Introduction to lighting in the Universal Render Pipeline

All of Unity’s render pipelines share common lighting functionality, but each render pipelineA series of operations that take the contents of a Scene, and displays them on a screen. Unity lets you choose from pre-built render pipelines, or write your own. More info
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In URP, the following applies:

• The Light component inspector displays some URP-specific controls.
• The Universal Additional Light Data component allows Unity to store Light-related data that is specific to URP.

Additional resources

• Lighting
• Render pipeline feature comparison