Official Configuring AR Foundation 3.0.0-preview to work with LWRP or URP

I had the same issue and solved it by upgrading to:
ARFoundation 3.0.1
AR Core XR Plugin 3.0.1
ARKit XR Plugin 3.0.1

!! AR Core and ARKit did not upgrade themselves together with ARFoundation. You will notice, because the console shows 200 error notifications.

 

The 7.1.x versions of Universal Render Pipelines introduced a Camera > Rendering > Post Processing field.

With this Post Processing property enabled, ARFoundation background rendering breaks on iOS devices. This breakage should not be affecting Android devices.

We do have a fix that will enable background rendering to operate on iOS devices when this URP camera post-processing is enabled. This fix will be in the next ARFoundation preview release that is forthcoming.

Todd

 

Hi guys,
I updated my standardRP project to 2019.3 URP and simple touch and place script stopped working. So i debugged the script and find out that Camera.current was null!
so

Code (CSharp):

1. var screenCenter = Camera.current.ViewportToScreenPoint(new Vector3(0.5f, 0.5f));

was not working, so i created a public cam variable and set the cam by hand on editor, then everything is worked as expected.
So if you have that kind of problem hope that helps you.

 

Hi Todd,

My stencil shader is no longer working after installing LWRP into my Standard pipeline project. I know its configured properly because I was getting black screen on camera, but after reading these notes that's been fixed. Unity 2019.2.19f1, ARFoundation 3.1.0 preview 4, LWRP 6.9.2. No other changes were made. Reverted the project back to 2019.2.12f1. Same thing.

 

I do not know what your issue would be with a stencil shader with LWRP.

That question would be better addressed to the Universal Render Pipeline forum.

 

I'm still getting a black background, even following the instructions on the newer ARFoundations with URP pipeline instructions page. This is on IOS, with:

• ARFoundation 3.1.0
• ARKit 3.1.0
• URP 7.1.8

I'm trying to use the VFX Graph and so must use URP. The graph particles show up, and move as if everything is working, but without the background. No errors in the Xcode console.

In the past, I had to change the cameras background renderer to Custom, and select a specific background. That's not in the instructions anymore, am I missing something here?

 

So many people here have trouble to set up ARF with URP, so I decided to fork and upgrade the ARFoundation Samples to URP.
https://github.com/enslaved2die/arfoundation-samples-URP

And as always if anyone wants to use VFX or PostFX with AR I refer to the projects from Unity XR Evangelist Dan Miller.
VFX: https://github.com/DanMillerDev/ARFoundation_VFX
PostFX: https://github.com/DanMillerDev/ARFoundation_PostProcessing

I hope these Projects will help some of you.

 

Thank you! I was able to get your samples running right away. I tried to have your working project open and match all of the settings in my project and for the life of me could not see what was different and not working in mine. I ended up just deleting the Assets, Packages and Project Settings from my project and copying yours into it. Then, I installed the VFX package, re-imported the VFX Graph I had already built and it works.

On the positive side, I love the quality of the latest ARFoundation on my iPhone 11. The background video is the smoothest and clearest I remember seeing from many past experiences, it just looks perfect. And, it does not seem taxing at all for the phone.

The downside is just trying to get these configurations correct from version to version. I started this project a while ago, did some other work and simply wanted to upgrade to the latest 2019.3. Nothing seemed to transfer and rebuilding from scratch did not work given the instructions that I had to hunt down. Partial instructions in the VFX documentation, a partial instruction at the top of this thread, with new details and a new link to documentation, all of which takes a tremendous amount of time to track down. As anyone doing AR knows, the iteration, build times are a given, but having to do multiple builds to test the nuances of configuration is just frustrating and takes so much time![/QUOTE]

 

You need download v3.+, if you click in arrow beside ARFoundation you find v3, just update AR Foundation and ARCore and ARKit

 

A solution for the black camera background

Unity Version 2019.3.1f

1. Create a new Universal Template Project
2. Install AR Foundation (3.1.0 Preview 4) / ARCore XR Plugin (3.1.0 Preview 4)
3. Build Settings -> Switch Platform to Android
4. Project Settings / Player -> Remove Vulkan from Graphics API
5. Project Settings / Player -> Set Minimum API Level to 24
6. Create a Folder "Rendering"
7. Add a UniversalRenderPipline Asset
8. On the URP Asset Renderer -> Add a Renderer Features -> NewARBackgroundRenderFeature to the Asset
9 Project Settings / Graphics change the Render Pipline to the newly created
10. Create a new Scene
11. Delete Main Camera
12. Add a Cube
13. Add AR Session
14. Add AR Session Origin
-----> Build and Run -> Black Camera Background

Final Step: Under Quality set the Level to Medium and set the Rendering to None (Render Pipeline Asset)
-----> Camera Works

I don't say i understand why this is the case but for me it worked

 

Attempting to use the UPT on android (pixel 3), but having an issue where the camera does not auto focus, any idea if this is a bug or I am just missing something? I have updated to using the 3.1.0 preview packages for ARFoundation, ARSubsystems, and ARCore, and added the ARBackgroundRendererFeature. I also tested using the SimpleAR scene from the ARFoundation samples repo, and had the same issue.

Note: If I log out the value of the ARCameraManager.focusMode it does return "Auto". I have also attempted to explicitly set it after the app loads and the camera feed is visible, but this had no effect.

Also, this is not an issue for me when using the built in render pipeline with the 2.x arfoundation packages.

Windows 10
Unity 2019.3.1f1
Pixel 2
Android 10

FYI, found a github issue for this... have not found a solution yet.
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/arfoundation-samples/issues/389

 

can you explain more? I'm too facing this issue.
I'm using unity 2019.3.1f (recently migrated from 2019.1)
ARFoundation 2.2.
Also, ARFoundation 3.0 and Lightweight RP is not appearing in the package manager.

 

Package setup reference images

 

Thanks for your response.
I already enabled the 'Show Preview Package'
everything works well in a fresh project. I'm trying to add URP to an existing project.

 

The Package Manager Refreshing is broken somehow.
Close it, open it, close it, open it and then let it open in the foreground for idk some time.
This always fixes this for me...

 

Thanks. Now I fixed the issue. The problem is the ARFoundation version.

1. Created a new project
2. imported the scenes from the old project
3. updated ARFoundation to 3.0.1
maybe this can help someone

 

I'm trying to create a blit renderer feature to run in paralel with the AR Background Renderer. Any thoughs on this? On unity the Blit runs fine, but on the AR it don't show

Running on Unity 2019.3.0f5
Universal Renderer Pipeline 7.1.7
AR Foundation 3.0.0 preview 4


On unity:


On the mobile:


If anyone can Help

 

Has anyone had success using Image Tracking with LWRP/URP + AR Foundation?
IDK why but even though it tracks planes faces and movement just fine, it seems to loose its capability of recognizing any image...

 

Has anyone tried ARFoundation, URP and Post Processing together? Can't understand why the unicorn is not glowing

I followed this tutorial - https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.xr.arfoundation@3.1/manual/ar-camera-background-with-scriptable-render-pipeline.html

 

Make sure that you added Volume, Tone mapping, and bloom to your scene and enabled Post Processing in your camera.

 

Your reply about enabling post processing on the camera helped me too! Thanks

 

Thanks for your response.
I have added all the three and also enabled Post Processing in my ARCamera but it still doesn't glow.
I created another scene, added a MainCamera and enabled post processing to check whether it glows without AR i.e, in the Unity Editor. It works fine and the unicorn glows, but it does not glow in AR.

 

have you enabled HDR in your render pipeline asset?
Do you have multiple cameras in your scene? if so, I'm too facing the same issue. Let me know if you have any workaround to fix this.

 

can anyone answer this thread? I'm facing an issue with the bloom effect with ARFoundation.
https://forum.unity.com/threads/hdr-bloom-issue-when-using-multiple-cameras-in-urp.834619/

 

Hello,
why can't I download AR Foundation 3.0.0 for Unity 2019.2.X?
I currently using Unity 2019.2.21 because I want to use the "old" LWRP and not the URP but if I go to the Packages Manager I can only download AR Foundation 2.0.2 (or 2.2.0 preview) even though the AR Foundation documentation says 3.0.0 is compatible witch Unity 2019.2.X or higher.
Thank you for helping

 

Yes. I had added two ARCamera by mistake. I figured it out when I tried doing the whole thing from scratch once again. Now it works fine. The unicorn glows now.

 

Check your program's camera settings. You may want to use settings which support Auto Focus and enable it.

 

Hello everyone, it's normal for me to use arfoundation to publish projects to Android. However, when publishing to IOS, when the model is rotated to an angle, the black screen will be displayed, but the model will still be displayed. It seems that the camera can't get it at a certain angle, and the result is a black screen. What is the reason?

 

Do you know of a way to make the shader also hide the meshes that are behind it? So occlusion plus shadows? I've been trying for days now but couldn't find anything.