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Make shader behavior conditional
Shader semantics

Use shortcuts to create keyword sets

You can use Unity shaderA program that runs on the GPU. More info
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directive shortcuts to create sets of shader keywords and variants. For example, the following example adds SHADOWS_DEPTH and SHADOWS_CUBE keywords and variants:

#pragma multi_compile_shadowcaster

Shader directive shortcuts

Shortcut Shader keywords Unity adds Unity adds a variant with all the keywords off Shader pass that uses the variants
multi_compile_fog FOG_LINEAR, FOG_EXP, FOG_EXP2 Yes Fog
multi_compile_fwdadd POINT DIRECTIONAL SPOT POINT_COOKIE DIRECTIONAL_COOKIE No PassType.ForwardAdd
multi_compile_fwdadd_fullshadows POINT, DIRECTIONAL, SPOT, POINT_COOKIE, DIRECTIONAL_COOKIE, SHADOWS_DEPTH SHADOWS_SCREEN SHADOWS_CUBE SHADOWS_SOFT SHADOWS_SHADOWMASK, LIGHTMAP_SHADOW_MIXING No PassType.ForwardAdd. Adds the ability for the lights to have real-time shadows.
multi_compile_fwdbase DIRECTIONAL, LIGHTMAP_ON, DIRLIGHTMAP_COMBINED, DYNAMICLIGHTMAP_ON, SHADOWS_SCREEN, SHADOWS_SHADOWMASK, LIGHTMAP_SHADOW_MIXING, LIGHTPROBE_SH No PassType.ForwardBase.
multi_compile_fwdbasealpha DIRECTIONAL, LIGHTMAP_ON, DIRLIGHTMAP_COMBINED, DYNAMICLIGHTMAP_ON, LIGHTMAP_SHADOW_MIXING, VERTEXLIGHT_ON, LIGHTPROBE_SH No PassType.ForwardBase
multi_compile_instancing INSTANCING_ON. Also adds PROCEDURAL_ON if your project uses procedural instancing. Yes Instancing
multi_compile_lightpass POINT, DIRECTIONAL, SPOT, POINT_COOKIE, DIRECTIONAL_COOKIE, SHADOWS_DEPTH, SHADOWS_SCREEN, SHADOWS_CUBE, SHADOWS_SOFT, SHADOWS_SHADOWMASK, LIGHTMAP_SHADOW_MIXING No All passes that draw real-time light and shadows, except Light ProbesLight probes store information about how light passes through space in your scene. A collection of light probes arranged within a given space can improve lighting on moving objects and static LOD scenery within that space. More info
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multi_compile_particles SOFTPARTICLES_ON Yes Particle SystemA component that simulates fluid entities such as liquids, clouds and flames by generating and animating large numbers of small 2D images in the scene. More info
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passes.
multi_compile_prepassfinal LIGHTMAP_ON, DIRLIGHTMAP_COMBINED, DYNAMICLIGHTMAP_ON, UNITY_HDR_ON, SHADOWS_SHADOWMASK, LIGHTPROBE_SH Yes PassType.Deferred
multi_compile_shadowcaster SHADOWS_DEPTH, SHADOWS_CUBE No PassType.ShadowCaster
multi_compile_shadowcollector SHADOWS_SPLIT_SPHERES, SHADOWS_SINGLE_CASCADE Yes Screen-space shadows.

Remove variants

You can use the skip_variants directive to remove keywords you don’t use.

For example, the following example adds the keywords for the multi_compile_fwdadd set, but removes the POINT and POINT_COOKIES variants.

#pragma multi_compile_fwdadd
#pragma skip_variants POINT POINT_COOKIE

Refer to Shader variant stripping for more information about removing variants.

Make shader behavior conditional
Shader semantics