Install URP (Universal Render Pipeline) Unity

I recently started a SciFi control room project in the Unity 3D game engine. You can check out my two previous articles to catch up. After building the initial room it was time to learn how to put this project onto the Unity URP.

Universal Render Pipeline Overview

The Universal Render Pipeline (URP) is a prebuilt Scriptable Render Pipeline, made by Unity. URP provides artist-friendly workflows that let you quickly and easily create optimized graphics across a range of platforms, from mobile to high-end consoles and PCs.

This is just a quick overview of how to simply start a project in Unity 3D URP

• Open Unity Hub
• Start new project

• Select 3D URP, name the project and select the Create Project Button

• Once the project is open then import the project file package into the Project/Assets or Project/Assets/Scenes if you just want to import the scene only.

• Get into your imported project's scene and double-click to open it
• From here you will notice your entire project looks like Pepto./pink.
• Fix the Pepto project by updating the project materials by Edit/Rendering/Materials/Convert (Make sure all materials are selected in the hierarchy in order for the conversion to be available and convert all of your materials).
• Select Convert Selected Build-in Materials to URP

I failed to take a screen of when my project was Pepto so I borrowed this one from an awesome and talented person named Ricardo Miranda.

This is an explanation of how to do this by creating a brand new project as opposed to updating your current. Here is a good article from Gabriel Perez that explains the way you can upgrade your current project. I prefer to start a new so I keep the original. You do you.

You can do this same process to start a project in HDRP (High Def Render Pipeline)

[1] Unity Universal Render Pipeline (URP)
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@10.10/manual/index.html

[2] Unity High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP)
https://unity.com/srp/High-Definition-Render-Pipeline

[3] How to Install the Universal Render Pipeline by Gabriel Perezhttps://sleepingdaemon.medium.com/how-to-install-the-universal-render-pipeline-f298a57a63ad

[4] How to Install the Universal Render Pipelinehttps://medium.com/@ricardoemiranda/how-to-install-the-universal-render-pipeline-bb31a61bfcf5