WATCH_DOGS 1 Shader Compiler

This repo includes everything you need to recompile the shader database for WATCH_DOGS 1

Requirements:

1. Windows SDK
2. Python

Compilation

WARNING: You must recompile all shaders once before compiling a specific shader family to ensure consistent input/output signatures

• Download the entire repo
• Add Windows SDK x64 path to your PATH environment variable (e.g. F:\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.26100.0\x64\)
• Run CompileShaders.py
• Enter a shader family you wish to compile (e.g. Mesh_DriverGeneric, family names can be found in engine\shaders\meta\filelist.meta.xml.txt)
• Or if you need to compile all shaders, type in .fx should compile everything

Loading shaders from disk

• You can unpack Watch_Dogs\data_win64\shadersobj.fat with gibbed.disrupt, rename both shadersobj.fat and shadersobj.dat to shadersobj.fat.bak and shadersobj.dat.bak
• Move Watch_Dogs\data_win64\shadersobj_unpack\engine folder to Watch_Dogs\data_win64\
• Game will load from disk shader files from now on