processing VS SHADERed

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I disagree. There are so many creative tools that are now online that you can access from your browser that were not envisioned in the original web. It is obviously true that not EVERY website is about creation (but to expect that seems unreasonable?), but even Wikipedia is a collaborative project.

Examples include products from big vendors like Adobe's Photoshop, to smaller products like SketchUp, to more indy generative art tools like https://processing.org and Strudel (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39924210).

Would processing[0] be a good fit? It's designed to be easy to use and learn but powerful enough for professional use. Very quick to get cool stuff moving on a screen and the syntax is Java with a streamlined editing environment.

[0] https://processing.org/

I would personally use the language Processing. It's the one I use the most. And it's relatively easy to start drawing text, squares, and do other kinds of things. (It's kind of like java, but without all the boilerplate code)

Processing (P5) had this: you can select any string of text in its IDE anl search for it in the docs, and if it's one of the built-in functions or constants it will open the associated static html page that came installed with the software, so no internet nor server required. And despite being offline you can still navigate the docs too. This feels a lost basic skill in static site generation these days.

It was the only creative coding framework that had complete, offline documentation like that at the time I might add. OpenFrameworks is still mostly autogenerated stubs for example.

IMO it was one of the things that gave Processing an edge in educational contexts over all alternatives. I was pretty sad to see p5.js not fully continue that tradition and require that you go online to read the docs, and that it's not a static website but that text is rendered with javascript when you open it (still complete and with examples though).

https://processing.org/

https://p5js.org/

Processing is very cool, especially if you like graphics.

https://processing.org/

Processing is a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code. Since 2001, Processing has promoted software literacy within the visual arts and visual literacy within technology. There are tens of thousands of students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists who use Processing for learning and prototyping.

And it's not even their IDE. They just slapped some AVR compilers into Processing

https://processing.org/

If you specifically want to learn shader programming then https://shadered.org/ is a lot more practical than Shadertoy.

I recreated this shader in SHADERed, and if you're interested, you can view its implementation and experiment with your own parameter values and textures. The project can be downloaded here.

There's http://shadered.org/ but it's abandoned now.

That’s why I recommend https://shadered.org/ instead for people who want to learn to use shaders in common contexts.

https://github.com/dfranx/SHADERed (useful tool for debugging shader code, has a bit more functionality than doing it in Godot directly)

https://shadered.org/ spent much time on basic editor features like Intellisense and now it seems to be dead. The time would have been better spent fixing/improving the core features like the awesome debugger. Only very late they added a (basic) VSCode integration.

Hi corysama, thankx for the comment, there is some truth to that yes for sure. As in, in games you writes more vertex / pixel or "surface" shader and then geom, compute. But I have to somehow disagree in terms of lighting. Sure this is raymarching so geometry is procedurally made in the shader, whereas in game shader it is passed with polygonal 3d model. But the lighting / colour shading calculation are the same as with polygonal geometry (ndotL for diffuse pow(max(reflect(dot(-ld,no)... for specular, calculating normals on fly in shader, etc...) so in that respect it will help for game dev style of shaders. Also I would argue that a lot of animation technique and vfx technique in raymarching shaders are similar / useful / reusable with polygonal geometry, like yanimation based on clamping sin and doing easing etc. Therefore doing raymarching shaders is good for becoming vfx artist / technical artist I guess. You are right though to point out the difference, that's clear. Good shout about shadered.org as well. Cheers!

BTW: https://shadered.org/

Hi, is there a plugin that supports using SHADERed IDE to write unity shaders? It has a lot of functionalities than a standard editors and I it can save a ton of time for me. Have already searched the google but have not found anything.