Entities Invisible with Hybrid Renderer v2

Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere - I found several threads about invisible entities with older versions of these packages, but not much about this specific config:

When I enable Hybrid Renderer v2, my entities no longer render. Here's my current setup:

Unity: 2020.1.03b6.3521
Installed Packages:

• Entities: 0.9.1 preview.15
• Hybrid Renderer: 0.4.2 preview.16
• High Definition Render Pipeline: 9.0.0 preview.13

I have ENABLE_HYBRID_RENDERER_V2 set in my player defines. I've also run through the process of updating all of my project's materials when installing HDRP (and I had no custom materials in my project).

The entities I want to render all have the following components:

• BuiltInMaterialPropertyUnity_MatrixPreviousM
• BuiltInMaterialPropertyUnity_MatrixPreviousMI
  
• BuiltInMaterialPropertyUnity_MotionVectorsParams
  
• BuiltInMaterialPropertyUnity_RenderingLayer
  
• BuiltInMaterialPropertyUnity_WorldTransformParams
  
• RenderBounds
• WorldRenderBounds
• LocalToWorld
• WorldToLocal
• RenderMesh
• PerInstanceCullingTag
• HybridChunkInfo
• ChunkWorldRenderBounds

Switching back to Hybrid Renderer v1 will still render the entities.

Any idea what I should look for here? Having trouble finding info about this. Thank you very much for any pointers.

 

What's your shader? Just default?

 

Yes, just The default material on some spheres.

Performance is great, though.

Any ideas?

 

If I create a blank scene, create a basic sphere from the 'GameObject/3D Object' menu, and then put a ConvertToEntity component on it, should I expect it to render when I go into play mode?

 

Just tested, that works fine for me. Creates the sphere with HDRP/lit and appears in scene.

 

Thank you for running through that. Do you have the same package versions as I do?

Well, let's see if Unity will take kindly to me removing, uninstalling, and then reinstalling all of these packages! I read that once you install the HDRP package, there may be issues trying to remove it.

 

I was in b7 but I had no issues with b6 previously as far as I'm aware.

I did have some issues with HDRP working at all the first time I set it up and had to revert all project settings to get it to actually render anything.

 

Hmm, I have a feeling the shader conversion process never got a chance to complete. I remember it hanging at around 45% the first time I installed HDRP. I restarted the editor, and clicked a button in the starting menu to manually convert them again, but this seemed to complete instantly. At the time, I thought this was evidence that it actually had completed previously, and that it was the Unity UI which bugged. Now I'm suspicious.

I'm trying this again in a clean project to verify that I can get it to work at all. If I can locate where Unity stores the new shaders it creates during this conversion process, maybe I can delete them and actually have lock restarting that process.

 

Yep, it's working in a fresh project. Hope I can track down the location of that data...

 

Just started a new project with Hybrid Render and HDRP, and I'm running into the same problem. Materials are all converted. Non-converted objects render fine. Converted entities don't render at all.

No idea what's up.

 

When I upgraded all the packages to the latest versions, it turned out that none of my materials were rendering because of an error in a custom shader. Wireframe mode was showing my entities just fine though

 

Same for me on URP, blank scene with new cube and attach covert to entity, nothing is rendered, but non etities are

Unity 2020.1.4f1
"com.unity.entities": "0.14.0-preview.18",
"com.unity.render-pipelines.universal": "9.0.0-preview.55",
"com.unity.rendering.hybrid": "0.8.0-preview.18",

 

Have you enabled V2? And what shader are you using?

 

@tertle yes, I've added `ENABLE_HYBRID_RENDERER_V2` under `player settings > scripting define symbols` and got the activation log message that it was active. Shader is the default `Universal Render Pipeline/Lit`, same with unlit. If I switch back to V1 entities render

 

Are you using subscenes? Try closing the subscene.

 

@elJoel simple new blank scene without subscenes

 

I have the same problem, but only for "some" objects .. The solution is to move them a little bit.

Apparently this is a problemwhere gpu data and cpu data is not aligned correctly, but they are aware of it

 

@Cell-i-Zenit do you know if there's an opened issue I can follow?

 

@Cell-i-Zenit what do you mean by move them a bit? I have a move system that is changing their Translation and those changes are visible in the Entity Debugger

 

by moving iam talking about moving their position just slightly .. for me the objects instantly appear again.

There is no open issue as far as i know

 

Did anyone find anything more out about this?

Out of seemingly nowhere suddenly none of my entities render with hybrid v2, working one second, not working the next. Since then I've tried restarts, deleting the Library folder and more.

Inspecting entities in the entity debugger show correct transform data.

Even adding a cube with a convert to entity doesn't work since this started going wrong.

When removing the hybrid v2 define I get this compile error:

Library/PackageCache/com.unity.shadergraph@9.0.0-preview.34/Editor/Importers/ShaderGraphImporter.cs(25,6): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'ScriptedImporterAttribute' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Does anyone know how to resolve that?

Ideally I'd not disable v2 but I'm struggling to find a way round this. Debugging ideas welcome.

Unity 2020.2.0b2.3094
Entities 0.14-preview.19
Hybrid Renderer 0.8.0-Preview.19
Jobs 0.5.0Preview.14
Universal RP 9.0.0-preview.35
Burst 1.3.6

This has all been working for a while but has suddenly stopped. Not sure what could have caused this.

 

What packages/unity versions? What render pipeline? Are you seeing the "Hybrid Renderer V2 active" console log?

 

Added to original post. Yes I am seeing it show as active.

 

Managed to switch back to hybrid renderer v1 and everything working again, switched to v2 once more just to be sure and things stopped rendering so I'll stick with v1 for now.

 

I found that only the default lit material "Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal/Runtime/Materials/Lit.mat" can be rendered
Other materials with custom shadergraph(also include built-in SimpleLit.mat) are invisible

Using URP and converted to entities

Entites: 0.16.0-preview.21
Hybrid Renderer: 0.10.0-preview.21
URP: 10.0.0-preview.26

 

Did you turn SRP batcher on? For me everything was invisible until I turned it on

 

I have the same issue. Just updated my project to 2020.2.0b14, using Hybrid Renderer 0.10.0-preview.21 and single Cube converted to entity on a empty scene is not rendering. Disabling SRP Batcher fixes it.

 

I just wanna confirm that this worked for me also when creating a scripted entity.

The object converted using the "convert to entity" script seem to render fine. It feels like a flag is missing in order render scripted entities correctly. You can inspect and compare the two, you'll notice layer and material properties are added. This is possibly why its suggested to use a prefab not something from scratch.

 

I encountered this issue a while back and disabling the SRP batcher resolved it, but after upgrading the editor (to any newer version or beta), I encountered this issue again, despite the SRP batcher being toggled off.

I had to enable the SRP batcher, press play, stop playing, then disable it. After that my entities reappeared in play mode. I see no changes via Git. Spooky and annoying. Can someone from Unity please look into this? There's obviously a problem. Disabling the SRP batcher is not even a solution, it's a regrettable workaround.

 

Definitely a frustrating change. Having it silently fail is horrible - it should at least throw a warning if srp batching is enabled to let you know hybrid renderer is incompatible.

 

How do you disable SRP Batcher?

 

From the UniversalRenderPipelineAsset in your project, in the advanced tab

 

All right, I created the succinctly-named PostAuthoringURPHybridRendererV2Bug GitHub repository reproducing and proving that there is a bug that needs to be fixed here. The README goes into reasonable detail.



The gist: entities created during authoring work fine, but entities created post-authoring (runtime) are invisible. All you have to do is clone my repo, play the sample scene and take a look at the entity debugger.

Can someone from Unity please do this? I took the time to put this together for you.

Edit: By the way, I can only spawn entities at runtime by reverting to Hybrid Renderer V1 with the versions listed in the README.

 

I don't really get your example. From what I can tell your runtime entity archetype is Cube + Translation? Why would you expect that to render? You're missing about 10 required components.

 

@tertle, no, I'm not missing any components. Also, FYI, you shouldn't talk to people like that, it's disrespectful. Dismissive responses attempting to make someone else look stupid are generally classified as toxic behavior.

You're failing to take into account the cube authoring script that injects the cube prefab into the scene as an entity on startup. Thus, the GameObject components are converted into entity-component equivalents, hence why, if you actually checked the Entity Debugger, you would verify that there's a

RenderMesh

along with various other components there that are, I would agree, required. They're not missing lol.

Look at this screenshot:



Oh, look at all those cubes I created that are invisible in spite of having all of those components on them. This is actually how I spawn things in my demo project that you will see works. I use prefabs just like this. I only add components related to the custom navigation systems.

 

I'm not really sure how me not understanding your example was disrespectful, I just wasn't understanding the setup from simply looking at your system on github. I apologize. I didn't have 2020.2 installed to check it in editor as it has huge issues with entities at the moment to the point I don't believe it's usable until fixes in 0.17 come out.

 

Same thing happens for me. Works with the SRP Batcher turned off. I hope unity gives posts about Dots future soon, what will be v.1.0 and when is it expected.

 

I switched my test project to use the v2 Hybrid Renderer and now get a blank project. Either I don't have "UniversalRenderPipelineAsset" or I can't find it in my project. Could you give me a bit more detail? I'm using Unity 2020.2 and hybrid renderer 0.10.0-preview.21

Sorry I'm a Unity noob, just learning via a DOTS udemy course, so I admit I'm missing most the baseline unity editor knowledge that everyone else has.

 

Try Edit->Project Settings->Graphics->Scriptable Render Pipeline Settings

 

Thank you, it was blank so figured out I need to make a UniversalRenderPipelineAsset to put in there. something else to learn!

 

Well the current prefab spawning is still not sufficient... i saw that we need to add hdrp emissions by ourselves because it gets removed

 

2020.2 appears to have broken BatchRendererGroup when SRPBatcher is enabled.
This is what the Hybrid Renderer uses under the hood.

I've experienced this in a custom SRP, and was also able to reproduce it in an empty project with the URP.
I'm hoping the bug report gets looked at soon.

https://fogbugz.unity3d.com/default.asp?1307714_5778k36lo52uh1sp

 

I am building a new project with 2 cubes, one is a game object and the other is converted to an entity. Both are rendered on android and on Oculus Quest 2. But when I enable the XR management plugin the entity cube is no more rendered. I have hybrid V2 enabled and using the latest packages. Disabling the SRP batcher doesn't solve it. Maybe someone has an Idea on this?

 

This explains why moving from hybrid 0.10 to Version 0.11.0 I get invisible renders, but only some of my meshes disappear. At this point it's probably better to make my own custom render system, as Hybrid has issues when I update it, and unity doesn't seem to want to document the changes from a coding perspective. Unless of course, have they updated their cube hybrid examples? That would count as documentation. But I wish the Hybrid official documentation would contain an example for spawning a RenderMesh and give all the right components, even a simple list and example data involved. I think using it atm when it breaks like this is a liability over time.

 

Samples are great, thanks!

 

Hi! Firstly, Thank you for the updated examples! I was looking through the examples but I couldn't find any use of EntityArchetype. There seems to be a lot more empathizes on GameObject uses with ECS rather then spawning from code. Which I understand, as it's a more human friendly workflow. However my current workflow is spawning from code in parallel using command buffers, then randomizing the starting component data using authored inputs that I set with Scriptable Objects as well as some simulation math magic. I don't have much use for authoring individual datas as such. Perhaps I missed something in the examples? I checked the cube and boid examples of spawning and seemed to differ in this, compared to 2018 examples! (I probaly missed something..)

 

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/c...brid@0.11/manual/runtime-entity-creation.html

 

I see but '

// Call AddComponents to populate base entity with the components required
// by Hybrid Renderer
RenderMeshUtility.AddComponents(
prototype,
entityManager,
desc);'

Cannot be used in a parallel job right? And it doesn't really tell you what components are needed. For example, I need to manually update render bounds when I create my UI entities. So it's more important to know exactly what components are there. It's more a blackbox!