Question Converting shader graphs to editable, usable shader code?

I'm trying to make a gradient-lighting/banded-lighting shader that actually uses per-pixel lighting to determine which "band" of illumination to fall into (pretty much just cel shading). I have old shader code from another engine that simply rounds the illumination value to the nearest band, but obviously this is only doable directly in the shader after the lighting is calculated.

Is there a way I can compile my shader graph to a usable, editable shader of some kind?

 

Thanks, I'll try this

 

sorry to drag up an old threat, but is it possible to do this in reverse? I.e. import shader code into shader graph?

 

No, unfortunately not (unless a 3rd party plugin exists that I'm unaware of). However, if parts of you shader are hard/annoying to replicate in shader graph, you could consider putting parts of it in custom function nodes.

 

How do we do this in Unity 2021? The master node has been replaced by the master stack which doesn't have the same right click options. I selected the shader in the project panel and clicked on "View Generated Shader" in the inspector but the generated code has errors.

Thanks

 

I copied generated shader into another project and it fails to compile. Is there any workaround?
I need to create a simple shader for Unity 2019 where Shader Graph package is very old.

 

What worked for me in Unity 2020.3.14f1 and URP 10.5.1:



Then copy the generated code to a blank .shader file, so your changes don't get overwritten by subsequent code generation.

This didn't create any errors for me. It also allowed me to insert a custom pass with custom inspector-exposed properties.

 

Hi, I am reviving this topic cause I have a question.

I am making a tool for unity and I would like to use shaders. I have made a shader graph of course, it needs ShaderGraph package to work. If someone install my package, does it mean the user has to install the package to use the tool of the shader is written normally in a shader file?

 

One thing to remember, you still need shader graph installed to use the generated shader. Otherwise it creates errors.