Closed mnkylord closed 3 years ago
Duplicate of https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/944
Please search existing proposals before creating one of your own.
If you have anything to add to https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/944 please post it as a comment instead of creating a new proposal.
Describe the project you are working on
I am building a JRPG style game in 3D.
Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your project
Shader languages lack noises. So I watched tutorials and read sites on noises and wrote a library of noise generator functions. But copying and pasting them makes managing shaders codes very dirty and difficult.
Describe the feature / enhancement and how it helps to overcome the problem or limitation
It will be great if the shader language has #include functionality like C/C++. With it, shaders can share common libraries. This makes shader codes much cleaner and also much easier to optimize.
Describe how your proposal will work, with code, pseudo-code, mock-ups, and/or diagrams
Using #include statements in shaders will make codes much cleaner instead of copying-and-pasting shader functions.
If this enhancement will not be used often, can it be worked around with a few lines of script?
As far as I understand, no.
Is there a reason why this should be core and not an add-on in the asset library?
I suppose it is possible to have an add-on that performs macros in shader codes. But in my opinion, #include is just a cleaner and better solution.