URP Roadmap+

@erikabar @phil_lira , there are few more small things I'd like to see on the URP roadmap.

Small details like:

- DOTS compatibility (URP currently doesn't work with the Hybrid Renderer)
- Surface shaders (Please reassure us that this is "in research" if you want to stem the exodus of asset developers).

Also, please don't be afraid to explain all the hold-ups, to soothe our nerves. For example, why has it been taking so long to add proper AO? Is it a view normals issue? Geometry normals? Something to do with depth buffers? We'd all be a lot more understanding if you could share your pain with us, rather than it always being the other way around.

Everyone else, feel free to add to this thread if you feel you'd like to know when URP will be able to do X.

 

>why has it been taking so long to add proper AO?
Bureaucracy.

 

I also would like to see this, and agree being a bit more open about what issues are holding up certain features would probably go a long way.

 

https://forum.unity.com/threads/when-do-we-get-hybridrenderer-v3.820131/ has some news on hybrid renderer for the URP.

I guess this is more SRP API related but would like to see when the RenderPass API will be ready for XR.

 

Thanks for the update @Elvar_Orn ! Much appreciated.

 

How can we get depth buffer but without prepass overhead? Only on hardware that support depth copy, on another hardware just use another shader that dont require depth. When this will be possible?

 

I'm extremely eager for when the URP will be able to work with the Hybrid Renderer, specifically for offloading only specific parts of our 2D workflow to highly performant DOTS Code.

I watched a video on a simple World Streaming Implementation with subscenes. Even just knowing that the ecosystem could handle managing just the loading / rendering / translation and animation of background assets and other set dressings would be a great confidence builder.

My peers and I love the DOTS paradigm, we like the ECS mindset and Data Oriented Design. It would ease the pain of waiting for a fully capable DOTS workflow if you could increase the ability for the two ecosystems to communicate with one another, even just to the minimum extent that we could meaningfully offload specific systems to it and then reintegrate the results of that work back into a mainly monobehaviour driven game.

 

Feature request for me. I'd like to see native support for 3rd party post processing effects in URP. Or continued support for version 2.2 of the post processing stack.

 

@OldMage @jammer42777 URP now is Hybrid Renderer v2 compatible. And 3rd party processing effects work as well. I'm using HBAO which shows up as an override in the PP stack.

@Elvar_Orn Any news on the availability of camera view depth normals textures for URP?