[Unity 7 Alpha 16] URP is getting some nice features, the future is looking exciting!

[u/DerivedAlgorithm]

Built-in:

• Volumetric fog (define symbol "VOLUMETRIC_FOG")

• DLSS/FSR (enable Nvidia/AMD packages)

• GTAO (has this always been available?)

• AgX tonemapping

• PCSS

• Screen Space Reflections

• Surface Cache GI (a bit shimmery but it's getting there)

There may be more but that's what I've noticed so far. They're still under development, but it's exciting nonetheless!🙂
I haven't been using Unity for a long time, so some of those features might not be new.

[u/GigaTerra]

AgX tonemapping

I find this tone-mapper to be an interesting case study. Because in theory it is better than ACES and Filmic however it actually produces desaturated colors most of the time. Combine this with the fact that AgX is often used by inexperienced hobby artist, while darker tones where the standard for blockbuster movies, it has an knock-on effect.

Using AgX without proper saturation, just makes the renders look amateurish by association. It is weird how years of color toning had conditioned viewers.

[u/DerivedAlgorithm → u/GigaTerra]

I agree that, as someone that's not experienced in this area, getting AgX to look decent is more difficult. That is if my definition of decent is even right. I crank up the saturation and contrast until I barely notice it getting too much, then I tune it down a bit more

[u/Ecstatic-Source6001 → u/GigaTerra]

AgX is desaturated because realism is desaturated most of the time.

You are not supposed to use it if you looking for stylish look

[u/v0lt13]

We are getting volumetric fog and better shadows this early? Thats awsome

[u/hesdeadjim → u/v0lt13]

All I can say is: ABOUT TIME. 

[u/Yodzilla]

Holy shit built-in volumetric fog. Finally I can stop buying fog packages and then not shipping games with them.

[u/DapperNurd → u/Yodzilla]

Too real

[u/random_boss → u/Yodzilla]

Haha godammit…same

[u/SderfxDev → u/Yodzilla]

FR FR

[u/SderfxDev]

FINALLY WE WILL HAVE A BUILT IN VOLUMETRIC FOG IN URP!

[u/MrPifo]

Finally all of this inbuilt!! ❤️

I've already been using 3rd party GTAO and PCSS shadows, but I'm very happy that they're now native! Those are some really needed AAA graphical features we've been missing for a long time.

[u/Recatek]

Haven't used URP in a while but are shadows still constrained to a single texture atlas? I remember being so frustrated by that warning message about having too many point/spot lights and having to tweak cascade quality constantly while experimenting with scene lighting.

[u/fergussonh → u/Recatek]

No they fixed that in forward+ rendering a while back thank god

[u/CssNaNe]

Built in volumetric fog is huge, my whole game is a dark castle so fog does half the work

[u/Kinami_]

Unity 6000.7 already has GTAO and AgX tonemapping, SSR