Worse, if you’re modifying something inside of an #if X_Y section inside the shader, you may get partially through a recompile before hitting a permutation that doesn’t compile. This can do terrible things to iteration time as you’ll need to re-compile everything and wait 10 minutes to see if your change worked. This is also true for modifying the Renderer modules C++ code. This means that these shaders are not actually part of the material, so modifying that material won’t cause them to reload.Īdditionally, once you do change one of these global shaders and restart, Unreal is going to re-compile every shader that used that file, so if you edit a common one you’re looking at a near full recompile which is ~125 shaders/~10,000 permutations for an empty project.
Because Unreal uses a deferred renderer, some shaders are global (such as the pass that samples the GBuffer and calculates a final color). Unfortunately there’s an issue with this: It only re-loads shaders related to the material itself. We’re all familiar with this p rocess as it happens every time we use the Material Editor in Unreal. Unreal then turns your Material Graph into HLSL code and then starts building each permutation of the shader. ush/.usf files that are used by that Shader and re-load them. When a Material is modified Unreal will look for the. (If you haven’t read Part 4 in this series, it is available here)Īs we’ve covered before Unreal will compile multiple permutations of a given shader/material to handle different usage cases.
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