About

Shade-C is an easy to use HLSL shaderframework for the Acknex Engine / Gamestudio 3D. The project was started way back in 2006 and evolved quite a lot over the time (including 4 complete rewrites) until i stopped development ca. 2012. It gives users a set of functions and shaders to easily add visual effects an rendering techniques to their projects that Gamestudio 3D did not support back then (e.g. a full deferred rendering pipeline in addition to Gamestudio's build-in forward renderer)

The official git repository can be found HERE

Shade-C was used by numerous games, including CSiS, Garten Simulator 2010, Glider 2/Deep Fields, Silas Kart and many more.

Features

• Deferred Rendering including one layer of transparency.
• Fallback Forward Rendering.
• Ubershader which users can derive from to easily create custom shaders. No more need to write custom shaders from scratch.
• Physically Based Rendering
• Layered Materials
• Materials from Textures: No more subgroups needed for different materials on the same model.
• HDR Rendering
• Bloom & Screenspace Lensflares
• SSAO & SSDO
• Depth of Field
• Soft Particles
• Reflections & Refractions
• PSSM PCF Sun-Shadows
• ESM Spotlight-Shadows
• more

When

ca. 2006-2010

Screenshots