[FIX] Broken SSR in old custom shaders with latest HDRP 7.2+

Based on my testing, I am assuming that it is the latest HDRP 7.2+ that broke old materials' SSR. The automated HDRP upgrade process seems to fix the built-in unity HDRP shaders, but the custom shaders such as from Amplify Shader Editor gets broken. (If the materials were made prior to upgrading to latest HDRP)

Here's my fix for it, I used Notepad++ to REGEX batch replace my affected *.mat files. Adjust the small details as needed.
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Fix materials with SSR:

Replace this with NotePad++ REGEX and Newline turned ON:
\- _StencilRef[^*]+\- _StencilWriteMaskMV: 176

Replace With:
- _StencilRef: 0
- _StencilRefDepth: 8
- _StencilRefDistortionVec: 4
- _StencilRefGBuffer: 10
- _StencilRefMV: 40
- _StencilWriteMask: 6
- _StencilWriteMaskDepth: 8
- _StencilWriteMaskDistortionVec: 4
- _StencilWriteMaskGBuffer: 14
- _StencilWriteMaskMV: 40
- _SubsurfaceMask: 1
- _SupportDecals: 1
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The above REGEX searches for this old broken code in the shader file:
- _StencilRef: 2
- _StencilRefDepth: 0
- _StencilRefDistortionVec: 64
- _StencilRefGBuffer: 2
- _StencilRefMV: 128
- _StencilWriteMask: 3
- _StencilWriteMaskDepth: 48
- _StencilWriteMaskDistortionVec: 64
- _StencilWriteMaskGBuffer: 51
- _StencilWriteMaskMV: 176

 

hi! Is there any way to include a tool that works for other shaders too, where it just rewrites some of the material code to fix it? I am assuming that it must be breaking it for other people too.

 

ahh that's a good idea if it can just detect it as custom HDRP and then it'll just run the fix! Thanks!!