About

Shady is a GLSL shader editor, that aims to be fully compatible with https://shadertoy.com.

(Future) Features

• Full Shadertoy.com support
• Non-freezing, very responsive UI, no matter what is compiled or rendered
• Integrated Shadertoy.com search
• Live coding mode (i.e. coding in fullscreen mode)
• GLSL version switching
• Time sliding when paused
• Optimized syntax highlighting (e.g. for swizzling) and error presentation

For not yet implemented features, please have a look at the current issues.

Building instructions

Install dependencies

Ubuntu:

sudo apt install meson valac libsoup2.4-dev libgtksourceview-4-dev glslang-dev libjson-glib-dev

Fedora:

sudo dnf install gcc-c++ meson vala libsoup-devel gtksourceview4-devel glslang-devel json-glib-devel

Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S meson vala libsoup gtksourceview4 glslang json-glib

Meson

Run the following lines:

meson build
cd build
ninja
ninja install

Flatpak

In order to build a flatpak of Shady, you need to have an up-to-date GNOME Sdk and Platform installed. Then run the following command:

flatpak-builder build-dir org.hasi.shady.json

To run the flatpak locally, run:

flatpak-builder --run build-dir org.hasi.shady.json shady

Contributing

You want to help us? Nice! You're very welcome. Please contact us (for example on Twitter @misterdanb) so we can better discuss, what needs to be done and how you can do it.

Donate

We'd also like to point you to our Patreon, which is mostly intended to finance some infrastructure like the domain and the server.