Global Shader Creation docs leave out important step

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While following the creation process for global shaders in a plugin ( Creating a New Global Shader as a Plugin in Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.0 Documentation )
An essential step is left out. In StartupModule the Shader path has to be added using AddShaderSourceDirectory. Without that, the lines like here:

IMPLEMENT_SHADER_TYPE(, FLensDistortionUVGenerationVS, TEXT(“/Plugin/LensDistortion/Private/UVGeneration.usf”), TEXT(“MainVS”), SF_Vertex)

in the docs will not work, as the path is unknown. An example of how to do it is found in the LensDistortion.cpp

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Hey Herr Edgy! Thanks for the feedback. I’ve made a ticket and we’ll look into adding that step. In the meantime, let us know if you spot anything else that looks off.