UShaderLab/Source/UShaderLabEditor/Public/ShaderLabGraphBuilder.h

// Copyright FlecsProj. All Rights Reserved.

#pragma once

#include "CoreMinimal.h"

class UMaterial;
struct FShaderLabModel;

/**
 * Editor-only builder that turns a parsed FShaderLabModel into a UMaterial expression graph:
 * property parameter nodes + a Custom HLSL node for the Surface body wired into a Substrate
 * Slab BSDF (-> FrontMaterial), plus an optional Vertex Custom node for WPO/displacement/UVs.
 *
 * The build is fully deterministic for a given model (node creation order, input/output order,
 * generated HLSL) so the cook-time and editor-time graphs — and therefore the baked uniform
 * expression set — match.
 */
class USHADERLABEDITOR_API FShaderLabGraphBuilder
{
public:
	/**
	 * Clear `Material`'s expression graph and rebuild it from `Model`, applying settings
	 * (domain/blend/two-sided) and updating cached expression data. Does NOT trigger shader
	 * compilation — callers decide when to compile. Returns false with diagnostics on failure.
	 */
	static bool BuildInto(UMaterial& Material, const FShaderLabModel& Model, TArray<FString>& OutErrors);

	/**
	 * Replace `Material`'s graph with a minimal Substrate material whose single Custom node emits a
	 * `#line`-mapped `#error` for `Diagnostics`, so it deliberately fails to compile with those messages
	 * mapped back to `SrcPath` (an absolute, forward-slashed .usl path). This routes .usl parse/build
	 * errors through the standard shader-compile path — MIC editor red text, GetCompileErrors, cook —
	 * instead of dropping them. The graph itself is always valid; the failure is intentional and happens
	 * at shader compile. Does NOT trigger compilation (the caller decides when).
	 */
	static void BuildPoisonInto(UMaterial& Material, const TArray<FString>& Diagnostics, const FString& SrcPath);
};