Syntax Error with "Hello World" Shader

From part 1 of the shader tutorial...

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. Shader "simple" {
3.     Properties {
4.         _Color ("Main Color", Color) = (1,.5,.5,1)
5.     }
6.     Pass {
7.         Material {
8.             Diffuse [_Color]
9.         }
10.         Lighting On
11.     }
12. }
13.  

Syntax error on line 5. Line five is a closing brace.

It works like this:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. Shader "simple" {
3.     Properties {
4.         _Color ("Main Color", Color) = (1,.5,.5,1)
5.     }
6.     SubShader {
7.         Pass {
8.             Material {
9.                 Diffuse [_Color]
10.             }
11.             Lighting On
12.         }
13.     }
14. }
15.  

Whooops. And I thought I was the one learning ShaderLab here. ;-)

*Waits to find out he's dead wrong anyways*

-Jon

 

The second one has the correct number of braces (don't forget that the shader itself has to be closed). Depending on where in the parsing/lexing process for the shader errors of that type are generated, it could give a bad line number (or a confusing one, anyways), or I could have counted the lines wrong..

 

You counted the lines/braces wrong. Open up the ShaderLab tutorial and try it for yourself. The first one is missing the SubShader part.

I think you read me incorrectly. I'm not saying I was having trouble, I was saying the tutorial was incorrect!

-Jon

 

Thanks, I fixed it in the manual -