Simple lit and metallic workflow

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Hello. I want to use a URP/Simple lit shader with a metallic workflow. As I understand, the built-in render pipeline uses the same algorithm—Blinn Phong (based on specular). The built-in pipeline has the function DiffuseAndSpecularFromMetallic. Could you help me write the same function for the URP Simplelit shader?

I faced a performance problem with low-end Android devices. However, our other project with a built-in render pipeline, using DiffuseAndSpecularFromMetallic, performs better than the URP project with Lit shader. The difference is significant. I think that DiffuseAndSpecularFromMetallic + Blinn Phong will work better than the standard Lit shader, but I am unsure.

Also, I saw that many people reported a performance problem with the URP pipeline on mobile:(

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Try the MRTK Graphics Tools Standard shader. It supports a lot of the features of the Lit shader like metallic workflow, but it’s more optimised for mobile and VR.

https://github.com/microsoft/MixedReality-GraphicsTools-Unity

In the package manager, click the + in the top left corner and select Add package from git URL. Then paste in these links:
https://github.com/microsoft/MixedReality-GraphicsTools-Unity.git?path=/com.microsoft.mrtk.graphicstools.unity#v0.7.1
https://github.com/microsoft/MixedReality-GraphicsTools-Unity.git?path=/com.microsoft.mrtk.graphicstools.shadergraph.unity#v0.7.1

If you add both of those packages in the GitHub repo then you can also set the target of any ShaderGraph to this shader.

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Thank you, I will try it.