Dont remove suboutputs objects if it cannot be deserialized

com.unity.visualeffectgraph/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.
 - Fix various bugs in Position (Cone) block [Case 1111053](https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/product/unity/issues/guid/1111053/)
 - Fix space issues with blocks and operators taking a camera as input
 - Generated shaderName are now consistent with displayed system names
+- Don't lose SRP output specific data when SRP package is not present
 
 ## [8.0.1] - 2020-02-25
 

com.unity.visualeffectgraph/Editor/Models/Contexts/Implementations/VFXAbstractRenderedOutput.cs

@@ -113,10 +113,9 @@ private void SanitizeSubOutputs()
                 return;
             }
 
-            // TODO Uncommenting this code will removed SRP data that are unknown, this is probably not what we want
-            //int nbRemoved = 0;
-            //if ((nbRemoved = m_SubOutputs.RemoveAll(s => s == null)) > 0)
-            //    Debug.LogWarningFormat("Remove {0} SRP Sub Outputs that could not be deserialized from {1} of type {2}", nbRemoved, name, GetType());
+            // Reference equals because we only need to remove actual null sub-output, not the ones that cannot be deserialized
+            // Because we want to keep reference to unknown SRP outputs. No log because this is internal clean up
+            m_SubOutputs.RemoveAll(s => object.ReferenceEquals(s, null));
 
             var subOutputsTypes = new HashSet<Type>(); // TODO For some reason constructor that takes a capacity does not exist
             for (int i = 0; i < m_SubOutputs.Count; ++i)
@@ -140,11 +139,7 @@ public override void CollectDependencies(HashSet<ScriptableObject> objs, bool ow
         {
             base.CollectDependencies(objs, ownedOnly);
             foreach (var data in m_SubOutputs)
-                if (data != null)
-                {
-                    objs.Add(data);
-                    data.CollectDependencies(objs, ownedOnly);
-                }
+                objs.Add(data);
         }
 
         public override VFXSetting GetSetting(string name)

com.unity.visualeffectgraph/Editor/Models/Contexts/VFXSRPSubOutput.cs

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Linq;
+using UnityEngine;
 using static UnityEditor.VFX.VFXAbstractRenderedOutput;
 
 namespace UnityEditor.VFX
@@ -24,6 +25,9 @@ public void Init(VFXAbstractRenderedOutput owner)
         public virtual bool supportsExposure { get { return false; } }
         public virtual bool supportsMotionVector { get { return false; } }
 
+        // Sealed override as SRP suboutputs cannot have dependencies
+        public sealed override void CollectDependencies(HashSet<ScriptableObject> objs, bool ownedOnly = true) {}
+
         public virtual string GetBlendModeStr()
         {
             switch (owner.blendMode)

com.unity.visualeffectgraph/Editor/Models/VFXGraph.cs

@@ -277,7 +277,11 @@ public object Backup()
             dependencies.Add(this);
             CollectDependencies(dependencies);
 
-            var result = VFXMemorySerializer.StoreObjectsToByteArray(dependencies.Cast<ScriptableObject>().ToArray(), CompressionLevel.Fastest);
+            // This is a guard where dependencies that couldnt be deserialized (because script is missing for instance) are removed from the list
+            // because else StoreObjectsToByteArray is crashing
+            // TODO Fix that
+            var safeDependencies = dependencies.Where(o => o != null);
+            var result = VFXMemorySerializer.StoreObjectsToByteArray(safeDependencies.ToArray(), CompressionLevel.Fastest);
 
             Profiler.EndSample();