Thoughts on Shader Nodes

Pauli · June 8, 2018, 1:03pm

+1 for the Java API to build shaders from shader nodes and defining nodes directly in the GLSL files.

I’m a friend of minimizing the mental context switching and reducing the amount of required programming languages, so keeping the additional shader node definition format out of the process is very welcome.

aegroto · June 8, 2018, 2:52pm

Yeah, that’s what i mean. Sorry but i’m unable to run jMonkeyBuilder on my machine so I don’t know its features :\

javasabr · June 8, 2018, 4:34pm

What problem do you have with jmb?

nehon · June 11, 2018, 8:57am

btw @aegroto, you can check how the TestShaderNode.java outputs the generated code to the console

github.com

jMonkeyEngine/jmonkeyengine/blob/master/jme3-examples/src/main/java/jme3test/material/TestShaderNodes.java#L31-L36


mat.selectTechnique(TechniqueDef.DEFAULT_TECHNIQUE_NAME, renderManager);
Technique t = mat.getActiveTechnique();
for (Shader.ShaderSource shaderSource : t.getDef().getShader(assetManager, renderer.getCaps(), t.getDynamicDefines()).getSources()) {
    System.out.println(shaderSource.getSource());
}