I know this subject has been talked about and I have been through the different postings and fixes where others had pink graphics and how they fixed it but I am starting to hit a point where these fixes are no longer working. I have the current version of unity downloaded as well as making sure the assets I am using are up to date before using them. Example of an asset I am wanting to use but can’t is the Ghoul Crew - Hand Painted by BitGem. I love the design of the asset and really would like to use it in the game I’m working on, but I always get pink graphics when I load them into the world. I’ve done the fix where you select the materials and convert them to URP rendering using the edit menu, but at times that only fixes maybe half the issue and then the other materials either are unaffected by the conversion, or they are simply rendered a gray or white. Occasionally I can fight with it for about 30min or so and eventually I get the graphics to render but I digress because I could go on an entire rant of this not working for other assets I want to use.
So, to round out the big question I have, is this an issue possibly on my end of the graphics not rendering properly or is it a Unity issue where the system is, for lack of better words, outdating the assets and making them “too old” to use because either the shaders they use no longer exist or some other error that will come up making the asset appear pink or colorless?
If a material used a straightforward built-in shader in the old render pipeline the asset was made for, then Unity can usually do an automatic conversion for a new render pipeline you have enabled.
If a material used a custom shader, Unity can’t just read the code and figure out an appropriate fix that will make it work, so they make it bright pink to let you know. If you got that custom shader (say, foliage or water or glass or glowing sparkly nuclear waste) from an Asset Store seller, contact them to see if they made a new version for your render pipeline. If not, you’ll have to create one.
Exactly. Be sure to double-check the render pipeline compatibility under an asset’s description before making a purchase. There’s unfortunately too many older assets that aren’t really URP/HDRP compatible.
I see where you guys are coming from alright that makes sense. I’m still fairly new to Unity been slowly working with it for just little over a year or so in total between the times I wasn’t able to work on it. At the time when I purchased some assets it didn’t occur to me to check the compatibility. Most I have say it’s for version x.x.x.x and beyond so I assume that they all should work fine but maybe I overlooked something with their compatibility.
This happened to me making a shader graph and the material just kept appearing pink the whole time, and no errors in the console. Later I noticed the target was set to builtin, while my project is URP. I changed it to URP and boom, all good. So yeah, just keep checking the render pipeline compatibility if you see no errors in console.