Visual shading language in 3.x

system · April 20, 2017, 2:48pm


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	Asked By	berserk
	Old Version	Published before Godot 3 was released.

Hello everyone, I tried the godot unofficial build but I can’t see if the visual shader editor is still there.
This is because as I try to create a shader for a mesh, the engine crashes.
I saw audio and visual scripting by the way and I like it.

Thanks in advance for either.

Bye, Ivano.

system · April 20, 2017, 4:44pm


	Reply From:	eons

Eventually ™

github.com/godotengine/godot

Visual shader node editor to come back?

opened 07:03PM - 13 Apr 17 UTC

closed 12:38PM - 29 Aug 18 UTC

Ace-Dragon

feature proposal archived topic:rendering topic:editor

In my first little round of testing with Godot 3, I noticed that we were back to… more complex shaders being done by way of scripting only with no node-based shader builder like in Godot 2.1. Is the Visual Shader Editor slated to come back, I find it very useful for cases like creating a terrain shader (with multiple textures) and other things such as using a colored black and white texture (which allows one to save space since they can have an unlimited combination of colors for use in many different materials)? There's also the whole thing of allowing a lot of different textures for additional detail. That node-based workflow might work even better now with the improvements made for the visual logic editing, any chance that the VSE will be back in 3.0 final?

I got a crash for any attempt to access the shader tab (like it tries to compile an empty one) but I think that saw a PR trying to fix that, not sure if was merged.

Ok, but do you know if there is the visual shader language in 3.x?

berserk | 2017-04-20 16:47

Planned for 3.0, I believe (all the nodes need to be remade for the new language).

eons | 2017-04-20 17:08