Are there any tools for developing OpenGL ES 2.0 shaders?

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I am working on developing an iPad application. I need to use OpenGL ES 2.0 so that I can use custom shaders in my project. I am looking for a tool similar to the "Shader Builder" in OSX that works with OpenGL ES. Does such a tool exist?

I have tried using Shader Builder some. It is nice, but it uses the non-ES version of OpenGL.

Thanks!

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

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you could use Typhoon Labs Shader Designer http://www.opengl.org/sdk/tools/ShaderDesigner/

or glslDevil http://cumbia.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/glsldevil/

also, you could check out this thread Tools for GLSL editing

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answered Oct 14 '11 at 15:07

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 25 '11 at 21:14

Since ESSL is more or less a subset of GLSL x, using Shader Builder in OSX is a fairly good way to develop your shaders. The only difference would be for precision settings, but you will not get a proper result for that until you actually try it on a system.

There are solutions out there - malideveloper.com has a Eclipse plugin for shader development - but that is for Linux/Windows.

So, my answer is:

Use an #ifdef SHADER_API_OGLES20 for precision Try not to too use too weird builtin functions Dump the compiler log when developing

I have had some luck using Shader Builder. Thanks for the suggestion. I wish there were better tools! — AnotherBrian, Feb 10 '11 at 01:43

Are there any tools for developing OpenGL ES 2.0 shaders?

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