I downloaded are corrupted

[soft lion]

and Universal Render Pipeline/Lit doesn't work either?

[ocean pollen]

Then this wierd bug happens which obscures the decals
If I reload the project here it breaks again into Safe Mode

[soft lion]

what you mean by obscure decals?

[ocean pollen]

I'm starting to wonder if the 2022.2.0 alpha build that introduced Decal Layers (which I wanted to use) also destroyed everything

[marble vigil]

alpha versions have a big chance of doing that

[ocean pollen]

Ah whelp I'll just have to place the decals at the foot of my player then

[eager quiver]

Is there smth with my model wrong or unity? Because in substance painter im not getting those shadows

[soft lion]

If you mean the shadow acne, you need to change the shadow bias values

[pastel ice]

Hey guys, when creating a new 2d urp project from template - how can I set up a skybox?
I'm talking about using the default skybox material, Default-Skybox.

[ocean hinge]

Go to Window > General > Lighting > Environment

[pastel ice]

@ocean hinge

[ocean hinge]

interesting .. 😄

[pastel ice]

@ocean hingedoes it work for you? in a brand new urp 2d project?

[ocean hinge]

i check

[ocean hinge]

Also black for me

Sadly, i have no clue. Google doesnt help neither.

[pastel ice]

🤔 @ocean hinge thanks for checking, at least I know it's not just me!

[marble vigil]

Does SRP batching work together with static batching or do they exclude each other?

[ocean hinge]

only one i think

[dry willow]

Pretty sure those ones work together

[marble vigil]

I guess they don't exclude each other but do different things?
If SRP batching reduces cost from draw call to another but static batching combines meshes to one draw call, then SRP batching won't do much in that situation

[dire hazel]

Hello, I am creating 2d unity lighting using Universal Pipeline, However, I do not have the option forward renderer. Which one should I use instead?

[eager quiver]

Thx got it working. I already knew about shadow acne (through the unity shadow trouble shoot website) but the examples on the site didn't look quite like my problem...

[lime schooner]

Why my Realtime GI dont update when sky is changing color?

My Environment lighting is set to skybox.

And my skybox use custom material.

Its only update when I change intensity.

[marble vigil]

It's not meant to be an option in that menu
You create an URP Universal Renderer and define forward/deferred in that asset
Forward is the default anyway

[dire hazel]

ok thanks

[neat lantern]

sorry if this is a stupid question but is it possible to use the shader graph to create a "terrain shader"?

[soft lion]

only thing I know is that terrain shader graphs are under In Progress category atm https://portal.productboard.com/dzcznunfgebtky7ipmhrc22z/c/498-shader-graph-for-terrain-materials?utm_medium=social&utm_source=portal_share

[neat lantern]

ahh a shame, thanks

is there a way to work around it?

[soft lion]

I don't know. hopefully someone other knows better

[soft lion]

actually, if you google Shader Graph for Terrain Materials you'll find few youtube tutorials on that topic. haven't watched so can't really tell if they work/are good but id definitely try atleast

[neat lantern]

ill check em out

[neat lantern]

ok so i am confused, this guy I am watching on yt just uses a "regular" shader graph material on a terrain and it works fine... but when I do it the terrain just breaks

ok the terrain only breaks when i generate it using the terrain toolbox window, but when I "create" it manually the shader works fine for some reason

I guess thats a bug?

[placid laurel]

Today i open my project scene, all of a sudden it's like this. I don't understand why everything is red like this. Hope you guys can help me

[placid laurel]

Pls ping me if you can help

[dire hazel]

how do i convert all my materials into 2d renderer materials?

[placid laurel]

Hope everyone help me about this red bug

[pliant rose]

For some reason the models in my scene all have these super harsh shadows and I've never been able to get rid of them. Does anyone have ideas as to what might be causing this? Be sure to ping me or reply ping if you have an idea because it really sucks

[placid laurel]

No one help...:(

[pliant rose]

I don't know what's doing that but I really hope you can find what's causing it. That really sucks :(

[slim iris]

So I just imported URP into my project and made a Pipeline Asset. Then, I attached it to Graphics in the Project Settings. All my textures turned pink, but when I tried upgrading my materials, nothing changed.

It's saying that the material was not upgraded

The only thing I found is converting every material manually to URP/Lit

[placid laurel]

Ye, i hate this
I don't want to spend a lot of time redoing, I looked it up on Google but it didn't exist. Hoping for an answer on how to fix it

[slim iris]

Maybe try inactivating each object separately to see which object is causing it.

[slim iris]

I really need help on this bc idk if it's even revertable

[marble vigil]

Only Unity's own shaders can be converted automatically

[wheat smelt]

You need to add ambient occlusion if I'm not mistaken

Or add some global light

[marble vigil]

Ambient light, in environment lighting settings, not occlusion

[marble vigil]

If you make a new "basic" (or "standard") scene instead of an empty one you'll get a sky and ambient light set up for you

[runic venture]

So I am getting the following error after loading a scene with a camera additively onto a scene not containing a camera and then exiting play mode:
MissingReferenceException: The object of type 'UniversalAdditionalCameraData' has been destroyed but you are still trying to access it.
full error here: https://pastebin.com/qi07mNsR

Adding a camera to the base scene does fix it, but that's just a workaround

[marble vigil]

Is the error causing a problem?

[placid laurel]

And all scenes in the project too???

[marble vigil]

@placid laurel Basically all you can do is try to rule out what's doing it, if nobody recognizes the issue
It looks like your arches are red, but the trees aren't? So, could try swapping their materials to see if that makes a difference

Could try creating a new scene to see if the problem carries over

[placid laurel]

Hmmm ok

[placid laurel]

thanks

anyway my urp render is error so i create new one

thank you

[vale marsh]

Can anyone please help me out with a little problem with texture packing? Thanks!

[plain wharf]

I'm using Universal Render Pipeline @ v7.7
I have two cameras, one rendering the main world, the other rendering the skybox.
I want to apply post processing volume A on main world. and another volume, B, on the skybox.

I have the skybox camera as base, and the main world camera on overlay. I disabled post processing on skybox camera, but when i enable post processing on the overlay camera, it enables on both. Either I want to disable on skybox, or use a separate profile for the skybox camera

[pliant rose]

Thank you! I looked into it and yeah that really helped

[slim iris]

So after I installed URP I changed all my materials to URP/Lit. But after running the game my camera doesn't render anything. Any ideas?

The gun and environment are rendered separately using two cameras.

[slim iris]

I tried making the gun camera an overlay and the main camera a base cam but then the gun just disappears but the environment is visible.

[marble vigil]

iirc there isn't a one to one conversion of viewmodel camera systems from built in to URP, so you'd have to rework it for camera stack or render objects feature

[willow torrent]

is 6.5 million verts in a scene too much?

[fossil lily]

depends on your hardware target.
too much for anything other than mid to high end pcs or consoles

[coarse tangle]

Is there any way at all to affect how blurry my soft shadows are? The results I'm getting are far too noisy at resolutions that are low enough to show the softness I like, and they're too sharp when I raise their resolution to compensate for that.

[ocean hinge]

Maybe with a self written shader

[marble vigil]

iirc not really any way besides dropping resolution with soft shadows on
Good shadow filtering is really expensive so I guess it wasn't a priority, as it wouldn't have been much of an "universal" feature

[coarse tangle]

Why can't I control how wide the blur is, though? I mean, I know that can introduce other artifacts, but why not let me make that call?

there's already a blur of some sort in place. is there someplace i can rewrite how it works?

[merry monolith]

2022.2 / URP 14 at least has additional shadow filtering quality setting

high setting has higher fidelity soft shadows

@coarse tangle

[coarse tangle]

yeah, we're still in 2021 atm

also: why isn't soft shadows working for spotlights?

toggle basically does nothing to soften the shadows, although it looks like something chanegs with how the near clip resolves

[marble vigil]

No idea, if it was that simple I guess there would be a control for it already
As far as I understand almost everything about SRPs is customizable, but not that's not an easy thing to do
The fancier features are still tricking into URP, though slowly

[coarse tangle]

any idea how Outer Wilds did their shadows? they seem to be using something entirely custom, and i'm not sure where any of that would go. is that in the shadowcaster pass in the shader?

[marble vigil]

Soft shadows definitely should work for spotlights, unless the clipping planes are wrong, the fov is too large or if something else is making the shadow casting get messed up

[coarse tangle]

lemme try a test setup

[marble vigil]

Outer Wilds had a lot of custom graphical features, and I think they were using built-in RP anyway

[coarse tangle]

custom shaders isn't unusual. i've always written custom shaders for my work, but it's usually been for fairly limited platforms, so not too much in the way of having to do extra passes. just straight vert/frag programs and that's it.

i know from looking into the built-in shader zips that there's more stuff to handle all that filtering, but i don't know where it exists in a swappable version for my project if i wanna modify it.

zero change if you set the normal bias to 0.

[empty path]

HDRP has better support for soft shadows,
built-in has an asset called next-gen shadows that will give you everything you want.

URP unfortunately has none of these, although one idea is to use Bakery (GPU lightmapper) and bake shadows, there's a variable there for shadow blurriness. It can give blurry/soft shadows, the only caveat is it'll only work on static objects.

If unity had capsule shadows it would work perfectly for what your asking for

[left hedge]

if you want to apply two different post processing methods, you'll have to use two cameras which looks like you do. you change the clipping for the Volume B to be on top of Volume A, then position the cameras accordingly

[placid laurel]

in the normal render pipeline can you use gifs on materials?

[onyx wren]

I think what you're looking for is a flipbook?

[placid laurel]

i dont know what that is... but I have a material that has a picture as an albedo... instead of a normal picture I want a gif... is that possible

[onyx wren]

A flipbook is a texture with all the frames of the animation packed into it, then you cycle through the uv coordinates over time, sampling a new part of the texture resulting in a gif like animation

[placid laurel]

i just googled a flipbook and i dont think it is on the normal render pipeline (that is what i am using for now)

I guess I will have to make an array of textures and change the material's albedo to each

thank you for trying to help though

[soft lion]

Btw youre on #archived-urp channel, not ”normal render pipeline”. Theres no reason why you wouldnt be able to make flipbook shader on all render pipelines

[placid laurel]

Yes sorry but the didn't find s normal RP channel

[soft lion]

#💻┃unity-talk is used for questions that doesnt fit on other channels. I think #archived-shaders would be best in this case. There seems to be some gif solutions available (most are paid assets) on asset store but using texture atlas and changing the uv coordinates is pretty usual way to display texture sequences. Ask on #archived-shaders if you dont know how to make that texture atlas shader stuff.

[placid laurel]

Thank you... I am thinking about moving my project to urp but if I don't I definitely will

[soft lion]

What then? Ask on #💻┃unity-talk or make flipbook shader? 😅

[placid laurel]

I watched a video on YouTube and it needed nothing to make s gif work on urp... So I'm considering moving my whole project to urp, but at the same time I want my project to be as small as possible... So if I decide to keep the normal pipeline I will ask the people there if I decide to move to urp there's no need to. 😁

[soft lion]

Thats weird, I was pretty sure gifs doesnt work on urp either… can you link the video here?

[placid laurel]

Sure

https://youtu.be/pVeV8I29w9U

[soft lion]

I highly doubt that will work. That seems like vrchat/poiyomi shader only thing. Btw that just creates texture atlas/flipbook texture out of the gif and samples that using the shader

[placid laurel]

Hmmm... I'll check out texture atlas and flip book and see what those do

Thank you for helping.. I would have spent an endless amount of time working on this

[marble vigil]

Converting gif to array with drag&drop is definitely some custom thing, I think
You'd have to convert the gif to an image sequence yourself, define that as an array and sample that in shader
Or sample the sequence in parts, treating it as an array
Arrays are just sequences anyway

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/VFXToolbox Unity has a handy tool for generating image sequences out of multiple images

[placid laurel]

thank you I will try to do the sequence

[scenic bay]

anyone here knows how the "Rendering Layer Masks" exactly work ?

[opaque plume]

Is there a way to make custom Tonemaps? i know it was a thing with the old Post processing 2.0 package

[unreal shore]

Hello, can't seem to find the right channel to ask this, but I can see the lines of the cube of the skybox
Anyone has a fix for that ?

[marble vigil]

Set their "wrap mode" to "clamp" in import settings to see if that fixes it

[unreal shore]

That did the trick, thanks so much

[soft lion]

Not abnormal atleast, it depends. URP should be well optimized for mobile platforms for example. Srp batcher makes URP much better at handling larger amount of individual objects but if you compare performance on empty scenes, BIRP may be faster than URP

[mortal furnace]

Hi all! I'm using custom solution for rendering sprites. It is basically drawing quad mesh with sprite texture. To animate sprites i use sprite sheet texture with all frames on it with no empty pixels between each other. And i get such artifact while rendering character. It seems like there is a little error in float calculation of MainTexST value, which results in incorrect UV values in shader. Is it ok to use sprite sheet with 0 padding?

[blazing turtle]

The documentation on URP says that I should have an option under the Rendering menu to upgrade all project materials to URL, but I only have the option to upgrade selected. In HDRP projects I get the option to upgrade all... anyone know why that might be missing?

[warped skiff]

Im experiencing that too

[distant warren]

Hey guys, what should I do if I have some particle effect / VFX assets that require URP (and without it theyre just purple boxes) - but with URP all of my other assets are purple

how can I fix this so that they both work?

[warped skiff]

depends on a lot of things

do your other assets use unity built in shaders?

are the other assets store bought

do the other assets have special shaders or deprecated shaders

[distant warren]

I'm not sure to be honest - don't know where I would begin to look for that regarding the shaders, everything is from the store - but the materials of these assets are purple when I import them into a URP project, and normal in a regular 3D core project

they don't appear to have any shaders attached, though

[warped skiff]

probably best that you look up some shader tuts

also the asset store should tell you if assets are compatible with your render pipeline

[empty path]

You should find a convert tool somewhere in the settings. For some reason they replaced that setting with a new tool that upgrades your materials, but it's not in HDRP, only URP. Classic 😄

Not sure where it is exactly, check out the documentation (make sure the doc is on the same unity version)

[high tiger]

Can someone help me here?

[unreal shore]

Not sure why you need help, but i guess it's that your material is unlit ?

[high tiger]

yes, it is unlit

[unreal shore]

have you tried with a lit shader ?

[high tiger]

No, this is my first time using shaders

trying to learn...

[high tiger]

Should I use lit?

[unreal shore]

I have a week experience with unity so don't trust me on that ^^ but at least try 🙂

[high tiger]

okay... lets see

[unreal shore]

Or maybe it's a problem of configuration with the URP / HDRP

[high tiger]

made it lit and this happened

[warped skiff]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@latest/index.html?subfolder=/manual/InstallingAndConfiguringURP.html

[high tiger]

Which one to select, currently my goal is to learn so need a basic one (don't have to crate anything very fancy)
1,2,3 or other?

[cold remnant]

Usually Lit is fine for basic 3D shader so 3

[high tiger]

Makes no difference in output 😦

I tried reopening Unity

and re-importing Universal RP

[marble salmon]

first of all, your colour mode needs to be not default. But HDR

Second of all, dont forget to open and save your Shaders, if you update something sometimes reopening and resaving helps

third of all, in render option there is

that is if you have problems with URP beeing pink

pink shaders is almost always problem with URP and materials. Use the converter and convert everything if you installed URP package recently. Also reinstalling URP sometimes is needed.

[high tiger]

there is no HDR option here

[marble salmon]

add as parameter rather as node. that way you will have more control from editor when you finished

[high tiger]

Noted.

Also, there is no RP converter option here

[marble salmon]

which unity version you are using?

try checking Assets and Edit bars for Option Rendering, there you will find another converter in older Unity versions

[high tiger]

2020.3

Yes, found it in edit.... but still no change

[marble salmon]

Reinstal URP from your packages. restart Unity And install again

[high tiger]

I've already did that once

let me try again

[marble salmon]

it really seems your Editor cant understand it is using URP. I had simialr error before, reinstalling helped me 😦

[high tiger]

Still no change 😦

[marble vigil]

@high tiger Did you follow the instructions hamboy linked? You need to configure URP, not just install the package

[marble vigil]

Use padding if you don't want adjacent sprites to bleed over

[high tiger]

Guys, thank you for help. It is fixed.... I had added the URP asset in quality but not in graphics.

[tired plover]

So... RenderTextures in URP absolutely effing s*x, huh?

No antialiasing, no transparency, what can you even do with it?

Someone here knows an actual RenderTexture solution that actually works like it should?

[karmic iron]

Good joke 🙂 Just wait until you try make custom post-processing with them, then if you're lucky you get to rewrite your code every new Unity version when Unity breaks them for no reason

[marble vigil]

Only if you're using something called GPU instancing to draw the meshes

[pastel vector]

Is there ANY WAY to use 2D shadow casters on Tilemaps?

[warped skiff]

Likely not

[mellow inlet]

Hello, anyone know how to implement a JumpFloodAlgorithm outline in URP ? I have found this but it's for HDRP and the only thing I found in URP was just unusable and impossible to understand for me.
https://bgolus.medium.com/the-quest-for-very-wide-outlines-ba82ed442cd9

Actually I have a renderpass that draw my object in white, and another that draw my screen in white entirely and I don't know why it doesn't take values made in my first renderpass.

I need to make an outline that will be the most light possible in memory and every forum threads I found redirected to this method

[crimson crescent]

I'm having a hard time trying to find what to google to get any tips on how to do something about this issue that I'm having:
https://gyazo.com/ecf088869afcc4101ec5b9e3fcc41abf
When two objects are overlapping each other at the exact same dimensions this occurs. Is there any way to decide any form of rendering order or trick to make it prioritize one of the models?

[final crater]

How do I set up pixel perfect camera in URP, it doesn't work properly like in SRP

[marble vigil]

URP is SRP, I guess you mean built-in RP
What do you mean by "doesn't work properly"? From my experience they work exactly the same

[final crater]

Yep that's what I meant mb, so the effects are different

Basically stretch fill and crop x and y aren't on the urp version

So they don't function exactly the same

I'll send examples soon

[whole relic]

Hello is problem pink all there

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/fps-warehouse-74390#description

for my use URP 3D

[warped skiff]

Probably not compatible

[whole relic]

think is old?

[warped skiff]

You could probably use a urp material

[whole relic]

Yeah.

[warped skiff]

And pass in the concrete

But it looks like it uses a water shader on the floor

Which is probably not hard to make your own material for

[whole relic]

Hmm okay but you use teamviewer or anydesk?

[warped skiff]

No

[whole relic]

uhh okay well already maybe is.

look ?

probably think.

[whole relic]

No?, but my novice sorry but my little.

[warped skiff]

seems to be a language barrier

[whole relic]

yeah okay no problem thanks

[random badger]

Hey! Any ideas how to access a property in the shadergraph set using the CommandBuffer? I tried using the same name and disabling exposed but it doesn't seem to work

(pic is how I set the global variable)

(here is how I'm using it)

[mystic delta]

Shadergraph uses two separate names for variables, one you set for the graph and another when it is selected you can see its actual alias that code will use in the properties window

[random badger]

Yeah so the reference name is the one I should use right?

[mystic delta]

yes

[random badger]

Ok because that's what I'm doing (there's no extra space or something, double checked) and it still doesn't seem to be working

[mystic delta]

Did you check if you get correct command buffer object?

[random badger]

oh you mean the Get method?

[mystic delta]

yes, test all the steps

[random badger]

I actually followed a tutorial, it's my first time using the custom renderer scripting so I'm not sure how to use it haha, I thought that I had to put in the name of the RendererFeature class

[mystic delta]

Not familiar with it myself, just pointed out the Shadergraph quirk

[random badger]

yeah this seems like a pretty "niche" topic I haven't had much use cases for it until now

Ok actually, my bad it was my renderer code that was not updating the variable with the correct value! So if anyone ever looks for how this works, you only need to make a new field in the blackboard, set Exposed to false, and set the reference to the property name!

[final crater]

Alright, so here's what I get with the built-in render pipeline

And here's what I get with URP:

You can't see it in the screenshot but it isn't pixel perfect, there is jitter and the pixels don't line up

This does not happen in built-in

Another example

[warped skiff]

did you enable run in edit mode

[final crater]

Where is that

That's not in URP

Only in built-in

[warped skiff]

isn't there a seperate component for urp pixel perfect and built in pixel perfect

[final crater]

Yes

There is a difference

Check the 2 screenshots

[warped skiff]

are you using cinemachine

[final crater]

Yes

[warped skiff]

does the cinemachine camera have a pixel perfect extension

[final crater]

Pretty sure yeah, imma check that tho

Can't rn just turned off the pc rip

[warped skiff]

make sure its the vcam

oh

[pastel jacinth]

Hi!
So I set up a project with URP. I used the URP button when creating a new project. I am making a 2d game, so this probably wasn't the best idea because I had to convert the 3d renderer into a 2d one.

The issue I am having because of this is that my project does not support 2d lights with URP. They are all greyed out when I try to add them. I am just wondering how to fully convert my project to 2d to allow these lights because you know how nice lights can make a project look better :D
If anyone has a solution any answers would be highly appreciated ^^

[warped skiff]

what does your urp pipeline asset look like

you need to make a new 2d renderer and assign it to the list of renderers

[pastel jacinth]

Yep, done that

[warped skiff]

what about the render pipepline in your graphics settings?

[pastel jacinth]

Yep i put that in

and in the quality settings

[warped skiff]

🤔

[pastel jacinth]

Ayy I got it! It now lets me drag them in sick

just took a bit of fiddling

[warped skiff]

nice

[pastel jacinth]

Only problem is that they dont do anything lmao

everything is still fully lit for some reason

[warped skiff]

check your main camera settings

also you need a lit sprite material

otherwise they wont know about lights

[pastel jacinth]

Ah! That seems to do the trick!

Thank you!

[warped skiff]

np

[pastel jacinth]

Yay for 2d lights! :D

[warped skiff]

looks great 👍

[pastel jacinth]

Thanks ^^

[final crater]

Turn down the chromatic aberration

And the bloom

It doesn't make the game look better just detracts from what's important

[pastel vector]

Bloom isn't THAT bad on that screenshot

[pastel jacinth]

Yeah the bloom is kind of low lol

Also I can see what you mean abt the chromatic aberration and I’ll take that into consideration

But the main focus is always on the middle of the screen so I don’t think it necessarily distracts anything

If anything, I am trying to distract people from the edge so it naturally fades into obscurity

Same kind of principle with vignette I suppose

[placid laurel]

I like the bloom, it doesn’t make the screen look blurry unlike when I do it 😐

[pastel jacinth]

I’m using more point lights than bloom to get that look. Maybe that is helpful? :)
I can have that happen to me too sometimes.

[pale quarry]

Hey, I just started a URP project but UniversalRenderPipelineGlobalSettings is missing its script and I can't seem to create a new one. There's nothing under Create > Rendering except for "Environment Library (Look Dev)".

FWIW I had pulled over some assets from a project that was in HDRP so I'm not sure if that's related, but it seems super odd that I can't even create a new URP Global Settings to assign to the graphics pipeline...

Any suggestions?

[surreal violet]

Hey , does someone know the answer why is my camera showing rendering completely black sreen when im using volumetric fog in urp ?

[silent wadi]

Hey guys Im looking for a solution to stop fps weapons clipping through wall without using extra cameras, I found solution that uses renderer features, but its not working,

I found old forum post that describes my problem 1:1
Bottom picture is good tl;dr
https://forum.unity.com/threads/urp-fps-object-camera-clipping-into-walls-official-srp-tutorial.1085648/

Is it bugged?

tl;dr is when i turn on Depth override, my geometry is not clipping through the wall, but i see geometry inside

[torn kestrel]

Does anyone know how I can utilize textures like roughness and specular in unity?

Both baked in blender

I know URP materials have a specular slot

but it seems pretty useless, and also doesn't seem to recognize the map from blender

and the most annoying thing being that there is not roughness/gloss slot

so does anyone know how I can utilize all of these maps, as they are all required for my model to look properly

[soft lion]

Theres no roughness because theres smoothness which is 1 - roughness. By default smoothness comes from alpha channel of the metallic texture

[torn kestrel]

How can I add a specular texture?

The one baked by blender doesn't seem to work

It just makes the object grey

[soft lion]

Just enable the specular workflow and select that texture for the specular slot

[torn kestrel]

Yes but as said

The regular specular maps do not work

They just turn the object gray

[soft lion]

Pure grey?

[torn kestrel]

No

It washes out the colors

[soft lion]

Maybe show before and after image

[torn kestrel]

I'm not at home right now but I will when I get there

[golden falcon]

Hello, folks!

i've tried to create a shader for the UI image
but alpha is not working. what am i doing wrong?

[rotund tangle]

I m not sure but you can try with Split node and use R,B,G or A(alpha) channel for alpha

[soft lion]

Yeah, if you just drag rgba color into alpha slot (which is single float), only r component will be taken into account. Shader graph has no idea you want to use a component even though you use it for alpha block

[cyan talon]

It's black and while though, which should be fine in this case

[soft lion]

Thats actually true 🤔🤦‍♂️

[grave rain]

hello! I am upgrading an build-in pipeline project to URP, and got this error--this config file is a file from an asset called volumetricLightBeam, and the line 255 that gave error looks like the second picture. Is there a way to fix this, or should I just delete this asset, or comment out this error message? any help is appreciated!

[fading seal]

besides ambient occlusion in forward, what are the depth/depth normal shader passes used for? anything else official other than just for user implemented features?

[marble salmon]

I would say transparency of 3D objects.

[soft lion]

What? How does that work?

[marble salmon]

If you make custom shader, which needs to see it self or something inside, lets say Shield of somekind. It requires to have depth data to be pretty.

as some things will be more visible and others will be less depending how deep you are in the 3D object.

[fallow verge]

I'm a bit confused... I'm trying to see the performance difference using mesh with less polygons... but I'm not seeing any difference.

I created empty scene with a spawner script than instanciate 10k prefabs.
with Original mesh it's a total of 20 millions tris and 50 millions verts
with optimized mesh + normal map it's 5 millions tris and 7 millions verts,

in both tests I get pretty much the same FPS, looks like it's mainly the amount of objects that really has an impact on the performance??

So for a somewhat low-poly style game (1k-1.5k faces per object), am I correct assuming that most desktop PC will be able to handle a few thousands objects on screen without much performance impact?

[tepid dome]

How would I fix this issue? I'm using URP to make my character render even when it's behind other gameobjects, but with a grey texture so that the player doesn't lose sight of their character. I know I probably shouldn't have overlapping faces in the model in general, but I'm bad at modeling and I don't want to redo it.

Here's my forward renderer, if it's important

[civic relic]

why is my texture being shown so weirdly?
when I don't use the shader but rather a normal material it works fine

[storm sluice]

How can I fix that when I export my project to android the colors wont be so dark?

[potent smelt]

when I install remote config all materials were pink
what's the problem

[soft lion]

The tris count doesnt really matter when something other is the bottleneck. In case of 10k objects, the biggest performance issue most likely is the amount of draw calls cpu has to handle (even though srp batcher is quite good way to handle draw calls), not the amount of tris gpu is dealing with. If you have few objects with millions of tris on them, the triangle count can possibly make much bigger difference on performance

[unkempt glacier]

hey hey! I'm seeking some help

So essentially I've got some render features here

The idea is that I want to render a dithered version of the player every time he's obscured

kind of like this:

I also render outlines through render features

They're hull outlines. basically taking the mesh, flipping it and extruding it outwards

I wanted to render the outlines while the player is obscured too but, they either rendered OVER the dithering, or WITH it, making the player dark and opaque

what can I do about this?

[upbeat sun]

Hi guys, im using the unity version 2021.3.0 and i have a problem.. I am unable to convert materials for an urp project. What is the problem?

[mystic delta]

If materials do not have compatible analogues you have to swap shaders manually on them to supported or custom ones.

[upbeat sun]

How?

[fallow verge]

Thanks, I did some more tests and in relation to draw calls... I tried static batching at runtime and using combineMesh, I understand the impact better now. Gained a few FPS with the StaticBatchingUtility but combining mesh seems to be the big winner for my goal and looks like I don't have to worry too much about optimizing each models for now 🥳

[mystic delta]

How to set a shader on a material?

[upbeat sun]

Don't worry, i just fixed it

[mortal furnace]

How it would better to write instanced shader which can flip texture through uv = 1 - uv? I mean branching isn't very good thing for massive calculations. I can also pass float2 values to write uv = flip.x + uv * flip.y, so for no flip it would be 0,1 and for enabled flip 1,-1. But instead of passing 1 byte i will pass 8 byte at least (AFAIK HLSL doesn't support int less then 32 bits)

[soft lion]

If you use ternary operator, hlsl shouldnt create any branches, it just evaluates both sides and uses math to discard the wrong one. That should be fine in this case. Dynamic branching isnt bad either if the condition doesnt change frequently on nearby pixels, if you use same condition/bool value for all pixels/vertices, dynamic branching shouldnt be problem either (afaik)

[tawny grotto]

hi, can someone help me understand why i cant import the Foundations of Audio asset into a basic URP 3d template without pulling a ton of errors

asset: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/essentials/tutorial-projects/foundations-of-audio-183075

oh apparently it doesn't work on the current version of unity

rip

[marble salmon]

If I would want to make Water acoustics, aka underwater princles, what is the most performance light method:

1. Shader graph, and create materials for underwater objects.
2. Texture projection from standart unity asset package
3. Decals or something like that?

[soft lion]

I think custom fullscreen post processing effect would be the standard way to do that

[marble salmon]

Post procesing is good for chaning color, effects, but acoustics with post processing? I have no idea how to do that O.o

[soft lion]

You can construct the world space position from the texture and use that to to achieve decal like effect. If you dont know how to make handwritten shaders, you may need to wait for release of fullscreen post processing shader graphs

[wispy sierra]

I am trying to use render features to render a layer after shadows are cast, but for some reasons shadow casting doesn't seem to be affected by the order of rendering features

Does anyone know how to change the order of the shadow casting pass, or set an object to be rendered after that?

Basically it's so the non-shadow casting object doesn't get shadowed by a shadow proxy

[wispy sierra]

I suppose rendering features only affect the forward pass

[lusty quartz]

Anyone know if Unity released the shader graph version of the base URP shaders?

[soft lion]

What you mean by that?

[merry monolith]

I'm guessing the question is "is there SG graph that implement URP Lit shader functionality"

pretty sure someone must have done something like that

and pretty sure there's no official such version from Unity

[lusty quartz]

Basically yeah, surely I can't be the first person to think: "This shader is great, but I wish I could extend on it in Shader Graph."

[crimson slate]

Hey does anyone know a good deal about render pipelines and shaders that would be willing to help me fix a project I have been working on? I have been working on a game for a while and I accidentally installed the incorrect version of an asset which used a different render pipeline or something and now a lot of my stuff is pink. I tried looking it up and fixing it on my own but I feel like I am making it worse due to my lack of experience/knowledge with render pinelines. I have been trying to fix this for so long I am just lost on what to do at this point.

[warped skiff]

Honestly feels like beginners shouldn't use urp

[soft lion]

The problem is that most of the shader would not work using shader graph nodes because it has to use for loop to iterate through all the nearby light sources and things like that

[lost basalt]

support for that would be great

probably doable with custom nodes kinda

[soft lion]

Kinda yes... but then all the lighting logic should be inside that custom function (or can you use subgraphs inside custom function hlsl code? You cant right?). That would ruin the point of whole shader graph representation

[soft lion]

Kinda yes... but then all the lighting logic should be inside that custom function (or can you use subgraphs inside custom function hlsl code? You cant right?). That would ruin the point of whole shader graph representation

[lost basalt]

you can break it up into multiple nodes

and then customize that

[quaint pumice]

Hey yall! Im baking lights in URP, but no matter the settings, the baked shadows are super weird

There is one directional light, I have no idea why its like that. Any suggestions?

[merry monolith]

like what

[quaint pumice]

I want them to look like this! This is without baked lighting

So why is the baked lighting so much worse?

[soft lion]

I dont think you can assuming you cant use other custom nodes/subgraphs inside custom functions (I dont know if that is a feature). The problem is that youd need to use those nodes inside the for loop that iterates through all the nearby light sources and you cant do for loops outside of custom functions

[soft lion]

It depends on the texel size

[quaint pumice]

It was 64, isnt that very high?

[soft lion]

Depends on the model ig. Theres some way to visualize texel size but i dont know how it works exactly. Lightmapping tutorials shows you how to choose correct texel size

[quaint pumice]

Okay, thanks a lot!

[lost basalt]

maybe a custom loop node could be possible?

[soft lion]

I dont think thats possible without making everything inside custom function. It would be really cool if unity made node to do just that, its shame theres no way to make loops in shader graph

[lost basalt]

yeah I was referring that maybe they'd make one, or we could make an extension like that

[soft lion]

Yeah, maybe. That would be really nice as shader graph seems to become more and more mainstream way to do shaders

[marble vigil]

The terrain mesh you want to cast shadows on is a singular large mesh, the light baking will struggle with it even in best of circumstances as it can't focus the shadow resolution where it's needed
You can control the resolution per mesh by changing its "scale in lightmap"

But assuming the ground mesh is large, you will have to choose between low resolution shadows and storing a lot of area in high resolution with almost nothing in it

"Distance shadowmask" is a feature that's intended to strike a balance between looks and performance in this type of situation

[quaint pumice]

Thanks for the info! This has given me a lot to think about. 😄

[light rapids]

Hey I was wondering what happened to one click convert all standard shaders to urp

I'm in 2021 LTS latest version but I don't see a option to convert all materials to urp

It shows me only selected materials

https://youtu.be/zQIosR0P-RE

Oh well they move the thing from there to here they keep moving things around without saying their documentation

[weak hamlet]

Hi so after downloading URP into my project and setting everything up, only 2 objects on my scene became black instead of all of them

whats more those 2 objects (they are shadows of the cave) are not reacting to light sources

did anyone have this issue?

[weak hamlet]

coz i don't have this option at all

was it changed since this video?

someone in the comments said to use this

but it just didn't work for my scene

but why i don't even have the option to add global light?

ok for some reason it works now...

[stoic quiver]

What do I change it to for proper URP conversion?

[warped skiff]

is it an asset store shder

[tender wasp]

How can i add reflections(screen space reflections) without using Hdr or turning on deffered rendering path

[marble vigil]

URP has no screen space reflections

[tender wasp]

well is there any form of relections that dont require the deffered rendering path

[soft lion]

Screen space reflections requires depth and normal textures, deferred path just provides both automatically

[coarse tangle]

Hi! I'm trying to get framebuffer fetch to work, as shown here: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SL-PlatformDifferences.html#using-shader-framebuffer-fetch

I just made that little bit of change to how frag() works, here's my test: https://www.toptal.com/developers/hastebin/wecuwilixa.m

but then I get this error:
Metal: Error creating pipeline state (Unlit/FramebufferFetchTest): Fragment input(s) `user(COLOR0)` mismatching vertex shader output type(s) or not written by vertex shader (null)

Did I miss something?

[coarse tangle]

this also didn't work: https://www.toptal.com/developers/hastebin/umutasocef.csharp

I'm guessing it means the same in different words:
invalid ps_5_0 input semantic 'SV_Target'

[gaunt hinge]

Which is generally more performant in URP? Baked light-maps or screen space ambient occlusion?

[marble vigil]

They do different things, so you can't compare them directly
Baked lightmaps save performance compared to realtime lighting, at the cost of disk size and memory
SSAO is meant to supplement shadows for realtime lighting, and it's quite expensive

[clever rune]

I need some help on profiling issue that has been occuring for a long time now to me i.e. StdRender.ApplyShader() which is taking almost 89ms of the usage. Please let me know how can I make it better with URP.

[hollow flame]

with SRP batcher

does it make the info in the stats overlay invalid?

the batch count is really high, saved by batching is really low, but when I do a frame profile it shows low number of batches

[stoic imp]

Hey guys! Do anyone know about this little issue: our objects are showing little shades on edges between them... I don't find any solution 😦

Thanks in advance

[soft lion]

Seems like screen space ambient occlusion (ssao)

[stoic imp]

Oh, thanks! I haven't found the option in URP until now. It seems pretty nice! Thank you so much

[cinder wing]

talking about ssao, i was trying to activate it also but it doesnt seem to work, i cant put my urp into this socket

[upbeat sun]

Hi guys, im using the urp version. Why there is this problem with the point light?

[severe portal]

Hmm anyone using the Render Pipeline Converter with 'Convert Built-in to 2D URP', it's taking up to 3 hours stuck on 'Importing Assets' after I click Initialize Converters.

[soft lion]

I can tell you that its stuck 😂 , shouldnt take that long

[severe portal]

hmm thanks, seems to always be getting stuck :/

[severe portal]

I think I see the problem, as soon as the InitializConverter starts it returns an error saying that one of my folder paths is not accessible.. think that actually stops it from working 🤔

not sure how to fix though...

Seems like making a new folder and moving the assets into that folder worked, maybe even renaming it might work

[severe portal]

Even more problems, but found a workaround:
So I'm not sure if this is just Unity 2021.3.5f1 also encountered on Unity 2021.3.0f1

The Hold On window that appears:

This is actually not really there, if you right click on a scene to bring up a different pop up it disappears.
So my guess is because it spits out an error it doesn't clean itself up.

This happens quite frequently with the Render Pipeline Converter on my side, the fix is when you see this, just right click on a scene to bring up a different pop up, and reclick 'Convert Assets' or 'Initialise Converters' whichever one you were doing.

[subtle owl]

Hey, quick question, does anyone know what type I should sample the "Camera Sorting Layer Texture" with? I tried tex2d, virtual texture, and cubemap, but none seemed to produce an output

or maybe I am missing another hookup somewhere? I'm not quite sure

and this was the only information I could find otherwise on this discord

[safe cipher]

Does anyone else have this issue ? , When a new project is created with the URP template or later added via the package manager, it crashes on the package load on the same line every time. Start importing "Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal/Editor/2D/Resources/InspectorIcons/PointLight.png using Guid(b3ab972b21db85d48ade9657efdd4771) Importer(-1,00000000000000000000000000000000)." This is seen in both 2021.3.1f1 (LTS) and 2022.1.4f1 with URP 12.1.6 and URP 13.1.8, respectively. However, Unity 2020.3.12f1 and URP 10.5.1 work without any issue. I've tried everything, even reinstalling in a VM and a new Windows 10 install. Are there GPU requirements for URP for use in the editor? Or is it something else?

[proven beacon]

my light is shining inside my shadow caster
what to do?

[outer mountain]

Hi, I've tried and installed URP to my current project and now all I see is pink from the Game's camera, what gives?

[clever rune]

Hi everyone,

I am using URP for my game and currently I am facing few issues related to that which are causing great performance issues. I'll attach here the screenshots which I took while profiling, please help me out with them since it has been a long time I am stuck onto it.

[errant grove]

Hello only some light near me render, other wait me to be near to be show. That not good, how to show all light ? I have set all light to IMPORTANT. And i use URP, i didn't have this issue with built in render.

[marble vigil]

Pixel light limits per object

[errant grove]

i have multiple light
because i have a big scene.
so i have multiple light.
And since i want to do a video recording i need to show all the scene.

[marble vigil]

It may be a little unnecessary to have this conversation on three different servers concurrently, don't you think 😅

[errant grove]

Yeah because we speak together

[severe portal]

Okay seems like I've fixed all my issues from using the Render Pipeline Converter.
Seems like if you get an error where it says 'SceneNotLoaded' you have to open every scene on the converter in order for the render pipeline converter to actually complete ¬.¬

hmm maybe not, the render pipeline updates all the scenes, but if I run it again it adds the scenes back into the list.. what the hell is going on 😅

[night prawn]

hey, when I use the deferred rendering path, the lighting looks super weird in the editor, and in play mode anything that's beyond the dynamic shadow falloff is in full shadow instead of using the baked shadows

an example of the shadow falloff thing from yesterday #archived-lighting message

I think it's only happening on surfaces with shaders I made in shader graph too

[marble vigil]

I had something similar
It seems the deferred rendering setting "accurate g-buffer" had an impact on it

[night prawn]

when it's disabled I still have the 2nd issue with the baked shadows

at least fixes the weird banding in editor tho

[marble vigil]

Yes
Not sure what's up with that shadow business though

[night prawn]

it's a shame cause I could really use the advantages of the deferred pipeline

[thorny horizon]

Hey, do any of you know an asset store item that adds volumetric lighting (preferably with shadows) to URP and supports camera stacking and VR?
price can be up to 200$.

[night prawn]

good luck getting remotely decent performances with those requirements

[indigo moon]

I was wondering if a fully transparent full screen panel, (0,0,0,0) color, would cause overdraw if it was left enabled ?

[placid laurel]

Just use HRDP, pretty sure it has volumetric lighting

[marble salmon]

Is it normal that URP shader uses 170 mb memory on simple scene? (~12 different materials)

[fallen ingot]

ok i'm sorry for this rather dumb beginner question, but i try to learn the shader graph and can't change the material of the standard meshes (sphere, quad etc) because they are greyed out... even when i drag a material on them it doesn't change 😦 i use the 2021.3.5f1 editor

ok i found it out, delete the material, than make a new one, then drag it in.... still don't know why it is so but eh :/

[indigo dirge]

Hey do you guys know a method how to de-/activate shadows for things like grass in realtime?

[spark sorrel]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@12.1/manual/rendering-to-a-render-texture.html
Here it says if i want to set the rendertexture via script i have to assign it to the 'cameraOutput' property.
But.. that doesn't exist, neither in their documentation, nor in the actual script. What's the correct way to do that?

[limpid ore]

I am honestly confused on how to use URP in 2D

all of the tutorials i've seen are completly different

i made a URP asset with a 2D renderer and i dragged the URP asset renderer into the URP asset which has been applied in the project settings

wtf making a SpriteLitDefault material doesnt work either

[slim fog]

Hello, I have a problem where I get a message asking for the bumpmap to be labeled normal map when I add it to a texture. When unity auto fixes the name, the normal map looks worse than before it was renamed. Any tips?

[gaunt hinge]

How do I access the URP package samples? I cannot find them...

[warped skiff]

Whats your unity ver

You need to be on 2022

Or 2021

[marble vigil]

Normal maps need to contain the correct type of normal data and be set to type: normal map in texture import settings
If it looks worse with the correct type, that implies there's something wrong with the texture itself

[gaunt hinge]

I'm on Unity 2022.1.6f1

[warped skiff]

well current urp is version 15 and you have 7

[gaunt hinge]

Weird, I guess the sample scene is out-dated... I tried checking the urp on a project I'm working on and it's on version 13.1.8 and the package samples can actually be downloaded! Hooray!

[gaunt hinge]

I'm having performance issues with the decal projector render feature. Once I enable decal projector render feature (to use just one blob shadow) the frame-rate is about 25% slower in build than when I disable the render feature... Is there a way to get around this performance loss, or would I have to find another way to do blob shadows?

[indigo dirge]

Does anyone know how to fix the shadows to not be cast by transparent sprites?

I'm sorry I expressed myself wrongly. I just wanted shadwos to come from the visible sprite. xD @young escarp

[indigo dirge]

Thanks 🙂

[upbeat sun]

Hi guys, why this happening? The point lights disappear when the camera is near

[marble vigil]

Pixel light limit per object
Slice the ground mesh into multiple smaller mesh objects or try baked lightmapping or deferred rendering
Is this the same project Pytchoun is working on?

[upbeat sun]

Yes is the same

this is my settings

Increasing the pixel for object limit was useful for some lights, but for others the problem remained

[marble vigil]

Indeed

[marble vigil]

In that case I hope Pytchoun is able to direct you to my yesterday's essay-length breakdown of what light limits are and how to work around them

[upbeat sun]

Okay thanks guys

[indigo moon]

Are you using Addressables ?

[normal orbit]

i'm interested, got a link?

[marble vigil]

The discussion happened on another server, but I can send you a summary if you want

[normal orbit]

Yes I'd like to read what you found

[steady vapor]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/shaders/fullscreen-camera-effects/volumetric-fog-mist-2-162694 seems like a good solution for Volumetric lighting in urp, unsure if it supports camera stacking but likely not

[opaque plume]

Hey i want to create an ocean with decent underwater atmoshpere, so i need some kind of local fog that is only visible below the water surface

do i need an expensive asset (like that one ⬆️ ) or is there a smarter way to achieve this?

[marble vigil]

You don't need a volumetric fog asset to do this
At simplest, all you need to do is detect when the camera goes underwater and enable scene fog

[opaque plume]

but my water surface is transparent, which means the fog should also be visible from above it

[marble vigil]

Shaders can be used to create "depth fog" like so https://youtu.be/RyXcXm8b21k
In addition to this it's possible to mask full-screen fog based on which parts of the camera are under water
But how much of this do you need?

Volumetric fog can take care of all of it, but it's way more expensive to render than any other method combined

Does the camera even need to go underwater?

[opaque plume]

Well yes it’s an underwater game

With air filled rooms in the water that you can walk around in too

And those should not have the same fog ideally

[marble vigil]

I expect you need every trick in the book to fake the fog in that scenario, so using a volumetric asset is probably the most straightforward option

[opaque plume]

Hm makes me question wether it was smart to go with URP in the first place

But then again I’m going for a retro look so HDRP would be overkill

[marble vigil]

You would be working "against" HDRP when using it for a style that's not "HD"

In addition to it being overall more complicated

[opaque plume]

Are there free volumetric fog assets I should know of? All I found was like fancy 40€ stuff on the asset store

[merry monolith]

@opaque plumeonly for built-in renderer

Aura (1) for example

[little grail]

Hey, I have these leaves which use the image as their texture. I imported this asset, though whenever I try to use it it just uses the full image instead of the leaf itself. Is there a certain setting I need to turn on for this to work? Or is this not possible in Unity? I noticed the background of the image is very similar to the leaf itself, so removing it with external software would be pretty hard. Any ideas?

[marble vigil]

If this is the image it's missing alpha channel information for transparency

The background is meant to be a similar color so that non-similar colors don't bleed over

[little grail]

you mean this?

[marble vigil]

Yes

[little grail]

Where do I add that texture?

[marble vigil]

Save the black & white image into the alpha channel of the color texture, using a program such as Gimp
Or if you don't want to do that, make a shader that samples alpha not from the alpha channel of the color texture, but from another texture entirely

[little grail]

I have gimp, let me try that

How do I put the black & white image into the alpha channel of the colour texture though?

Oh wait

I think I get it

Nope I dont

[marble vigil]

The process is a bit convoluted, I believe you have to paste it into a "mask layer" and then apply that mask into alpha channel

[little grail]

Im guessing I should use this?

[marble vigil]

Google would tell you more details

[little grail]

Yeahh I will google it

[little grail]

Oh wait, can't I just use a shader and subtract the black parts from the image?

I think that'll be easier for me

[marble vigil]

If you want to use a shader, just use the alpha texture as alpha as I explained
No need to subtract anything

[little grail]

oh alright, thanks

[long kraken]

Anyway to get renderer.cameraColorTarget but for a specific layer in a custom Renderer Feature?

[lapis basin]

i need help

why does it not show the Render Pipeline > Universal Render Pipeline setting

?

I want to convert all materials into URP

[placid laurel]

anyone know why my light is only in one 180 degrees direction? i can't get it to go 360 unless i disable normals

[placid laurel]

very obviously a cone shape, but why?

[tribal sorrel]

@placid laurel try changing the Z coordinate?

maybe it's clipping with the floor

[placid laurel]

none of the transforms change anythign

[placid laurel]

solution: import settings > sRGB should be off (was on)

[lament canopy]

Bug I encountered in alpha while getting excited that Decal layer has finally arrived in URP 15.
The decal depth pass is drawn upside down, causing the decals to fail the depth test. (only Forward renderers)

[marble salmon]

Yes I am

[indigo moon]

@marble salmon Unity often fails to track which Shader Variants are needed for your game when using Addressables. You might be missing shader variants. That is one side effect. Example : Having no alpha clipping on some shaders.

Another side effect is having an enormous memory footprint from shaders. At runtime, it loads needed shader variants, but when the game need the same shader variants again, it reloads them, adding to the memory footprint.

There are a lot of posts about this on the unity forums.

Here is an old post of mine about this

https://forum.unity.com/threads/memory-and-performance-issues-related-to-shaders.1155863/#post-7555222

[frigid parcel]

how do i apply a gradient to something like a fresnel effect

with brightness being how far into gradient it is

[coral wind]

Anybody know how i can add decal to glass?

[marble salmon]

thank you for teaching me, I will investigate the forum thread and will try to solve this. That is very usefull inofrmation, thank you

[placid laurel]

is changing shadow tint only allowed in HDRP?

[marble vigil]

Realtime Shadow Color can be changed, but it's only for subtractive lighting mode
Otherwise "shadow color" is always black, and the color they appear to have is the ambient light, as in physical reality

[placid laurel]

yeah I always have grey ambient light in indoor stuff
but yeah ill look into Subtractive
But in HDRP i saw a shadow tint option, guess its only there

[marble vigil]

As far as I understand, the shadow color is meant to compensate the fact that subtractive shadows ignore ambient light color, but it might work for your purpose

[placid laurel]

alright man thanks

for telling

[warped dove]

urp refuses corrupts my file whenever i use it, so can't partake in this chat :/

[austere field]

You can also write your own shader to tint shadow color. I did it on this OmniShade asset: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/shaders/omnishade-pro-mobile-optimized-shader-213594

[glossy verge]

so i upgraded to URP but now my custom shader is broken, it works by filtering what a camera outputs as a texture.

what the camera sees

what is output

why are sprites being hidden behind other sprites?

despite not using any sprite masks, changing the Mask Interaction on one of the sprites does change the output

this shader worked before i upgraded to URP

the shader just alpha cutoff

it seems like the sprite up front's alpha is somehow filtering out the stuff below it

why would this be happening?

[placid laurel]

Does URP have some sort of ambient occulusion built in? It seems like it

[marble vigil]

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

[placid laurel]

Ah I see, thanks

[glossy verge]

update on this:
turns out that the material "sprite-unlit-Default" that the URP upgrader thing swaps existing sprites to fucks with textures coming from camera outputs or something
changing those sprites to "sprites-Default" fixes this!

[coarse tangle]

hey guys, any idea what might be causing this flickering issue with the bloom? we only see this happening on device, but no in the editor, even though it should be using the same quality settings (no downsampling that we shouldn't be seeing in the editor).

so far our artists just keep crushing roughness values, but we're not sure it's the best approach, as it moves us away from the results they were looking to achieve under normal circumstances.

we only see this on some phones, too. older ones, it seems.

[hollow fern]

I'm trying to understand Camera Stacking in URP at the moment.
I'm trying to render a Skybox from another camera, so that I can rotate that skybox however I want to.
This is working well, but it seems like objects that have transparency on the main camera don't see the stacked camera.

Screenshot from the URP example scene.
As you can see, the Skybox is rendering as intended, but the moon's transparency isn't taken into account.
It's showing the 'actual' scene skybox instead.
Any idea where I can start investigating to resolve this issue?

[hollow fern]

The default Skybox can only rotate on the Y axis.
I need to be able to rotate on X, Y, and Z.
The default Skybox Shader doesn't allow that.

So I either need to do the camera stacking, or write a custom shader.
I know nothing about either, and a custom shader sounds like more work. 😂

I have done this, but then I need to set the camera far clipping plane at a ridiculous distance. 50000+

Has to be huge, else it clips with the terrain and surroundings.

It's a terrain mesh provided to us by the client, can't change it 😦

22500x22500 units, based off IRL terrain.

Hmmmmmm haven't tried something like that yet.
Will give it a go, thanks for the idea.

[scarlet lava]

Hi,

does anyone know a tutorial on how to convert Standard shader to URP?

there is a very cool free asset for vr that is the only one of its kind in the store, that only supports standard shader, but we are using URP
I'm doing a simple test run VR project, and I believe this asset is essential yet very simple

[warped skiff]

not possible