Question "implicit truncation of vector type" - Should I care?

I was getting some warnings in a graph: "implicit truncation of vector type"

This seems to be because I was sending a V4 into a V3 input, such as this:



In these cases, am I really supposed to do something like the following in order to now get a warning?



Is the second approach "better" in some way? It prevents the warning, but it adds more cruft to the graph. I also don't know whether it has any performance impact one way or the other.

 

I'd like to know as well

 

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Me too interesting in this.
I see two questions here:
1. Can it cause any trouble? For example console has more strict requirements for shaders that sometimes cause compilation errors.
2. What is preferable way in terms of optimization?

 

Implicit truncation warnings serve to, well, warn you that the truncation is happening so that you're not surprised when the alpha channel of your RGBA output is suddenly missing from your variable later in the graph because you passed it through a node that takes in a three-component vector.

If I recall correctly, it's about as computationally expensive as a swizzle operation. You probably shouldn't worry about it.

 

I'm interested in that as well because I get spammed in the Console by those warnings and it's pretty annoying.
Are we supposed to get rid of those warnings by editing the Shader Graphs the way @dgoyette showed in the screenshot and is it expensive in a way or another or another method exists to remove/hide that kind of warnings?

 

Getting the same warnings here. Would be nice if we could get rid of that, as it seems to be a bug.

 

I would love to know that too!

 

Maybe one day we'll find out

 

I would like to know too

 

any news on this? I am encountering the same issue

 

This problem affects me as well; especially since it says it's an "error" and not a "warning"; if it's an actual error what am I supposed to do? If its a warning, how do I turn it off? Having to swizzle manually just for peace of mind seems inoptimal.

 

The warning just means that some components of the vector are being ignored as it is converted to another type with less components(for example V4 to V3). In a script, instead of writing

float3 a = float3(1, 2, 3);
float2 b = a;

(which will give your a warning) you can simply write

float3 a = float3(1, 2, 3);
float2 b = a.xy;

The behaviour is the same, but the warning is gone.

 

Hello and good day.

I have the same problem, but in my case it's relative to an empty shader (just the vertex and fragment nodes)...

unity version: 2020.2.7f1
shade graph: 10.3.2 (verified)

Any help will be appreciated, thanks.

 

i have same error how to solve this ?

 

That's just a semantics issue in the Unity inspector for shaders. Instead of the header for that textbox being "Errors (#):" it should be "Output (#):"

It's only an actual error if the message is accompanied by a red !-agon. If it's a yellow yield triangle, then it's just a warning. If you are getting an actual error because of this (the shader doesn't compile or doesn't function), you may be truncating a value type that absolutely cannot be truncated, but I haven't seen this myself.

 

I'm getting a ginormous amount of "implicit truncation" warning messages in my console even after I did check more than a handful of times in my shaders that there isn't any implicit truncation.
It always pointing me to a sub graph I made that a few more shader graphs uses and there is 0 truncation there.
So I picked into the generated code and discovered the culprit! it's the "normal from texture" node! yea this one:

The generated code is:

Those 3 lines calls for 'SAMPLE_TEXTURE2D()' which should return 'float4' but then directly put in a 'float' type.

 

I installed NET4 the problem is gone. strange

 

Still curious if we should bother dealing with this warning or ignore it.

 

IMO
It's probably fine to ignore. you would do a truncation anyway either manually or automatically when you need\have to.. the warning is just to let you know an automatic truncation occurred and it's not obvious if it is intended or not.

 

I had warnings with the shader graphs I made in Unity URP, and I solved it by adding those shaders in Project Settings -> Graphics -> Always Included Shaders
Change the size accordingly on the top and then you can add your shaders.
Be aware that every time you add one, a pop up window might show up, and when you press Continue it will pop your pipeline asset out on the top, so you have to put it back. Or at least that kept happening to me.

 

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I feel like a lot of the time this is down to the actual master stack...

 

I had this error today as well using Unity 2021. It doesn't seem to affect the functionality. Just thought i'd share for documentation.