TableOfContents.md

• HDRP Package

  • What's new
    • What's new in HDRP 17
    • What's new in HDRP 16
    • What's new in HDRP 15
    • What's new in HDRP 14
    • What's new in HDRP 13
    • What's new in HDRP 12
    • What's new in HDRP 11
    • What's new in HDRP 10
  • Features List
  • Comparison with the Built-in Render Pipeline

• Install and upgrade

  • Install HDRP
  • System requirements
  • High Definition Render Pipeline Wizard
  • Upgrade guides
    • Material Upgrade
    • Upgrade from HDRP 16.x to 17.x
    • Upgrade from HDRP 15.x to 16.x
    • Upgrade from HDRP 14.x to 15.x
    • Upgrade from HDRP 13.x to 14.x
    • Upgrade from HDRP 12.x to 13.x
    • Upgrade from HDRP 11.x to 12.x
    • Upgrade from HDRP 10.x to 11.x
    • Upgrade from HDRP 8.x to 10.x
    • Upgrade from HDRP 7.x to 8.x
    • Upgrade from HDRP 6.x to 7.x
    • Upgrade from HDRP 5.x to 6.x
  • Install HDRP samples
    • Install sample assets
    • Install sample projects

• Getting started in HDRP

  • Project setup
    • Configure build and project settings
      • Configure a project using the HDRP Wizard
      • Configure a project using the HDRP Config package
      • Configure build settings for different platforms
      • Quality settings
      • Frame Settings
      • Expose all additional properties
    • Create an HDRP asset
  • Scene setup
    • Understand Volumes
    • Set up a Volume
    • Create a Volume Profile
    • Configure Volume Overrides

• Convert a project from the Built-in Render Pipeline

  • Convert post-processing scripts
  • Convert lighting and shadows
  • Convert materials and shaders
  • Convert project with HDRP wizard

• Lighting

  • Understand physical light units
  • Light sources
    • Create and configure light sources
    • Create and edit lights at runtime
    • Understand IES light profiles
    • Anchor a light source
    • View and control a light from its perspective
    • Use light rendering layers
  • Ambient lighting
    • Create environment lighting
    • Ambient occlusion
    • Ambient light probe
    • Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO)
  • Control exposure
  • Shadows
    • Use the shadows volume component override
    • Visualize and adjust shadows
    • Control shadow resolution and quality
    • Realtime shadows
      • Set a shadow update mode
      • Use shadowmasks
      • Use ray-Traced shadows
    • Additional shadow detail
      • Use contact shadows
      • Use micro shadows
  • Adaptive Probe Volumes
    • Understanding Adaptive Probe Volumes
    • Use Adaptive Probe Volumes
    • Display Adaptive Probe Volumes
    • Configure the size and density of Adaptive Probe Volumes
    • Bake multiple scenes together with Baking Sets
    • Changing lighting at runtime
      • Choose how to change lighting at runtime
      • Bake different lighting setups with Lighting Scenarios
      • Update light from the sky at runtime with sky occlusion
    • Optimize loading Adaptive Probe Volume data
    • Fix issues with Adaptive Probe Volumes
    • Adaptive Probe Volume Inspector window reference
    • Adaptive Probe Volumes panel reference
    • Adaptive Probe Volumes Options Override reference
    • Probe Adjustment Volume component reference
    • Override the Adaptive Probe Volumes baking backend
  • Ray tracing
    • Set up ray tracing
    • Implement ray tracing with shader graph
    • Ray Tracing and animations
    • Ray-traced effects
      • Ray-Traced Ambient Occlusion
      • Ray-Traced Contact Shadows
      • Ray-Traced Global Illumination
      • Ray-Traced Reflections
      • Calculate light bounces for ray-traced effects
      • Use the recursive rendering volume override
      • Ray-Traced Subsurface Scattering
    • Path tracing
      • Understand path tracing
      • Set up path tracing
      • Path tracing limitations
    • Ray Tracing Settings
    • Ray tracing hardware requirements
    • Troubleshoot ray tracing issues
  • Volumetric lighting
    • Enable and configure volumtetric lights
    • Screen space lens flare
  • Test and debug lighting
    • Debug exposure
    • Debug Ray-Traced Effects
  • Global illumination
    • Screen space global illumination (SSGI)
    • Control indirect lighting
  • Reflection and refraction
    • Understand reflection in HDRP
    • Reflection probes
      • Understand reflection Probes
      • Calculate accurate reflection and refraction
    • Use Screen space refraction
    • Use screen space reflection

• Materials and surfaces

  • Transparent and translucent materials
    • Understand refraction
    • Create a refractive material
    • Refraction models
    • How HDRP calculates color for reflection and refraction
    • Compute Thickness
  • Skin and diffusive surfaces (subsurface scattering)
  • Hair and fur
    • Understand hair and fur
    • Create a hair and fur material
    • High quality line rendering
      • Understand high quality line rendering
      • Use high quality line rendering
  • Eyes
    • Understand eyes
    • Create an eye material
  • Fabrics
    • Understand fabrics
    • Create a fabric material
  • Decals
    • Understand decals
    • Create a decal material
    • Use decals
    • Create decals at runtime
  • Lit materials
    • Lit material
    • Layered Lit material
    • Lit Tessellation material
    • Layered Lit Tessellation material
    • Stacklit material
    • Terrain Lit material
  • Unlit material
  • Fullscreen material
    • Understand Fullscreen Materials
    • Create a Fullscreen Material
  • Canvas material
  • Fog Volume
  • Customize shaders and materials
    • Shader Graph in HDRP
      • Understand Shader Graph in HDRP
      • Use Shader Graph to create HDRP shaders
      • HDRP Shader Graph Nodes reference
    • Create variants of materials
    • Reduce shader variants
    • Custom material inspectors
  • Understand renderer and material priority
  • Modify materials at runtime
  • Test and debug materials
    • Debug materials and shaders (MatCap mode)
    • Test and debug materials in different lighting conditions (Look Dev)

• Environmental effects

  • Sky
    • Understand sky
    • Set the type of sky
    • Create a gradient sky
    • Create an HDRI sky
    • Create a physically based sky
    • Create a custom sky effect
  • Clouds
    • Understand clouds
    • Create realistic clouds (volumetric clouds)
    • Create simple clouds (Cloud Layer)
    • Create custom cloud effects
  • Fog
    • Understand fog
    • Create a global fog effect
    • Create a local fog effect
    • Create a Fog Volume shader
    • Volumetric fog samples
    • Set up a volumetric sample scene
    • Troubleshoot fog
  • Water
    • Use the water system in your Project
    • Capabilities of the water system
    • Water system simulation
    • Quality and performance decisions
    • Water Override for Volumes
    • Water surface fluctuations
      • Enable mask and water decals
      • Configure swell, agitation, or ripples
      • Simulating currents with water decals
      • Simulating ripples with masks
    • Decals and masking in the water system
    • Foam in the Water System
      • Introduction to foam
      • Create wind-driven foam on the whole water surface
      • Create local foam in the wake of a GameObject
      • Add foam with a script
    • Caustics in the Water System
    • Create a current in the Water System
    • Deform a water surface
    • Exclude part of a water surface
    • Underwater view
    • Materials in the Water System
    • Scripting in the Water System
      • Float objects on a water surface
      • Align objects to the water surface using normals
      • Add caustics
      • Synchronize water surfaces
    • Debug in the Water System
    • Environment limitations

• Camera and scene composition

  • Graphics Compositor
    • Understand the Graphics Compositor
    • Use the Graphics Compositor
  • Camera-relative rendering

• Platform configuration

  • Virtual Reality in HDRP

• User interfaces

  • Best practices for UI in HDRP

• Build, test and deploy

  • Use the Rendering Debugger
  • Add controls to the Rendering Debugger

• Rendering and post-processing

  • Understand execution order
  • Understand post-processing
  • Anti-aliasing
  • Dynamic resolution
  • Forward and deferred rendering for lighting
  • Alpha channel configuration
  • Deep learning super sampling (DLSS)
  • Spatial-Temporal Post-processing
    • Spatial-Temporal Post-processing debug views
  • Color grading
    • High Dynamic Range (HDR) and tonemapping
    • Lookup textures (LUTs)
      • Understand LUTs
      • Create an LUT in Adobe Photoshop
      • Create an LUT in DaVinci Resolve
    • Color volume effects
      • Channel Mixer
      • Color Adjustments
      • Color Curves
      • Lift, Gamma, Gain
      • Shadows, Midtones, Highlights
      • Split Toning
      • Tonemapping
      • White Balance
  • Camera and lens effects
    • Bloom
    • Chromatic Aberration
    • Depth of Field
    • Film Grain
    • Lens Distortion
    • Lens flares
      • Choose a lens flare type
      • Add lens flares
      • Add screen space lens flares
      • Lens Flare (SRP) reference
      • Lens Flare (SRP) Data Asset reference
      • Screen Space Lens Flare override reference
    • Panini Projection
    • Vignette
  • Motion effects
    • Motion Blur
    • Motion vectors
    • Multiframe rendering
      • Understand multiframe rendering and accumulation
      • Use the multiframe rendering API
      • Combine animation sequences in script
  • Runtime effects
    • Modify volume effects at runtime
    • Modify frame settings at runtime
  • Custom rendering effects
    • Custom post-processing effects
      • Understand Custom post-processing
      • Create and apply a custom post-processing effect
      • Use custom post-processing example scripts
      • Use a full-screen shader with a custom post-processing volume
      • Use custom post-processing with dynamic resolution and DLSS
    • Custom pass
      • Understand custom passes
      • Understand custom pass volumes
      • Understand custom Pass buffers and pyramids
      • Create a custom pass
        • Create a custom Pass GameObject
        • Create a custom Pass in a C# script
      • Understand custom pass variables
      • Manage a custom pass without a GameObject
      • Injection points
  • Customize the High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP)
  • Test and debug rendering and post-processing * Troubleshoot a custom pass * View a custom pass in the Frame Debugger * Troubleshoot a custom post-processing effect * Understand and fix Not a Number (NAN) and Infinite (Inf) values * Known issues
  • Stencil Buffer Usage

• Optimization

  • Optimizing draw calls
    • Scriptable Render Pipeline Batcher
      • Introduction to the SRP Batcher
      • Check whether a GameObject is compatible with the SRP Batcher
      • Enable the SRP Batcher
      • Troubleshoot the SRP Batcher
      • Remove SRP Batcher compatibility for GameObjects
    • BatchRendererGroup
      • How BatchRendererGroup works
      • Set up your project for BatchRendererGroup
      • Creating a renderer with BatchRendererGroup
        • Initializing a BatchRendererGroup object
        • Registering meshes and materials
        • Creating batches
        • Creating draw commands
      • Writing custom shaders for the BatchRendererGroup
        • DOTS Instancing shaders
        • Support DOTS Instancing in a custom shader
        • Declare DOTS Instancing properties in a custom shader
        • Access DOTS Instancing properties in a custom shader
        • Best practice for DOTS Instancing shaders
        • DOTS Instancing shader samples
          • Example of a DOTS Instancing shader that accesses per-instance data
          • Example of a DOTS Instancing shader that accesses constant data
          • Example of using UNITY_DOTS_INSTANCED_PROP macros in a DOTS Instancing shader
        • Macros reference
        • Shader functions reference
  • Reduce rendering work on the CPU
    • Use the GPU Resident Drawer
    • Make a GameObject compatible with the GPU Resident Drawer
    • Use GPU occlusion culling

• Reference

  • Menu Items
  • HDRP Asset reference
  • HDRP Wizard reference
  • Volume component reference
  • Frame Settings reference
  • HDRP graphics settings window reference
  • Lighting reference
    • Light component reference
    • Lighting environment reference
    • Ambient Occlusion reference
    • IES Importer reference
    • Lens flares reference
      • Lens Flare (SRP) reference
      • Lens Flare (SRP) Data Asset reference
      • Screen Space Lens Flare override reference
    • Volumetric lighting reference
      • Screen Space Global Illumination
      • Screen Space Lens Flare
      • Screen Space Reflection
      • Indirect lighting controller reference
    • Exposure volume override reference
    • Shadows volume override reference
    • Contact shadows override reference
    • Reflection probe reference
    • Planar Reflection Probe reference
    • Ray tracing reference
      • Path tracing reference
      • Recursive rendering override reference
      • Ray Tracing Settings reference
  • Materials and surfaces reference
    • Shader materials reference
      • HDRP material reference
        • Alpha Clipping reference
        • Ambient Occlusion reference
        • Displacement Mode reference
        • Double Sided reference
        • Geometric Specular Anti-aliasing reference
        • Mask Map and Detail Map reference
        • Material Type reference
        • Tessellation reference
        • Surface Type reference
      • Skin and diffusive surfaces reference
        • Diffusion Profile reference
        • Diffusion Profile List
      • Hair Material Inspector reference
      • High quality line rendering reference
        • High Quality Line Rendering Volume Override reference
        • Mesh Renderer Extension reference
      • Eye Material Inspector reference
      • Fabric material reference
        • Cotton/Wool Material Inspector reference
        • Silk Material Inspector reference
      • Decal material reference
        • Decal Projector reference
        • Decal Material Inspector reference
      • Lit material reference
        • Lit Material Inspector reference
        • Layered Lit Material Inspector reference
        • Lit Tessellation Material Inspector reference
        • Layered Lit Tessellation Material Inspector reference
        • Terrain Lit Material Inspector reference
      • Unlit Material Inspector reference
      • Autodesk materials
        • 3DS Max Physical Material Inspector reference
        • ArnoldStandardSurface reference
        • Autodesk Interactive reference
          • Autodesk Interactive Shader
          • Autodesk Interactive Masked Shader
          • Autodesk Interactive Transparent Shader
        • AxF Shader reference
    • Shader Graph materials reference
      • Vertex context reference
      • Fragment context reference
      • Hair Master Stack reference
      • Eye Master Stack reference
      • Fabric Master Stack reference
      • Decal Master Stack reference
      • Lit Master Stack reference
      • Unlit Master Stack reference
      • Fullscreen Master Stack reference
      • StackLit Master Stack reference
      • Canvas Master Stack reference
      • Fog Volume Master Stack reference
      • Water Master Stack reference
  • Environmental effects reference
    • Sky reference
      • Gradient Sky Volume Override reference
      • HDRI Sky Volume Override reference
      • Physically Based Sky Volume Override reference
      • Visual Environment Volume Override reference
    • Clouds reference
      • Volumetric Clouds Volume Override reference
    • Fog reference
      • Fog Volume Override reference
      • Local Volumetric Fog Volume reference
    • Settings and properties related to the water system
  • Camera and scene composition reference
    • HDRP camera component reference
    • HDRP Scene view camera settings reference
    • Graphics Compositor window reference
  • Build, test, and deploy reference
    • Rendering Debugger window reference
  • Rendering and post-processing reference * Dynamic Resolution component reference * High Dynamic Range (HDR) tonemapping reference * Custom Pass reference
  • HDRP Glossary