Official Experimental 2D Lights and Shader Graph support in Universal RP (previously LWRP)

Hello, I'm using SpriteShape in a project of mine, which depends on the "com.unity.2d.path" package. This package seems to conflict with the LWRP 2D renderer:

GUID [c69472069f4ff5e4b9db75c91210288f] for asset 'Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.lightweight/Editor/2D/ShapeEditor/EditablePath' conflicts with:

  'Packages/com.unity.2d.path/Editor/EditablePath' (current owner)

We can't assign a new GUID because the asset is in an immutable folder. The asset will be ignored.

Because the asset becomes ignored there are many errors saying the various scripts can't be found and as such the 2D Renderer doesn't show up under the Create -> Renderer -> Lightweight Render Pipeline

Edit: For now I'll manually change the GUID's in the com.unity.2d.path package, but it'd be nice if these could be changed, should be a relatively simple change.

Edit: Nevermind, seems reloading the project resets all the files to the ones from the package manager. Honestly this also begs the question why even package the whole 2D Path package into the LWRP instead of using the existing package as a dependency and adding any missing features to that to expand it instead?

 

After Shadows i can start developing dont want to point to an opaque object and see the other side.

 

@Chris_Chu
I'm playing around with shadergraph 2d support using the sprite lit master shader base.
I'm trying to achieve some kind of sprite intersection like you can do in 3d with scene depth.
I was able to do something similier with a sprite mask:

But I think it will look much better if I could use a shader here instead.

 

I have my own shader for most my sprites that controls the special art qualities of my game, so how can I recreate the 2D Light shader so that I can combine it with my custom shader. (using shader graph).

 

in scene view all 2d lights work fine but in game view only 2d global light works

 

Thank you guys for this package, much appreciated.
One thing I noticed is that if you disable Anti-Aliasing in the pipeline and the post-processing layer the post processing seems broken.
Also, is it planned to expose some properties of the light calculation in the shader graph master node? For example to allow cel shaded lighting?

 

I would imagine in its current state no. The lighting is calculated within the sprite lit master node, so the lighting calculations wouldn't be available to any nodes before it. I'm not a developer for unity so I can only speculate, for all I know they could add a node that processes the lighting information, that you can use in your setup and then pass the lighting information from that node into the sprite lit master node, but I don't know what the system is like under-the-hood. I too would be interested to hear about the developers thoughts on this.

 

@Chris_Chu when will we get a detailed documentation specifying what can and cannot be done with new 2d-renderer ?
Also it would be great if we could get some pointers for how to go around extending the new lit and unlit shaders for features that are not yet implemented in shader-graph (such as usage of the stencil buffer)

 

Wow this is awesome! Is there an ETA for the tilemap fix so we can see the tiles in the palett view?

 

Does the Scene Color Node in Shader Graph work with the experimental 2D LWRP renderer? I'm trying to upgrade my old GrabPass effects and I'm having no luck.

 

Hi, I can't seem to be able to create lights or pick the lit material? I have prefabs that were upgraded but have their materials set to (None), and when I try to create a 2D light, nothing happens. The option isn't enabled when I try to create through the GameObject menu at the window title. I would appreciate some help!

 

This happened to me also, make sure that you have assigned the scriptable rendering pipeline user Project Settings-> Graphics.

 

Do the sprite mask work in LWRP? I can not make it work...

 

I haven't had success ether.

 

It seems to be working fine...

 

You are not using the 2D LWRP, which would be 6.7.1

 

Ah! -Specific branch for 2DRenderer! Sorry!
In the comments with questions was not explicitly said about...
And the "whole picture" -I did not notice

 

No harm done ;-) We have so many Unity versions combined with so many packages and different package versions for different unity versions that its hard to keep track

 

I can't seem to apply the lit material to tiles on a tilemap. I know there's the thing with tiles not showing up in the tile editor, but I mean in the Tilemap Renderer component in the inspector. I don't have that as an option.

 

Superb. I hope you were away for something fun.

All I was seeing was that the tiles didn't show up in the palette, not that they couldn't be lit at all, and I was afraid I was missing something obvious.

Thanks so much! I'll keep an eye out for an update.

 

Thanks for the response, Chris_Chu. I was directed towards the Scene Color Node because GrabPass isn't working, and neither were the workarounds I'd seen. I ended up achieving the effect I needed using a (more efficient) post-processing shader. In a twisted way, I'm enjoying having to workaround the missing features.

 

2D lights are good fun might try to work on a game where u avoid light based saws and other traps

 

I am having difficulties accessing the Light2D component via scripts. I am trying to make a pulsing light effect, so modifying the intensity field in Update. Can this be done currently, or am I just looking in the wrong way. I am using
this.GetComponent<Light2D>().intensity

but it is saying Light2D doesnt exist

 

I've played around with an old tilemap but I'm having issue with flickering while moving the camera. It appears that the new Sprite-Lit-Default is missing the option "Pixel snap" which seems to cause the flickering. Will you be adding this option to the shader or should we look into options with changing the tiles to workaround this?

 

I'm also having issues with the tilemap not reflecting changes to lights. I expected this, given that this has been covered several times in this post. Global lights are working nicely with tile entities that are derived from prefabs (I didn't test further). I should point out that I create all tiles without using the tile palette.

I did notice one error upon entering play:

Code (CSharp):

1. In order to call GetTransformInfoExpectUpToDate, RendererUpdateManager.UpdateAll must be called first.
2. UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent(Int32, IntPtr)

I'm not sure what is causing it, and can dig in further as required. I also noticed that overall my FPS is dropping sharply, I'm unsure if it's related to the error above.

Overall, I'm really excited. I can see what you folks are doing and eager to see it fully realized.

 

Yes! I need this too please. I would like to be able to access the points on a freeform light via script as well

 

I use the following:

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine.Experimental.Rendering.LWRP;

so getting the Light2D is no problem:

Code (CSharp):

1. m_Light = GetComponentInChildren<Light2D>();
2. m_Light.intensity = 5;

But i am using Unity 2019.3.0.a7

p.s. if you are using assemblies then you need to add this as well:

 

Awsome thanks, I didnt know the include, or where to look it up!

 

I'd also like to generate sprite lights from a backend! So having the sprite variable accessible via script would be extremely required!

 

configuring the 2d Renderer step is missing for me. There is no 2D Renderer listed. This is with a fresh install, new project and everything else up to that point worked fine. Thoughts?

 

I found my problem, there is a conflict between this and the 2d Sprite Shape package. Having them both causes some really weird bugs and eventually broke everything, had to roll back to a previous version of my project to fix it, as removing one or the other all broke stuff so I guess not everything got removed properly.

 

Are there any plans for being able to change the blend mode of the sprite master nodes in shader graph? And if so, is there an ETA? Thanks.

 

Correct it fixes the flickering but I need to be able to support split screen and currently the Pixel Perfect Camera doesn't seem to support this.

 

Nevermind changing the code for the Pixel Perfect Camera to support split screen was easy, so just patched it.

 

The LWRP is causing a ghost image that is flipped horizontally and the ghost is unlit.
Any thoughts? All help appreciated. Cheers, Michael B

This occurs on a sprite where I set the Material to a newly created material using the LWRP 2d default sprite shader.
If I change the shader to a non LWRP 2d lit shader the ghost goes away and the sprite texture becomes unlit by the lwrp.

In the example here the green line is in the texture. The other unlit line is not.

If the image isn't showing, it is located here:
http://michaelb.tv/images/ghostsprite.png

 

yeah absolutely. thanks.

 

(Case 1168255) Ghost image in Sprite texture in LWRP 2019.2.0b7

thanks a ton. Michael B

 

I have 2D point lamp with 13 outer radius and a black line appears under the light, it flickers when I move. Environment consists of tilemaps. I am a newbie so if it is a dumb mistake I have made, please excuse me

 

Yeah I did that when I encounter this problem, still wanted to be sure that it is not my mistake. Thanks!

 

I've been playing around with the new lights and they are pretty great so far.

I would really like to know if shadows or "light blockers" like this screenshot are on the roadmap as well.

I'd love to be able to take the 2D point light and define a blocking layer that will not allow it to light the other side of objects. Even being able to set the points on the freeform light might allow for a 360 raycast based solution for this?

 

Our game is 2D, but our "up" axis is Z instead of Y.
Freeform and parametric 2D lights work when rotated and that is good. But point lights only work on the xy plane. Even if you rotate a point light, it does not affect any other plane. Only the XY plane.
Is there a plan to fix this issue ? Seeing that other 2 light types work on all planes and axes, point lights being an exception seems bizarre.