Question Apply shader after editor compiled

Hello,

I need to make a script that waits until EditorApplication.isCompiling and EditorApplication.isUpdating are both false, so everything is refreshed and ready to go, and then applys a shader. I BELIEVE what I am supposed to use is a coroutine with an IEnumerable, but I wouldnt know how to go about this. I'm fairly new to c# in the regard of coroutines. If someone can point me in the right direction, and/or solve my problem of applying a shader to a material RIGHT AFTER importing the shader, then that would be great. The problem is that since the shader is "new" to the project, it takes a while for unityeditor to realize theres a shader, so it fails to find the shader using Shader.Find and therefore doesnt do anything.

 

Yeah, using a coroutine for that would probably work. What do you have so far?

Here's some pseudocode of what I imagine it'd look like for starters.

Code (CSharp):

1. IEnumerator WaitForShader()
2. {
3.     while (EditorApplication.isCompiling || EditorApplication.isUpdating)
4.         yield return new WaitForSeconds(1);
5.    
6.     // do your thing here
7. }

 

I don't really know where to go from there to be honest.
This is basically what I have so far:

Code (CSharp):

1. using System;
2. using UnityEngine;
3. using UnityEditor;
4.  
5. public class TestClass : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7. private static IEnumerator coroutine;
8. [MenuItem("applyShader"), false, 1]
9. private static void applyShader(){
10.    Material temp = (Material)AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath(someMaterial, typeof(Material));
11.    coroutine = WaitForShader(temp);
12.    StartCoroutine(coroutine);[/INDENT]
13. }
14. private static IEnumerator WaitForShader(Material temp)
15.     {
16.         while (EditorApplication.isCompiling || EditorApplication.isUpdating)
17.             yield return new WaitForSeconds(1);
18.         temp.shader = Shader.Find("test/newshader");
19.     }[/INDENT]
20. }

Does this look okay to you? The problem I'm getting is that it's telling me that I cannot have a static IEnumerator or something. I'm not sure how else to accomplish it.

 

Well, unfortunately this doesn't work, so if I can get some help, that'd be wonderful <3

 

maybe this code has ideas,
since that plugin plays music while unity is compiling and then stops (but its few years old now)
https://github.com/merpheus-dev/Uni...32.elevatorcompiler/Editor/CompileListener.cs

 

That's quite a bit old, yeah. However, this listens for the compiling and does something while it is compiling, but i need to apply a shader to a material after EditorApplication.isCompiling() and isUpdating() are both false... as well as I need to run this type of coroutine in a static method, so im not exactly sure how to go about this.

 

Well, coroutines need additional package in the editor.

On the other hand you can try this callback:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Compilation.CompilationPipeline-compilationFinished.html