Dear JCL, Conitec,

Ichiro found a new company providing shaders for games. They claim to offer them also for engines but you have to contact them. This might be an easy way to get a huge amount of shaders in no-time:

http://www.shadersforgames.com

I hope this can be helpful and could expand the upcoming shader library in A7.

Best regards,
Frank

This could be a great base to use such shader code for an upcoming shader editor. Some variables like the amount of specularity or diffuse components could be changed in real-time and could result in adapted versions of those shaders.

Yes, we know about them and I'm in fact already in touch with them for porting their shader packs to A6 and A7.

now, thats a reply you didnt thought of, right frank?

i wonder how this will work licensewise, since the shaders shall not be included readable in projects

Great. Thank you.

yeah, why not buying know-how?

When will the shader pack available? I would like to pay as 3rd party resource.

Hi,

My name is Phil, and I'm the guy from ShadersForGames that JCL has been talking to. As of Friday I had zero 3D GameStudio experience, so it was bound to take a while to get to grips with how everything works. As of this morning, I have managed to get my first shader converted, and properly integrated ( IE: it uses material properties from 3DGS like specular and diffuse colors, as well as grabbing the correct skins you set in ModelView, and grabbing light properties from 3DGS lights ( or in the case of this shader, the sun. )

I can't really say how long it will take to get the packs converted. I'll probably leave a few shaders that wouldn't be useful to 3DGS users out, add a few new ones in ( I have a couple of new shaders which aren't in any packs just yet ) and then we'll see where we go from there.

JCL and I have not made any decisions on what we would like to do with the shaders. I'm open to offering them from my site, having JCL sell them as a third party add-on on this site, and it's not out of the question ( from my point of view ) that they might come bundled with 3DGS V7.

I don't want to make any promises on a ETA, since I have a lot to learn about 3DGS, but I am fairly confident that I can do them now, so I'll make it a top priority to get them completed.

Thanks for everyone's interest, encouragement and assistance.

Cool news, good luck with converting.

Cheers