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Question by heyx3 · Dec 11, 2018 at 12:47 AM · editor-scripting shader programming compile compute shader

How do I generate and compile a compute shader in the editor?

I'm working on an editor extension for a custom GPU particle system. The system generates source code for a compute shader, and I need to turn that source into a ComputeShader instance. Basically, I'm looking for the ComputeShader equivalent of UnityEngine.ShaderUtils.CreateShaderAsset().

I know I could save the shader to a ".compute" file and manually refresh AssetDatabase, but there are two problems with this approach:

I have to go through the hard drive and then wait for AssetDatabase to catch it, which is slow
This shader is ultimately going to be attached to a ScriptableObject in a ".asset" file; it will not have its own file on the disk.

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