Shader Graph Vector Variables Wrong

Hey guys.

2018.2.16f1 & LWRP v3.0.0
Variables for Vector 2 & Vector 3 are exposing 4 values in the Material Inspector instead of 2 & 3 respectively.

Known bug?

Cheers!

 

It's the same in 2018.3 LWRP 4.2.0

 

This is still a problem. That, or I misunderstand the Vector 2 node.



Latest build, 2019.3.0f6

 

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph@6.9/manual/Property-Types.html
Vector 2
Defines a Vector 2 value. Displays a Vector 4 input field in the material inspector, where the z and w components are not used.

It's apparently the expected behaviour... (yes, you could expect better from a free plugin on the asset store, but well...)

 

Why in the feck, they even wrote doco for it, why????
Maybe they just expect people to be writing custom editors all the time.

 

This is something I noticed in Unity Shader lab (the HLSL precursor to Shader Graph). There's no easy way to expose a Vector 2 in the material properties. In fact, replacing Vector with Vector2 produces an error, so I just go with:

Code (CSharp):

1. _DistortAnim("Animation Direction", Vector) = (0, 0, 0, 0)

It's been this way for years, people often talk about it and have written custom shader UI property classes (MaterialPropertyDrawer) so, I bet there's a reason for it and they carried it over to shader graph