Shaderific for OpenGL

VERSION HISTORY

Version 5.2.1

Bug fixes and minor improvements

Version 5.2

Now with improved import functionality and a new color picker

• Improved file import functionality using iOS File Browser
• Access to local device storage, iCloud and third-party storage providers (e.g. Dropbox)
• Support of dark mode as part of the editor themes
• Replaced custom color picker with iOS Color Picker
• Changeable tint color as part of the editor themes
• Improved line numbering
• Bug fixes and minor improvements

Version 5.1

Now with full support for iOS 14

Bug fixes and minor improvements

Version 5.0

Now with full support for iOS 13 and external pointing devices on iPad

Improvements to the code editor:

• Support for commenting (see shortcuts)
• Support for auto-indentation of new lines
• Tab / backspace are now aware of indentation levels
• Highlighting of matching braces
• Auto-completion of opening braces
• Auto-deletion of neighboring matching braces
• Automatic removal of trailing spaces when hitting enter
• Shader files are always terminated with a newline character

Shortcut support for external keyboards:

• Undo / redo with ⌘Z and ⌘⇧Z (remapping to default shortcuts)
• Commenting with ⌘/
• Enabling / disabling split view with ⌃⌥⌘↓ and ⌃⌥⌘↑
• Switching between vertex and fragment shader with ⌃⌥⌘← and ⌃⌥⌘→

Bug fixes and minor improvements:

• Open contact form on website for feedback if the user has no active email account
• Fixed crash when using dots in the shader file name
• Fixed several layout issues

Version 4.4

Now with full support for iOS 12

• Display render toolbar in side-by-side mode
• Framebuffer texture works now in side-by-side mode
• Support of keyboard shortcuts for copy/paste and undo/redo on external keyboards

Version 4.3

Now with full support for iOS 11 and iPhone X

Version 4.2.2

Fixed auto-compile bug in the shader editor

Version 4.2.1

Migration to Dropbox API v2 (it might be necessary to relink your Dropbox account)

Version 4.2

Now with new display mode on iPad

• New display mode showing render view and editor side by side
• Clear color, material colors, light position, blending parameters and custom uniforms are now saved for each shader separately

Version 4.1.1

• Fixed font view controller
• Improved movie import (create thumbnails and show duration)
• Include texture bindings when duplicating a shader
• Don't lower frame rate when showing menus
• Display accessory keyboard on 12,9" iPad Pro

Version 4.1

Now with full support for iOS 10

• Support for custom uniforms
• Proper handling of camera and photo library access
• New shader for beautiful rendering of Conway's Game of Life
• Import of Game of Life patterns as text files with automatic texture conversion

Version 4.0

Now with full support for iPad Pro, Multitasking and iOS 9

• Support for the new screen size of the iPad Pro
• Support for Slide Over and Split View
• New stereo mode for left-right image rendering
• Support for rendering on external display (via Lightning Digital AV Adapter)
• Support for external game controller

Version 3.4.1

• Fixed layout problem with the accessory keyboard

Version 3.4

• Full support for iOS 8
• Full support for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus

Version 3.3.1

• Added line marker
• Several layout improvements
• Fixed bug with clearing error highlighting
• Fixed tab button behavior in selection mode

Version 3.3

Now with completely reworked accessory keyboard and multi-item pasteboard

• Accessory keyboard now supports the full character set of GLSL
• New buttons for standard caret movements (line up / down, beginning / end of line)
• Keyboard pan gesture support for faster caret movements
• Backspace pan gesture for deleting multiple characters
• New selection mode with copy and cut actions
• Multi-item pasteboard supporting complex copy-paste actions
• Support for deleting / ordering code snippets in the pasteboard
• Exchange of items between the local and the global pasteboard
• Full syntax-highlighting support in the pasteboard
• Keyboard appearance and caret color have been added to the theme settings

Version 3.2.1

• Fixed name collision of "in vec2 texture" with texture function in OpenGL ES 3.0 / GLSL ES 3.0 (replaced with "in vec2 texCoord")
• Fixed missing highlighting for attribute qualifier

Version 3.2

Now with support for OpenGL ES 3.0 and GLSL ES 3.0 (dependent on the GPU of your device)

• Support for blending with customizable blending factors and blending function
• New blending shader to demonstrate the blending options
• Culling can now be enabled / disabled in the settings
• New noise texture shader demonstrating the use of a 3D texture in the fragment shader
• New control mode for moving the camera position based on the device orientation
• Duplicate shaders with only one tap
• Fixed problem with cut and paste
• Several small layout and bug fixes

Version 3.1

Now with full support for iOS 7, 64-bit and OpenGL ES 3.0

• Support for 3D anaglyph rendering
• New head object and HeadShader with photorealistic textures
• New DrawInstanced shader for multi object rendering
• New HightMapShader demonstrating the use of textures in the vertex shader
• Faster syntax highlighting
• Import texture coordinates

Version 3.0.2

Fixed several layout issues regarding the onscreen keyboard

Version 3.0.1

Bug fixes

Version 3.0

• Camera texture with video stream from the built-in cameras
• Switch between front- and back-facing camera
• Uniform with face bounds for up to 5 faces (face detection)
• Movie textures with imported movie files
• Import movies from Dropbox or the photo library
• Video recording with automatic export to the photo library
• Customizable video resolution and playback frame rate
• Framebuffer texture containing the previously rendered frame
• Scalable render target to improve performance
• 4 new shader programs demonstrating the new camera, movie and framebuffer textures
• New parametric object (plane)
• Open shader files in other iOS apps
• Full support for external bluetooth keyboards

Version 2.5

• Particle systems with spherical and cubic shape
• Adjustable particle number from 1,000 to 100,000 particles
• Full screen mode for image processing (e.g. texture blending)
• Hiding the menu and status bar on double tap
• Multitouch support with new uniform array in the shader programs
• Coordinates for up to 10/5 simultaneous touches on iPad/iPhone
• 4 new example shader programs

Version 2.4.1

Performance and stability improvements for copy/paste, undo/redo and error highlighting.

The reported problems with copy/paste have been resolved!

Version 2.4

• Built-in OpenGL ES Shading Language reference (iOS 6)
• Context-sensitive help in the shader editor (iOS6 / iPad)
• Import images from your photo library
• Scrollable error messages
• Two new fonts from the Source Code Pro family
• Option for displaying the frame rate

Version 2.3.2

• Customizable auto-indentation for line wrapping
• New highlighting color for vector / matrix indices
• Highlighting color for variables can now be changed
• Autocompletion for preprocessor directives
• Three new planar objects (a square and two rectangles)
• Options for user feedback in the settings menu

Version 2.3.1

• Minor fixes for syntax highlighting and line numbering

Version 2.3

Completely revised shader editor:

• Code completion for keywords, functions and user defined variables
• Syntax highlighting with customizable colors (iOS6)
• Line numbers and error highlighting (iOS6)
• Seven fonts in nine sizes
• Three customizable predefined themes
• Keyboard extension with frequently used keys on iPad
• Improved undo / redo support

iOS6 compatibility and several small fixes and improvements

Version 2.2

Shaderific is now a universal app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch

Version 2.1

Four new shaders using advanced techniques like procedural noise generation, normal modulation and vertex modulation

• LiquidShader
• CloudShader
• FireShader
• HeatShader

Several small fixes and improvements

Version 2.0

• Three new high resolution objects
• Support for object import (Wavefront .obj files)
• Support for texture import (texture2D and cubemaps)
• Support for export of objects as header files
• Full texture support in the shaders
• New texture shaders (texturing, normal mapping, environment mapping)
• Small improvements to the shader editor

Version 1.1

• Added Dropbox support (import / export shader files)
• Added undo / redo support for the shader editor
• 15 new objects