Unity Geometry Shader Compiles forever

Question

I am writing a shader to achieve a laser show effect example. For now I am just focusing on the lines. One line ist represented as one triangle. When I save my shadercode, unity gets inactive and I can see in the task manager that the shader compiler has 30% cpu -> is compiling. But this takes forever, and when I restart unity, it isn't able to load the shader from the assets. I found out that this doesn't happen when I comment the line:

const int TRI_STRIP[TAM] = tmpTriStrip;

Obviously I then get an error that TRI_STRIP is undefined, but the shadercompiler did its work and Unity is still running. Then I put the line back into the code and the above desribed behaviour appears. Thanks for any tipps and advices.

Here is the complete geometryshader code:

    void myGeometryShader(point gIn vert[1], inout TriangleStream<v2f> triStream)
{
    float f = _PointSize / 20.0f * sin(_Time * _Speed); //half size

    float4 vctmp[TAM];

    int i;
    float y;
    for (i = 0; i < TAM; i += 3) {

        y = sin(_Time * _Speed + _SinValue) * _MovHeight + _HeightOffset;
        vctmp[i] = float4(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
        vctmp[i + 1] = float4(_Distance, y, i / _MarginFactor - _EndWidth / 2.0f, 0.0f);
        vctmp[i + 2] = float4(_Distance, y, i / _MarginFactor + _EndWidth / 2.0f, 0.0f);
    }

    const float4 vc[TAM] = vctmp;


    float2 UV1tmp[TAM];
    for (i = 0; i < TAM; i += 3) {
        UV1tmp[i] = float2(0.0f, 0.0f);
        UV1tmp[i + 1] = float2(1.0f, 0.0f);
        UV1tmp[i + 2] = float2(1.0f, 1.0f);
    }

    const float2 UV1[TAM] = UV1tmp;

    int tmpTriStrip[TAM];

    for (i = 0; i < TAM; i++) {
        tmpTriStrip[i] = 1;
    }

    const int TRI_STRIP[TAM] = tmpTriStrip;

    v2f v[TAM];


    // Assign new vertices positions 
    for (i = 0; i < TAM; i++) { v[i].pos = vert[0].pos + vc[i]; v[i].col = vert[0].col; }

    // Assign UV values
    for (i = 0; i < TAM; i++) v[i].uv_MainTex = TRANSFORM_TEX(UV1[i],_MainTex);

    // Position in view space
    for (i = 0; i < TAM; i++) { v[i].pos = mul(UNITY_MATRIX_MVP, v[i].pos); }

    // Build the cube tile by submitting triangle strip vertices
    for (i = 0; i < TAM / 3; i++)
    {
        triStream.Append(v[TRI_STRIP[i * 3 + 0]]);
        triStream.Append(v[TRI_STRIP[i * 3 + 1]]);
        triStream.Append(v[TRI_STRIP[i * 3 + 2]]);

        triStream.RestartStrip();
    }
}

Answer 1

The looks like a compiler bug.

But in any case:

• You don't need the copy into a const array, just use the non-const one.
• You don't need those large arrays, from what I see everything in the shader can be done in a single for (i = 0; i < TAM; i += 3) loop with small arrays of 3.

That should work around the compiler bug and probably make the shader faster.