Official 2D Graphics (URP 12) released for Unity 2021.2

Does vfx graph support includes lit mode?

 

Would it make sense to reevaluate the roadmap for the 2D features due to the reduced team size working on the 2d feature set? I think the community could tell (i.e. vote) which features are currently missing and what would be probably the most needed features at the moment. For some of the major features we're missing, we wait for quite a while now.

Opening the development is a good thing and some of the community members have already started to write custom code, but there are still limitations and it would be nice if we could get rid of those.

 

While Unity adding feature officially is going to be nice, what I think it needs right now is to open up the API, Fix the missing setter on properties and give us power to be able to customize the system easier.

For example, 2Dlights are so limited right now because it just has fixed amount of types, we should be able to derive from the base 2Dlight and make our own.

 

This is really great progress!

Theres only two things I can't replicate in 2d URP that I can do in SRP:

- directional light (e.g. the sun) on normalmaps
- specularity

 

I just upgraded to 2021.2.0f1 and with it URP-12.1.0. Unfortunately, my full screen post-processing effect has stopped working (I expected this as I had tried beta versions of 2021.2, and had the same result). The work around that I've been using since upgrading to URP is detailed here. It involves using BlitRenderFeature and camera stacking.

What I'd like to know is what is the supported method for creating custom full screen post-processing effects using URP?

To be clear, all I'm trying to accomplish is to apply a custom shader (that I can control via a MonoBehaviour) to a camera in order to achieve a full screen custom post-processing effect. The problem seems to be that URP's 2D renderer (not the Forward Renderer) does not support either Custom Volume Overrides or Custom Renderer Features. Maybe this has changed with URP-12.x and I just haven't found it yet, but I don't see anything in URP's PostProcessing nor in the Customizing URP section.

@rustum, maybe you or someone else on the URP team can address this?

 

I'm having the same issue with a fullscreen shockwave style effect I hoped to use. I can't seem to get any custom fullscreen effects to work.

 

@rustum There seems to be a bug in 2D Renderer (URP12) related to a combination of PixelPerfect and PostProcessing.

Only the bottom left portion of the view is rendered when PostProcessing is enabled and PixelPerfect component is set to Upscale Render Texture. (case 1377086).

The easies way to reproduce is using 2d-renderer-samples and loading scene 2d-renderer-samples-21.2\Assets\Samples\2D Renderer\01 Feature Samples\06 Post Processing\_Post Processing.unity.

1. At the scene camera add Pixel Perfect Camera component and set Grid Snapping to Upscale Render Texture.
2. Change Game view tab from Free Aspect to 1920x1080.

Enabling/disabling Camera -> Rendering -> PostProcessing will cause game view "zooming" in and out. The same happens by leaving PostProcessing enabled and disabling/enabling PixelPerfect component.

 

Add opaque sprite and better sprite mesh to reduce overdraw.is it possible？

 

Custom Outline Tool is Good.

Do you have opaque sprite shader?
The Drawcall and overdraw of the current 2d renderers are very huge and not friendly to mobile platforms.

Some features are only available in the new version of Unity. I don’t know if they will be ported to Unity 2019. Can there be a centralized description that shows the minimum Unity supported version of various features.

 

There seems to be some issues with the 2D shadows. This was tested in a new project using the 2d URP template in 2021.2.3f1. If a sprite with a shadow caster is close to a light, the shadows do not render properly:


Also there seems to be shadow artifacts with volumetric lights in some cases. I created a simple scene with a 2d spot light duplicated a few times. Moving around a square shadow caster results in the artifacts below, or does not produce shadows at all:


I found these same bugs when I first tried 2021.2.0.

 

@kennyy_ Are the issues I mentioned in my last post known? I couldn't manage to find anything on the issue tracker.

 

Hi, I'm new here. Thanks for this thread, I have my exam tomorrow and I find a lot of tips and tricks here that my professor didn't even mention it Thanks

 

The bug has been reported with the project folder attached.

 

That's a good new, but is VFX graph compatible with OpenGLES 3.x? Because, I'm having troubles with Vulkan at the moment

 

Hi guys, I've just been experimenting with modifying the forward renderer to see if its possible to get 2d lights to work in there, but I'm having trouble figuring out where the issue is that is causing the 2d lights to not show up in any way, even when enqueing the 2d light rendering pass after every other queue throughout the entire queue; So my question is, is it impossible due to some limitation internally in the engine, or am I missing some step somewhere to get the lights to show up? Not too worried about having it look "correct" yet, I just want it to show up in one form or another so I have a general direction to take it At the moment I've only moved over the 2d light render pass and the 2d light culling pass over from the scriptable renderer, along with tweaking the light 2d scripts to still point to a 2d renderer data scriptableobject even when the current active one is the forward renderer scriptableobject.

 

An update; the lights showed up after I removed the forward renderer's transparent pass! Looks like pretending to know what I'm doing for long enough is bound to work sooner or later

 

This is the great feature added in 2D Graphics features in Universal Render Pipeline (URP). It's a great update done in the field of technology

 

I would Like to render 3d Character in (URP) with standard shader is it possible to use standard shader or not ?
if its possible please let me know how can I do this.

 

I've been searching all day for a solution for the following setup but I can't seem to make it work.
Some context : a 2D platformer game with 2D Renderer on and we'd like to have 3 layers of cameras ticking background / ground / foreground. I tried with camera stacking (base + overlays) and with all bases (and setting priorities).

The problem is : the blur (kawase from the sample for example) from the foreground will be applied to all cameras behind (ground and background). I didn't find a way to have custom renderer feature affect only one camera. Is this possible ? Like we had camera depth before ?

On another topic :
- the camera sorting layer is pretty cool but it'd be even cooler to have the other boundary of the layers (so that it could be used on only specific layers) or even select them ? Or maybe I didn't totally grasp the Heat Haze sample ^^
- an overlay camera seems to need "default" mask + whatever the mask you're trying to have otherwise you just have a black silhouette of the sprites of said mask

 

Have you tried using URP's Post-Processing Volumes? They might achieve what you're trying to accomplish. Unfortunately I don't think they support custom volume overrides like HDRP, so you will be limited to the post-processing effects currently supported by URP. It'd be nice to get an update on when URP will support custom volume overrides.

 

Yeah they aren't well supported. Anyway the PP would be DoF but we're using the 2D pipeline and we need only a few layers to be down sampled / blurred (at least one in the foreground and one in the background but ideally 3 in each)

 

May be worthwhile blurring them per-object with a shader instead, assuming you dont have thousands of blurred objects on-screen. 2D sprite shaders don't write to depth, so for DoF to work you would need to use an opaque cutout shader that clips edges based on alpha, but thats obviously going to mess up soft edges and semi-transparent areas. I suppose a third alternative would be to render your blurred foreground into a transparent rendertexture instead, and then overlay that rendertexture in screen space?

 

Yes, well we have a multitude of objects so the blur per camera was really efficient.
DoF wont work indeed (we have transparency and cutout isn't an option).
So yeah, we are making cameras output into rendertexture so that it's tweakable but the level art becomes a bit more tedious ahah.
Thanks to you both for the ideas tho =)

 

Did you figure it out? Because it is possible. You create a different Renderer2DData asset which has the RendererFeature you want to be unique to that camera. Then assign that asset to the camera.

 

How to upgrade 2D project (that's using standard renderer) to URP? There was option such as "Upgrade Scene to 2D Renderer" or "Convert All Built-In Materials to URP" under Edit options. I can't find it in Unity 2021.2.13f1.

[Edit]

I found it. It's under Window > Rendering > Render Pipeline Converter

 

Hello, I am looking into choosing a suitable pipeline for a project I am working on, but I can't find any performance comparisons between URP in the InBuilt. I read a few posts about URP claiming it has stability problems on mobile, but I couldn't find any patch notes about it in the year since those posts. Are there any performance comparisons of the two pipelines you can offer?

Thanks a lot in advance for all the help!

 

Hello, I am working on the project using Unity 2D renderer. Since our project is a 2D project aimed at semi-realistic graphics, we would like to express the effect with a forward rendering. However, the Unity 2D project is having a hard time because it does not support forward rendering. Is there any progress in your research?

 

This is great !

 

Is there a reason why 2D Light's affected sorting layers are not exposed?

 

After creating a new 2D URP project in 2021.2.19, every time I try to change Color Space to Linear, Windows throws a "Unity has terminated" error. If create a 2D project without URP, you can easily change the Color Space in it. But if you install the URP, the error will reappear. On 2020.3.17 all this works fine. What could be the problem?

 

is it possible to grab the shadow texture that the 2D lights create in order to customize how shadows are rendered?

 

I have a dumb question. I'm looking at the 2D Renderer Samples and I can't figure out how the normal map is being applied in the _NormalMaps scene. Can someone enlighten me?

 

theres an extra channel in the sprite editor

 

@rustum will directional lighting be added to 2D graphics URP?

I'd really like to use this setup for normal mapped sprites but this omission is hard to work with.

 

@rustum, I noticed that there are some Tilemap API updates on your roadmap, specifically addressing animation functionality. I was wondering if you could add the ability to start/stop the animation on a specific Tile (addressable by cell position on the Tilemap) to the roadmap. There's a thread about that functionality here. My use case, and I believe the use case of other users in that thread, is we need to either start or stop the animation on a specific Tile at a specific cell position during runtime. Thanks.

 

@kayroice Is this what you're looking for?

2022.2 https://unity3d.com/unity/alpha/2022.2.0a13

 

@Lo-renzo, yes possibly, thanks for pointing this out! I'm specifically interested in the TileAnimationFlags.PauseAnimation (is there a corresponding flag that will start the animations back up?). Unfortunately it's unclear if you can set these TileAnimationFlags on a per Tile basis (with a call to a cell position on a Tilemap), or if they operate only at the Tilemap level and thus set the flag for all Tiles on a Tilemap (I suspect the latter). For my use case I need to be able to turn animations on/off per Tile based on cell position. Maybe @rustum can clarify whether the new Tilemap APIs will allow for granular settings per Tile, or if they strictly operate on all Tiles on the Tilemap.

 

why don't 2d shadows show the silhouette/shape of the sprite on the ground where the shadow is being cast?
it's just straight lines
will this be a feature that will be added?

 

Is there a list somewhere of all features that are supported or not supported by the 2d and 3d renderers?

 

Hmm, i copied the "Heat wave" shader from the samples, into my project but i only get a gray square. I've checked the camera and 2d renderer settings to be the same.

Is there anything else I could have missed to get it working? Thanks!

 

It's frustrating but it gives hope to see someone has been able to find a solution for this xD