Will 2D Render Pipeline support Renderer Features?

Hey, just wondering if the experimental 2D pipeline will ever support renderer features?
I'm switching my 3d project over to the 2d renderer and noticed I can no longer add features to the renderer

 

+1 for adding support and getting the forward and 2d renderer on-par.

 

Is there any ETA on this? This is stopping my team from using a few asset store purchases among other things. Knowing if it will be released in the next few months would let us make an informed decision on whether to let it go, use a different renderer, etc.

 

Thank you for your reply, If I may ask, is this because there is nobody available to implement it (any rough idea when someone will? 6months, 1 year? 2 years?), or because there is a technical reason why it would be a bad idea?

 

I suggest using the regular URP pipeline - it's perfectly fine for 2D still... or elaborating why you're interested in renderer features for 2D for potential workaround so advice can be given.

The renderer features thing is more valuable for complex shaders. If it's 2D it will generally mean you can throw some unlit shaders out there and do the same thing.

 

I wanted to use the 2D Pipeline, because Unity showcased that it's possible to make a cool 2D project and it has a few nice features, like 2D lights. So I started using it, expecting development on it to continue, but there are multiple threads where the reaction is "not planning to support it anytime soon" which feels weird. Why showcase all this really nice tech aimed specifically at 2D, and then "abandon" (probably a bit unfair comment) it with replies "not planning support for feature x anytime soon" and "URP is fine - use that" ?

Specifically in this case, I have an assetpackage rendering water, which requires renderer features to make it work (specifically a renderer-feature that makes sure the water gets rendered in the correct order and can "clip out" an earlier rendered sprite so the water doesn't overwrite it).
The situation is simular to Geoffl who wants to purchase assets requiring support for it.

Now my assumption is that the 2D renderer is what Unity intends us to use mid- to long-term for 2D projects. While I understand your advice that there are other options like URP, built-in, or even another engine (Unreal, Godit, ..) my question is about the 2D renderer and while I understand it's experimental (fine) I think it'd be fair to give a rough timeframe where this is going, specifically with official support for missing features like camera stacking and renderer-features.

 

2D pipeline features would be no slower in URP in my opinion. I think most if not all the features would also work in URP however that's only my personal opinion. A 2D pipeline is unlikely to ever be that compatible with asset store assets unless the author says it is.

Are you using assets that are designed for 2D pipeline, or could you link the asset you're trying to get to work?


Anything using surface shaders probably won't work on SRP at all unless specifically stated on the asset. Anything using vert/frag shaders may work with small modifications.

 

I'd be fine using 2D lights (+global light) in URP... so when is support for that planned?
I contacted the Author of the specific asset, and he plans to add a fallback for 2D.

So, let's try and take a small step towards getting these things supported:

camerastacking in the 2D renderer:
\runtime\ScriptableRenderer.cs -> public bool cameraStacking { get; set; } = true; // change false to true

renderer-features in the 2D renderer:

\runtime\2D\Renderer2D.cs, function Setup at the end, just before the if-finalblit:
for (int i = 0; i < rendererFeatures.Count; ++i)
{
rendererFeatures.AddRenderPasses(this, ref renderingData);
}

\runtime\editor\2d\Renderer2DDataEditor.cs
using UnityEditor.Rendering.Universal; // at the top
internal class Renderer2DDataEditor : ScriptableRendererDataEditor // was: Editor
function OnInspectorGUI add this as the very last thing:
base.OnInspectorGUI(); // Draw the base UI, contains ScriptableRenderFeatures list


So with those changes we can add renderer features to the 2D-pipeline and stack camera's in the 2d renderer.

Additional feedback:
- The water-package requiring renderer-features now works.
- Camerastacking (to get a nicely blurred bokeh-background using a camerastack) works.

What doesn't work:
- Enabling HDR and stacked post-processing (personally not using it)
- Sprite masking is broken when using post-processing (artifacts), in both 2D water-packages I tried.

 

So basically the problem is with external assets from asset store? Did the authors say these were designed for any SRP at all? Find that out first or it won't work in URP either.

If you want assets from the store to work you could ask the asset authors to update their assets.

 

... which I did (as you can read in my earlier post). Both of them work fine in URP, and mostly (but not entirely) in the 2D renderer with the above manual changes.

... and in addition I asked the question here when those features are going to be officially supported by Unity (if at all) which would help more people then just me - furthermore making a reasonable effort helping to get support in for these features (see my previous post), also so I can help providing repro-cases for bugs in the future.

This discussion is being sidetracked by pointing to "Use URP instead" and "Talk to the Authors" and "Check compatibility of the assets" and "you should have checked before you purchased" - which are all besides the point. I'm not blaming anyone or anything.
My question is simply how serious Unity takes the 2D renderer, seeing the "not planned soon" comments all over the place, in the context of the seemingly minor effort needed to get it (mostly) working with minimal effort in a very generic way. And thus it circles back to the original question "Is there a reason why technically this is a bad idea" and "if not, when is this in the schedule: 6 months, 1 year, 2 years?"

 

Thank you, I really appreciate you taking the time to explain, especially clarifying that the "performance improvements" are specifically aimed at the 2d renderer. It's understandable that tasks need to be prioritized, but the key for me (and I guess others) is to know it will be addressed, as opposed to it being on the "never going to happen because ... " list (possibly for good reasons).
Anyway, there's more then enough other things for me to focus in the meanwhile, so it's perfectly fine to "semi-ignore" some the missing features for now. Looking very much forward to official 2d-stacking support. That will already help a lot, also knowing we can soon post decent bugreports for stacking instead of "I modified the official code like x and now run into issue y" kind of reports.

 

Noticed the 7.4.1 update and applied it. Stacking is there, and it also works correctly with postprocessing - nice!
Thanks Cai and whoever else implemented this!

 

Edit: Old post, but I believe the issue with this was that Package Manager now has an advanced section where you have to check a box to "Enable Preview Packages".

Hey guys, I'm having a bit of confusion with versioning for URP. I'd like to update to 7.4.1 and check out the camera stacking.

I can't figure out how to update to 7.4.1. Here are screenshots of my Package Manager:





I don't see any option to update to 7.4.1. Am I missing something? I'm running Unity version 2019.3.7f1. The documentation says 7.4.x requires minimum 2019.3.2f1.

 

Hi, @yuanxing_cai , any news on when can Render Features in the 2D Renderer will be available? Essentially, I want to render certain objects in the scene pixelated. I have an old complicated setup at the moment with a separate render texture and some custom shaders, but passing on the depth texture in such a way seems impossible, and there are other limitations that I encountered.

I was looking into replacing the system, when I found Custom Rendering Features. That's exactly the tool I was looking for! But it's not in the 2d renderer

I have tried using camera stacking with a combination of a 2D Renderer, and a separate normal forward renderer to at least get it going without the pixelized objects getting lit yet, but the _cameraOpaqueTexture seems to get lost between the two. So there's really no way to get around it without having render features for now

Edit: For now I've set up a separate camera rendering to a quad, that then gets lit, though needless to say it's not the best way to do it, and I can still only have all those objects on a single quad

 

Great, really looking forward to the Render Features in 2D! Any idea when we can expect it? Thanks

 

Also looking forward to this

 

I'm also looking forward to this :I

 

Trying to make fog of war. It already works with forward renderer and renderer features.
But I can't use it in 2d renderer.

 

Im also looking for renderer Features beeing implemented for the 2d renderer.
I need to reproduce this (see attached image)
To render a Layer as a mask for another Layer.

Is there any other way to do it without the renderer feature.
Or is the Renderer feature is going to be available soon for 2d renderer ?
Thanks

 

While it's officially implemented, I did follow this workaround and it worked!!! : https://github.com/InitialPrefabs/UGUIDots/issues/44

 

@rustum
With the Renderer Feature workaround working,
I'm still missing the Layer Filtering in order to apply correctly the Renderer Feature.

 

I'm making a 2D turn based RPG and currently to do screen transitions I am using a really horrible method of stretching a sprite in front of the camera that is transparent most of the time, then using a shader graph to do the transition using a noise texture. It'd be great to apply this shader instead directly to the camera rather than a sprite. It's my assumption a Renderer Feature would be the best way of doing this(?) but obviously can't in the 2D renderer, so any ETA on this would be much appreciated.

 

In my 2D game i have walls and characters. I want my characters render with some other texture when they ocluded by wall as in this article. Author sas that there is a way to do it without renderer feature by using sprite masks or somehow write to stencil buffer directly from shader. I would very happy to read any advices.

 

I'm also interested in Renderer Features for the 2D pipeline. Working on converting an existing project from Standard RP to URP. I need the 2D URP because I have some visual effects that require the new Camera Sorting Layer Texture feature (to scramble the background but not the foreground), but I also need to retain my custom post-processing effects and those now require rendering features to work since PPv2 is no longer supported. There are workarounds like splitting the scenes into a foreground layer and a background layer and rendering them separately (in regular URP), but that's really complicated for a project that already has hundreds of scenes (and a mounting shortage of layers).

Looking forward to trying the workaround in kameleon79's link!

 

I was looking to implementing a custom 1-bit render pass using the 2D pipeline and found this old post. It's a shame this is still impossible. Looking forward to it!

 

Is there any progress ?

 

Still waiting

 

Please refrain from these types of comments. It's not like the engineers will work twice as fast knowing you are waiting.

 

I will use the full screen shader to make transitions and special effects for 2D games. Can I do it without 2D Renderer Features?

 

I will use the full screen shader to make transitions and special effects for 2D games. Can I do it without 2D Renderer Features?
Similar to this.
https://assetstore.unity.com/packag...ers-2d-layered-post-processing-shaders-195806

 

Sorry, I found that Unity 2021.2 beta has a 2D renderer function.

 

I have a 2D Platformer with the 2D URP render Pipeline, and i bought some glitch effect assets and I would like to apply them to my cam but can’t.
The developer said that it doesn’t work cuz the 2D Renderpipeline doesn’t have render features.
And he said if it got render features it would work.

 

RendererFeatures have been added in Unity 2021.2 / URP 12.

@zfh2773 See the 2021.2 2D Renderer Samples project here https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/2d-renderer-samples/tree/21.2 There's a scene called RendererFeatures which showcases a full-screen blur effect.

@MikProduktions Try upgrading to 2021.2 then integrate the asset. Ask the asset author if something is wrong.

 

Wonder IF that is possible to do per Layer Mask. Currently is it just a full screen blur. Would love to be able to just put an Item on a layer and blur that

 

You could accomplish that with a second camera which targets a layer and has a camera-specific blur renderer feature. Then you can output that camera via a RenderTexture to some full-screen quad.

 

That doesn't seem efficient. Forward Renderer you can do per object that is on a layer. Seems 2D Render Feature lacks that.