My game is having annoying freezes from shaders loading in runtime when they are rendered for the first time. Is there a proper way of handling this, like prepairing all shaders during scene\game load?

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Thank you, this is indeed a good way!

Handling shader loading

Unity Engine

aleksandrk August 5, 2025, 7:39am 2

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Handling shader loading

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