VSCode Extension

1.5.3 - 2026-06-06

Material Preview

Added DreamShaderLang: Show Material Preview for active .dsm material files. The VSCode Webview preview panel supports sphere, plane, and cube meshes, sends preview requests to Unreal over local WebSocket by default, and falls back to the file bridge when WebSocket is unavailable.

New settings: dreamshader.previewWebSocketPort, dreamshader.previewAutoRefreshDelayMs, dreamshader.previewTransport, and dreamshader.previewLiveFrameRate.

1.5.2 - 2026-06-06

Callable Hover

Added callable return and output-pin hover metadata for DreamShader functions, UE builtins, and Substrate helpers, including Substrate.ThinFilm fallback coverage for old bridge manifests.

1.5.1 - 2026-06-06

Bridge, Packages, and Templates

Added Template-block language support, DreamShader bridge commands, status bar and diagnostics panel integration, package install/browse/update/remove/scaffold commands, and command-palette authoring templates for common DreamShader files.

1.4.9 - 2026-05-29

Function Builtins

Unified HLSL intrinsics, GLSL aliases, and Unreal texture-sampling helper metadata for completion, hover, signature help, inlay hints, diagnostics, and semantic highlighting.

1.4.8 - 2026-05-29

Layout and Region

Added editor support for Layout, Node(...), Comment(...), and Graph #Region / #EndRegion.

1.4.6 - 2026-05-22

Volume Texture

Added VolumeTexture / Texture3D types, default texture support, completion, and diagnostics.

1.4.5 - 2026-05-18

MaterialExpression Fallback

Added built-in fallback metadata for MaterialExpression completion when bridge metadata is not available.

1.4.4 - 2026-05-18

Reflected Expressions

Added support for reflected Unreal UMaterialExpression metadata exported by the plugin.

1.4.3 - 2026-05-18

Manifest Configuration

Improved manifest configuration and metadata loading behavior.

1.4.2 - 2026-05-10

MaterialExpression Metadata

Expanded completion and hover metadata for Unreal material expression calls.

1.4.1 - 2026-05-10

Dream Shader Function Files

Added .dsf file support in the language extension.

1.4.0 - 2026-05-10

Parser-based Language Service

Rebuilt the language service around scanner, parser, context, symbol, and provider modules to reduce scope leakage and improve diagnostics, completion, folding, and document symbols.

Earlier Releases

Earlier 1.3.x and 1.2.x releases added templates, Material Layer keywords, GraphFunction support, dynamic MaterialExpression metadata, output diagnostics, ShaderFunction properties, MaterialAttributes, parameter defaults, swizzles, language service improvements, root completion, bridge windows, Graph editing improvements, and automatic publishing.

1.0.0 - 2026-04-21

Initial VSCode language-support extension for DreamShaderLang.