Assets for different pipelines?

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Hey guys, I’ve noticed some assets are for specific pipelines on the asset store and I’m wondering if this is a “can’t use it at all” kind of compatibility issue, or a “won’t get the best results” kind of issue? And is there a way to convert between versions? I can’t really find anything specific about this.

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Basically shaders/materials are completely incompatible between pipelines. Also I’m not sure which pipelines support VFX graph and Shader graph at this point. If the asset that you’re looking at has anything to do with rendering, you can be pretty sure that it just flat-out will not work on any pipeline that it’s not compatible with.

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Ah, thank you for the warning. Do meshes count in that?

By the way, do you know what the little 10+ or 12+ after a render pipeline name means? I can’t find anything about it in any documents.

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Any mesh asset you buy, you’d need to replace the materials. It looks like the URP “lit” shader is very similar to the Built-in renderer’s “standard” shader so you can probably just create a new material and assign the same maps. Unity has a built-in converter so that if you switch your project from built-in to URP it automatically convert any materials using the Standard shader to the URP lit. I’m pretty sure to go from URP back to built-in you have to do it all manually.

HDRP is completely different though. I’m not sure how difficult it would be to convert

I’ve never seen that before, but I’m guessing these are version numbers. The two scriptable pipelines are package-manager packages so they each have their own package version numbers aside from whatever version of Unity that you are using.

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Thank you for your help. I guess I’ll have to play around with various test projects to see how it works. I kinda like the idea of making some little scene in HDRP just to see what it looks like & how cool I can make it - plus if it’s more work.

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Hi. 10+ means that they are working in srp 10+ so unity 2020.2, 2020.3 and 11 in unity 2021.1.
12+ means it works in unity 2021.2 or higher.

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Ah okay, thank you