Unable to open shader graph editor

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Hello everyone,

I am trying to follow the ShaderGraph tutorial on Learn but I get stuck almost immediately. I create the unlit graph, but when I double click on the shader it opens it with Visual Studio Code instead of the graph editor. It seems like it sees the shader file as a script and tries to edit its text.
Is there any setting (or package) I am missing to have the graph editor open up as expected? I am using Unity 2019.4.

Thank you in advance

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Ok, apparently this question was deemed too stupid to be answered here. In case anyone gets confused and stumbles upon the same issue, the reason why it wasn’t working is that I created a shader instead of an unlit graph.

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Thanks Man, I just ran into the same issue. Seems the information I have is out of date as well.

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Also helped me, thanks

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i too would like to thank you for asking this question, and solving it…

i’m a huge moron & will circle a drain endlessly…

…i learn something like the tiniest thing in a tutorial and i’m off on my own for the next six hours messing everything up

i have both infine amounts of patience and none what so ever

i wish there was a real time tutorial for people like me–like im sitting with someone who knows what they’re doing and i say, i wanna make this or that–how

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Not a stupid question at all, I’m new to Unity too and I’m running into the same thing. The thing that is getting me, is that the tutorial I am following is doing the same thing… Create → Shader → Unlit shader, and somehow gets to shader graph??

How does one create an unlit graph? as opposed to an unlit shader?

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Ok so there is one in the URP

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I have joined you in being an idiot. You have saved me from myself. Thank you.

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