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EDumpShaderDefines

Governs the behavior for adding shader defines to the preprocessed source.

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References

Module	ShaderPreprocessor
Header	/Engine/Source/Developer/ShaderPreprocessor/Public/ShaderPreprocessor.h
Include	#include "ShaderPreprocessor.h"

Syntax

enum EDumpShaderDefines
{
    DontCare,
    DontIncludeDefines,
    AlwaysIncludeDefines,
}

Values

Name	Description
DontCare	Will not be dumped unless Input.DumpDebugInfoPath is set
DontIncludeDefines	No defines
AlwaysIncludeDefines	Defines will be added in the comments

Remarks

Governs the behavior for adding shader defines to the preprocessed source. Can be helpful for the debugging, but makes the source unique which can prevent efficient caching.

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