Official New free e-book: Introduction to the Universal Render Pipeline for advanced Unity creators

Hi everyone,

We’re very happy to announce the availability of the Unity 2022 LTS version of the deep-dive technical e-book The Universal Render Pipeline for advanced Unity creators.

>> DOWNLOAD THE 22 LTS EDITION HERE <<



There are new additions and changes for areas like applying decals, URP quality settings and converters, comparing rendering paths to include Forward+, Full Screen Shader Graph including custom post-processing, LOD Crossfade, the SubmitRenderRequest API, and much more.

Along with the e-book, you can also watch our new video walkthrough of the recently released URP 3D Sample.

==== original Unity 21 LTS version ====
We just released the new e-book, Introduction to the Universal Render Pipeline for advanced Unity creators.

It contains over 125 pages of deep foundational knowledge on URP settings and features written and reviewed with the URP team at Unity based on Unity 21 LTS. This book is particularly helpful to learn how to move your projects from the Built-in Render Pipeline to URP. It comes with examples and follow-along projects and tutorials.

>> DOWNLOAD IT HERE <<



A few topics we cover:

• The custom shader conversion process from Built-in Render Pipeline to URP
• Built-in Render Pipeline vs URP lighting falloff and attenuation
• Camera light limits when using the URP Forward Renderer
• Ambient or Environment lighting
• Shadows, Shadow Cascades, and additional Light Shadows
• Light Modes, Light Layers, Light Probes, and Reflection Probes
• Lens Flare and Light Halos
• Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO)

We hope you find this guide useful! If you think something is missing or could be improved - do let us know in this thread, and we could add it to the next edition of the guide.

Also, make sure to visit our website to discover more e-books and other learning content.

 

We also created 2 new video tutorials to complement the URP e-book

These video tutorials will take you through the same instructions as in the e-book, with a Unity project for you to follow, one step at a time.

In Converting custom shaders to URP, you’ll explore ways to perform on legacy shaders as part of the upgrading process. See how to convert a custom unlit Built-in shader to URP within an actual Unity project.

In Three ways to use URP Renderer Features, we show you three practical exercises using Renderer Features in the URP: how to create a custom post-processing effect, stencil effect, and characters occluded by their environment.

 

Thanks for the nice feedback, we are working on one, in the mean time you can find the other ebooks here:


Download links

1. Optimize your game performance for mobile
2. Console/PC game perf. optimization guide
3. Unity Gamedev Field Guide
4. Optimize Your Mobile Game Performance
5. Version control and project organization best practices for game developers
6. Unity for Technical Artists: key toolsets and workflows
7. 70+ tips to increase productivity with Unity LTS 2020 (2020 LTS edition, 21 LTS ed. coming out soon)
8. HDRP Definitive Guide to Lighting (2020 LTS edition)
9. Game Designer Playbook
10. 2D Game Art , Lighting and Animation
11. Ultimate Guide to Profiling
12. HDRP Definitive Guide to Lighting (2021 LTS edition)
13. Introduction to the Universal Render Pipeline for advanced Unity creators
14. Create a C# style guide: cleaner code that scales
15. Level up your code with game programming patterns
16. Unity for technical artists- Key toolsets and workflows (2021 LTS edition)
17. User interface design and implementation in Unity
18. The definitive guide to creating advanced visual effects in Unity
19. Create modular game architecture in Unity with ScriptableObjects

 

We have a VFX Artist ebook coming out soon, it's a very advance look into VFX Graph and Shadergraph, not URP specific, but it should still be helpful, if you wanted to get notified when it goes out: https://create.unity.com/definitive-guide-to-creating-advanced-visual-effects

 

Yes the links are in the book, you can download them from there, for the videos, check out the video description on youtube

 

Updated my message, with unlocked ebooks and new ones: https://forum.unity.com/threads/new...advanced-unity-creators.1323774/#post-8405094

 

We recently added the ability to use replacement shaders (i.e. use a new shader while inheriting the existing materials properties) with SRPs. In URP you can render with a replaced shader by adding a "Render Objects Renderer Feature" and using the shader replacement option (doc) or through code in your own scriptable render feature.

 

Hi everyone. We just updated this e-book with new 22 LTS features. Check the links in the original post