GLSL - Attributes in Irrlicht

[MirceaKitsune]

I'm not too good with shaders yet, but am a developer for an Irrlicht project (MineTest, C++). Another developer is working on adding better visual effects, but has hit an issue: He needs to use Attribute variables instead of Uniform ones. He looked for a way to do that in Irrlicht, but couldn't find anything in the Irrlicht docs.

How do you use Attributes for GLSL shaders, in Irrlicht 1.7 and / or 1.8?

[hendu]

Not supported in those versions. You want the FVF branch for that.

Alternatively, see my instancing patch.

[MirceaKitsune]

I understand. A custom or patched version of Irrlicht isn't a possibility for the project, so sadly that wouldn't work. Any chance the branch might eventually become part of Irrlicht? If yes, is it known in which version and when that version will be released?

[hendu]

It will be a part of 2.0 in a year or two, IIRC.

[vivekSivamRP]

I do know whether it is possible in GLSL , but in GLSL ES 2.0 we are using our own attributes by modifying some line of codes in S3DVertex.h in irrlicht files.