Focusing on Shaders

[dnach]

Hi everybody,

A first experimental public demo for Block Shaders is now available for you to try and we’re eager to hear your feedback. Block Shaders are our replacement for SRP-compatible Surface Shaders, and aim to eventually unify shader authoring across render pipelines

Please see the official announcement for Block Shaders, a new streamlined workflow for authoring text based shaders:

Block Shaders: Surface Shaders for SRPs and more (Public Demo Now Available!)

Greetings from the Shader team! We heard your feedback regarding the need for SRP compatible surface shaders, as well as a better way to integrate with Unity’s Shader system, and have been hard at work to provide a meaningful solution which we are now happy to announce in the form of Block Shaders. Block Shaders introduce a streamlined and modular text-based shader authoring workflow, and allow to override and extend the functionality of existing shaders, without the complexity of modifying th…

Block Shaders are enabled by Shader Foundry, a new C# API and intermediate representation of shaders, that allows to integrate more meaningfully with Unity’s shader system. We will share more information on Shader Foundry as we move forward.

We will be locking this thread, and hope to continue discussion in the announcement thread, which also includes a new public demo for everyone to try!