Just want to get a sense of priority on this one.
So far looking like we will have time to get it done before the end of the year early next year, the last month we have been working on stabilising the public API so we can go forwards without breaking peoples projects(we will be breaking projects soon). Once this update is out, which should be this week we will start looking at the high level bugs and then move onto fixing up some of the base features such as additional shadow casting for spots(and the atlasing) then once 19.1 Beta comes out we will look into point light shadows.
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Awesome. Thanks for the detailed roadmap! I think Point Light shadows is the only hard requirement for my future project that will use LWRP. Glad to know it will be worked on.
âŚso itâs July 2019 - and if Iâm not mistaken this still isnât supported - any plans on supporting it?
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Hi there,
I would also like an update to this one please?
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Iâm still waiting for this, pointlight with shadow.
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Yeah point light shadowing is very crucial, even if itâs suppose to be a lightweight render pipeline.
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Iâm very keen on both point light shadowing and having more than one directional light cast shadows.
I agree, but itâs also no longer the âlightweightâ render pipeline, itâs the âuniversalâ render pipeline. So your point would stand strongly if it were still the LWRP, but it stands even stronger now itâs meant to be for both mobile platforms and desktop/laptop platforms (and Nintendo Switch and whatever else).
Of course, anyone can just use one directional light to cast shadows, or not using point light shadows, and voila, theyâre back to the emphasis on âlightweightâ. But having that freedom to land anywhere between low-def and med-def without migrating to the HDRP would be ideal.
In any case, I imagine the Universal team are on this already, or will be after Camera Stacking. Some official roadmap would be very helpful, of courseâŚ
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There is one, that is linked to in the FAQ section of the documentation. However I would describe it as out of date, eg its still talking about 2019.1 and 2019.2 in future tense and does not reflect the name change to Universal either.
https://portal.productboard.com/8ufdwj59ehtmsvxenjumxo82/tabs/3-lightweight-render-pipeline
(from FAQ at https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@7.0/manual/faq.html )
Yes, I should have clarified - an up-to-date roadmap or even just a set of estimates/hopes/not-quite-promises would be helpful. That particular Productboard seems to have been written in late 2018 since itâs talking about 2019.1 in the future tense! (Also, no mention of Stacked Camera which was clearly prioritised earlier this year, to the credit of the LWRP team.)
Actually, the most recent roadmap Iâve seen for LWRP was this one from back in March, for GDC (scroll down to page 80 for LWRP stuff.) It sets out 2019.2 as the arrival date for Camera Stacking and an increase in the light limit for Directional lights. Obviously, that slipped, but âoptimised post-processingâ for 2019.3 did indeed just ship in the Alpha.
Unityâs rebranding of LWRP to Universal RP is probably much more than simply Find-And-Replace name change, and rather reflects some deeper shifts in the plans for this rendering pipeline longterm - and as such both these previous roadmaps arenât super-helpful.
In any case, Iâm looking forward to the next set of URP features that are coming.
I mention the out of date roadmap in part with the hope that it provokes someone from Unity to update it!
Camera Stacking is listed on it, in the Mid Term section.
In terms of Unity Roadmap talk stuff, there is at least one later set of slides out there somewherre (I dont have a link handy right now), I forget from which month but probably June.
Not sure about that, maybe, but not necessarily. Devil is in details of what differences would be anyway, And to be honest I suspect it was largely a âname perceptionâ thing that caused Unity to rename LWRP - I expect they did some research and decided that the old name was getting in the way of the sort of rate of adoption they wanted to see.
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There was a pull request on github today that allows multiple directional lights:
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/ScriptableRenderPipeline/pull/4451
Camera stacking branch got some new work done on it today:
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/ScriptableRenderPipeline/commits/universal/camera-stacking
I saw both those bits earlier today! Itâs really great news, especially the appearance of the multiple directional lights pull request, since that hasnât previously been confirmed as an in-progress task.
(Obviously, Iâm really keen to have multiple directional lights cast shadows - my project requires just two - and to see real-time shadows reach point lights too. But this is all one-step-at-a-time stuff, and Iâm glad to see things progress.)
Any news here? Still the one thing keeping my team and I from fully investing in the LWRP.
The multiple directional lights pull request got merged into master a little while ago which means thatâll be present in the next URP release, probably for 2019.3 release.
Publicly visible work on the camera stacking branch has been quiet recently, but I just canât imagine it being anything other than the highest priority for the URP team.
I havenât heard anything about Point Light Shadows, my personal suspicion is that thatâll be only available in the Deferred rendering mode thatâs coming for Unity 2020. Very happy to be proved wrong though if it does arrive for Forward as well (in fact, please do!)
Looking at the repo for universal, it doesnât look like point light shadows will arrive in 2020.1. So my prediction is mid or late next year.
Its way too early to ascertain 2020.1 stuff from the version 8.x stuff that is on github so far. That version has only recently begun/appeared in public on github. And probably only appeared when it did because alpha versions of 2020.1 Unity editor got released.
Hereâs the roadmap for URP: https://portal.productboard.com/8ufdwj59ehtmsvxenjumxo82/tabs/3-universal-render-pipeline-previously-lwrp
You can upvote âPoint light shadowsâ if you deem it important. Itâll be great if it can make 2020.1. But from the look of it 2020.2 is more realistic.
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@Singtaa Done, upvoted
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