The Book of Shaders. By Patricio Gonzalez Vivo and Jen Lowe. This is a gentle step-by-step guide through the abstract and complex universe of Fragment Shaders. CanvasItem shaders are used to draw all 2D elements in Godot. These include all nodes that inherit from CanvasItems, and all GUI elements. CanvasItem shaders contain less built-in variables and functionality than Spatial shaders, but they maintain the same basic structure with vertex, fragment, and light processor functions.
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Godot is a game engine that has risen in popularity over the past few years. It currently supports (officially) its own programming language (GDScript, in both textual and 'visual' forms) and C# (via mono), and is able to target most platforms (including mobile, VR headsets and consoles).
Unlike Unity or Unreal (which have massive communities, asset stores, and performance/storage requirements), it has an almost tiny footprint (less than a hundred megabytes) and runs quite well on low-end hardware, so despite having fiddled with Unity on and off for years, I (together with my kids) find myself playing around with Godot instead.
(It's worth noting that Godot's visual scripting is a pretty decent starting point for getting started with game logic.)
Resources
| Category | Date | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | 2020 | Godello | a Trello clone with a Phoenix back-end |
| Pixelorama | a 2D sprite editor | ||
| Extensions | ArcadiaGodot | a port of the Clojure Arcadia project | |
| Models | Platformer Kit | a free model kit to build platform games | |
| Plugins | 2021 | godot-python | Python language support for Godot |
| 2020 | godot_heightmap_plugin | A heightmap-based terrain plugin for Godot 3.x | |
| Easy Charts | a library with a number of 2D/3D chart types | ||
| Samples | Oculus Quest Toolkit | includes a simple Beat Saber clone and all | |
| Sample Demo Code | a number of interesting bits of code, including some amazing sample shaders | ||
| VRWorkout | a VR workout game for the Oculus Quest | ||
| Shaders | Godot Shader Examples | ||
| Tools | 2019 | frt | a Godot runtime for the Raspberry Pi |
| Tutorials | 2020 | Kids Can Code Tutorials | a set of Godot 2 tutorials (easy to follow by kids, but some GDScript needs to be rewritten for 3.x) |
Running your shader
As part of the construction of this book and my art practice I made an ecosystem of tools to create, display, share and curate shaders. These tools work consistently across Linux, MacOS, Windows and Raspberry Pi and browsers without the need of changing your code.
Running your shaders on the browser
Display: all live examples in this book are displayed using glslCanvas which makes the process of running standalone shader incredible easy.
As you can see, it just needs a canvas element with class='glslCanvas' and the url to your shader in the data-fragment-url. Learn more about it here.
If you are like me, you will probably want to run shaders directly from the console, in that case you should check out glslViewer. This application allows you to incorporate shaders into your bash scripts or unix pipelines and use it in a similar way to ImageMagick. Also glslViewer is a great way to compile shaders on your Raspberry Pi, which is the reason openFrame.io uses it to display shader artwork. Learn more about this application here.
Create: in order to illuminate the experience of coding shaders I made an online editor called glslEditor. This editor is embedded on the book's live examples, it brings a series of handy widgets to make more tangible the abstract experience of working with glsl code. You can also run it as a standalone web application from editor.thebookofshaders.com/. Learn more about it here.
Godot Shader Language
If you prefer to work offline using SublimeText you can install this package for glslViewer. Learn more about it here.
Share: the online editor (editor.thebookofshaders.com/) can share your shaders! Both the embedded and standalone version have an export button where you can get an unique URL's to your shader. Dodge the blocks (updated) mac os. Also it has the ability to export directly to an openFrame.io.
Book Of Shaders - Godot Mac Os Catalina
Curate: Sharing your code is the beginning of you sharing your shader as artwork! Beside the option to export to openFrame.io I made a tool to curate your shaders into a gallery that can be embedded on any site, it's name is glslGallery. Learn more here.
Running your shaders on your favorite framework
In case you already have experience programming in a framework like: Processing, Three.js or OpenFrameworks, you're probably excited to try shaders on these platforms you feel comfortable with. The following are examples of how to set shaders in some popular frameworks with the same uniforms that we are going to use throughout this book. (In the GitHub repository for this chapter, you'll find the full source code for these three frameworks.)
In Three.js
The brilliant and very humble Ricardo Cabello (aka MrDoob ) has been developing along with other contributors probably one of the most famous frameworks for WebGL, called Three.js. You will find a lot of examples, tutorials and books that teach you how to use this JavaScript library to make cool 3D graphics.
Below is an example of the HTML and JS you need to get started with shaders in three.js. Pay attention to the id='fragmentShader' script, here is where you can copy the shaders you find in this book.
In Processing
Started by Ben Fry and Casey Reas in 2001, Processing is an extraordinarily simple and powerful environment in which to take your first steps in code (it was for me at least). Andres Colubri has made important updates to the openGL and video in Processing, making it easier than ever to use and play with GLSL shaders in this friendly environment. Processing will search for the shader named 'shader.frag' in the data folder of the sketch. Be sure to copy the examples you find here into that folder and rename the file.
In order for the shader to work on versions previous to 2.1, you need to add the following line at the beginning of your shader: #define PROCESSING_COLOR_SHADER. So that it looks like this:
For more information about shaders in Processing check out this tutorial.
In openFrameworks
Everybody has a place where they feel comfortable, in my case, that's still the openFrameworks community. This C++ framework wraps around OpenGL and other open source C++ libraries. In many ways it's very similar to Processing, but with the obvious complications of dealing with C++ compilers. In the same way as Processing, openFrameworks will search for your shader files in the data folder, so don't forget to copy the .frag files you want to use and change the name when you load them.
Book Of Shaders - Godot Mac Os X
If you want to use the full set of uniforms contain on the specs of GlslViewer and GlslCanvas in a more simple way on OpenFrameworks I recomend using the ofxShader addon which will also have support for multiple buffers, material shaders, hotreload and automatic conversion for OpenGL ES in the Raspberry Pi. One thousand lies (itch) mac os. And your code will be as simple as doing Space vacuum mac os.
For more information about shaders in openFrameworks go to this excellent tutorial made by Joshua Noble.
In Blender
GlslTexture is an addon that allows you to programatically generate textures using GLSL Shaders and is fully compatible with the rest of the sandboxes on this chapter. How it works:
- Operator Search:
F3(orSpaceBardepending on your setup). TypeGlslTexture
Book Of Shaders - Godot Mac Os 8
- Change
widthandheightsize andSourcefile (which can be a path to an external file).
Book Of Shaders - Godot Mac Os Sierra
Unlike Unity or Unreal (which have massive communities, asset stores, and performance/storage requirements), it has an almost tiny footprint (less than a hundred megabytes) and runs quite well on low-end hardware, so despite having fiddled with Unity on and off for years, I (together with my kids) find myself playing around with Godot instead.
(It's worth noting that Godot's visual scripting is a pretty decent starting point for getting started with game logic.)
Resources
| Category | Date | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | 2020 | Godello | a Trello clone with a Phoenix back-end |
| Pixelorama | a 2D sprite editor | ||
| Extensions | ArcadiaGodot | a port of the Clojure Arcadia project | |
| Models | Platformer Kit | a free model kit to build platform games | |
| Plugins | 2021 | godot-python | Python language support for Godot |
| 2020 | godot_heightmap_plugin | A heightmap-based terrain plugin for Godot 3.x | |
| Easy Charts | a library with a number of 2D/3D chart types | ||
| Samples | Oculus Quest Toolkit | includes a simple Beat Saber clone and all | |
| Sample Demo Code | a number of interesting bits of code, including some amazing sample shaders | ||
| VRWorkout | a VR workout game for the Oculus Quest | ||
| Shaders | Godot Shader Examples | ||
| Tools | 2019 | frt | a Godot runtime for the Raspberry Pi |
| Tutorials | 2020 | Kids Can Code Tutorials | a set of Godot 2 tutorials (easy to follow by kids, but some GDScript needs to be rewritten for 3.x) |
Running your shader
As part of the construction of this book and my art practice I made an ecosystem of tools to create, display, share and curate shaders. These tools work consistently across Linux, MacOS, Windows and Raspberry Pi and browsers without the need of changing your code.
Running your shaders on the browser
Display: all live examples in this book are displayed using glslCanvas which makes the process of running standalone shader incredible easy.
As you can see, it just needs a canvas element with class='glslCanvas' and the url to your shader in the data-fragment-url. Learn more about it here.
If you are like me, you will probably want to run shaders directly from the console, in that case you should check out glslViewer. This application allows you to incorporate shaders into your bash scripts or unix pipelines and use it in a similar way to ImageMagick. Also glslViewer is a great way to compile shaders on your Raspberry Pi, which is the reason openFrame.io uses it to display shader artwork. Learn more about this application here.
Create: in order to illuminate the experience of coding shaders I made an online editor called glslEditor. This editor is embedded on the book's live examples, it brings a series of handy widgets to make more tangible the abstract experience of working with glsl code. You can also run it as a standalone web application from editor.thebookofshaders.com/. Learn more about it here.
Godot Shader Language
If you prefer to work offline using SublimeText you can install this package for glslViewer. Learn more about it here.
Share: the online editor (editor.thebookofshaders.com/) can share your shaders! Both the embedded and standalone version have an export button where you can get an unique URL's to your shader. Dodge the blocks (updated) mac os. Also it has the ability to export directly to an openFrame.io.
Book Of Shaders - Godot Mac Os Catalina
Curate: Sharing your code is the beginning of you sharing your shader as artwork! Beside the option to export to openFrame.io I made a tool to curate your shaders into a gallery that can be embedded on any site, it's name is glslGallery. Learn more here.
Running your shaders on your favorite framework
In case you already have experience programming in a framework like: Processing, Three.js or OpenFrameworks, you're probably excited to try shaders on these platforms you feel comfortable with. The following are examples of how to set shaders in some popular frameworks with the same uniforms that we are going to use throughout this book. (In the GitHub repository for this chapter, you'll find the full source code for these three frameworks.)
In Three.js
The brilliant and very humble Ricardo Cabello (aka MrDoob ) has been developing along with other contributors probably one of the most famous frameworks for WebGL, called Three.js. You will find a lot of examples, tutorials and books that teach you how to use this JavaScript library to make cool 3D graphics.
Below is an example of the HTML and JS you need to get started with shaders in three.js. Pay attention to the id='fragmentShader' script, here is where you can copy the shaders you find in this book.
In Processing
Started by Ben Fry and Casey Reas in 2001, Processing is an extraordinarily simple and powerful environment in which to take your first steps in code (it was for me at least). Andres Colubri has made important updates to the openGL and video in Processing, making it easier than ever to use and play with GLSL shaders in this friendly environment. Processing will search for the shader named 'shader.frag' in the data folder of the sketch. Be sure to copy the examples you find here into that folder and rename the file.
In order for the shader to work on versions previous to 2.1, you need to add the following line at the beginning of your shader: #define PROCESSING_COLOR_SHADER. So that it looks like this:
For more information about shaders in Processing check out this tutorial.
In openFrameworks
Everybody has a place where they feel comfortable, in my case, that's still the openFrameworks community. This C++ framework wraps around OpenGL and other open source C++ libraries. In many ways it's very similar to Processing, but with the obvious complications of dealing with C++ compilers. In the same way as Processing, openFrameworks will search for your shader files in the data folder, so don't forget to copy the .frag files you want to use and change the name when you load them.
Book Of Shaders - Godot Mac Os X
If you want to use the full set of uniforms contain on the specs of GlslViewer and GlslCanvas in a more simple way on OpenFrameworks I recomend using the ofxShader addon which will also have support for multiple buffers, material shaders, hotreload and automatic conversion for OpenGL ES in the Raspberry Pi. One thousand lies (itch) mac os. And your code will be as simple as doing Space vacuum mac os.
For more information about shaders in openFrameworks go to this excellent tutorial made by Joshua Noble.
In Blender
GlslTexture is an addon that allows you to programatically generate textures using GLSL Shaders and is fully compatible with the rest of the sandboxes on this chapter. How it works:
- Operator Search:
F3(orSpaceBardepending on your setup). TypeGlslTexture
Book Of Shaders - Godot Mac Os 8
- Change
widthandheightsize andSourcefile (which can be a path to an external file).
Book Of Shaders - Godot Mac Os Sierra
- Use the Image on your materials. The Image name will be based on the name of the source file.
- Go to the Text Editor (or an external editor if your source file is external) and edit the shader. It will hot reload.
