Shaders

Links

• Shader Toy - Build and Share your best shaders with the world and get inspired.

• Euc - Software rendering crate that lets you write shaders with Rust.

• The Book of Shaders - Gentle step-by-step guide through the abstract and complex universe of Fragment Shaders. (HN)

• ShaderLand

• 3D Game Shaders For Beginners - Step-by-step guide on how to implement SSAO, depth of field, lighting, normal mapping, and more for your 3D game.

• Playing around with shaders (2019)

• Open Shading Language - Advanced shading language for production GI renderers.

• SHADERed - Lightweight, cross-platform & full-featured desktop tool for creating and testing HLSL and GLSL shaders.

• Getting started with shaders: signed distance functions (2020)

• Naga - Experimental shader translation library for the needs of gfx-rs project and WebGPU.

• Software Renderer - Shader-based software renderer written from scratch in C89.

• MatCaps - Huge library of MatCap textures in PNG and ZMT.

• Shader Doodle - Friendly web-component for writing and rendering shaders.

• Collection of shaders to draw color maps

• ShaderConductor - Tool designed for cross-compiling HLSL to other shading languages.

• The RTX Shader Binding Table Three Ways (2019)

• ShaderTutorials - Shaders For People Who Don't Know How To Shader, a tutorial series for beginners.

• The future of RLSL (2020)

• A Note on Branching Within a Shader (2020)

• Tiny Shading Language

• Slang - Shading language that extends HLSL with new capabilities for building modular, extensible, and high-performance real-time shading systems.

• Shadershop - Interface for programming GPU shaders in the mode of a direct manipulation image editor like Photoshop.

• Circle C++ shaders

• Shading techniques and GLSL snippets

• Rasen - Generate SPIR-V bytecode from an operation graph.

• smol-compute - Tiny library for launching compute shaders on D3D11 and Metal.

• Futureproof - Live editor for GPU shaders, built on Zig, Neovim, and WebGPU. (Web)

• CineShader - Real-time 3D shader visualizer.

• pmfx-shader - Cross platform shader system for HLSL, GLSL, Metal and SPIR-V.

• GLSLX - GLSL type checker, code formatter, and minifier for WebGL. (Web)

• live-glsl - Lightweight GLSL live-coding tool for macOS. (Web)