Official 2D Pixel Perfect 5.0 released for Unity 2021.1

I am using URP 2DRenderer, and I am getting this warning. Is this mean this package is not working with the URP 2Drenderer? Have I misunderstood something?

 

Hey,
Good job on the package so far. One feature I would like to suggest though:
Pixel Perfect package absolutely needs an option to upscale render texture and still have a smooth camera (that moves in the higher resolution). There's a huge demand for that kind of thing in pixel art gamedev community. Here's a video describing the theory behind it:

Personally, I would also like to be able to upscale just some layers and not others, but the feature above is far more important. Without it, every upscaled game feels super jittery. In many cases, it makes the upscaling feature unusable.

 

Thanks for keeping this going, it's very handy!

I've not been able to use in a project yet though due to the Canvas resolution missmatch issue, was this ever addressed? I feel it really holds back the asset for 2D games in a production environment using LTS Unity versions. (Unity 2020.3)

I make 2d pixel art games almost exclusively and I'm still using a custom render texture solution because of this issue.

 

You are right, this is something that is missing from Unity. Let's hope this is something that wil be added.

 

While the package is great and saves a lot of time, I have noticed some basic use cases that aren't covered by the tool.

One thing already mentioned is that the tool doesn't support a smooth camera. Another issue I had to fix by myself is the lack of proper support for various screen ratios by default.

For example, I'm making a game targeted at desktop computers, so in my case, people will play with monitors whose ratios range from 16:10 to 21:9. There are cases when the screen might get wider or thinner, but they are so rare we don't consider them seriously. I think it's worth noting that the steam deck also has a 16:10 screen.

The tool I have made simply checks the scale of the game's window, then the script takes the Y value of the Reference Resolution (as it is constant in my case), then the script applies the correct X in Reference Resolution. This works perfectly, actually, this is the only solution that works properly in my case. I have tried to do the same by changing values in "Crop Frame" and "Grid snapping", but in my opinion, the results are unacceptable.


The second feature I have added is the support for zooming in and out by changing Reference Resolution. This is the wrong approach, as how far you can zoom out depends on the game's window resolution (the Reference resolution can't be higher than the game's resolution).

My point is that it would be nice to have these features by default.

 

Is it possible to edit the render texture that the pixel perfect creates when upscale render texture is ticked?
edit: to add on to this, i'm wondering if other 2D tools will get opened up for the user to customize? such as being able to edit how unity renders shadows