A way to change how long Compiled Shaders are stored Please

General Feedback & Requests
1

Hey,

Is there a way to change how long we keep Compiled Shaders to unlimited?
I’m working on a project that has about 35 different maps and it’s taking me long to complete each individual maps,
as a result, sometimes if i din’t loaded one of my maps for let’s say 2 weeks i think, the compiled shaders are deleted somehow,
i don’t want that, because many maps are realy large and takes a lot of time to compile everything.

So is there a way to fix this so i can keep what was already compiled before?
Is there also a way to store the shaders to an other drive?

Thx.

2

I don’t think there’s any lifetime for compiled shaders. What would be the reason?

3

The only way for that to happen is for you to have invalidated the shaders yourself somehow and they just now come around to getting loaded and compiled. Either a shared material or a shared material function has been changed in-between loading the map. Of course it’s possible that you also manually somehow deleted the DerivedDataCache folder.