I'm sorry if this has been answered elsewhere but I'm scratching my head for how to get the spine shader to receive shadows.
Basically I have a 2d character in a 3d environment. Casting shadows works well but - as mentioned- can' figure out how to receive shadows. I'm fairly new to Unity so apologies if there's an obvious answer.

I should probably mentioned the problem exists in both normal and universal render pipeline.

Thanks!

Hi Harald, I'm afraid that hasn't worked - now the character is all pink?! I can't tell where the problem is. I'm using the universal render pipeline, and updating the material doesn't help. Any ideas?

I downloaded the latest URP Shaders UPM package from spine FYI

p.s.
"You can check out the Spine Examples/Other Examples/Sprite Shaders"
Also all pink and Unity can't update material (There's no upgraded to convert .... to selected pipeline).

Is there some additional step need to get Spine and URP to work?

Thanks Harald for trying to help me with this.
Unfortunately, I still can't seem to get it to look good.
I went through all the option in the various list for URP/Spine/2d/Sprite and then all the setting for each and the best I can get is this. (see image)
I expected it to look like a 2d plane being hit with a basic shadow (i.e. if I stand with the bottom half of the character in shadow, I would expect to see the top half in light) but instead, I get this overall black blurry effect on the character - even standing in the middle of an open room (no roof). When moving into shadow it slowly (delayed) darkens the character and then when moving back into the light it never really comes back to the original lighter state.

I don't know - I thought it would be a fairly straight forward thing to do from a user point of view. Am I missing some basic step?
Is there something that needs doing to the light (just a directional light at the moment).

(after taking that 1st screen grab) I started playing around with shadow cascades and any other shadow settings I can find but it doesn't seem to help much on the character itself. (in case it's relevant I built the scene in 'real' size e.g. 1m is 1unity unit).
If anything, it seems to be making it worse (the shadow on the ground look better but character goes fully dark when wandering in the direction of shadows on the left of screen).

*Also blend modes seem to no longer work (I had a blend mode ('add' off the top of my head) asset on here body now seems to be treated as no blend)

Thanks again for your help!

Hi Harald,

Why are you using URP/Spine/2d/Sprite shaders?

Just so we're on the same page - what I meant if that I selected, 1 by 1, every shader option that seemed remotely likely under each tree.
e.g. Shader>Spine> Blend Modes / Special / Sprite / Skeleton / Skeleton Fill...
Then Shader>Universal Pipeline> 2d / spine / lit / simple lit / unlit....
Shader>Sprite>....
And then tried changing relevant settings.

What Render Pipeline Asset do you have assigned (Quality settings)?

I'll do my best to answer this one as I haven't got my head around this.
Currently as far as I'm aware - none.
I switched to URP because I couldn't get shadows to work and, supposedly, URP is better + the makers of unity want everyone to use it, right? Plus you can add post effects, which might be nice later. I haven't added any effects yet.
I went to the universalRenderPipelineAsset and set cascades and set the shadow resolution higher. The shadows have improved but how they interact with spine has gotten worse. I only have 1 directional light in the scene no change to settings (soft shadows).

Most likely you want to use the 3D URP shaders, not the 2D URP shaders.

Not 100% sure how to tell from the drop downs if it's 3D or not but as mentioned -feel like I've tried them all.
as you can see from previous post URP/Spine/Sprite/Lit universal is what I'm currently using.

Regarding additive blend mode:
Did you assign the blend mode materials via the SkeletonDataModifier as described here?
No I did not - as you can see in the below, she has a shine on her hip - it's just 1 glowy blob to make her hips look like they swing back and forth a bit more with animation. I works in Shader>Spine/Skeleton and some others.
It's not really a priority considering I can't get shadows to cast on the character so I'm not going to dig into this now.

Would it just be easier to untangle from URP (not 100% sure how to turn it off - unfortunately I work16hr shifts at the moment so have limited time to work on my game )

Again I really appreciate your time! Thanks,

Well done Harald!!

FYI for anyone who reads this in my case Skeleton Mecanim (Script) > Advanced > Add Normals.

Works perfectly!

(Fixed normals on or off didn't have an effect so left it off).

Thanks!