Getting a GLSL from Blender?

gd_anon · Post by **gd_anon** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:52 am

I was kinda confused where to post this.
Ive heard people can turn a Blender shader settings into a GLSL shader for the BGE. Is that true? Because i have achieved a very nice toon shader settings in Blender.

xray · Post by **xray** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 3:50 pm

Sorry but I dont have the answer, but a hint to post your question in a blender forum, because its more a blender internal thing. And I dont think that alot of people here knows much about blenders game engine... so try it here: http://blenderartists.org/forum/

gd_anon · Post by **gd_anon** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 6:31 pm

This isnt really a BGE question. Im using Irrlicht. GLSL can be used in Irrlicht...

xray · Post by **xray** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:11 am

Ok but my experience is that there are not many blender pros here on the irrlicht forum. GLSL is also no specific irrlicht thing, I think you know that. I just wanted to help out getting the answer to your question.

Nadro · Post by **Nadro** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:33 pm

If You have GLSL shader in Blender, You can use this shader also in Irrlicht. Of course You have to send sime important info's via callback.

gd_anon · Post by **gd_anon** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:25 pm

No , i mean can i get a GLSL shader file from Blender shader settings ( materials) ? That is, i set the shader to "Toon" and change a lot of settings. Now i have a pretty cool toon shader. I was wondering if i can generate a GLSL shader file from that.

loki1985 · Post by **loki1985** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:57 pm

still a blender question, not a irrlicht question. go ask the blender guys on their forum.

xray · Post by **xray** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:02 pm

If you want to look on this link:

http://www.blender.org/development/rele ... materials/

...you will find which settings from your material will be recognized from blenders glsl shader. Than you should also download the blender source code, inside you will find the glsl shader which is used inside blender.

cheers

FuzzYspo0N · Post by **FuzzYspo0N** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 10:37 am

The basis of what he is asking, no its not possible to take the render settings directly into a glsl material shader.

Although, the blender forums have hundreds of toon shaders, so does the irrlicht forums. The settings can be transferred TO a shader no doubt, but i know blender doesnt have a "save material as glsl" , unless you are working in the shader view/nodes window (where i havent seen the option) but i might be wrong.

gd_anon · Post by **gd_anon** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 2:54 pm

FuzzYspo0N wrote:
i know blender doesnt have a "save material as glsl" , unless you are working in the shader view/nodes window (where i havent seen the option) but i might be wrong.

So does that mean youre not sure?
Because i have heard the newer BGE supports Blender materials. And i think the BGE turns it to glsl.

xray · Post by **xray** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 5:43 pm

Because i have heard the newer BGE supports Blender materials. And i think the BGE turns it to glsl.

The BGE supports "only" some of the material options, but this does not mean that you are able to produce an glsl shader from a material setting, over an excisting button. Thats something you have to do it by your own, by writing the shader.

oldskoolPunk · Post by **oldskoolPunk** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 5:53 pm

The answer is no.

But an "export shader" option would be a freaking awesome addition to Blender. Go bug the poop out of them at #blendercoders