[EFFECT] - GS #8 Kaleidoscope

Suffice to say, this shall be the last effect from us for today.

Self-explanatory... go and see this kaleidoscopic effect over at http://gameswarp.com/studio/?p=311. You can download the effect from there for free.

Thanks!

GamesWarp Studio

Awesome!

I have a questions, how do you port shaders from shadertoy or heroku.glsl?

Hi,

It's not that difficult really. Your maths must be pretty polished for this and you need to know some basics on GLSL - the shader language (which I need to brush up on myself).

Everything I have done so far (except maybe the Oscillating Sweep) was based on something from either Heroku or Shadertoy (especially those shaders with no prohibitive license attached).

I will be working on a tutorial soon for this. Look out for this.

Thanks,

Gavin

necromaster

Thanks, when your tutorial is published, it will help me to make new shaders!

Yup.

But, if you want to "make new shaders" literally... go learn how to use Heroku or Shadertoy too.

Just take someone's prior work and play around with the equations, tweaking constants or changing stuff. Go ahead and change sines into cosines... throw in a tangent here and there. Use a 'plus' instead of a 'minus', and so on.

Plus don't forget to read the OpenGL manual over at opengl.org/sdk/docs/man

Thank you so much for this effect and it's nice to know there are good souls out there whom share the talent, knowledge with people like us. Thanks so much for sharing

Any image?