v7.3.0 Dev 1

This is a pre-release

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Summary

Version 7.3.0 focuses on code cleanup, bugfixes and minor improvements

New Features

• Specular and Occlusion Toon modules now have Channel selectors for their input maps
• Added a way to mask the Emission in Toon shader by a UV tile
• Added support for a %SkipAlwaysIncludedBlocks() directive within shaders
  • You can uses this, for example, within your Lighting Model to skip any base modules when generating your shader
  • This is useful when completely detaching from the built-in modules to build something of your own

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where Metallic and Smoothness remaps didn't work on the Layered Material layer 3
• Fixed Texture3Ds being rewritten to Texture2Ds during sampler macro stripping process
• Fixed an issue with shader parsing when the %ShaderName() block contains parenthesis in the name
  • E.g. %ShaderName("Test (For Real)") no longer breaks

Changes

• Improved the Audio Link module UI for the Toon shader
• Removed extra sampler definitions which were adding extra complexity for no real benefit
• Alpha Scale now goes between -2 and 2 in the Toon shader
  • Values below 0 invert the albedo map
• Added a utility to compute World Space position from depth
• Improved rendering of the Toon Cutout shader in VRChat Transparent personal mirrors
• Shaders now default to using float2 UV channels
  • You can use NEED_FLOAT4_UV to pass them all as float4
• Improved uv handling in the toon shader, reducing the interpolator counts
• Updated Unity Shader Parser dependency
  • No major changes in the generator as a part of this

Full Diff: v7.2.0...v7.3.0-dev.1