Adding the ability for any* Renderable to change to custom shaders

alexanderbock commented 1 year ago

Taking the RenderableModel and RenderableGalaxy example and expanding it to all Renderable types to be able to exchange the shader that is being used

micahnyc commented 1 year ago

as requested in user group meeting

hedbergj commented 1 year ago

I do realize this is kinda opening up a huge box of possible trouble (and fun). But, the possibility to mess with the shaders is already there, it just is a little awkward and not very robust (i.e. copy existing file, rename, mess with new one). I think this could present a very cool avenue for some folks who might be more into opengl but not so into astro/dataviz to participate. Here are some things I’ve done with shaders that cover the range of sciencey to whimsy.