🌈 ShadeView - Complete Shader Support for Visual Studio Code

✨ Description

ShadeView 2 for Visual Studio Code provides the first-ever comprehensive support for writing HLSL (High-Level Shading Language) and GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language), along with ShaderLab and Compute Shaders in the VSC IDE. Designed specifically for graphics engineers and developers working with shaders, especially in Unity and Godot - but it also works with every engine you choose! The plugin enhances your workflow by bringing advanced features for these languages directly into Visual Studio Code and/or your favorite VSC-based code editor and game engine.

🌟 Features

Shader Realtime Preview Feature [Available in Preview Version - WIP]

• 🔍 Syntax Highlighting:
  Robust syntax highlighting for HLSL,GLSL and Compute Shaders, making it easier to read and navigate shader code. It highlights language-specific keywords, types, functions, and more.

• 💡 Autocomplete:
  Intelligent code completion for HLSL, GLSL and Compute Shaders built right into VSCode. Get suggestions for language constructs and shader functions, reducing time spent on remembering function names and syntax.

• 📜 Code Snippets:
  Quickly insert common shader code snippets, such as function templates for vertex and fragment shaders, matrix transformations, or texture sampling, to accelerate shader development.

• 📚 Built-In Shaders Documentation:
  Just hover your mouse over a keyword and you'll see exactly what it does! However, if it's an engine method - press F12 to see the definition or if it is complicated one, right-click and select Go to Definition to see clearly how the method works!

• ❗ Error Highlighting:
  Real-time error detection and linting for HLSL, GLSL and Compute Shader code, ensuring you catch issues before compilation, with detailed error messages.

• 🔧 Debugging Support:
  Integrated debugging features like stepping through code, inspecting variables, and viewing real-time outputs.

• 🌍 Cross-Platform Support:
  Fully compatible with both Windows and MacOS for HLSL, GLSL and Compute development, with partial or full support for Linux - depending on which distribution you use.

• ⚙️ Customizable Settings:
  Customize the plugin's features to your preferences, including adjusting syntax highlighting, customizing linting rules, or setting up custom code snippets and more.

🛠️ Work In Progress (WIP)

• 🔮 Shader Realtime Preview - Integrated Multi-Language Feature:
• Test your shader code directly within Visual Studio Code with an integrated GLSL and HLSL compiler, ensuring your shaders are valid and ready for your graphics pipeline!

Documentation Highlight Preview Feature - Explains Every Function

🚀 Installation

1. Launch VSCode.
2. Go to the Extensions view (View > Extensions).
3. Search for the "ShadeView 2".
4. Install the plugin.
5. Reload VSCode.

🎉 Enjoy! :)

⚙️ Instructions

⚡ Fast Way:

1. Open a shader file.
2. From the VSCode bottom bar, where you may see the "Plain Text" label, select "ShadeView" or "ShadeLab"" as Language Mode.

🛠️ Perfect Way:

1. Open a shader file.
2. Press CTRL + SHIFT + P to open the command palette.
3. Select "Format Document With...".
4. Select "Configure Default Formatter".
5. Choose "ShadeView" or "ShadeLab"" as Language Mode.
6. Done! 🎊

😸🫂😸 Cooperation:

For me, the best payment for a ton of hard work and a long months of development of a ShadeView 2 would be just people, wanting to help with its development! Just like with the first version - I'm counting on you, people! :)

ShadeView 2 - Source Code: GitHub Repository: ShadeView 2

You do NOT NEED to know programming in Node/JS/TS or even any shader language, to support the development!

DEVELOPERS:

Above all, if youre programmer, you can help by developing translation system HLSL/GLSL (Unity) > Three.JS, which can be found: .\extensionn\out\src\ShaderRenderer.js. Alternatively if you are not interested in Unity, you can find your way by adding support for other game engines or frameworks! It is one of my biggest goals for ShadeView 2 or 3, to be fully universal. Eventually, you can suggest better way to render shaders in VSC than clumsy translating code into Three.JS, if you have :)

HELPERS:

Even if you do not know much about coding, or you just do not code in JS/TS, you can help by expanding the shaders documentation JSONs in: extension\out\src\data. For example, like finding and adding an any omited by me Shader keyword/function/value/type and entering description of it- yes it's as simple as it sounds! - for example, you can find something in Unity or Vulkan documentation, like - for example - _WorldSpaceCameraPos and you can simply add found information, that it is: World-Space relative position of the Camera, represented by float3 :)

Example:

"_WorldSpaceCameraPos": {
"type": "float3",
"documentation": "World-Space position of the Camera."
},

💜😀🩷🫥❤️😈🧡🥶💛 I would be extremely grateful and any help would be rewarded - maybe not financially, due to the non-profit nature of the project, but by being recognized as one of the co-authors of the ShadeView 2!

You can reach me by my email: przemek.orlowski@outlook.com And since you're here, you can, take a look on my portfolio:* https://orlowski.works/

Many people suggested to create ShadeView Development Discord, if you think it is a great idea, please tell me by this archaic, e-mail, way! :) Thanks in advance!

FYI complete ShadeView 2 documentation will be available soon :)