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Question What are some extensions for Unity shader Intellisence (VSCode)?

Discussion in 'Shaders' started by cashman91431, Oct 9, 2023.

  1. cashman91431

    cashman91431

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    Hey! I am rocking a 2022.3.8f1 version of unity, latest (as of 10/9/2023) version of VSCode. I am working on a Space Game with realistic physics, and that is indeed a lot of calculations. I have recently learned about Compute shaders, that can split work into chunks and those get proccesed by the GPU. Yielding better results for big scale algorythms and simulations.
    So i decided to give it a shot. Soon I found the lack of support for such things. The best results I got were when I installed the "Shader languages support for VS Code" (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=slevesque.shader) and the "HLSL Tools" (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TimGJones.hlsltools), and modified the settings.json, adding theese lines to specify to use hlsl highlights for .shader, .compute and .raytrace:

    
"files.associations": {
    
        "*.shader" : "hlsl",
    
        "*.compute" : "hlsl",
    
        "*.raytrace" : "hlsl"
    
    }


    I belive my setup can be improved, so that's why I came here. Thanks in advance for useful response
     
    cashman91431, Oct 9, 2023
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