Lightweight, cross-platform & full-featured shader IDE

Last update: Dec 30, 2022

Overview

SHADERed

SHADERed is a lightweight tool for writing and debugging shaders. It is easy to use, open source, cross-platform (runs on Windows, Linux & Web).

Features
Sponsors
Supporters
Binaries
Building
Tutorials
Screenshots
Dependencies
License

Features

Shader debugger

Shader debugger lets you easily find bugs in your shader code. It is simple to use - you just need to pause the preview and select the pixel that you want to debug. After starting the debugger, you will be able to:

step through your shader code line by line
run immediate expressions
add watches
place (conditional) breakpoints
see list of all variables and their values
hover over expressions and see their value

With SHADERed, you can debug vertex, geometry, tessellation control, pixel and compute shaders.

Thanks to SHADERed, you can now also debug shaders in Visual Studio Code with an extension. Read more about this in the blog post: https://shadered.org/blog?id=9.

Frame analyzer

Besides debugging your shader line-by-line, SHADERed also lets you find bugs and errors visually. After you run the frame analyzer, you will be able to:

detect undefined behavior
see variable's value throughout the whole frame
global breakpoints (color a pixel that meets a certain condition)
SPIR-V instruction heatmap

Compute & geometry shaders

You are not limited to vertex and pixel shaders. SHADERed also supports compute & geometry shaders. You can create advanced animations and effects with these two shader stages:

Plugin API

You can develop custom SHADERed plugins and upload them to SHADERed store so that they can be installed through SHADERed.

To see the plugin API's potential, check out these plugins:

GodotShaders - adds support for Godot's canvas shaders
ShadertoyImporter - import ShaderToy projects
GIFCapture - adds the ability to capture GIFs
Slang - adds support for Slang shader language
Rust - adds the ability to write shaders in Rust
C++ - adds the ability to write shaders in C++
Terminal - open terminal windows in SHADERed

See changes instantly

SHADERed can compile your shaders while you write the code. This way you can see your changes instantly. SHADERed also works nicely with external text editors (such as VS Code) - it will recompile the shaders that were modified by some external program.

Other features

SHADERed has lots of features that let you achieve effects like in no other shader editor. Features are also being added rapidly. Here are some of the feature:

render states (blending, stencil test, depth test, etc...)
import 3D models
built-in 3D geometry objects
import 2D texture, 3D textures, cubemaps
import audio files (build awesome music visualizers)
render textures (easily build G-Buffer)
buffers
instancing
profiling
multi-camera system
audio shaders (generate music on GPU)
custom variables & powerful variable system
zooming in on the preview window
exporting image sequence
code autocompletion designed for shader code
... and so much more!

Supporters

Supporter(s):

If you like SHADERed and would like to support the development, check out Patreon:

My e-mail address for businesses (or if you just want to contact me): contact at shadered dot org

Binaries

You can download precompiled binaries through the Releases page or via SHADERed's website.

Install using Scoop (Windows)

On Windows, you can use Scoop to install SHADERed:

scoop bucket add extras
scoop install shadered

Install using Flatpak (Linux)

SHADERed is available on Flathub. After setting up Flatpak, you can install it by entering the following commands in a terminal:

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install --user flathub org.shadered.SHADERed -y

Note that the Flatpak version runs in a sandbox and some features may not work correctly yet. Please report Flatpak-specific issues here.

Building

First clone the project & submodules:

git clone https://github.com/dfranx/SHADERed.git
cd SHADERed
git submodule update --init

Linux

Install all the libraries that are needed:

# Ubuntu
sudo apt install libsdl2-dev libglew-dev libglm-dev libgtk-3-dev
# Fedora
sudo dnf install glm-devel glew-devel SDL2-devel gtk3-devel

Build:

cmake .
make

If you would like to perform an out-of-source build, do the following:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Run:

./bin/SHADERed

macOS

NOTE: macOS is not officially supported by me + some features are not implemented for macOS

Install all the libraries that are needed:

brew install sdl2 glew glm

Build:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../
make -j8

Note: If you're building on a macOS version prior to 10.15 (Catalina) you may need to update Xcode and create a symlink for the SDK:
ln -s "$(xcrun --sdk macosx --show-sdk-path)" "$(xcrun --sdk macosx --show-sdk-platform-path)/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.15.sdk"

Run:

./bin/SHADERed

Windows

Install SDL2, GLEW & GLM through your favourite package manager (I recommend vcpkg)
Run cmake-gui and set CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE variable
Press Configure and then Generate if no errors occured
Open the .sln and build the project!

Tutorials

Don't know how or where to start? The debugger is confusing? Want to create your own shader or custom SHADERed theme? Visit the official documentation to see detailed steps on how to do these things. Or you can watch the video tutorials on YouTube.

Screenshots

Shader made by The Art Of Code

Send your own screenshots here!

Dependencies

This project uses:

LICENSE

SHADERed is licensed under MIT license. See LICENSE for more details.

Comments

Compiling on mac

Has anyone successfully compiled on mac? I can kind of get to here but its having some trouble when trying to locate assimp. Ive installed assimp through brew.

...
[100%] Linking CXX executable bin/SHADERed
ld: library not found for -lassimp
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make[2]: *** [bin/SHADERed] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/SHADERed.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

$ ls -la /usr/local/lib/libassimp*
lrwxr-xr-x 48 christian 26 Dec  0:13 /usr/local/lib/libassimp.5.0.0.dylib -> ../Cellar/assimp/5.0.0/lib/libassimp.5.0.0.dylib
lrwxr-xr-x 44 christian 26 Dec  0:13 /usr/local/lib/libassimp.5.dylib -> ../Cellar/assimp/5.0.0/lib/libassimp.5.dylib
lrwxr-xr-x 42 christian 26 Dec  0:13 /usr/local/lib/libassimp.dylib -> ../Cellar/assimp/5.0.0/lib/libassimp.dylib
lrwxr-xr-x 42 christian 26 Dec 11:49 /usr/local/lib/libassimp.dylib.5 -> ../Cellar/assimp/5.0.0/lib/libassimp.dylib

opened by kirkegaard 35

OpenGL port
I have just pushed a commit which includes a complete recode of the program (+ some new features ;) )

Though, there are some things that are currently broken:

HLSL geometry shaders

Not sure if this is my bug or theirs bug, or if HLSL geometry shaders now have to be coded in a specific way. A problem that I have stumbled upon is that it is quite impossible to send a variable (through output) from vertex shader to geometry shader. I think this is the issue: link but apparently it seems fixed (?).

MatrixReflect and MatrixShadow system variables currently do nothing and need to be reimplemented

glm, unlike DirectXMath, doesnt have a simple function to generate such matrices - so for now they will stay removed

CMake adds unnecessary parts of the glslang to the build pipeline

glslang-default-resource-limits, SPVRemapper, glslangValidator, spirv-remap executables are being built even though they are not used anywhere...

Please report all the bugs that you stumble upon! :D
bug enhancement todo opengl
opened by dfranx 25
Whole computer slows down while the program is open

I'm trying out SHADERed on an old(er) laptop with intel graphics, unfortunately on the simplest examples I can't do much on the computer while alt tabbed because it uses as much CPU time as possible (apparently). Setting the framecap to 60 didn't solve it.

Edit: after posting the issue I tried setting the vsync instead, it seems better but still taking a bit more cpu time than I'd like (for being minimized). I can't seem to be able todelete the issue so I'll leave it since it could be a legitimate issue still.

opened by radgeRayden 15
sharing possibilities: video, .cpp
Hi,

Just wanted to say I like where this project is going. It kindof fills my gap between my blender-usage (modeling a scene) & kodelife-usage (shader-editing). I checked the TODO.md and noticed many interesting features. Concerning the sharing possibilities (video, .cpp), it could be handy to prioritize implementation like this:

export image frames (render00001.png, so ffmpeg can encode it to any videoformat)

export video

export .cpp

REASON video is so easy to share across social media, it could help in popularizing SHADERed.
opened by coderofsalvation 12
Program instaquits when trying to create a new file (empty, glsl, etc)

Just downloaded it last night, and I know it's still relatively new, but I'm not quite sure why the program instaquits while trying to create a new file.
bug

opened by valenotary 12

Build errors on macOS - source directory libs/ShaderDebugger does not contain a CMakeLists.txt file...

Tried following the instructions from the readme on building in macOS, but recieve a couple of errors about missing CMakeLists.txt files.

I'm not familiar with CMake (maybe now's a good time to start learning) and haven't tried to dig much further.

Looks like a really promising project, though - excited to have found it!

-- The C compiler identification is AppleClang 11.0.0.11000033
-- The CXX compiler identification is AppleClang 11.0.0.11000033
-- Check for working C compiler: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc
-- Check for working C compiler: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:5 (add_subdirectory):
  The source directory

    /Users/peter/Documents/code/SHADERed/libs/ShaderDebugger

  does not contain a CMakeLists.txt file.


-- Found OpenGL: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.15.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework   
-- Found GLEW: /usr/local/lib/cmake/glew/glew-config.cmake  
-- Found GLM: /usr/local/include  
CMake Warning (dev) at /usr/local/lib/cmake/assimp-5.0/assimpTargets.cmake:54 (if):
  if given arguments:

    "ON"

  An argument named "ON" appears in a conditional statement.  Policy CMP0012
  is not set: if() recognizes numbers and boolean constants.  Run "cmake
  --help-policy CMP0012" for policy details.  Use the cmake_policy command to
  set the policy and suppress this warning.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/local/lib/cmake/assimp-5.0/assimp-config.cmake:1 (include)
  CMakeLists.txt:146 (find_package)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

-- Found SFML .. in /usr/local/include
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:154 (add_subdirectory):
  The source directory

    /Users/peter/Documents/code/SHADERed/libs/glslang

  does not contain a CMakeLists.txt file.


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/Users/peter/Documents/code/SHADERed/cmake-build-debug/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".

opened by xinaesthete 11

Different Render Texture formats

There doesn't seem to be a way to change the format of a render texture right now. Other formats are sometimes better suited or even required for effects to work. For example, this is needed when working with HDR rendering or buffers that require high precision.

On the graphics API side there's a lot of formats available, while the support on different platforms or older GPUs is probably hit or miss. As possible additions I suggest the 16 and 32 bit float variants with 4 channels (for example DXGI_FORMAT_R16G16B16A16_FLOAT/DXGI_FORMAT_R32G32B32A32_FLOAT in DirectX). These should be widely supported and offer a high precision & range, allowing for a wide range of use cases.

There are other interesting formats, too, which come into play when optimizing shaders but I'm not sure if this is worth the additional effort.

Edit: I just remembered there were some limitations in older APIs where using multiple rendertargets with different formats had drastic limitations. I'm not sure if SHADERed is also affected by this, which would make this feature pretty difficult to implement.

opened by CptPotato 10

Ubuntu libassimp.so.4: cannot open shared object file

Hi,

I just downloaded the latest version of SHADERed v1.3.2 for Linux and I am using Pop!_OS 19.10 (highly derived from Ubuntu).

When I run the executable, it says :

@pop-os:~/Téléchargements/SHADERed$ ls
data              icon_32x32.png  libgtk-3.so.0           libsfml-system.so.2.5  themes
examples          icon_64x64.png  libSDL2-2.0.so.0        plugins
icon_128x128.png  libassimp.so.4  libsfml-audio.so.2.5    SHADERed
icon_256x256.png  libGLEW.so.2.1  libsfml-network.so.2.5  templates
@pop-os:~/Téléchargements/SHADERed$ ./SHADERed 
./SHADERed: error while loading shared libraries: libassimp.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

What am I doing wrong?

opened by johhnry 9

IDE force close after bad shader
I tried to modify the example cube and when I tried to save/render and the IDE force close without warning. Where is the code I used : (I know the code is bad)

#version 330 in vec4 color; out vec4 outColor; void main() { outColor = vec4(color); outColor = vec3(color); // This crash the ide }

Tested with version 1.3 and 1.24, 32 and 64 bits on Windows 10. Here my log file

log.txt
opened by SamLefebvre 9
Support for Vulkan GLSL syntax

In vulkan, shader inputs have to have a location(set = X, binding = Y) uniform ... to specify where everything is. Currently SHADERed simply ignores these and doesn't let you use them in variables.

It would be very handy to be able to use this program for shader dev, but right now I have to modify my shaders so much its hard to justify.

It shouldn't be too big of a change, vulkan glsl isn't that different. It just has additional requirements that opengl doesn't.

opened by cdgiessen 9
it crashes when save new project

what i did: file -> new -> (anytype) -> paste my folder path into the filename field -> ok, then it just crashes... i thought it probably caused by the chinese characters of the folder path but it seems not because i tried english folder as well.

opened by jcyuan 7
Multithread Analyzer

Hello! SHADERed has been really awesome for debugging a shader that I've known to work on other systems but is broken on NVIDIA. Anyways, I noticed that when I open htop while the Analyzer is running that only one thread is being utilized. I'm not sure how easy it would be to multithread the Analyzer, but I'm sure it could be accelerated by virtualizing multiple pixels at once.

opened by Zi7ar21 0
Black window on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS

Binary package or full compiled application shows briefly the SHADERed logo and then it remains a black window at startup. No controls or widgets shown.

opened by papyDoctor 0
I can't add "tcs" & "tes" shader

First of all, thanks for such a cool editor!

I added a small example of a subdivision shader with a recent version, but I didn't compile the shader into it.

opened by Ranbun 0
c++ export is hard to compile in windows

First of all, thanks for such a cool editor!

I tried to build in msvc 2019 and got an error: Error LNK2019 unresolved external symbol "int __cdecl invoke_main(void)" (?invoke_main@@YAHXZ I got tired of suffering with the CMAKE config in VS and I tried to build using MSYS2 (with mingw compiler), after agonizing over there, I ended up with a similar problem undefined reference to 'WinMain' in the end, it was necessary to add #define SDL_MAIN_HANDLED (before #include <GL/glew.h>) to export.cpp and then it compiled!

You also need to install mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake and don't use the default cmake from msys2 (remove it and restart ) otherwise you won't get past the Could NOT find OpenGL error (missing: OPENGL_opengl_LIBRARY OPENGL_glx_LIBRARY) even if you install mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-mesa.

I was also able to build without any cmake this way: g++.exe -mwindows export.cpp -o export.exe -lmingw32 -lsdl2 -lopengl32 -lglu32 -lglew32

I also had to comment: glUniform4fv(glGetUniformLocation(Image_SP, "iMouse"), 1, glm::value_ptr(shaderVariable)); because it couldn't defined shaderVariable: error: 'shaderVariable' was not declared in this scope.

Some tips

For static build (no need lib*.dll but need put SDL2.dll and glew32.dll in exe folder): Add in CMakeLists.txt -static by replace target_link_libraries(ShaderProject GLEW::GLEW SDL2::SDL2) to target_link_libraries(ShaderProject GLEW::GLEW SDL2::SDL2 -static)

Compile without console window: Replace in CMakeLists.txt add_executable(ShaderProject ${SOURCES}) to add_executable(ShaderProject WIN32 ${SOURCES})

For beginners: cmake . && cmake --build . for configure and build by cmake You need to install glew sdl2 glm packages via pacman -S packagename (use search via pacman -Ss packagename).

opened by 0x4E69676874466F78 0

compilation failed error: unable to find library

HI, i use FreeBSD 13.1 and i tried compile this project with linker problems I have installed minizip,sdl2 Bad order command maybe ?

axfx@ /m/S/c/SHADERed (master)> gmake
[  3%] Built target cppdap
[  6%] Built target SpvGenTwoLib
[  9%] Built target SpvGenTwoCommon
[  9%] Built target IrrXML
[ 62%] Built target assimp
[ 62%] Built target GenericCodeGen
[ 62%] Built target OGLCompiler
[ 63%] Built target glslang-build-info
[ 64%] Built target OSDependent
[ 73%] Built target MachineIndependent
[ 73%] Built target glslang
[ 75%] Built target SPIRV
[ 78%] Built target SPIRVVM
[ 78%] Linking CXX executable bin/SHADERed
ld: error: unable to find library -lSDL2
ld: error: unable to find library -lstdc++fs
ld: error: unable to find library -lminizip
c++: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
gmake[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/SHADERed.dir/build.make:1540: bin/SHADERed] Error 1
gmake[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:389: CMakeFiles/SHADERed.dir/all] Error 2
gmake: *** [Makefile:136: all] Error 2

opened by Martinfx 0

Crash on Save
Oddly ShaderEd crashes for me in this case:

Start a new project.(doesn't matter empty or GLSL)

Create a shader stage.

Create a vertexBuffer

Create a vertexBuffer object and bind it.(give it any data...I just randomly slide some values)

Save project - > Crash.
opened by okuma10 0

Releases(v1.5.6)

v1.5.6(Oct 24, 2021)
CHANGELOG:

display error messages on the preview window when in DAP mode

fix a bug that causeed the debugger to crash

fix downloading SpearNode through the "Browse online" window

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
Linux.zip(15.86 MB)
Win32.zip(12.54 MB)
Win64.zip(13.07 MB)
v1.5.5(Oct 3, 2021)
Check out the new plugin for SHADERed - SpearNode . It's a node based shader editor addon that supports debugging and exporting to Unity/HLSL/GLSL/SPIR-V.

CHANGELOG:

add IPlugin3

fix gizmo 3D model

fix "Save as GLSL/HLSL" when a plugin shader editor is used

fix a bug where cached plugin shader editor information sometimes wouldn't be cleared

fix a bug that would cause SHADERed to crash when pausing the preview with a plugin shader editor open

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
Linux.zip(15.86 MB)
Win32.zip(12.54 MB)
Win64.zip(13.07 MB)
v1.5.4(Jul 10, 2021)
CHANGELOG:

add "Save as HLSL" option & --convert flag can now convert GLSL -> HLSL

add ability to step into included files while debugging

add vertex buffer instancing

add ability to copy error messages

add --generatecmake | -gcm command line argument

add more empty space to the "Objects" window so it's easier to right click

fix a bug that would cause SHADERed to crash when trying to view texture properties

fix a bug that would cause compute shaders not to run when rendering a sequence to image files

fix a bug where 3D textures wouldn't be properly bound to a shader debugger

fix a bug where sometimes the debugger wouldn't work properly with if statements

fix loading volume .dds textures

fix autocomplete for geometry shaders

fix a bug that would cause shaders to be output in wrong directory when converting project into C++

fix debug outline in the "Preview" window when using lines_adjacency

fix a bug that caused SHADERed to crash when a non-project shader file is open in a text editor and there are error messages

fix a bug that occured when debugging a project that uses 3D models

fix a bug that caused SHADERed to crash when debugging geometry shaders

fix a bug that caused the debugger not to work if the compiler doesn't output function with the name "main"

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
Linux.zip(15.85 MB)
Win32.zip(12.54 MB)
Win64.zip(13.07 MB)
v1.5.3(May 20, 2021)
Blog post: https://shadered.org/blog?id=9 YouTube tutorial: https://youtu.be/3VGN8r88Pkk

Extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dfranx.shadered Extension source code: https://github.com/dfranx/vscode-shadered

CHANGELOG:

add Debug Adapter Protocol

fix a bug that would sometimes cause SHADERed to concat two absolute paths

fix a bug where "Function Stack" window would display wrong line numbers while debugging HLSL

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
Linux.zip(17.22 MB)
Win32.zip(13.37 MB)
Win64.zip(13.88 MB)
v1.5.2(Apr 25, 2021)
CHANGELOG:

fix a critical bug that would cause SHADERed to not store proper texture paths in project files

fix a bug that would cause SHADERed to crash on creating cubemaps

fix a bug that caused the geometry shader file dialog to be unresponsive

fix a bug that would crash SHADERed when a project file is referencing an texture that doesn't exist

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
Linux.zip(16.63 MB)
Win32.zip(13.71 MB)
Win64.zip(14.30 MB)
v1.5.1(Apr 4, 2021)
Blog post: https://shadered.org/blog?id=8

CHANGELOG:

add tessellation control shader debugger

add --convert command

remove BUILD_IMMEDIATE_MODE (immediate mode now works on all systems)

fix immediate mode when using HLSL's cbuffer variables

fix a bug that would sometimes cause SHADERed to print unhelpful error messages

fix a bug in immediate mode that would cause it to crash

fix a bug where --disassemble command would output wrong IDs

fix a bug in text editor that would sometimes highlight wrong code folding collapse/expand sections

fix a bug where search in "Browse online" wouldn't work when searching for themes & plugins

fix a bug that doesn't let you close the frame analysis window

fix a bug that caused the frame analysis window to stay open after loading another project

remove SFML

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
Linux.zip(16.63 MB)
Win32.zip(13.70 MB)
Win64.zip(14.30 MB)
v1.5(Mar 11, 2021)
Blog post: shadered.org/blog?id=6

CHANGELOG:

add "Frame analysis" window

add the ability to detect undefined behavior in shaders

add global/frame breakpoints

add the ability to see variable's value throughout the whole frame

add SPIR-V instruction heatmap

add "Profiler" window - measure shader execution time

add color histogram

add pixel history

add "Focus mode"

add support for .dds textures

add Texture3D object

add preview for Image3D objects

add --disassemble command

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
Linux.zip(16.64 MB)
Win32.zip(13.61 MB)
Win64.zip(14.20 MB)
v1.4.4(Feb 16, 2021)
Read the blog post: https://shadered.org/blog?id=6.

CHANGELOG:

add tessellation shaders

add new file dialog

add code folding

add the ability to CTRL+Click on keywords, functions, headers... etc in the text editor

add "Highlight brackets" option to text editor

add PickPosition variable

add VertexShaderPosition variable

add darkened render texture as background to GeometryOutputUI

add the ability to open a shader file by drag and dropping it into the window

fix a bug where gizmo and bounding box would still render even when preview is paused

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
Linux.zip(16.15 MB)
Win32.zip(13.35 MB)
Win64.zip(14.16 MB)
v1.4.3(Dec 24, 2020)
Read the blog post: https://shadered.org/blog?id=5

CHANGELOG:

add geometry shader debugger

add "Auto" window

add "Save as GLSL" option

add "Language" dropdown to "Create Item" when creating a shader pass

add --compile and related commands

add function declaration tooltips

add scrollbar markers for changed lines

add the ability to temporarily disable breakpoint condition

add "Editor.DuplicateLine" shortcut

add "Editor.CommentLines" and "Editor.UncommentLines" shortcuts

add BufferFloat and BufferInt to input layout manager

add link to the blog post in the "Changelog" window

autocomplete now suggest object members after typing '.'

highlight SPIR-V code that corresponds to the line on which the shader debugger is currently located

list Rust and C++ shaders in 'Browse online' window if corresponding plugins are installed

creating a new project doesn't require a save location anymore

when creating a render texture the ratio size will now be used by default

remove "Clear" button in pixel inspect window

"Properties" window will now open (if it was closed) when opening the object's/item's properties

fix a bug that would sometimes crash SHADERed when pasting code

fix a bug that would cause SHADERed to crash when opening a newly created VertexBuffer item in the properties window

fix a bug that caused SHADERed to crash when deleting a input layout item

fix a bug that caused "Create item" window not to create shader files sometimes

fix a crash that happened when deleting last expression in the "Watch" window

fix "Auto indent on paste" feature

fix "Topology" dropdown in the properties (it was impossible to render a point list)

fix double click, CTRL+Backspace & CTRL+Delete shortcuts in the text editor

fix a bug that would cause the "Use geometry shader" flag to be completely ignored in "Create item" window

fix a bug that caused SHADERed to crash when plugin tried to add a message without a "group"

fix a bug that would sometimes cause SHADERed to store configs and downloads on non user owned folders on Linux

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
Linux.zip(16.12 MB)
Win32.zip(13.32 MB)
Win64.zip(14.13 MB)
v1.4.2(Nov 5, 2020)
CHANGELOG:

add "Save SPIR-V binary" option

add the ability to drag and drop objects on pipeline items

add --version | -v command line argument

add --render | -r, --renderwidth | -rw, --renderheight | -rh, --rendertime | -rt, etc... commands

add threading to "Browse online" window so that it doesn't block SHADERed

add OS support check for plugins in "Browse online" window

improve Pixel Inspect window's UI

improve message written after installing plugin through "Browse online" window

improve logging

reset file dialog search query after opening a directory

right clicking on the path button in file dialog will open path textbox

text editor's "Find" feature is now case insensitive

unpin the variable after applying system value to it

fix binding textures to HLSL shaders in the debugger

fix pipeline item drag and drop

fix "Check for plugin updates on startup" option

fix undo bug that happens after autocomplete

fix SPIR-V syntax highlighting on stats page

fix text editor scrolling

fix GLSL include directive

fix converting from SPIR-V to GLSL when multiple stages are in the same file

fix a bug that wouldnt let user open a project that used plugins through terminal

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v1.4.1(Oct 4, 2020)
CHANGELOG:

add compute shader debugger

add "Vector watch" window

add the ability to speed up the first person camera's movement by holding SHIFT key

add the ability to paste full file path in the file dialog

switch from Dear ImGui's 'Columns API' to 'Tables API' in "Watches" & "Breakpoints" window

fix a bug that would cause SHADERed to crash when using immediate mode while debugging vertex shaders

fix a bug that would cause SHADERed to crash if shader has a function with a texture as an argument

fix a bug that would keep the debugger running after "Save As"

fix a bug that wouldn't add a project to recents after "Save As"

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v1.4(Sep 2, 2020)
CHANGELOG:

web version of SHADERed: https://shadered.org

add 'Browse online' window -> install plugins, themes & shaders through the application

add "Check for plugin updates on startup" option

add File -> Open Recent

hardware mouse cursors

fix "Save As" for projects that use textures

fix render state saving

fix text editor windows not being resizable

fix file dialog search

fix Gray theme's comments

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v1.3.6(Jul 27, 2020)
CHANGELOG:

[DEBUGGER] add immediate window

[DEBUGGER] add watches

[DEBUGGER] add conditional breakpoints

[DEBUGGER] add a feature that executes expressions on hover

[DEBUGGER] add color preview for vec3 and vec4 variables

add code snippets (located in Options)

add a feature that allows exporting images, textures & render textures to an image file

add ability to disable compute pass

add ability to update image's content from a loaded texture

add markers to text editor's scrollbar

add "Auto indent on paste" option

add IsSavingToFile system variable

add custom file dialogs

add ability to add multiple textures to project at once

add KeyboardTexture description in Help -> Information

implement IPlugin2

redesign "Output" window

fix text editor's "Find and replace" feature

fix a bug that would crash SHADERed when using multiple compute shaders

fix a bug that would crash SHADERed when deleting a buffer

fix a bug that would crash SHADERed when setting FPS limit to 0 while the FPS limit is applied to whole application

fix a bug that would add textures to Shader Pass' variables when using "auto variables" feature

fix a bug that caused SHADERed not to apply 'system value' if a variable previously used a function

fix cubemaps

fix cubemap example

fix a bug that would incorrectly report an error when exporting project to a C++ file

fix a bug that would add some themes two times to the theme list in options

fix a bug that wouldn't sync breakpoint's state when toggling it through the "Breakpoints" window

remove "Create shader file" menu item

rename "Active autocomplete" option to "Continuous autocomplete"

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v1.3.5(Jul 12, 2020)
There are also new plugins: https://shadered.org/store/plugins.php

CHANGELOG:

plugin API v1

add a feature that automatically detects and adds uniforms to variable manager

add "Active autocomplete" option

add user defined functions, variables & structures to text editor's autocomplete

add KeyboardTexture object

add BreakpointDisabled, UserFunction, UserType, UniformVariable, GlobalVariable, LocalVariable, FunctionArgument entries to TextEditor's theme

add "Syntax highlighting" option

add SHADERED_WEB, SHADERED_DESKTOP & SHADERED_VERSION preprocessor definitions to shaders

add Preview.ToggleCursorVisibility, Preview.ToggleMouseLock & Preview.ToggleTimePause shortcuts

add more information to the "Stats" page

add ability to reload texture objects

plugins are backward and forward compatible

plugins can implement their own shader language & editor

improve the "auto recompile" feature

fix text editor's ui scaling

fix HLSL geometry shaders

fix a bug that caused SHADERed to crash when deleting render textures

fix a bug that sometimes caused SHADERed to crash when deleting shader pass item

fix a bug that caused deleted plugins to stay in the "Not loaded" list in options

fix a bug that allowed user to create objects without a name

fix a bug that caused SHADERed to crash when debugging a shader that uses some image functions

fix cubemap saving

fix text editor's "Save changes" popup

fix "Autocomplete" option

fix "Brace completion"

fix mouse wrapping

rename "Recompile shader every 200ms" to "Recompile shader on content change"

rename "Smart predictions" to "Autocomplete"

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v1.3.4(May 17, 2020)
CHANGELOG:

replace ShaderDebugger with SPIRV-VM (introduces significant improvements to the SHADERed's debugger)

add pixel outline to debugger's overlay

add debugger overlay to render texture's preview

add Stats page (currently only shows SPIR-V)

add "Auto fetch" option

add "Primitive outline" & "Pixel outline" options

add a feature that automatically creates shader files when creating a shader pass

add line numbers in the "Function stack" window

add statusbar to render texture's preview

add new templates (QuadHLSL and QuadGLSL)

primitive's outline is now shown even after zooming in when paused and debugging

changing properties in Save Preview -> Advanced should now accordingly update the preview window

use glslang for error messages

use more powerful GPU by default (NvOptimusEnablement & AmdPowerXpressRequestHighPerformance)

double clicking on an object in the "Objects" window now opens its preview

make it possible to pick pixels on the render texture's preview window

show pixel coordinates in "Pixel Inspect" window

update text editor's light theme (better current line and "selection" colors)

reset zoom on project load

pause music & audio shader when preview is paused

[DEBUGGER] now works with buffers, 3D textures and cubemaps

[DEBUGGER] now works with VertexBuffer items

[DEBUGGER] add support for derivative functions

remove "Immediate" window, "Watches" & conditional breakpoints

fix a bug where buffer objects couldn't be bound to vertex/pixel shaders

fix (render) texture's preview alignment

fix (render) texture's preview magnifier

fix gizmo

fix VertexBuffer picking + bounding box

fix 3D model picking

fix "Step Out" (it's now possible to use "Step In" multiple times on the same line)

fix a bug that caused breakpoints to duplicate when a new line is added

fix a bug that caused SHADERed to change current time after a render to file even if user didn't change it

fix a bug that caused SHADERed to crash when deleting a texture that's open in properties

fix a bug that caused magnifier not to zoom sometimes

fix a bug that made it possible to open preview for the same object several times

fix a bug that caused debugger to produce wrong numbers when it is rendered to the same render texture multiple times in the project

fix a bug that caused buffer to stay bound to compute pass even after it has been unbound

fix buffer's "load data from 3D model"

fix text editor's UI when user horizontally scrolls

fix a bug that would apply user's custom render states to the magnifier UI

fix TextEditor::EnsureCursorVisible()

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v1.3.3(Apr 17, 2020)
CHANGELOG:

add VertexBuffer

add command line arguments

add an option to pause buffer preview

add an option to load buffer data from texture, 3D models and regular files

add horizontal scrolling with mouse cursor while selecting text

add SHIFT + left click to select text

add color preview to vec3 and vec4 shader variables

line numbers & breakpoints in text editor should now be "pinned" to the left side

fix a bug that unfocused text editor on AltGr key press

fix a bug that caused SHADERed to crash when parsing error messages

fix a bug that caused SHADERed to crash when using ObjectProperty variables

fix a bug that caused SHADERed to crash when a font file didn't exist

fix a bug that caused SHADERed sometimes to crash after pressing "Change Variables" button

fix a bug that caused variable values to get mixed up sometimes

fix a bug that caused preview window to sometimes go blank when using an external text editor

fix a bug that caused "Save As" file dialog to open twice when saving templates

fix a bug caused by deleting variables used in the "Change Variables" popup

fix gizmo

fix file dialogs

fix fps limit options

fix line highlighting in the text editor

fix plane and circle normals

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v1.3.2(Apr 3, 2020)
CHANGELOG:

add texture properties

add shader variables that point to pipeline item properties

add a splash screen

add "Changelog" popup which shows up on startup after an update

add "Show tips on startup" option

add "This will unassign Shortcut.ID" popup when changing shortcuts

fix ScreenQuad position and size on other RTs

fix a bug that caused SHADERed to crash when clicking on shader variable function list combobox

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v1.3.1(Mar 18, 2020)
CHANGELOG:

add confirmation dialog when deleting a shader pass item

add CTRL + scroll to change text editor font size

fix font resizing/changing

fix a bug where caret would move multiple characters after pressing backspace

fix picking with SHIFT + A

fix picking scaled 3D models

fix a bug where SHADERed would sometimes block on exit on Linux

fix UI scaling

DPI awareness

moving items up/down now counts as a project modification

resizing render textures now counts as a project modification

remove MatrixShadow and MatrixReflect

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v1.3(Feb 25, 2020)
CHANGELOG:

add shader debugger

add plugin API

add MSAA

add option for supersampling when rendering to an image file

add support for #include keyword

add "Export -> as C++ project" option

add ability to load projects by drag and dropping them

add search in Options -> Shortcuts

add "Pause preview on startup" option

add "Show function description tooltips" option

change default font & theme

change how MouseButton works

change how paused state works

clicking on "Reset time" when paused will now rerender everything

fix zoom reset using double click when paused

fix a bug where SHADERed would think it's minimized on startup (and slow down the whole program)

fix copy and pasting '\t'

fix deleting '\t'

various fixes

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v1.2.4(Oct 31, 2019)
CHANGELOG:

add drag & drop to PipelineUI

add ability to "hide/deactivate" certain shader pass

fix TextEditor shortcut system (please update your shortcuts.kb file)

fix Home/End in TextEditor

fix gizmo interaction when preview is zoomed in

fix Find tool's highlighting

fix pause functionality

scroll to Find tool's selection

Editor.Replace is now bound to CTRL+H (instead of SHIFT+H)

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v1.2.3(Oct 13, 2019)
CHANGELOG:

add 3D textures

add audio shaders (GLSL synthesized audio)

add ability to have multiple cameras / camera snapshots

add ability to change variable type after variable has been created

add a window where all system variables are listed

add magnifier tool to texture/image preview window

add find and replace feature in the text editor

add right click context menu in the text editor

add Editor.FindNext shortcut

add feature that automatically adds variables on shader pass creation

add support for HLSL types in the buffer format

add ability to change warning, message and error text colors in the theme files

add ability to use sprintf format specifiers in filenames when exporting image sequence

fix copy and paste

fix matrix variable exporting & importing

fix a bug where openning Sobel -> Edge -> Sobel examples would break the rendered

fix RT default size

fix bounding box color

fix a bug where SHADERed would recompile file two times after clicking "Compile" button

fix texture loading

fix "GeometryShader" & "VulkanSimple" example

fix a bug where "Outline" example wouldn't work after Edge/Sobel examples

fix ObjectPreviewUI::Close()

fix a crash on openning "cubemap" example

improve image sequence export speed

any form of project saving should also now save all shader code modifications

shader code modifications now also count as project modifications (now you will get "Are you sure" message box on exit)

recompile shader pass after we change it's shader path

close code editors after a shader pass has been deleted

prevent various crashes (loading wrong 3D model file, wrong project file, compute shaders not supported, etc...)

color compute shader labels light/dark green (can be changed)

improve CTRL+F

internal changes

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v1.2.2(Sep 27, 2019)
Here's another huge update with many new features and fixes. I am going to slow down with SHADERed development (although I will try to push at least one fix/feature every day) and I am going to mostly focus on ShaderDebugger - a feature that will later come to SHADERed.

CHANGELOG:

rework image objects (removed Read & Write flags & you can choose how to bind them) - some old projects with compute shaders may not work

add support for Vulkan GLSL

add input layout manager

add CTRL+F in code editor

add tangent, bitangent and color vertex attributes

add ability to export your shader to an image sequence

add support for drag & drop

add resource manager

add project change detection & "Are you sure?" message box

add "Hide menu bar in performance mode" option

add glslang error messages when preprocessing fails

add CamerPosition3 and CameraDirection3 variables

fix a bug which would crash whole app after deleting last variable in the list

fix a bug where variable name was wrongly limited to 16chars when being created

fix a bug where SHADERed would use absolute paths even if project and shader file were on the same drive

fix file "Compile" option so that it only recompiles the correct shader pass

fix "Recompile on file change" so that it only recompiles correct shaders

fix non resizable columns

fix a bug where SHADERed would sometimes crash on exit

fix a bug where no actual error messages show up with the auto recompile on HLSL and Vulkan GLSL shaders

fix "Edge" example

fix for two vertical scrollbars in CodeEditorUI

fix for loading textures with improper size

fix ScreenQuadNDC rendering in GLSL projects

save "performance mode" state on exit

increase variable name length from 32 to 256

color the "Name:" label red when user tries to use already existing item name

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v1.2.1(Sep 20, 2019)
CHANGELOG:

fix ctrl + backspace / ctrl + delete

fix ctrl + shift selecting

fix "Insert spaces on tab press" option

fix "Show horizontal scrollbar" option

fix text editor error message color on light theme (& add ErrorMessage property to editor themes)

fix various transcompiler crashes

fix a crash that occurs when fetching texel data from a texture without a sampler in a HLSL shader

fix a bug where text editor would append \n at the end of file

fix crash when using RWTexture2D

fix crash on HLSL function calls with no arguments

write item type in the Properties

minor UI polishing

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v1.2(Sep 17, 2019)
CHANGELOG:

add compute shaders

add empty image object

fix loading files from different drives on Windows

fix saving info about item opened in PropertyUI

fix "Show error list window when build finishes with an error" option

temprorary fix for crash on float3(), float4(), etc...

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v1.1.5(Sep 14, 2019)
CHANGELOG:

add auto recompile option (compile shaders every 200ms)

add option to disable/enable window's alpha channel

add "Show whitespace" option

add ScreenQuadNDC

add the ability to set CodeUI.Save and Project.Save to same shortcut

add option to stream logs to log.txt

fix some TextEditor bugs

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v1.1.4(Sep 11, 2019)
CHANGELOG:

add option to reset time

add CTRL+ALT+MWheel to zoom in/out

add buffer objects

add instancing

add cubemap preview

add object preview window

add automatic update checks

add option to modify system variables when rendering to an image

fix zoom area dragging

fix zoom selection bounds

fix picking when zoomed in

fix gizmo, bounding box & zoom area performance

fix a bug where SHADERed would crash with multiple 3D models

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v1.1.3(Sep 3, 2019)
CHANGELOG:

fix float4/int4/bool4 variables

add icon font

add tool bar

add zoom in/out functionality

add zoom controls (ALT + LEFT drag to select the zoom area, ALT + RIGHT drag to move the zoom area, ALT + DBL CLICK to reset zoom)

add format property to render textures

add ability to pause and increase time by 100ms (or hold CTRL to increase just by 1 frame)

add Mouse and MouseButton system variables

fix last frame flag for GeometryTransform

fix a bug where bounding box wouldn't show if gizmo is turned off

disable last frame flag for ViewportSize

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v1.1.2(Aug 30, 2019)
CHANGELOG:

add Pointer function (variables can now be pointers to other variables)

add shader macros

add FrameIndex system variable

add shader variable flags (invert matrices, use last frame values, etc...)

add option to disable RT clear

fix clear color parsing

fix a bug where SHADERed would crash when adding a shader pass through CreateItemUI

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v1.1.1(Aug 23, 2019)
CHANGELOG:

fix a bug when multiple textures are bound but some are not used

fix GLSL shaders (specify location)

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v1.1.0(Aug 22, 2019)
UPDATE: Added 64bit version + fixed crashes when trying to create a new project from templates NOTE: Fixed all major issues in v1.1.1 so please avoid using this version!!!

CHANGELOG:

port from DirectX to OpenGL & SDL (works on linux now)

add CMakeLists.txt

use assimp - supports more 3D model file formats

link glslang and SPIRV-Cross (rather than using external processes)

only one variable manager for all stages (variable names now matter though)

write actual error messages in the Output window

add line number and shader type (source) in the Output Window

support single key shortcuts (example: press F to go into Performance mode)

KeyboardShortcuts doesnt listen to repeated events anymore

merge DepthStencilState, RasterizerState, BlendState into one state called RenderState

HLSL to GLSL transcompiler

cubemaps now require path to 6 separate textures

append version to project files (+ backwards compatibility)

implement version #2 of SHADERed project files

SHIFT+drag gizmo for faster dragging

slow down the application when minimized

add "Apply the FPS limit to the whole application" option

add "Limit application to 60FPS when it is not focused" option

limit rotation value between [0, 360] in PropertyUI

duplicated object now appears in PropertyUI if "PropertyPick" option is turned on

IsPicked variable now works with multiple items selected

prompt user to save project when user tries to save changes to a shader file in a template

prompt user to save project when user tries to open template shaders in an external editor

add an actual logger -> outputs high amount of stuff in log.txt

fix mouse cursor capture when rotating camera

fix bounding boxes for other geometry types

fix for "app wont gain focus when clicking on anything but the titlebar"

fix a bug where the app would crash if when set as a default app for ".sprj" files

fix a bug where gizmo wont move with the selected object when the object is moved using PropertyUI

fix a bug where user couldnt write {} (and other characters using alt and ctrl) in the text editor

fix a bug where user could pick a render state item by double clicking it in PipelineUI

fix a bug where two items could exist with names "Box", "BoX", etc...

fix a bug where where SHADERed wouldnt check for file updates on a recently added geometry shader

remove FXAA

remove stats page

remove input layout manager

remove glslangValidator.exe & SPIRVCross.exe

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