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  • tinyrenderer

    A brief computer graphics / rendering course

    Project mention: How to Become a Software Engineer ? | dev.to | 2024-04-23

    C++: How OpenGL works: software rendering in 500 lines of code

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  • 3d-game-shaders-for-beginners

    🎮 A step-by-step guide to implementing SSAO, depth of field, lighting, normal mapping, and more for your 3D game.

    Project mention: The Book of Shaders | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-09

    This is a great series if you’re looking for a tutorial. https://lettier.github.io/3d-game-shaders-for-beginners/inde...

  • awesome-creative-coding

    Creative Coding: Generative Art, Data visualization, Interaction Design, Resources.

    Project mention: What Is Generative Art? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-20

    There is a bunch of related "awesome lists" on github.

    https://github.com/terkelg/awesome-creative-coding

    https://github.com/kosmos/awesome-generative-art

    https://github.com/cdr6934/awesome-generative-books

  • rust-gpu

    🐉 Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU shaders 🚧

    Project mention: Gpu.cpp: A lightweight library for portable low-level GPU computation | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-12

  • thebookofshaders

    Step-by-step guide through the abstract and complex universe of Fragment Shaders.

  • Unity-Script-Collection

    A maintained collection of useful & free unity scripts / library's / plugins and extensions

    Project mention: Create More, Consume Less | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-12

    Mostly Unity3D. I've amassed a huge list of assets, shaders, plugins, vfx, and tools that have aided in my workflow. It's hard to think of all the tools I use within Unity at the top of my head. I might make a blog post one day about my workflow but for now this is a pretty good starter list to get you started:

    https://github.com/michidk/Unity-Script-Collection

    and if you need free assets, I made a blog post about creative commons resources.

    https://itch.io/blog/478317/life-as-a-creative-commons-indie...

  • tinyraytracer

    A brief computer graphics / rendering course

  • The-Forge

    The Forge Cross-Platform Rendering Framework PC Windows, Steamdeck (native), Ray Tracing, macOS / iOS, Android, XBOX, PS4, PS5, Switch, Quest 2

    Project mention: WebKit Switching to Skia for 2D Graphics Rendering | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-20

  • glslViewer

    Console-based GLSL Sandbox for 2D/3D shaders

  • SHADERed

    Lightweight, cross-platform & full-featured shader IDE

  • reshade

    A generic post-processing injector for games and video software.

    Project mention: Jagged edges on everything, regardless of AA settings | /r/EliteDangerous | 2023-12-11

    If you are interested in making it look even better, then installing ReShade and adding FSAA there also makes a huge improvement over the best settings in game.

  • UnityLibrary

    :books: Library of all kind of scripts, snippets & shaders for Unity

  • Iris

    A modern shaders mod for Minecraft compatible with existing OptiFine shader packs (by IrisShaders)

    Project mention: Iris 1.6.12 for Minecraft 1.20.3 | /r/linux_gaming | 2023-12-07

  • godot-shaders

    A large library of free and open-source shaders for the Godot game engine. Here, you'll get 2D and 3D shaders with playable demos.

  • Burn-My-Windows

    🔥 Disintegrate your windows with style.

  • lygia

    LYGIA, it's a granular and multi-language (GLSL, HLSL, WGSL, MSL and CUDA) shader library designed for performance and flexibility

  • tinykaboom

    A brief computer graphics / rendering course

  • glslEditor

    Simple WebGL Fragment Shader Editor

  • sprite-glow

    Sprite glow effect for Unity via HDR outline and bloom post-processing

  • slang

    Making it easier to work with shaders

    Project mention: Khronos Group adopts the Slang shading language | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-02

    https://github.com/shader-slang/slang

    It's kind of both. It can generate High level shaders as well as SPIRV, according to the doc.

    I interpret this announcement as more about the governance of the open source project than brand new anything. The project has been around for years and there are even some SIGGRAPH papers in this thing.

  • OpenShadingLanguage

    Advanced shading language for production GI renderers

  • graphics-workshop

    Learn computer graphics by writing GPU shaders!

  • glslCanvas

    Simple tool to load GLSL shaders on HTML Canvas using WebGL

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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What are some of the best open-source Shader projects? This list will help you:

Project Stars
1 tinyrenderer 20,729
2 3d-game-shaders-for-beginners 17,756
3 awesome-creative-coding 13,001
4 rust-gpu 7,351
5 thebookofshaders 6,086
6 Unity-Script-Collection 5,667
7 tinyraytracer 5,014
8 The-Forge 4,836
9 glslViewer 4,729
10 SHADERed 4,324
11 reshade 4,201
12 UnityLibrary 3,871
13 Iris 3,370
14 godot-shaders 3,204
15 Burn-My-Windows 2,698
16 lygia 2,666
17 tinykaboom 2,359
18 glslEditor 2,340
19 sprite-glow 2,295
20 slang 3,148
21 OpenShadingLanguage 2,119
22 graphics-workshop 2,080
23 glslCanvas 1,958

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