New architecture: Shader-first design

[mob-sakai]

• [ ] IMPORTNANT CHANGES
  • [ ] UIEffect will no longer support Unity 2018.1 or earlier
  • [ ] To use IPreprocessShaders API
  • [ ] TextMeshPro is provided by package manager
  • [ ] In the future, UIEffect will only support Unity2018.3 or later
  • [ ] To integrate with package manager
• [x] Effect materials will be generated on demand
  • [x] Material repository generates a material from shader and variant parameters
  • [x] Effect component refers shader variant parameters, not a material
• [ ] Strip shader variants switch config https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/05/14/stripping-scriptable-shader-variants/
  • [ ] Remove unnecessary shader variants on preprocess
  • [ ] This API has been added in Unity 2018.2
  • [x] Change shader_feat to multi_compile in shader
• [x] Runtime adding effect component will be supported
• [x] Easy to use effect for TextMeshPro
  • [x] No pre-generated materials are required

[buihuuloc]

OMG, It looks promising. Do you have the ETA?

[mob-sakai]

Hi @buihuuloc No, but alpha (experimental) version will be released later this month. 👍

[buihuuloc]

Is there a way to upgrade from v3 to v4?

[mob-sakai]

Yes, automatically.

[buihuuloc]

Awesome!!!

[NilokiloxD]

Will this also include a fix for the blur shader being completly black in gles3 and vulkan for some devices? Would be awesome!

[mob-sakai]

@NilokiloxD I am trying to fix it but it is still broken... X( In near future, I will separate UIEffectCapturedImage into another project to fix.

[buihuuloc]

Hey @mob-sakai Would you mind to update us about the status?

[mob-sakai]

Hi @buihuuloc Alpha version is under development in develop_v4 branch. First alpha version (4.0.0-alpha1) will be released at the end of this month.

[mob-sakai]

Roadmap for v4.0.0 #185

[buihuuloc]

Awesome!

[mob-sakai]

I'm sorry. The release of the alpha version is delayed.