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Unity 5 shader system for mobile?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by techmage, Apr 25, 2014.

  1. techmage

    techmage

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    What I am curious to know is. Will the updates to the Unity 5 shader be usable for mobile? Or are we still only going to have a few, not iOS specifically optimized mobile shaders?
     
  2. opsive

    opsive

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    Unity had a evangelist showing off Unity 5 this week for those that attended ECGC. Somebody asked if the Unity 5 shader (called the Universal shader) is mobile optimized. His answer is that it will work well on higher end mobile devices. Unity doesn't compile any parameter that is not used within the shader so that will help (for example, if you don't use normal maps than it won't even compile the normal map code).
     
    Last edited: Apr 25, 2014