For over a year I’ve been working on a program which i think might be nice tool for shader/effects programmers. Basicaly it’s a shader editor with 3D scene and camera free look. I needed such a tool that would let me create effects fast and see them in action on my own models on scene, so I created one and decided to share it with others. I hope it can be of use for some of you.
Here is how it looks like:
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hi-res:basic scene, [sponza](http://karolsobiesiak.com/sharedfiles/img/interface sponza.png)
Basic features are:
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[li]Opensource[/li][li]OpenGL\GLSL 4.0 - all 5 basic shader stages can be programmed through builtin text editor[/li][li]User difined uniforms (float uniforms controled with slider with min-max-step values)[/li][li]Phisics - collision detection with 4 different convex shapes[/li][li]Mesh loader - many formats are supported but obj is the most stable at the time[/li][li]Points - dynamicaly added to scene (array of vec3 uniforms that can be treated as lights)[/li][li]Bloom - as builtin effect[/li][li]Resizable GUI (ctrl+scroll)[/li][li]Six effects already inside:[/li][LIST]
[li]Basic Effect(Lambert/Phong)[/li][li]Normal Mapping[/li][li]Parallax Occlusion Mapping[/li][li]Displacement Mapping[/li][li]PN-Triangles[/li][li]Phong Tessellation[/li][/ul]
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It still needs a lot of work, but as it is now i think it can be released as a beta and be useful. Documentation is on the way but most of the basic controls are intuitive and input data for shaders can be deduced from delivered shaders.
known issues:
- unicode is not fully supported yet so if it won’t run or files won’t load change location and your resource file names to plain latin characters
- app is still not fully ‘fault tolerant’ so be sure to do things the way they should be done (dont try to tell it that 3D models are textures or other things like that ;))
- no prompt for saving changes in text editor when closing window
If someone want to try it please visit my homepage or go straight to the download link. Any suggestions are welcome.