Cross-platform GLSL IDE for teaching?

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I am looking for a simple, cross-platform editor for developing simple GLSL programs.
What are other people using for teaching GLSL in a university class?

There used to be quite a few GLSL editors (we have even developed one ourselves), but most of them seem to be no longer maintained.

Requirements:

  • Cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac)
  • Simple to use
  • Vertex and fragment shader (not only fragment shader!), GS and other shaders would be a plus

Does anyone have any hints?

Thanks a lot in advance.

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Is there some reason why oneā€™s personal text editor of choice is insufficient? Especially when learning GLSL, shaders arenā€™t long enough for specialized features like name completion and the like to be important.

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I guess I should have explained my question better. Itā€™s not so much an ā€œeditorā€ but an IDE. After all, you need some SW infrastructure to load the GLSL shaders, load some geometry, provide a GUI for modifying the uniforms at runtime, etc. Thatā€™s what I expect from a ā€œshader editorā€. Is it a bit clearer now what I am looking for?

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In the past I used a site that loads all the difficult parts for you, and just allows you to write the shader themselves. It was great for practice, and can be found here: http://shdr.bkcore.com/

Other than that, the only solution I could think is to make a basic project yourself, and distribute it to the students, but that can get tricky, especially if one is not familiar with all desired platforms.

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SHADERed sounds like it should fit your needs. Itā€™s an extensible open-source shader IDE with a standalone desktop version for Windows and Linux. It also supports different shading languages, and also less common shader types like geometry shaders.

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Thanks for the hint. It really looks like what I need.

But, I tried to make ShaderEd work on Mac for several hours , to no avail. The problem is that ShaderEd relies heavily on right-clicks in the GUI. And this is not implemented in ImGUI, which ShaderEd uses.

I tried to change the source code for a few hours, but didnā€™t get anywhere close to resolve it.

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Cross-ref:

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