Pluggable PBR shader?

[Ali_RS]

Just in case this is related!!

Here is what @nehon wanted to do about shader nodes. A programmable shader node with a Java API.

I’d like to address this, by providing an easier way to code them and build them from java code.

Thoughts on Shader Nodes

I’ve been thinking of several enhancements for Shader Nodes and I’d like shader nodes users to chime in. There are a lot of nice things about the Shader Nodes system, but other things that are not so great. My main concern is that they can be really cumbersome to write, because they are described in a very declarative way. Without a proper visual editor it’s frankly easier to code a good old shader from scratch than making a shader node based material definition. And since there is no officia…