# haven\`t shader macros like Unity in Unreal?

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**Category:** Rendering\
**Tags:** macro, unreal-engine, shader, question, Blueprint\
**Created:** [June 12, 2019, 9:51pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/haven-t-shader-macros-like-unity-in-unreal/450583 "2019-06-12T21:51:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![leehwanchoi](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@leehwanchoi](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/leehwanchoi)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 9:51pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/haven-t-shader-macros-like-unity-in-unreal/450583/1 "2019-06-12T21:51:40Z")

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Unity have shader macro like unity\_ObjectToWorld.

Not in Unreal?

unity\_ObjectToWorld is Scale, Rotation, Translation(Position) float4x4 Matrix

Do I need to always calculate the position, rotation, and size of an object in Unreal?

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**Author:** ![Shadowriver](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Shadowriver](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Shadowriver)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 12:43am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/haven-t-shader-macros-like-unity-in-unreal/450583/2 "2019-06-13T00:43:18Z")

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Unreal material graph don’t support matrixes, but there node which let you transform vector to different spaces which would be equivalent of `mul(unity_ObjectToWorld, vector);`. The name of node is “Transform” and in properties of note you select which space the input vector is and then what space vector should be outputted.

But you don’t need to do this, as UE4 sends position and orientation to shader via parameters:

> **[Vector Material Expressions](https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.1/en-US/vector-material-expressions-in-unreal-engine/)**
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> Material expressions that output a vector value, such as a position or normal.

> **[Vector Material Expressions](https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.1/en-US/vector-material-expressions-in-unreal-engine/)**
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> Material expressions that output a vector value, such as a position or normal.

As you can see from that page there even more in disposal

There also “Object Scale” node which calculates scale

Also to me more exact “unity\_ObjectToWorld” is not macro, it’s a parameter send by Unity to shader and it a local to world conversion matrix, which is identical to actual model transform matrix which Unity send too as UNITY\_MATRIX\_M

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**Author:** ![leehwanchoi](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@leehwanchoi](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/leehwanchoi)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 1:13am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/haven-t-shader-macros-like-unity-in-unreal/450583/3 "2019-06-13T01:13:33Z")

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thank you !  
I got a lot of help.