Shader Variant Collection Tool

A Unity editor tool for collecting and managing shader variants quickly — without running every in-game scenario by hand — plus a much better inspector UI for Unity's default shader-variant-collection files.

What it does

Point it at a variant collection file and a config, and it gathers variants from your scenes and materials at the push of a button. Filters let you shape the result: strip variants per shader (or keep only listed shaders), remove whole pass types you'll never ship (Meta, MotionVectors), and exclude individual keywords or keyword combinations. Keywords that only ever get enabled at runtime — platform toggles, quality switches — can be added as manual combinations so they're not missed.

The enhanced collection-file UI shows every shader in the collection with its variants grouped by pass type, lets you filter, add, or remove variants manually, and clears the whole file with one (confirmed) click.

Setup

Install via the Unity Package Manager with the git URL https://github.com/revoconner/ShaderVariantCollectionTool.git. Needs Unity 2022.3 or newer; it works across Built-in, URP, and HDRP, tested on URP and Unity 6.1.

Original tool concept from Soco of the Chinese Unity community.