New to shaders in Stride

[JustAnotherGameDevWasTaken]

i want to learn how to use shaders in stride, but i'm not sure where to start, there aren't many tutorials on it and i'm not sure what the stride equivalent is for unity shaders, so i can't use unity tutorials. if someone could point me in the right direction, i'd be grateful as i'm currently really confused on how to start.

[tebjan]

Hey, here are a few resources to check:

• SDSL in the manual: Effects and shaders
  • specifically: Custom shaders
• Then create the samples: Custom material shader and Custom effect from the launcher for simple examples
• Also create the Sample game Space Escape to see how to completely customize a material
• Check the project: Stride.CustomRootRenderFeature for custom rendering

Definitely get the Stride shader explorer to learn from the shaders already shipping with stride and understand their inheritance hierarchy.

Further things to check out:

• Explanation how to override the vertex shader: Built-in way to use a vertex shader in a material. #329 (comment)
• Many of the community projects use custom shaders
• in vvvv you can dynamically write Stride shaders at runtime: Libraries/3d/Shaders