Add common shaders as presets to the shader editor

[ca3games]

Describe the project you are working on: A Basic 3D JRPG.

Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your project: I'm not that great at shader creation and is really confusing to make a shader from scratch.

Describe how this feature / enhancement will help you overcome this problem or limitation: Will help a lot of begginers like me in terms of shaders.

Show a mock up screenshots/video or a flow diagram explaining how your proposal will work: A preset list of common shaders and useful shaders in the visual editor.

Describe implementation detail for your proposal (in code), if possible: A menu or button to just create a shader from a list of common and most useful shaders.

If this enhancement will not be used often, can it be worked around with a few lines of script?: Not sure ready, is more a basic improvement that will help a lot of devs.

Is there a reason why this should be core and not an add-on in the asset library?: Having by default access to a list of common basic shaders to modify will make the visual shader editor a lot more useful.

[Calinou]

I'm sure a library of example shaders can be provided on the asset library :slightly_smiling_face:

[arkology]

What is meant by "common and useful"?

[tengkuizdihar]

I'm quite sure you can already use other people's shader and copy paste it in to your game (as long as it's in the format of the godot's shader language).

[nezvers]

@balenol Please provide some because it's not that easy to find Godot ready shaders. I am for the inclusion of basic or common used shaders, at least as an Asset library. As common I think something like: Color overly, outline, saturation, chromatic aberration, white noise, Perlin noise, some useful shaders for transition, etc.

[ghost]

I can make a repo, what shaders should I include? Engine versions ?, 2D, 3D ?, visual shader, shader?

[Calinou]

@Ekho7 I'd advise having one repository for 2D shaders and one for 3D shaders as you typically won't need both in the same project. Text-based shaders are more friendly to version control, so I'd favor that as well.

[ghost]

In this repository I will upload the shaders, the focus will be as learning material, first I will focus on 3d and then on 2d.

I will work on this on weekends, it will take me about a month to have it ready, and send it to the asset-library.

[nezvers]

@Ekho7, these are ones I've been able to find on the GitHub - GoogleDoc And THERE are some I started and some I wrote down from youtube (HeartBeast).

[ghost]

@nezvers Great.

I divided this into categories.

• Color.
• Vertex.
• Procedural.
• UV
• Canvas
• Surface Shaders.

I will add some examples to each category, for v4.0 (#include, preprocessor) I will create a complete library based on a library that I made for my game on hlsl and shaderlab (Unity).

[nezvers]

@Ekho7 you should make a repository and use issue for collecting submissions like Awesome Godot. Or submit through pull requests. I'm working on few simle transition shaders I would add there.

[ghost]

@nezvers Repos: https://github.com/Ekho7/Godot-Example-Shaders-2D https://github.com/Ekho7/Godot-Example-Shaders-3D

[ghost]

I think this solution is better for this issue. https://github.com/Maujoe/Godot-Visual-Shader-Node-Library

[Calinou]

As far as visual shader plugins go, there's also ShaderV.

I'll close this proposal as people above have demonstrated it can be reasonably implemented by third-party resources. This is now possible with the visual shader custom nodes/plugin system, which is available since Godot 3.2.