Freya HolmérAug 11, 2024

"you can't debug print shaders" oh yeah? well check this shit out

that's right, a whole ass view matrix, served directly from the GPU

Show threadFreya HolmérAug 11, 2024
I'm using the R1 single-channel 1bpp 2D texture format for this one
Show threadboggoAug 11, 2024

@acegikmo Neat trick!

For printing to actual console did you explore maybe writing debug messages to a structured GPU buffer and reading back async on the CPU and then just displaying in normal tty console?

Show threadAras Pranckevičius
@boggo @acegikmo Unity’s SRP libraries already have this functionality somewhere
Aug 11, 2024 at 4:43pmWeb
Show threadthomas ⛰ vandenbergAug 11, 2024
@aras @boggo @acegikmo what?! Really?!!
Show threadAras PranckevičiusAug 11, 2024
@noio @boggo @acegikmo ShaderDebugPrint, yes. https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/Graphics/blob/master/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.core/ShaderLibrary/ShaderDebugPrint.hlsl
Graphics/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.core/ShaderLibrary/ShaderDebugPrint.hlsl at master · Unity-Technologies/Graphics

Unity Graphics - Including Scriptable Render Pipeline - Unity-Technologies/Graphics

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