SED – GLSL Shader Environment Builder in C++

A group programming project: an OpenGL Shading Language(GLSL) Interactive Development Environment(IDE) created using C++ and OpenGL. Completed in my third year of university at the NCCA. Currently only for the use of Vertex and Fragment GLSL shaders. Shader Environment Builder (SEB) utilizes an advanced text editor, an OpenGL Context for rendering Vertex-Fragment shaders, the loading of textures and meshes into the shaders, and the changing of uniforms in real-time. It also incorporates a project management system for saving, opening and exporting shaders, and also full logging of GLSL errors into the GUI.

The program allows for creating new projects from pre-existing shader segments and whole shader files that can be used as a basis. The text editor has all the features required for advanced text editing such as auto-completion, text highlighting, error line markers, brace matching, auto indentation, line commenting, a search function, and brace auto-completion. You can edit all the Vec3s, Vec4s and scalar uniforms of the shader program that is running the GLSL as well as modify the camera settings. There are also debug options for viewing the Normals and Wireframe of the model.

This was my first group C++ programming project and I feel it was a huge success. The whole team managed to work closely and effectively together. We managed to produce a functioning program that is both useful and allows for creating shaders in a much more efficient manner.