In Unity, you write shader programs using the HLSL programming language.
Unity originally used the Cg language, hence the name of some of Unity’s shader keywords (CGPROGRAM
) and file extensions (.cginc
). Unity no longer uses Cg, but these keywords and file extensions are still supported. Note that all shader program code must be valid HLSL, even if it uses the Cg-related keywords and file extensions.
The only difference between using HLSLPROGRAM
and CGPROGRAM
is in the files that Unity automatically includes when it compiles the shader program. This is for backwards compatibility reasons. For more information, see Built-in shader include files.
The HLSL language itself has two syntaxes: a “legacy” DX9-style syntax, and a more modern DX10+ style syntax.
The difference is mostly in how texture sampling functions work:
sampler2D
, tex2D()
and similar functions. This syntax works on all platforms.Texture2D
, SamplerState
and .Sample()
functions. Some forms of this syntax do not work on OpenGL platforms, due to how textures and samplers are not different objects in OpenGL.In Unity, you can avoid problems with HLSL syntax platform support by using predefined macros to declare and sample textures. Unity expands these macros to the most appropriate syntax, depending on the platform that the shader is being compiled for.
異なるプラットフォームは、シェーダープログラムのコンパイルに異なるシェーダーコンパイラーを使用します。以下はその例です。
You can use predefined shader macros to identify which compiler Unity is using, for instance to use HLSL syntax only supported by one compiler, or to work around a compiler bug.
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