Custom Lighting Model in a Shader & Screen Space Reflections

Unity Engine
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Hi! Wasn’t sure if this would be better posted in the shaders section or here in the Image Effects.

I’m not an expert shader writer, but I’ve been working on a custom anime-like toon shader. Going with a Custom Lighting Model works better for what I’m looking for as it allows me to stack multiple lights, but for some reason, Screen Space Reflections (from v1 Post-processing stack) stop working. And if I’m going with a Standard Lighting Model, SSR works, but I only get the light from the Directional Light.

Here’s what I mean (the mesh is the free Unity-chan asset, and the scene is the free Unity Courtyard):

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Note: the green light isn’t coming from an emissive surface, but from a simple point light.

Any idea if I’m doing something wrong, or where the problem might be?

Thanks.

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Okay, I think I’ve traced the problem to the fact that I’m rendering the character as a Forward pass (since I need the light vector data). I presume Unity’s Screen Space Reflections don’t like forward shaders at all?

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Unity’s SSRR uses the deferred G-Buffers to work, so yeah, they don’t like forward shaders.