The Shader Lab Framework is a teaching tool to solidify the fundamentals of Computer Graphics. The ShaderLab framework is based on Qt5, CMake, OpenGL 4.0, and GLSL and allows the student to modify GLSL shaders in an IDE-like environment. The framework is able to render shaded polyhedral geometry (.off/.obj), supports image-based post-processing, and allows to implement simple ray-tracing algorithms. This tool has been intensively tested by 140 Imperial College London CO317 Computer Graphics students in Spring 2017 and will continue to serve as basis framework for our coursework.
A comprehensive overview over out Computer Graphics course using ShaderLabFramework has been accepted for the EG 2017 educational track: Antoine Toisoul, Daniel Rueckert, Bernhard Kainz, Accessible GLSL Shader Programming, in Proc. EuroGraphics 2017, 2017
YouTube Video:
EG educational 2017 fast forward
Copyright (c) 2016 Bernhard Kainz, Antoine S Toisoul (b.kainz@imperial.ac.uk, antoine.toisoul13@imperial.ac.uk)
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This tool was inspired by 'Shader Maker', a Computer Graphics teaching tool developed by the team of Prof.Dr.Gabriel Zachmann, University of Bremen. The Copyright holders of 'Shader Maker' granted permission to use their code. The GLSL shader editor syntax highlighter classes are based on the implementation provided by 'Shader Maker'.
git clone https://github.com/bkainz/ShaderLabFramework.git
cd ShaderLabFramework mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
./ShaderLabFramework
- render window
- mouse-based interaction
- shader compilation log output
- Shader editor with syntax highlighter
- render-to-texture wrapped shader pipeline
- Object selection
- wireframe mode
- display of origin
- backface culling
- screenshot tool
- Camera parameter adjustments
- direct manipulation widget for Model, View and Projection Matrices
- automatic evaluation of user uniforms in uniform editor; default material and matrix uniforms are ignored
- simple numeric material editor
- GPU info output
- saving and loading of whole shader pipelines or individual shaders
- full OpenGL 4.x support
- search function in code editor
- conversion of the coordinate frame for OpenGL4 (will not work on Mac etc. at the moment)
