I’ve been examining the installed files of Automation, and I stumbled across the shader folder.
I have build up some graphical programming experience over the last few year and recently started modding GLSL shaders in games for better looks in-game.
Now I’ve noticed that Automation - because of DirectX - uses compiled HLSL shader files.
My DirectX skills aren’t as good as OpenGL’s, but I know that it’s possible to load in uncompiled shaders and compile them on-the-fly.
If Automation would have this feature, then it has made the first step in allowing user to mod the game in some way.
I’d wait until we move to a new engine (currently evaluating both Unity 5 and Unreal 4) as a lot of shader-y stuff will be a lot different by then.
You’re totally welcome to mess with it in the meantime though, but I’d advise backing up any files you’re going to mess with, just for ease of restoring if you break it
Technical answers will have to wait until Caz is around
Wish I could, but the shaders that are shipped with the game are already compiled into binary machine language.
If you feel like it, you could discuss whether or not to release the source shader files, so I can start messing with those and plug those in again.
