godot-website/collections/_release_4_5/entry-highlights-shader-baker.md

type, section, rank, importance, anchor, title, blockquote, text, contributors, read_more

type	section	rank	importance	anchor	title	blockquote	text	contributors	read_more
entry	highlights	3	2	shader-baker	Shader baker	Preheat the oven	Anyone that plays modern games, especially on PC, has had the experience of waiting for shader compilation. Usually, it shows up in two forms: either the game makes you wait when it first launches, or it makes you wait right in the middle of the action. That’s because shaders are small programs for your GPU that draw the current scene. And they need to be compiled in order to be used. While pipeline compilation is still unavoidable and a requirement, Godot now offers a way to do everything that can be done by the editor ahead of time, reducing such wait times by a lot. Where [ubershaders](/releases/4.4/#ubershaders) were a big step towards optimizing pipeline compilation and eliminating compilation stutters, the _shader baker_ addresses the long startup times. When enabled in the export settings, the shader baker will scan resources and scenes for shaders and pre-compile them in the right format used by the driver on the target platform. When targeting Apple and Windows devices, using Metal and D3D12 respectively, we even saw a 20× decrease in load times for our [TPS demo](https://github.com/godotengine/tps-demo). Talk about fast!	name github Darío DarioSamo name github Stuart Carnie stuartcarnie name github Gergely Kis kisg	https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/102552