Bug Shader is either not compatible with Hybrid Renderer V2, is missing the DOTS_INSTANCING_ON

Hello,

I have an issue with all my shaders and Hybrid RendererV2. I always get the following error:

The shaders are the standard unity shaders that are generated using Assets > Create > Shader > URP > Sprite Lit/Unlit Shader Graph. But all of the shaders seem to suffer from the error above. Also the project is a fresh project.

After some googling around I found that this issue has been around in URP 10.4 for a while. According to this link, a fix was introduced in URP 10.6.0.

https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/is...t-shadergraph-is-broken-in-hybrid-renderer-v2

However upgrading to URP 10.6 or downgrading to URP 10.3.2 (as suggested in the link) did not change anything.

Does anyone else have a workaround for this issue or have a working shader?

Unity 2020.3.15f2
Hybrid Renderer 0.11.0-p44
URP 10.5.1
Shader Graph 10.5.0

 

Upgraded to URP 10.6 + reimported shaders but the issue remains.

However I noticed that on URP 10.5.1 and URP 10.6.0 the issue is limited to the Unlit/Lit Sprite Shader. The Unlit/Lit Shader (not Sprite) does seem to work.

Also tried to create a new Unlit/Lit Sprite Shader but that also results in the same error message.

Possibly there is something wrong the Sprite Shader template?

 

Sorry for necro, but I have the same error message in a fresh project with latest packages. I tried different built-in shaders and none of them work (albeit the manual states they are instancing-compatible). So I'm out of ideas and about to give up on DOTS/ECS/HybridRenderer.

 

Thanks for your response Joel,
but there is a misunderstanding and it is entirely my fault. I have started a fresh URP project (from the URP template in Unity Hub). So the shaders are for URP (Universal Render Pipeline / Lit specifically, and I tried some more).
So with my sentence "I tried different built-in shaders" I did not mean shaders for the built-in render pipeline. But shaders provided by Unity for URP. Sorry for the confusion.
Anyway. Thats my problem. That Hybrid renderer gives me this error message albeit I use a correct shader. My linked forum thread has additional information. And from this thread here it seems there is a tiny possibility that this is some Unity error/bug. As I said. I'm out of ideas what else to try.

Here is again the complete error message for reference:

Spoiler

A Hybrid Renderer V2 batch is using the shader "Universal Render Pipeline/Lit", but the shader is either not compatible with Hybrid Renderer V2, is missing the DOTS_INSTANCING_ON variant, or there is a problem with the DOTS_INSTANCING_ON variant.
UnityEngine.GUIUtilityrocessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

So when you say the shader *should* do, maybe the last point applies and there is a problem with the DOTS_INSTANCING_ON variant?
Also in the material I have verified that the last point, Enable GPU Instancing, is checked.

So when I can't see my entities this is quite a road block for me. And it's still possible some user error (read: my fault). But I find it incredibly hard to get even a simple sphere prefab rendered in ECS.

 

I encountered the same issue on Android and resolved it by changing Graphics API to Vulkan.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/c...51/manual/requirements-and-compatibility.html documents this.

 

Will it be fixed for OpenGLES 3?