Efficiency & Workflow: Multiple shaders or a God shader?

Should I create multiple shaders that accomodate different material behaviours or should I just simply create a god shader that can be capable of all things that I need?

 

depends on what you want to optimize for. If you want to optimize for performance, make multiple shaders. If you want to optimize for maintainability and ease of content creation, create a god shader.

 

On the other hand, if you are using SRP batching, a god shader can have better performance due to the smaller bandwidth of passing information to the GPU when prepping for rendering, thus significantly reducing the CPU cost of draw calls.

 

Thanks for the info, do you guys have any recommended readings on the topic? I'd love to take a look at them!