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Some material properties appear twice

Discussion in 'High Definition Render Pipeline' started by iSpiegelball, Feb 6, 2020.

  1. iSpiegelball

    iSpiegelball

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    Hey guys!

    Using a shadergraph material I noticed that some properties are exposed twice to the user - once via the properties of the master node and once via the material dialogue of the inspector. For example: Surface Type, Rendering Pass Double-Sided etc...

    shadergraph.PNG material.PNG

    Now I am wondering how those properties are associated with each other. Early tests show that Surface Type in the material inspector overrides the settings on the shader graph master not - but not vice versa. Can somebody help me understanding this?
     
    iSpiegelball, Feb 6, 2020
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  2. chap-unity

    chap-unity

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    you are guessing right. The one in the inspector is supposed to overrides the one in the shadergraph.
    The same way a public variable set in the inspector on a monobehaviour script overrides the initial value set in the declaration of the variable in the script
     
    chap-unity, Feb 6, 2020
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  3. iSpiegelball

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    Thanks for clarification! I was confused because for example some properties (e.g. transparency writes motion vector) are only exposed if surface type is set to transparency in both places.
     
    iSpiegelball, Feb 6, 2020
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