alt Hacker NewsIt predates dolphin's use of it, though don't ask me by how long. Here's a reference to the term from 2008: https://realtimecollisiondetection.net/blog/?p=73
It predates dolphin's use of it, though don't ask me by how long. Here's a reference to the term from 2008: https://realtimecollisiondetection.net/blog/?p=73
Ubershader actually has three different opposite meanings, unfortunately.
The classic usage is a single source shader which is specialized using #define's and compiled down to hundreds of shaders. This is what Christer uses in that blog post above (and Aras does as well in his ubershader blog post)
Dolphin used it to mean a single source shader that used runtime branches to cover all the bases as a fallback while a specialized shader was compiled behind the scenes.
The even more modern usage now is a single source shader that only uses runtime branches to cover all the features, without any specialization behind the scenes, and that's what Dario means here.