Bakefile support

[vincent23]

Strahlenwerk should allow you to "bake" uniforms, i.e. they get turned into a constant variable. This is useful for parameters which are only changed once or maybe seldomly. A baked uniform's value gets written into a "bakefile", which is included at the top of the shader. When automatic uniforms are implemented, baked uniforms should be recognized and ignored. To "unbake" a uniform, you can simply delete the corresponding line in the Bakefile (or there could be an "unbake" button, maybe in combination with a "show/hide baked uniforms" switch).

Todo: What about uniforms which are used in multiple shaders?

[ro0mquy]

In my opinion uniforms that span multiple Shader shouldn't get any special treatment. That just adds complexity.

[ro0mquy]

There must be also some treatment for uniforms that are manually declared. Linke replacing the uniform with a const.

[vincent23]

I thought of one Bakefile per shader, but I guess one Bakefile per project would be simpler. This approach would solve the issue with uniforms spanning multiple shaders.

Why do you need manually declared uniforms when there are automatic ones? We could make them un-bakeable to stay backwards compatible or just drop them with #62.

[ro0mquy]

or just do a search and replace on every uniform declaration, even on the ones created with #62

[ro0mquy]

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