Official Achieve beautiful, scalable, and performant graphics with the Universal Render Pipeline

great Andre! much apreciated!

 

Very cool project, after hurdles with Git I was able to open it.

I like your approach with the Water shader. Can this be carried over to HDRP? It has custom passes, too. Or is there anything that would be not compatible?

Also, your low poly human models made me really laugh, nice work.

 

@Andre_Mcgrail thanks for replying on the Blog Post! Your recent commit prevents the crash (thank you!); however, the scene still throws hundreds of exceptions both when importing and when pressing Play.

 

I'll make screenshots of them tomorrow, it's really just pressing "Reimport All" and the console is spammed with them.

You might be interested in my fork for VR https://github.com/prefrontalcortex/BoatAttack/tree/boat-attack-vr. There's (expected) issues with Opaque/Depth Texture and the Water shader, and I had to update URP to 7.2.0 to fix the Terrain in VR, but it's already fun to fly around. URP is slowly getting there, feature-wise. There's still some pretty visible bugs with depth passes occluding the clouds and other transparent objects that I reported a couple months back.

 

So basically all post is ShaderGraph advertising.

 

So turns out Boat Attack VR is the perfect URP + Quest playground which has ALL the bugs!
Stripping out URP features piece by piece brings it into a "well that looks okay I guess" state.

As-is (just disabled water) - in this version even the startup Unity Logo is cross-eyed!


Stripping away posteffects


Stripping away Opaque + Depth texture sampling, HDR, regenerating all lighting


Repairing shaders that use platform-specific normal packing to use proper Normal maps that work cross-platform ("repair" in the sense of "don't use occlusion and normals right now)


Re-enabling Shadow Cascades and turning off Occlusion Culling brings the Terrain back for whatever reason


To be continued. @phil_lira @ThomasZeng looking forward to your input on this from URP perspective!

 

Yikes! So it's more like "Achieve beautiful, scalable, and performant graphics with the Universal Render Pipeline, except on Oculus Quest" then

 

Ya I did some tests on oculus quest with the OVR player to. Took screenshots with the quest capture screenshot mode. I stripped out everything so it was just the bare stuff nothing special. I took shadows out to and the water has problems using the basic cubemap mode in this screenshot it looks good but in quest doesn't look that good. These screenshots actually look better then it looks and feels in the quest. Alot of alpha buzzing like crazy on everything alpha to. Inside the quest it feels and looks like N64 type graphics not good.

Really wanted this to work but URP is def not quest ready as is in 2019.3. Keep going Unity us quester's need this to work so we can show off great things with unity in mobile VR.

 

Hey, that's pretty cool! Would you mind making a pull request to my VR fork with your adjustments? Curious how you even got the water to work.
https://github.com/prefrontalcortex/BoatAttack/tree/boat-attack-vr

Also questions:
- is this using GLES3 or Vulkan?
- is this using XR Plugin Management or "old" Oculus plugin?
- is this using Multipass or Singlepass?

 

I just clicked on the cubemap box for the water and dragged in 1 reflection probe from the scene. I stripped out everything so I was just mesh textures and 1 directional lightmap and 1 reflection probe from that dock area. I brought in oculus utilities from the asset store and used the OVR player to walk around in quest. Whats the point tho still doesn't run or look good on quest. URP is useless on mobile vr until they have something REAL to show and prove to us how it can look and run. So it's just gonna look pretty on desktop all day which is awesome but for us dev's making real things on quest better to stick with standard pipeline in 2019.3. Really would love to be proved wrong here uhh cough *Unity*.

 

Hi Andre, no worries, we all understand that Boat Attack wasn't made to work in stereo. However, it serves very well as broken example / many bug reports towards the XR teams (both Core and URP) - that's why I tried to port it over to VR (and those are being worked on, as you said).
I have fought many fights with the URP team over the last year about XR, so a "semi-official" Unity example scene breaking is "great" in the sense that it finally forces Unity to fix those issues.

Ideally, once those issues are fixed, we can bring Boat Attack to the same visual fidelity in XR - happy to help out with this in terms of necessary shader changes / quality levels / Quest performance optimisation!

 

Any progress on the VR version? You can test it something like a Samsung Gear VR or even Google Cardboard.

 

Hi,Andre,I was downloaded the last version 2019.3 on GoogleCloud,And then i only can saw caustic shader(the Scriptable render pass) in Editor, it will missing if i build the project out.how can i solve this problems?Thanks

 

It's... your profile icon... it causes anxiety

 

@laurentlavigne well, it's supposed to, I assume @jbooth will be happy to hear that
Feel free to read the reasons here: https://forum.unity.com/threads/join-us-for-srplife-week.915275

 

Does anybody knows why the vegetation starts to jiggling crazy when I move the camera?
It seems the vegetation vertex animation is only stable when the camera is not moving.

 

speaking of jiggle, did they fix bloom jittering?

 

Is there any difference for vertex animations between URP and HDRP? Regarding Shadergraph.