URP SetupRenderPasses is deprecated in Unity 6.2

What changed

Renderer features used SetupRenderPasses to configure passes once the camera targets were known. Unity 6.2 deprecated it: with render graph, a pass reads the camera's targets from the frame data when it records, so the separate setup step is no longer needed.

Move any configuration into AddRenderPasses, and read targets inside the pass's RecordRenderGraph from frameData instead of storing RTHandles on the feature.

Before and after

public override void SetupRenderPasses(ScriptableRenderer renderer, in RenderingData data)
{
    pass.Setup(renderer.cameraColorTargetHandle);
}

public override void AddRenderPasses(ScriptableRenderer renderer, ref RenderingData data)
{
    renderer.EnqueuePass(pass); // the pass reads the camera color from frameData itself
}

Questions

Does SetupRenderPasses still run in 6.2?

It is deprecated, so it still compiles with a warning. Move the work now: the deprecation is the step before removal, and render graph passes do not need the setup step anyway.

Where do I get the camera's color target inside a pass?

In RecordRenderGraph, read it from the frame data: var resources = frameData.Get<UniversalResourceData>(); then use resources.activeColorTexture. You get a TextureHandle the render graph tracks for you.

Sources

• Unity Manual: Upgrade to Unity 6.2

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