TextMesh Pro Couldn't open include file 'TMPro_Properties.cginc??? Why not?

Second post as I thought I had it solved, but I do not. As the title states, I was getting the error at the bottom when I go to build for the Android based Oculus Quest.

I am on Untiy version 2021.1.15f1
TexMesh Pro version: 3.06
OpenXR version: 1.2.3
Building to Vulkan

Steps that got me here. I wanted to clean up my project so I exported all scenes as a package and imported into a new project. All went well until I went to build to the Oculus Quest and got the error below. I did a search and followed a few tips such as reimporting the TMP Essentials and Examples all to now avail. I uninstalled it and reinstalled, plus deleted and recreated my library. I then played eith the shader for the font I am using thought I had it working, but alas I do not.

I am stumped and need someone who knows more about Text Mesh Pro than I do. Thanks for your help.


Error:
Shader error in 'TextMeshPro/Mobile/Distance Field Overlay': Couldn't open include file 'TMPro_Properties.cginc'. at line 93
Compiling Vertex program with STEREO_MULTIVIEW_ON UNITY_UI_CLIP_RECT
Platform defines: UNITY_NO_DXT5nm UNITY_NO_RGBM UNITY_ENABLE_REFLECTION_BUFFERS UNITY_NO_CUBEMAP_ARRAY UNITY_NO_SCREENSPACE_SHADOWS UNITY_PBS_USE_BRDF3 UNITY_NO_FULL_STANDARD_SHADER SHADER_API_MOBILE UNITY_LIGHTMAP_DLDR_ENCODING
Disabled keywords: OUTLINE_ON UNDERLAY_ON UNDERLAY_INNER UNITY_UI_ALPHACLIP UNITY_ENABLE_NATIVE_SHADOW_LOOKUPS UNITY_METAL_SHADOWS_USE_POINT_FILTERING UNITY_USE_DITHER_MASK_FOR_ALPHABLENDED_SHADOWS UNITY_PBS_USE_BRDF1 UNITY_PBS_USE_BRDF2 UNITY_SPECCUBE_BOX_PROJECTION UNITY_SPECCUBE_BLENDING UNITY_ENABLE_DETAIL_NORMALMAP UNITY_HARDWARE_TIER1 UNITY_HARDWARE_TIER2 UNITY_HARDWARE_TIER3 UNITY_COLORSPACE_GAMMA UNITY_LIGHT_PROBE_PROXY_VOLUME UNITY_HALF_PRECISION_FRAGMENT_SHADER_REGISTERS UNITY_LIGHTMAP_RGBM_ENCODING UNITY_LIGHTMAP_FULL_HDR UNITY_VIRTUAL_TEXTURING UNITY_PRETRANSFORM_TO_DISPLAY_ORIENTATION UNITY_ASTC_NORMALMAP_ENCODING SHADER_API_GLES30v

 

I solved it finally by finding the shader the font was using and right click to choose reimport.

 

One interesting side effect of Packages is that the system (Unity) wants to consider them sacrosanct and immutable. Or so I've been told.

As a result, what you do in modifying them is not permanent, and Unity does some kind of refresh of them, at certain times. One of those times is restarting Unity, but there are other times it refreshes them, too. I suspect building is one of them, as are changes to the Project Settings... as unrelated changes to the Project Settings seem to create a refresh cycle, too.

However, apparently there's a global cache for packages, that can be changed, and those changes are supposed to stick around and work. I tried seven ways to Sunday to get this to work, but could not.

https://forum.unity.com/threads/how-to-make-a-custom-tmp-shader-and-inspector-ui.1144454/

You can see those troubles in the thread linked above, and the proposed alternative approach from @Stephan_B of creating another folder entirely. I did this, and it somehow worked. I can't figure out how that new folder and its new content is known about, but it is, and it somewhat works... so far.

Side effect, though... it feels like Unity has to rebuild the entire TextMeshPro package every time I run the game, now, or something else is slowing it down, after this change, whenever I change ANY script in the project and rebuild or run in the editor.

 

I solved this but changing the path of the include

eg.

Code (CSharp):

1. #include "../../Store/TextMesh Pro/Shaders/TMPro_Properties.cginc"

extra:

I also commented out
TMPro.EditorUtilities.TMP_SDFShaderGUI
at the bottom which reveals ALL of the shader options

 

I also get this suddenly for no reason. Why is TMP being pushed by Unity editor while it is badly integrated.

 

Thanks a lot. In my case it worked. Couldn't fix it for a long time.

 

This solution didn't work in my case. What did work was to go under Edit -> Rendering -> "Generate Shader Includes". Then doing a reimport of the shaders in TMPro just in case. This might be because I have a URP project.

 

Hi, for those having tried everything above and did not find the solution (same as me). I found another solution.

I have my project on github which stores only the things that aren't generated by unity fully automatically. So I cloned my project again and the errors disappeared.

If you dont work with git, you can try deleting the following folders, i think that it would perform the same :

• Library
• Logs
• Temp

 

Thanks helped me. I just pulled from git and had the error.

 

Old versions of TextMeshPro installed into a Plugins/ folder. If you update to the latest version of TextMeshPro, delete the Plugins/TextMeshPro folder - otherwise when you import the Essentials asset Unity will not move the files to the right spot. The files that were previously in Plugins/ includes TMPro_Properties.cginc

 

Thank you! I came out of nowhere and only affected one person from the team. This is the only thing that helped me.

 

I fixed it by doing a 'reimport' on the TMPro_Properties.gcinc file. Opened it up in VS, made a "change" (add harmless space in file) and then saved, forcing a reimport. Perhaps the file was 'locked' ?