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Castle Game Engine defines a few nodes that allow to use shaders to define effects on 3D shapes, textures and lights.
You basically provide small pieces of shading language code
(OpenGL Shading Language, GLSL) that
will be seamlessly integrated with the engine internal shaders (and with each other).
This allows to create graphic effects using
the powerful shader languages.
Contrary to the traditional approach of using shaders (using ComposedShader
nodes,
see shader component support),
this new system allows to create the effects more easily. There is no need
to replicate existing functionality (e.g. you don't have to reimplement existing lighting or texturing operations
in your shaders, if you don't want to modify them).
Moreover, your shader effects automatically cooperate with each other and with standard
rendering features, hence why we call this feature compositing shaders.
The example models are available inside
our demo models.
Download them, and look inside the subdirectory compositing_shaders
there.
Also the water
subdirectory contains water implementation
using our effects.
You can open the example models with any of our engine tools, like view3dscene.
For engine developers using Pascal, the example is in examples/viewport_and_scenes/shader_effects. Build and run this example. Look at source code to see how effects are added by the Pascal code.
The specification of these effects is an extension of the X3D standard. We have two independent implementations of this concept now:
If you have any questions, please ask on Castle Game Engine forum or Discord.
The original description of this idea was Michalis Kamburelis' Ph.D. thesis. (Although never formally defended, due to lack of time.)
I was also presenting it on Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2011 conference and at seminar at Institure of Computer Science, Wrocław.
So I have some additional content about this idea, that may be useful -- but be careful, as it was not updated in the last years. While the idea and syntax remained unchanged, some advised PLUG names have changed.
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