% In SM4, array elements are always aligned to the next vec4, although structs are not. [require] shader model >= 4.0 [pixel shader] uniform struct { float p, q; } colours[3]; float4 main() : sv_target { return float4(colours[0].q, colours[1].p, colours[2].q, colours[2].p); } [test] uniform 0 float4 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.0 uniform 4 float4 0.3 0.4 0.0 0.0 uniform 8 float4 0.5 0.6 0.0 0.0 draw quad probe all rgba (0.2, 0.3, 0.6, 0.5)