Utilities¶

Purpose¶

Owns shadow-specific helper logic used by Snap Studio Pro shadow workflows.

This territory contains utility systems for loading shadow catcher materials, creating/positioning shadow catcher geometry, and selecting pipeline-safe shadow debug shaders.

Owns¶

• Shadow catcher material loading
• Shadow catcher geometry helpers
• Shadow catcher positioning helpers
• Shadow shader selection helpers
• Shadow-specific utility behaviour

Does NOT Own¶

• Preview scene lifecycle ownership
• Export orchestration
• Capture execution
• Panel UI
• General rendering implementation
• General lighting workflows

Allowed Dependencies¶

Utilities may depend on:

• Unity rendering/material APIs
• Unity scene APIs
• Pipeline-safe shader detection helpers
• Lightweight shadow settings/models where required

Utilities should avoid depending on:

• export orchestration systems
• panel/UI systems
• window lifecycle systems

Notes¶

Utilities should remain shadow-specific and helper-focused.

They may support preview and capture workflows, but should not become the owners of those workflows.

Preview owns: - preview scene lifecycle

Export/Capture own: - production workflow execution

Shadow utilities own: - reusable shadow helper behaviour

Future Candidates¶

• Keep utilities narrow and shadow-specific.
• Avoid turning utilities into workflow managers.
• Maintain pipeline-safe shader/material lookup behaviour.