Tools for GLSL editing [closed]

Answer 1

Looking forward to see some nice answers.

In the meantime, I recommend having a play with ShaderToy and FractalLab

Answer 2

This may or may not help but if you have access to a Mac you can use Quartz Composer for this. For example you can put a trackball and clear patch in a composition, add a glsl shader patch to the trackball and add add the a teapot patch to the glsl shader patch. Then if you go to settings on the glsl shader, you have access to the vertex and fragment shader code. Any changes you make will be displayed in real time. The only drawback is that as far as I can tell you have to use hard-coded constants instead of uniforms. It's not perfect but its fine for playing with new effects and rapid prototyping of algorithms.

Answer 3

After hard searching in google i found this tools for glsl.

http://syntopia.github.com/Fragmentarium/

http://wwwvis.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/glsldevil/index.html#usage

http://cg.in.tu-clausthal.de/teaching/shader_maker/index.shtml

http://sourceforge.net/projects/lumina/files/

http://www.kickjs.org/example/shader_editor/shader_editor.html

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~mjb/glman/

http://www.iquilezles.org/apps/shadertoy/

http://www.lighthouse3d.com/opengl/tools.shtml

http://code.google.com/p/qshaderedit/

Sorry for that some links are repeat with previous answers.

Answer 4

If you develop on the Mac, there is the OpenGL shader builder from Apple:

http://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging/opengl/shader_image.html

Answer 5

It's not a full IDE, but the WebGL inspector browser extension by benvanik seems promising:

http://benvanik.github.com/WebGL-Inspector/

From his page a number of features that might be along the lines you're looking for:

• Extension for injecting into pages
• Embed in an existing application with a single script include
• Capture entire GL frames
• Annotated call log with stepping/resource navigation and redundant call warnings
• Pixel history see all draw calls that contributed to a pixel + blending information
• GL state display
• Resource browsers for textures, buffers, and programs

I've only used it a little bit, but it seems to be a lot better than working in the bare browser.

Answer 6

I don't know if you've already found a tool that works for you. But, there's:

ShaderMaker http://cgvr.cs.uni-bremen.de/teaching/shader_maker/

which is cross-platform (I've tested it under Windows and OSX)

and

glman http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~mjb/glman/

which is windows-only but, according to the authors, will be ported to mac eventually.