New architecture: Shader-first design

• 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
• Effect materials will be generated on demand
  • Material repository generates a material from shader and variant parameters
  • 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
  • Change shader_feat to multi_compile in shader
• Runtime adding effect component will be supported
• Easy to use effect for TextMeshPro
  • No pre-generated materials are required

[mob-sakai]

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

[mob-sakai]

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