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

It seems that currently that the cookie for the sprite type light can only be read, but not set, at runtime - will this be officially supported in the future? This would allow for the cookie to be animated in sync with sprites.

Similarly, are there planned options for the sprite type light to bleed beyond its cookie, in a similar fashion to 3D's bloom?

 

Those are both great news, thank you very much - I'll be looking forward to those changes!

 

I love the easy use of this light-system, but I have a problem with the combination of Textmesh Pro.

The whale holds a sign with a white "Textmesh Pro"-object. If I use the default material, the text isn't influenced by light and is completely white. If I'm using a new material with the "Sprite-Lit-Default"-shader above, it's getting nearly black. (see screenshot). What can I do to render the text with the right light?
(Please note: I'm quite new to Unity...)

 

Have the same problem. Did you solve it?

 

Unfortunately not... Sadly, I don't know much about shaders, yet. So, let's hope, that an experienced Unity-programmer of this forum can make "Textmesh Pro"-world-objects lit correctly... If you are finding a solution, please don't forget me.

 

Hello, I have a problem with light direction. I made asteroid with normal map which is working great with point light to simulate sun. (In my case it would be nice to have global light with direction and normal map support, but for now this works fine except small problem.) I have camera script that is rotating main camera with my ship. Problem is, when I rotate ship with camera, it looks like light is rotating with the camera. In short light direction keeps changing according to camera rotation but only in game view. In scene view it looks fine. It should look the same on game view no matter the camera rotation. Light on asteroid should be changing only when asteroid itself is rotating. Am I missing something obvious?

 

Hey, I know that's kinda strange to use 2D lights in semi-3D game, but I happened to try it and it worked fine. Not until I tried adding point lights though, and this is a problem now. I really like the tools 2D lights provide to adjust and configure lighting properly and even animate it in runtime, so I don't want to use sprites with additive blending (must be the most adequate approach in this situation lol). I created some tiny script which just rotates sprites to face the camera, and as you can see in attached gif, point light seems to be rendered to some 2D surface, which itself doesn't rotate with the camera. What can I do to rotate that "surface", or maybe I should go with some other approach... ? Parametric light rotates fine, but I need to use inner and outer angle property in some of the lights, so I must use point lights.

 

I found this wired annoying bug in the 2D Freeform Light it occurs sometimes when adding a node it causes this issue.

 

As you can see from video at bottom left corner, light is rotating with camera and ship even thought it's not child of camera or ship and it's static in scene view. So when ship is rotating with camera, light on asteroids is changing and on ship stays still. It should be other way around. I need the light to be static. So I want the light on ship change on rotation and light on asteroids stay the same no matter the camera rotation. How do I do that?

 

@icesid That would explain your problem. I guess you could try to find out if the lights are reacting only to the "main camera" and then, as a work around for now, use two cameras (one static for the light and one for the game).

Anyway, I'm a bit surprised about this approach. I'd assume that the light is independent from the camera angle/position, 'cause the light source doesn't change position or orientation when the camera moves. Is there any reason why this is implemented like that? Wouldn't that mean that any 2D endless-runner would also face that problem? Or is only the rotation of the camera important?

 

Thanks for helping. I tried set up multiple cameras, but still getting same result. I tried to play with culling masks and layers, but nothing seems to work. Light is still rotating with camera no matter what camera I am using to see the scene. Maybe I am doing something wrong.

 

Is this 2D shader graph project available online?
i would like to see how this is working!

 

I have a question. If I use 2d light in the project, how can I render 3d Objects?

 

You should read through the thread.

 

Really enjoying this feature.

The Sprite Lit Graph master node does not support opaque, so the Scene Color node cant be used.
Thats making it pretty hard to create a distortion shader, for example.
Any chance we could get opaque support?

 

thx, camera stacking may be is the solution.

 

@Meepo0 Here You go - https://oc.unity3d.com/index.php/s/8zuIoX4kdMMlmCy/download
And the video -

 

I don't think this is the one because this one was made in unity 2018 version which 2d Lights and shader graph don't support, Thank for reply tho

 

Hey!
I already saw the problem on the first page, but it was already fixed by the contributor (with version beta build 4 - I've got version 6.9.1). It is a bug with 360 point light. If you turn on Volume Opacity, there is a gap between 360 and 0 degrees using the 2D Renderer.



I also wanted to ask how I can make 2D LWRP shaders work? The materials with the shaders are only shown in black and emissions are unfortunately not possible. (like in this tutorial

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Best wishes!

 

I guess it's probably not made for this but I found a way to produce dark light. Could be useful e.g. to fake an occluder.
2 point lights of which one uses another blend style which is set to substract.

 

Is there a way to set a freeform Light2d's shape programmatically?
Light2D.shapePath is a read-only Vector3[] and I see no other method to set the shape
thanks

 

is there a way to make 2D light source independent from the camera rotation?

 

Wondering the same. After I talked to Andy Touch at Unite (he did the 2D talk there) and he agreed the the behaviour is strange, I hope @Chris_Chu will tell us that this may be changed in future. Like in your space game, rotating the camera is needed and the lights shouldn't react to the rotation (as the lights are still at the same position).

 

Ok Thanks for the reply, is there going to be any announcement when it will be releasing cuz i dont want to miss it.

 

Thanks I hope they do something with it before I finish the game. Otherwise only solution I am thinking of is to rotate light around the ship counter way to the camera rotation which looks like very dirty solution and seems unnecessary.

 

ah thanks
That is useful but is it limited to setting positions?
I might be missing something obvious but I still can't see a way to set the amount of points.
light2D.shapePath = new Vector3[n] is not allowed
myShapePathRef = new Vector3[n] will lose the correct reference

 

Any news\progress with shadows?
Thanks in Advance!

 

Didn't try it yet, but it seems there:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@7.1/changelog/CHANGELOG.html

 

There was a nice talk at the Unite Copenhagen about the new 2D features (in 2019.3+) which contained shadows (i.e. the ShadowCaster component). Seems like the talk isn't uploaded to youtube yet, but you can get a glimpse of it in the Keynote.

And yes, it is also mentioned in the changelog

 

Hey everyone,

I must be missing something because I can't find anyone else asking this question, where are the Renderer Features (Render Objects)?
I wanted to play around with the SRP and render a bunch of Layers differently to create a nice effect but the only thing on the 2D Renderer Object is the blend styles.

Is this something that is being added later?
Or is the 2D Renderer supposed to work in a completely different way from the normal renderers? (No overrides, Queues, Layers, Stencil, Cameras, etc)

 

@CodeMonkeyYT - I was wondering, too. I've heard at the Unite, that this will be added later, but it's better to confirm that

 

The new 2D lights are amazing but I had to figure out why everything was dark and got a few errors because I didn't have Universal RP installed. The only real problem I encountered till now is that the Freefrom Light's falloff is not uniform in some situations, especially when the shape is long I guess. Here's what I get when I tried to simulate a god ray. The fallout on the lower edge is closer to the edge than the over ones:

 

Im making light shaft with parametric 2d light like this:


problem is the source of the light is above and when i move my camera down the light dissapear becouse the source of the light is too far away from the camera. Can i somehow change the distance value so that my camera will render light all the time? In normal lightsi could use render property and set it to important but here there is no option to do so

 

Hey everyone, sorry if this has been asked before but I didn't see it after searching.

A couple of questions...

When I first created my scene using 2019.3 beta 6 URP (LWRP), set everything up for 2D and dragged a sprite to the scene - everything was black. - is this normal? I was able to address this by adding a 2D light to the scene but I am wondering if the black sprite in the initial scene is a bug or the default (that we have to implement lighting)?

Anyhow, I've got it all working but I am trying now to get post processing ( V2 ) working. I have everything setup properly for bloom but it isn't working. :/ To note, I am using a 2D light at the same time. Are the 2D lights somehow conflicting with the post processing bloom effect and preventing it from working?

 

By default, sprites are using the lit version of the material. If there is no lights on it it will be black indeed.

You can either change the sprite material to the unlit version, or have a global light in the scene (white light with an intensity of 1 will give you the same effect of unlit materials)

 

Looks like shadows are in now! Any chance we know when we will have softer shadows so the edges aren't so hard?

 

So, for this new 2D renderer, what is the alternative of Grab Pass for shaders? As far as I know, _CameraOpaqueTexture doesn't work with sprites anyway, but with that renderer, it doesn't work at all. What I need is to get pixels from behind one rectangular sprite. I'm only learning Unity, so I need to know the best way of doing that before diving into it. Could be that the best solution is to use Render Texture, but the whole idea felt smoother with Grab Pass, to be honest.

 

Thank you for the insight @stephanedupont . Very helpful.

Any insight into why bloom wouldn't be working with the LWRP/URP 2D and post processing V2?

 

Unity Version: 2019.2.0f1
I don't know how this problem is occurring I have disabled Anti Aliasing from my LWRP Pipeline Asset also my camera is using the all the LWRP Pipeline Asset Settings, (I have 2 free form lights in this scene one only affecting the background and the other only the player and the ground) I think it is caused by the light which is affecting the ground as the lines are only seen on the ground area (Pink lines because my Camera has Solid Pink Color background).

If there is something i am doing wrong with the Settings please let me know,
Thank You!!