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- To: Coordination of admins/developers of the game programming library Allegro <alleg-developers@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [AD] Some more thoughts on the shader API
- From: Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 08:51:50 +1100
On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:14:12 -0500, SiegeLord <slabode@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So after trying to use the current API some more while working on the
> examples I had some other ideas about simplifying it. One thing I
> noticed was that the default shaders were just very verbose to use.
> Firstly, you had to include both allegro_hlsl.h and allegro_glsl.h. Then
> you had to switch based on the shader platform so you could use the
> appropriate functions. I really didn't see a point behind making it this
> annoying to use the default shaders, so how about this API instead:
>
> No more allegro_glsl.h and allegro_hlsl.h, instead these two functions
> are added to shader.h:
>
> const char* al_get_default_vertex_shader(ALLEGRO_SHADER_PLATFORM platform);
> const char* al_get_default_pixel_shader(ALLEGRO_SHADER_PLATFORM platform);
No objections from me, I was just thinking that.
You saved me some work on al_get_shader_platform, too :)
Peter