How can I filter a Layer in URP 2D Renderer?

Hi All,

I've been following a lot of tutorials about creating custom rendering effects (Like this example https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/c...ures/how-to-custom-effect-render-objects.html) but I want to archive something similar on 2D, where I want a layer to not be rendered unless the objects in that layer intercepts with a field of view.

I could do this using a Universal Renderer Data, but using that renderer all the 2D lights stop working, I wanted to replicate the same on the Renderer 2D Data but with this configuration I cannot filter layers to not be rendered.

Is there a solution to be able to filter out layers in the Renderer 2D?

 

You haven't found the answer yet, how to do it?

 

I know it has been around a year and a half since this post, however I am running into similar issues in a project where I need to filter layers out in order to draw them later using stencil buffers for a fov effect. However, as mentioned above the URP 2d renderer data asset seems to be missing a filtering option like the universal one has, and lights seem to stop functioning when using universal rendering data instead of 2d data.

Here's the function I want to use on the 2d renderer:

Has anyone found a solution to this question yet, or is there an easier way to create a field of view effect?

 

https://github.com/aarthificial/darkwood-vision-effect

 

The amusing thing here is that Darkwood was already made in Unity, it's just that they used the built-in render pipeline because it was all that was available at the time. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if they used it even if they made the game today because it's actually reasonably easy to accomplish things like this in it.

 

Kinda been a theme lately. New features are more complex to use, less documented, less explored by other users who are fragmented between legacy, some option 1, some option 2 and maybe even option 3. Even aarthificial was struggling and he's a top tier engineer. Although, this is perhaps because 2D lighting in Unity is incredibly basic and doesn't really consider anything but the most basic of use cases.

Somehow Unity is growing more obscure despite having vastly more workforce and resources than ever before. You get a lot of power that also comes with some loss of productivity. Perhaps, when legacy systems will be removed, Unity will regain coherence and we'll rebuild the knowledge base.

 

And a lot of compromises of the showstopping type in URP - "you can have this, but not that"...

 

I also need help in custom rendering effects. Above URP 2d renderer is missing filter option. Can you please advice?