ShaderBoy is a simple text editor that lets you write Shadertoy shaders more comfortably, anytime, anywhere. I like writing shaders for Shadertoy, or analyzing other people's esoteric shaders, and I created this especially because I wanted to do that on my smartphone. Whether you're traveling by train or plane, staying in the toilet, fishing or camping, you can write a shader anywhere and anytime. Your power to go.

There are PC version and smartphone version. Both allow you to write shaders with the same variable/function name as Shadertoy. On the PC version, you can fine-tune your shaders with a rich debugging GUI. It also has a recording mode so you can easily save your shader as a movie. The smartphone version consists of a minimal GUI element that assumes the use of a physical keyboards, with a small screen as much coding space as possible.

ShaderBoy uses Google Drive to store your shaders. From any device on which you log in with your Google account, you can continue coding the shader that you last edited.

Enjoy ShaderBoy!

This is not an official Shadertoy application.

Bug reports, feature requests, and 🍺 are welcome.

*iOS ver is WIP. There are many bugs yet. (especially Keymaps, CSS)

App

ShaderBoy is a PWA(Progressive Web Apps). You can install the app from here.

*Howto: Install Progressive Web App (PWA) natively on Windows/macOS via Chrome Browser

Keymaps

	Smartphone	Windows	Mac
Compile	⌥+ENTER	⌥+ENTER	⌥+ENTER
Play/Pause	ctrl+⇧+UP	ctrl+⇧+UP	ctrl+⇧+UP
Reset time	ctrl+⇧+DOWN	ctrl+⇧+DOWN	ctrl+⇧+DOWN
Move to neighbor buffer	⌥+LEFT/RIGHT	⌥+LEFT/RIGHT	⌥+LEFT/RIGHT
Resolution	ctrl+1-4	ctrl+1-4	ctrl+1-4
Save shader	ctrl+S	ctrl+S	⌘+S
Open shader	ctrl+O	ctrl+O	⌘+O
Switch Info	ctrl+⇧+I	ctrl+⇧+I	⌘+⇧+I
Mute/Unmute	ctrl+M	ctrl+M	⌘+M
New shader	ctrl+⇧+⌥+N	ctrl+⇧+⌥+N	⌘+⇧+⌥+N
Import shader	ctrl+⇧+⌥+I	ctrl+⇧+⌥+I	⌘+⇧+⌥+I
Fork shader	ctrl+⇧+⌥+F	ctrl+⇧+⌥+F	⌘+⇧+⌥+F
Show/Hide Knobs	ctrl+⇧+⌥+D	ctrl+⇧+⌥+D	⌘+⇧+⌥+D
Show/Hide Assets	ctrl+⇧+⌥+A	ctrl+⇧+⌥+A	⌘+⇧+⌥+A
Show/Hide Timeline	ctrl+⇧+⌥+T	ctrl+⇧+⌥+T	⌘+⇧+⌥+T
Show/Hide Recording	ctrl+⇧+⌥+R	ctrl+⇧+⌥+R	⌘+⇧+⌥+R
Show/Hide Editor	ctrl+⇧+⌥+H	ctrl+⇧+⌥+H	⌘+⇧+⌥+H
Show/Hide Canvas	ctrl+⇧+⌥+V	ctrl+⇧+⌥+V	⌘+⇧+⌥+V
Toggle Split View	ctrl+⇧+⌥+,	ctrl+⇧+⌥+,	⌘+⇧+⌥+,
Increase Font Size	ctrl++	ctrl++	⌘++
Decrease Font Size	ctrl+-	ctrl+-	⌘+-

Note:ShaderBoy uses Monaco Editor (the same editor that powers VS Code), so you can use all the standard VS Code keyboard shortcuts and features.

Inline GUI Controls

Target	Action	Result
Number	Double-click	Show float slider
vec2 string	Double-click	Show 2D pad GUI
vec3 string/color marker	Double-click	Show HSV slider
Inside GUI area	Double-click	Confirm adjustment
Outside GUI area	Double-click	Cancel adjustment

Note: The inline GUI controls provide quick access to value adjustments directly in the code editor. Double-clicking specific elements will open their respective control interfaces, and you can either confirm or cancel your adjustments using double-clicks.

*And some of Sublime Text bindings by Codemirror.

Features

Compatibility

• Shadertoy uniform variables
• Multipass shader
• Sound shader
• Cubemap shader
• Official assets(textures)
• Official assets(sounds)
• Display compilation time
• Display number of chars
• VR

Supported Shadertoy Uniforms

• uniform vec3 iResolution; // viewport resolution (in pixels)
• uniform float iTime; // shader playback time (in seconds)
• uniform float iTimeDelta; // render time (in seconds)
• uniform int iFrame; // shader playback frame
• uniform float iFrameRate; // number of frames rendered per second
• uniform vec4 iDate; // (year, month, day, time in seconds)
• uniform vec4 iMouse; // mouse pixel coords. xy: current (if MLB down), zw: click
• uniform float iChannelTime[4]; // channel playback time (in seconds)
• uniform vec3 iChannelResolution[4]; // channel resolution (in pixels)
• uniform samplerXX iChannel0..3; // input channel. XX = 2D/Cube
• uniform float iSampleRate; // sound sample rate (i.e., 44100)

GUI/other usefuls

• Timeline GUI(frame based) :PC only
• x24 uniforms with GUI(knob style) :PC only
• supports MIDI controller :PC only
• GUI for Shader list
• GUI for iChannels
• Auto completion(Builtins/User defined funcs, macros, and structs/)
• User manual
• Kindful GUIs
• Inlined Khronos doc
• Snippets for writing SDF(Signed Distance field)
• Multiple editor pane
• Insert value with inlined GUIs.(https://github.com/patriciogonzalezvivo/glslEditor)
• Break point.(https://github.com/patriciogonzalezvivo/glslEditor)

Other

• GoogleDrive
• Export Image shader(WebM/PNG/JPG/GIF)
• Export Sound shader(WAV)
• Witout Google account(Trial mode)
• Syntax highlight
• Import/Exprt JSON (for Shadertoy unofficial plugin)
• Direct import from Shadertoy URL

Screenshots

Build Your ShaderBoy

Install dependencies

If you want have your own ShaderBoy, Clone this repo and install dependencies.

$ npm install

Build

You then set up a local host for development.

$ npm start

or to build,

$ npm run build

Upload

And upload files in "dest" directory to your server. That's it! Good luck!

Dependencies

ShaderBoy depends on some awesome js libralies.
Codemirror
CCapture.js
keymaster
css_browser_selector

Contact

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