Will Unity support passing array to shader?

Just something like Material.SetVectors and MaterialPropertyBlock.SetVectors

 

IIRC it is supported, but not documented anywhere.
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/passing-arrays-to-shaders.178682/#post-1898391
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/can-i-assign-set-an-array-of-vectors.279946/#post-1848174
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/979080/how-to-pass-an-array-to-a-shader.html

Just set one element at a time, and append index to array name.

 

Thanks for your reply.
But this solution is very slow. In Qualcomm's Adreno Profiler, I find unity submit array element one by one to the driver by using this method.
As far as I know, all major graphic apis support submit an array to shader, and this feature can reduce the cost between application and driver. I have no idea why unity didn't support this simple feature.
I read the assembly code and did some dirty work to make our project support this feature. But it's really pain to do the assembly work for every release version.
I hope unity technique team would modify their c++ code to support this feature.

 

Yes, it would be slower than one api call.

However, it is a working solution, if you just "want to pass array into shader".

If you want to "pass array into shader in one api call", then you'll need to wait till unity implements that or see if someone from their team chimes in.

 

If your target platform support it you can use Compute Buffers.

 

You can try encoding array values to a 1D texture and look it up in vertex or pixel shader.

 

Nice !

 

Can't we already do this via, "graphics.drawmeshprocedural()"