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Caching of Shader Variants not working in 2021

Discussion in 'Universal Render Pipeline' started by unnanego, May 2, 2022.

  1. unnanego

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    I know there's this forum post, but none of the suggestions work from there. I have two relatively small projects with less than 30 shaders each, but on 2021 every build takes A LOT of time - every build it's compiling millions or even billions of shader variants (if M stands for million) - adding a shader variants file, choosing any type of shader stripping, disabling optimize mesh - nothing has an effect.
    Please, help, this makes it impossible to switch to 2021. The very same projects on 2020 build in a minute.
     
    unnanego, May 2, 2022
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  2. aleksandrk

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    Hi! There's also this form post.
    TLDR; it's a known issue; it's not compilation that takes time, but preparing variants for compilation. We're working on a solution.
     
    aleksandrk, May 3, 2022
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  3. dnach

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    dnach, Jul 12, 2022
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  4. AlonMixed

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    AlonMixed, Jul 12, 2022
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  5. aleksandrk

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    aleksandrk, Jul 12, 2022
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  6. unnanego

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    It doesn't say when they are coming. We are waiting for the looooong build times already now!
     
    unnanego, Jul 12, 2022
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