Shader Explorer for Stride

A tool showing the built-in shaders of the Stride game engine and vvvv gamma and their inheritance hierarchy.

VS Code Extension

Stride Shader Tools - VS Code extension for SDSL shader development with:

• Syntax highlighting for .sdsl files
• IntelliSense with completions for shaders, variables, and methods
• Hover info showing inherited members and type information
• Go-to-definition for base shaders
• Diagnostics for undefined identifiers with quick-fix suggestions
• Inheritance tree view panel
• Template shader support

Install from the VS Code Marketplace.

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Desktop Application

Parses all shaders in user\.nuget\packages\stride.packagename\latest-version

Features:

• Lists base shaders
• Lists derived shaders
• Navigation history
• Shows in which shader a method or variable is defined or used
• Search for a shader and/or its variables/methods
• Allows to add custom shader folders
• Show selected shader in file explorer

Download here.

Usage

• Make sure Stride is installed
• Extract and run the exe
• Pin it to the taskbar if you use it frequently

Build & Run

Build with Visual Studio 2019 or newer.