LWRP being Deprecated for Universal Render Pipeline? (SRP)

[ROBYER1]

I was just checking the LWRP changelog (to see if Speedtree support had been added yet) and noticed that upcoming version 7.0.0 details LWRP being deprecated for Universal render pipeline?

I was thinking of switching over to using SRP for an upcoming project for LWRP on VR devices, but Universal Render Pipeline sounds almost identical to the standard 3d renderer in Unity… I assume there will be performance improvements otherwise it wouldn’t be worthwhile. Shall I hold off on LWRP for Universal Render Pipeline?

Changelog
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/ScriptableRenderPipeline/blob/master/com.unity.render-pipelines.lightweight/CHANGELOG.md

Info on Universal Render Pipeline
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/ScriptableRenderPipeline/blob/master/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal/Documentation~/index.md

[Tim-C]

Lightweight Render Pipeline is Evolving!

Hi all. We will be making a pretty significant change to LWRP over the next few weeks for 19.3 and I wanted to give a heads up / take time to answer any questions or concerns you might have. So what is this change? We will be renaming LWRP to Universal Render Pipeline. Here is some text describing the reasons: Lightweight Render Pipeline is Evolving! In 2019.3 we will be renaming the Lightweight Render Pipeline to the Universal Render Pipeline. Lightweight Render Pipeline has been growing…