Is it possible to allocate a custom buffer in the urp forward renderer?

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The title should be self explanatory. Is it possible to create a custom buffer in the urp forward renderer? If so it would be nice if someone can point me to some resources.

[fleity]

coincendentially just read a thread 4 rows above this one which seems to include everything you are asking for

Doing a custom per-object pre-pass with URP

In order to render a particular shader I’m using for everything, I need to do a pre-pass to get the lighting data and run a compute shader on the result. I’ve currently got this set up as a scriptable renderer feature with a scriptable render pass that tries to run a particular pass in this shader. Shader "Custom/CrossHatchShader" { Properties { //... } SubShader { Tags{"RenderType" = "Opaque" "RenderPipeline" = "UniversalPipeline" "UniversalMaterialType"…

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@fleity

coincendentially just read a thread 4 rows above this one which seems to include everything you are asking for
https://discussions.unity.com/t/893351

This is not exactly what the OP is asking for, I think. They probably want to allocate a buffer which can be written to from the ForwardLit pass. No extra passes. I think this would be pretty easy to do if you modified URP directly, but I don’t know if you can do so otherwise. You’d need to add the new buffer to the render target array, then in your shader have your output be a struct containing your color outputs instead of returning half4.