Cycles Shader Editor is a cross-platform C++ library that provides a graphical editor for creating Cycles shader graphs with a simple drag and drop interface. It is intended to be used as part of a plugin that integrates Cycles with a DCC app and was created as part of my own plugin for 3ds Max.
This version is a ground-up rewrite that I hope will correct many of the issues present in the original Cycles Shader Editor that caused it to be difficult to maintain and extend.
I hope to make this version better in two primary ways:
- The GUI is now entirely based on Dear ImGui rather than the custom NanoVG GUI used by the old shader editor.
- The code now contains a clean seperation between logic related to the editor itself (src/editor) and logic for manipulating graphs and nodes (src/graph).
This version is still incomplete.
This should build on any plaform that GLFW builds on, but I have only tested it with Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2017, GCC 9.3.1, and Clang 9.0.1.
Libraries you will need are:
- GLFW 3.x
- Boost
- Dear ImGui
- A compatible version is bundled in this repository, but any moderately recent version should work.
This project is available under the GPLv2 (or later) license. The full text of the license is available in LICENSE