Changelog

All notable changes to this package will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[13.1.9] - 2022-11-04

Version Updated The version number for this package has increased due to a version update of a related graphics package.

[13.1.8] - 2022-03-29

Version Updated The version number for this package has increased due to a version update of a related graphics package.

[13.1.7] - 2022-02-09

Version Updated The version number for this package has increased due to a version update of a related graphics package.

[13.1.6] - 2022-01-14

Fixed

  • Fixed undo in for DebugUI.EnumFields on the rendering debugger. (case 1386964)

[13.1.5] - 2021-12-17

Fixed

  • Fixed the issue with the special Turkish i, when looking for the m_IsGlobal property in VolumeEditor. (case 1276892)
  • Fixed IES profile importer handling of overflow (outside 0-1 range) of attenutation splines values.

[13.1.4] - 2021-12-04

Fixed

  • Fixed issue in DynamicResolutionHandler when camera request was turned off at runtime, the ScalableBufferManager would leak state and not unset DRS state (case 1383093).

[13.1.3] - 2021-11-17

Fixed

  • Fixed XR support in CoreUtils.DrawFullscreen function.
  • Fixed an issue causing Render Graph execution errors after a random amount of time.

[13.1.2] - 2021-11-05

Added

  • Added function to allocate RTHandles using RenderTextureDescriptor.
  • Added vrUsage support for RTHandles allocation.

Fixed

  • Fixed issue when changing volume profiles at runtime with a script (case 1364256).

[13.1.1] - 2021-10-04

Added

  • Added support for high performant unsafe (uint only) Radix, Merge and Insertion sort algorithms on CoreUnsafeUtils.
  • Added DebugFrameTiming class that can be used by render pipelines to display CPU/GPU frame timings and bottlenecks in Rendering Debugger.
  • Added new DebugUI widget types: ProgressBarValue and ValueTuple
  • Added common support code for FSR

[13.1.0] - 2021-09-24

Added

  • Debug Panels Framework See IDebugDisplaySettingsQuery.

Fixed

  • Fixed keyword and float property upgrading in SpeedTree8MaterialUpgrader

[13.0.0] - 2021-09-01

Version Updated The version number for this package has increased due to a version update of a related graphics package.

Added

  • New IVolumeDebugSettings interface and VolumeDebugSettings<T> class that stores the information for the Volumes Debug Panel.
  • Added AMD FidelityFX shaders which were originally in HDRP
  • Added support for high performant unsafe (uint only) Radix, Merge and Insertion sort algorithms on CoreUnsafeUtils.

Fixed

  • Fixed black pixel issue in AMD FidelityFX RCAS implementation
  • Fixed a critical issue on android devices & lens flares. Accidentally creating a 16 bit texture was causing gpus not supporting them to fail.
  • Fixed serialization of DebugStateFlags, the internal Enum was not being serialized.

[12.0.0] - 2021-01-11

Added

  • Support for the PlayStation 5 platform has been added.
  • Support for additional properties for Volume Components without custom editor
  • Added VolumeComponentMenuForRenderPipelineAttribute to specify a volume component only for certain RenderPipelines.
  • Calculating correct rtHandleScale by considering the possible pixel rounding when DRS is on
  • Support for the PlayStation 5 platform has been added.
  • Support for the XboxSeries platform has been added.
  • Added Editor window that allow showing an icon to browse the documentation
  • New method DrawHeaders for VolumeComponentsEditors
  • Unification of Material Editor Headers Scopes
  • New API functions with no side effects in DynamicResolutionHandler, to retrieve resolved drs scale and to apply DRS on a size.
  • Added helper for Volumes (Enable All Overrides, Disable All Overrides, Remove All Overrides).
  • Added a blitter utility class. Moved from HDRP to RP core.
  • Added a realtime 2D texture atlas utility classes. Moved from HDRP to RP core.
  • New methods on CoreEditorDrawers, to allow adding a label on a group before rendering the internal drawers
  • Method to generate a Texture2D of 1x1 with a plain color
  • Red, Green, Blue Texture2D on CoreEditorStyles
  • New API in DynamicResolutionHandler to handle multicamera rendering for hardware mode. Changing cameras and resetting scaling per camera should be safe.
  • Added SpeedTree8MaterialUpgrader, which provides utilities for upgrading and importing SpeedTree 8 assets to scriptable render pipelines.
  • Adding documentation links to Light Sections
  • Support for Lens Flare Data Driven (from images and Procedural shapes), on HDRP
  • New SRPLensFlareData Asset
  • Adding documentation links to Light Sections.
  • Added sampling noise to probe volume sampling position to hide seams between subdivision levels.
  • Added DebugUI.Foldout.isHeader property to allow creating full-width header foldouts in Rendering Debugger.
  • Added DebugUI.Flags.IsHidden to allow conditional display of widgets in Rendering Debugger.
  • Added "Expand/Collapse All" buttons to Rendering Debugger window menu.
  • Added mouse & touch input support for Rendering Debugger runtime UI, and fix problems when InputSystem package is used.
  • Add automatic spaces to enum display names used in Rendering Debugger and add support for InspectorNameAttribute.
  • Adding new API functions inside DynamicResolutionHandler to get mip bias. This allows dynamic resolution scaling applying a bias on the frame to improve on texture sampling detail.
  • Added a reminder if the data of probe volume might be obsolete.
  • Added new API function inside DynamicResolutionHandler and new settings in GlobalDynamicResolutionSettings to control low res transparency thresholds. This should help visuals when the screen percentage is too low.
  • Added common include file for meta pass functionality (case 1211436)
  • Added OverridablePropertyScope (for VolumeComponentEditor child class only) to handle the Additional Property, the override checkbox and disable display and decorator attributes in one scope.
  • Added IndentLevelScope (for VolumeComponentEditor child class only) to handle indentation of the field and the checkbox.
  • Added an option to change the visibilty of the Volumes Gizmos (Solid, Wireframe, Everything), available at Preferences > Core Render Pipeline
  • Added class for drawing shadow cascades UnityEditor.Rendering.ShadowCascadeGUI.DrawShadowCascades.
  • Added UNITY_PREV_MATRIX_M and UNITY_PREV_MATRIX_I_M shader macros to support instanced motion vector rendering
  • Added new API to customize the rtHandleProperties of a particular RTHandle. This is a temporary work around to assist with viewport setup of Custom post process when dealing with DLSS or TAAU
  • Added IAdditionalData interface to identify the additional datas on the core package.
  • Added new API to draw color temperature for Lights.

Fixed

  • Help boxes with fix buttons do not crop the label.
  • Fixed missing warning UI about Projector component being unsupported (case 1300327).
  • Fixed the display name of a Volume Parameter when is defined the attribute InspectorName
  • Calculating correct rtHandleScale by considering the possible pixel rounding when DRS is on
  • Problem on domain reload of Volume Parameter Ranges and UI values
  • Fixed Right Align of additional properties on Volume Components Editors
  • Fixed normal bias field of reference volume being wrong until the profile UI was displayed.
  • Fixed L2 for Probe Volumes.
  • When adding Overrides to the Volume Profile, only show Volume Components from the current Pipeline.
  • Fixed assertion on compression of L1 coefficients for Probe Volume.
  • Explicit half precision not working even when Unified Shader Precision Model is enabled.
  • Fixed ACES filter artefact due to half float error on some mobile platforms.
  • Fixed issue displaying a warning of different probe reference volume profiles even when they are equivalent.
  • Fixed missing increment/decrement controls from DebugUIIntField & DebugUIUIntField widget prefabs.
  • Fixed IES Importer related to new API on core.
  • Fixed a large, visible stretch ratio in a LensFlare Image thumbnail.
  • Fixed Undo from script refreshing thumbnail.
  • Fixed cropped thumbnail for Image with non-uniform scale and rotation
  • Skip wind calculations for Speed Tree 8 when wind vector is zero (case 1343002)
  • Fixed memory leak when changing SRP pipeline settings, and having the player in pause mode.
  • Fixed alignment in Volume Components
  • Virtual Texturing fallback texture sampling code correctly honors the enableGlobalMipBias when virtual texturing is disabled.
  • Fixed LightAnchor too much error message, became a HelpBox on the Inspector.
  • Fixed library function SurfaceGradientFromTriplanarProjection to match the mapping convention used in SampleUVMappingNormalInternal.hlsl and fix its description.
  • Fixed Volume Gizmo size when rescaling parent GameObject
  • Fixed rotation issue now all flare rotate on positive direction (1348570)
  • Fixed error when change Lens Flare Element Count followed by undo (1346894)
  • Fixed Lens Flare Thumbnails
  • Fixed Lens Flare 'radialScreenAttenuationCurve invisible'
  • Fixed Lens Flare rotation for Curve Distribution
  • Fixed potentially conflicting runtime Rendering Debugger UI command by adding an option to disable runtime UI altogether (1345783).
  • Fixed Lens Flare position for celestial at very far camera distances. It now locks correctly into the celestial position regardless of camera distance (1363291)
  • Fixed issues caused by automatically added EventSystem component, required to support Rendering Debugger Runtime UI input. (1361901)

Changed

  • Improved the warning messages for Volumes and their Colliders.
  • Changed Window/Render Pipeline/Render Pipeline Debug to Window/Analysis/Rendering Debugger
  • Changed Window/Render Pipeline/Look Dev to Window/Analysis/Look Dev
  • Changed Window/Render Pipeline/Render Graph Viewer to Window/Analysis/Render Graph Viewer
  • Changed Window/Render Pipeline/Graphics Compositor to Window/Rendering/Graphics Compositor
  • Volume Gizmo Color setting is now under Colors->Scene->Volume Gizmo
  • Volume Gizmo alpha changed from 0.5 to 0.125
  • Moved Edit/Render Pipeline/Generate Shader Includes to Edit/Rendering/Generate Shader Includes
  • Moved Assets/Create/LookDev/Environment Library to Assets/Create/Rendering/Environment Library (Look Dev)
  • Changed Nintendo Switch specific half float fixes in color conversion routines to all platforms.
  • Improved load asset time for probe volumes.
  • ClearFlag.Depth does not implicitely clear stencil anymore. ClearFlag.Stencil added.
  • The RTHandleSystem no longer requires a specific number of sample for MSAA textures. Number of samples can be chosen independently for all textures.
  • Platform ShaderLibrary API headers now have a new macro layer for 2d texture sampling macros. This layer starts with PLATFORM_SAMPLE2D definition, and it gives the possibility of injecting sampling behavior on a render pipeline level. For example: being able to a global mip bias for temporal upscalers.
  • Update icon for IES, LightAnchor and LensFlare
  • LensFlare (SRP) can be now disabled per element
  • LensFlare (SRP) tooltips now refer to meters.
  • Serialize the Probe Volume asset as binary to improve footprint on disk and loading speed.
  • LensFlare Element editor now have Thumbnail preview
  • Improved IntegrateLDCharlie() to use uniform stratified sampling for faster convergence towards the ground truth
  • DynamicResolutionHandler.GetScaledSize function now clamps, and never allows to return a size greater than its input.
  • Removed DYNAMIC_RESOLUTION snippet on lens flare common shader. Its not necessary any more on HDRP, which simplifies the shader.
  • Made occlusion Radius for lens flares in directional lights, be independant of the camera's far plane.

[11.0.0] - 2020-10-21

Fixed

  • Fixed the default background color for previews to use the original color.
  • Fixed spacing between property fields on the Volume Component Editors.
  • Fixed ALL/NONE to maintain the state on the Volume Component Editors.
  • Fixed the selection of the Additional properties from ALL/NONE when the option "Show additional properties" is disabled
  • Fixed ACES tonemaping for Nintendo Switch by forcing some shader color conversion functions to full float precision.
  • Fixed a bug in FreeCamera which would only provide a speed boost for the first frame when pressing the Shfit key.

Added

  • New View Lighting Tool, a component which allow to setup light in the camera space
  • New function in GeometryTools.hlsl to calculate triangle edge and full triangle culling.
  • Several utils functions to access SphericalHarmonicsL2 in a more verbose and intuitive fashion.

[10.2.0] - 2020-10-19

Version Updated The version number for this package has increased due to a version update of a related graphics package.

[10.1.0] - 2020-10-12

Added

  • Added context options "Move to Top", "Move to Bottom", "Expand All" and "Collapse All" for volume components.
  • Added the support of input system V2

Fixed

  • Fixed the scene view to scale correctly when hardware dynamic resolution is enabled (case 1158661)
  • Fixed game view artifacts on resizing when hardware dynamic resolution was enabled
  • Fixed issue that caused UNITY_REVERSED_Z and UNITY_UV_STARTS_AT_TOP being defined in platforms that don't support it.

Changed

  • LookDev menu item entry is now disabled if the current pipeline does not support it.

[10.0.0] - 2019-06-10

Added

  • Add rough version of ContextualMenuDispatcher to solve conflict amongst SRP.
  • Add api documentation for TextureCombiner.
  • Add tooltips in LookDev's toolbar.
  • Add XRGraphicsAutomatedTests helper class.

Fixed

  • Fixed compile errors for platforms with no VR support
  • Replaced reference to Lightweight Render Pipeline by Universal Render Pipeline in the package description
  • Fixed LighProbes when using LookDev.
  • Fix LookDev minimal window size.
  • Fix object rotation at instentiation to keep the one in prefab or used in hierarchy.
  • Fixed shader compile errors when trying to use tessellation shaders with PlayStation VR on PS4.
  • Fixed shader compile errors about LODDitheringTransition not being supported in GLES2.
  • Fix WaveIsFirstLane() to ignore helper lanes in fragment shaders on PS4.
  • Fixed a bug where Unity would crash if you tried to remove a Camera component from a GameObject using the Inspector window, while other components dependended on the Camera component.
  • Fixed errors due to the debug menu when enabling the new input system.
  • Fix LookDev FPS manipulation in view
  • Fix LookDev zoom being stuck when going near camera pivot position
  • Fix LookDev manipulation in view non responsive if directly using an HDRI
  • Fix LookDev behaviour when user delete the EnvironmentLibrary asset
  • Fix LookDev SunPosition button position
  • Fix LookDev EnvironmentLibrary tab when asset is deleted
  • Fix LookDev used Cubemap when asset is deleted
  • Fixed the definition of rcp() for GLES2.
  • Fixed copy/pasting of Volume Components when loading a new scene
  • Fix LookDev issue when adding a GameObject containing a Volume into the LookDev's view.
  • Fixed duplicated entry for com.unity.modules.xr in the runtime asmdef file
  • Fixed the texture curve being destroyed from another thread than main (case 1211754)
  • Fixed unreachable code in TextureXR.useTexArray
  • Fixed GC pressure caused by VolumeParameter<T>.GetHashCode()
  • Fixed issue when LookDev window is opened and the CoreRP Package is updated to a newer version.
  • Fix LookDev's camera button layout.
  • Fix LookDev's layout vanishing on domain reload.
  • Fixed issue with the shader TransformWorldToHClipDir function computing the wrong result.
  • Fixed division by zero in V_SmithJointGGX function.
  • Fixed null reference exception in LookDev when setting the SRP to one not implementing LookDev (case 1245086)
  • Fix LookDev's undo/redo on EnvironmentLibrary (case 1234725)
  • Fix a compil error on OpenGL ES2 in directional lightmap sampling shader code
  • Fix hierarchicalbox gizmo outside facing check in symetry or homothety mode no longer move the center
  • Fix artifacts on Adreno 630 GPUs when using ACES Tonemapping
  • Fixed a null ref in the volume component list when there is no volume components in the project.
  • Fixed issue with volume manager trying to access a null volume.
  • HLSL codegen will work with C# file using both the GenerateHLSL and C# 7 features.

Changed

  • Restored usage of ENABLE_VR to fix compilation errors on some platforms.
  • Only call SetDirty on an object when actually modifying it in SRP updater utility
  • Set depthSlice to -1 by default on SetRenderTarget() to clear all slices of Texture2DArray by default.
  • ResourceReloader will now add additional InvalidImport check while it cannot load due to AssetDatabase not available.
  • Replaced calls to deprecated PlayerSettings.virtualRealitySupported property.
  • Enable RWTexture2D, RWTexture2DArray, RWTexture3D in gles 3.1
  • Updated macros to be compatible with the new shader preprocessor.
  • Updated shaders to be compatible with Microsoft's DXC.
  • Changed CommandBufferPool.Get() to create an unnamed CommandBuffer. (No profiling markers)
  • Deprecating VolumeComponentDeprecad, using HideInInspector or Obsolete instead

[7.1.1] - 2019-09-05

Added

  • Add separated debug mode in LookDev.

Changed

  • Replaced usage of ENABLE_VR in XRGraphics.cs by a version define (ENABLE_VR_MODULE) based on the presence of the built-in VR module
  • ResourceReloader now works on non-public fields.
  • Removed normalize from UnpackNormalRGB to match UnpackNormalAG.
  • Fixed shadow routines compilation errors when "real" type is a typedef on "half".
  • Removed debug menu in non development build.

[7.0.1] - 2019-07-25

Fixed

  • Fixed a precision issue with the ACES tonemapper on mobile platforms.

[7.0.0] - 2019-07-17

Added

  • First experimental version of the LookDev. Works with all SRP. Only branched on HDRP at the moment.
  • LookDev out of experimental

[6.7.0-preview] - 2019-05-16

[6.6.0] - 2019-04-01

Fixed

  • Fixed compile errors in XRGraphics.cs when ENABLE_VR is not defined

[6.5.0] - 2019-03-07

[6.4.0] - 2019-02-21

Added

  • Enabled support for CBUFFER on OpenGL Core and OpenGL ES 3 backends.

[6.3.0] - 2019-02-18

[6.2.0] - 2019-02-15

[6.1.0] - 2019-02-13

[6.0.0] - 2019-02-23

Fixed

  • Fixed a typo in ERROR_ON_UNSUPPORTED_FUNCTION() that was causing the shader compiler to run out of memory in GLES2. Case 1104271

[5.2.0] - 2018-11-27

[5.1.0] - 2018-11-19

Added

  • Added a define for determining if any instancing path is taken.

Changed

  • The Core SRP package is no longer in preview.

[5.0.0-preview] - 2018-10-18

Changed

  • XRGraphicConfig has been changed from a read-write control of XRSettings to XRGraphics, a read-only accessor to XRSettings. This improves consistency of XR behavior between the legacy render pipeline and SRP.
  • XRGraphics members have been renamed to match XRSettings, and XRGraphics has been modified to only contain accessors potentially useful to SRP
  • You can now have up to 16 additional shadow-casting lights. ### Fixed
  • LWRP no longer executes shadow passes when there are no visible shadow casters in a Scene. Previously, this made the Scene render as too dark, overall.

[4.0.0-preview] - 2018-09-28

Added

  • Space transform functions are now defined in ShaderLibrary/SpaceTransforms.hlsl. ### Changed
  • Removed setting shader inclue path via old API, use package shader include paths

[3.3.0] - 2018-01-01

[3.2.0] - 2018-01-01

[3.1.0] - 2018-01-01

Added

  • Add PCSS shadow filter
  • Added Core EditMode tests
  • Added Core unsafe utilities

Improvements

  • Improved volume UI & styling
  • Fixed CoreUtils.QuickSort infinite loop when two elements in the list are equals.

Changed

  • Moved root files into folders for easier maintenance