Shader and material governance for Unity. Scan for variant and keyword risk, enforce standards
through versioned policy, and generate build-ready reports.ShaderOS Pro analyzes materials and shaders across Shader Graph, hand-written HLSL/ShaderLab, and Surface Shaders. SRP Batcher compatibility reporting works with Built-in, URP, and HDRP pipelines. Migration analysis identifies risks when moving from Built-in to URP or HDRP. Custom Render Pipelines can import the package but are not currently validated or supported for migration analysis.ShaderOS Pro is an editor-only analysis and governance tool for Unity projects. It performs read-only inspection of materials, shaders, dependencies, and rendering workflow risk, then adds a policy layer on top so a rendering lead can set explicit standards and track a project against them over time.It's built for rendering leads and technical artists who need an accurate, current picture of a project's shader and material health — not a one-time audit that goes stale the day after it runs. Shader and material problems tend to surface late: a keyword combination nobody tracked pushes variant counts past what a build can absorb, a broken shader reference goes unnoticed until a material renders pink, and technical debt has no record anywhere once "fix it later" becomes now. ShaderOS Pro turns a project's shader and material state into a structured, navigable picture, and keeps it that way as the project changes.Key FeaturesMaterial & Shader AnalysisScans every material and shader in a project and surfaces broken shader references, missing texture slots, per-material health scores, and SRP Batcher compatibility issues with the specific incompatibility reason for each one.Dependency VisualizationA read-only, node-based graph of how materials, shaders, and textures relate to one another. Selecting a node opens its dependencies and references in a side panel without altering the graph itself.Project Health InsightsA dashboard summarizing project-wide rendering health, variant and keyword risk, governance status, and compliance at a glance, so a lead can see where a project stands before drilling into any one area.Governance WorkflowAuthor policy rules as versioned project assets and enforce them across every material and shader in scope, with folder-level ownership so debt and violations route to the right person. Violations, exceptions, and rendering debt stay visible and tracked rather than sitting behind a pass/fail checkmark.Reports & ExportGenerates Sprint Report and Handover Packet documents on demand, in Markdown, from captured scan and build history — output built for a person to read during a review or a handoff, not just raw scan data.Advanced AnalysisDetects near-duplicate materials, assesses render-pipeline migration risk between Built-in, URP, and HDRP with specific incompatible-material call-outs, and evaluates Addressables-aware variant risk for projects using that workflow.ShaderOS Free vs ShaderOS ProShaderOS Free is the entry point into the same core workflow: a one-click material and shader scan, per-material health scoring, broken-reference and missing-texture detection, SRP Batcher compatibility flags, a keyword budget tracker, a pre-strip variant estimator, build history tracking, and the same read-only dependency graph — scoped to 100 materials per scan.ShaderOS Pro removes that scan limit and adds the tooling for running this as an ongoing standard rather than a one-time check: versioned Governance policy rules with folder-level ownership, Compliance tracking for violations, exceptions, and rendering debt, side-by-side pre-strip and post-strip variant comparison against a configurable budget, on-demand Sprint Report and Handover Packet generation, extended build history, and the Advanced Analysis tools for duplicate materials, render-pipeline migration risk, and Addressables-aware variant risk.Documentation & SupportDocumentationDiscordIssue TrackerSupport: support.toolsstudio@gmail.comShaderOS Pro runs entirely in the Unity Editor. No runtime component or assembly is added to a built player, and every scan, analysis view, and the dependency graph are read-only — nothing is modified, renamed, or deleted automatically. Governance rules are stored as versioned project assets rather than code, so they move through source control and review the same way any other project asset does. Reports export as Markdown by default, with HTML and JSON export also available. Addressables-aware analysis is detected automatically when the Addressables package is present in a project, and the rest of the tool works normally without it.WorkflowImport ShaderOS Pro↓Complete first-run setup↓Configure scan scope↓Run a project scan↓Review the dashboard and flagged results↓Author policy rules and generate reportsRequirementsUnity Version: 2021.3 LTS or newerRender Pipeline: Built-in, Universal (URP), High Definition (HDRP)Required Packages: NonePlatform: Unity EditorAI tools were used for documentation writing assistance, text refinement, and organizing content. AI was also used to assist in generating demo data examples. All final implementation, code, assets, and product content were reviewed and validated manually.
