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This is really awesome. to ask a dumb question, what’s a good way to get acclimated with running and building shaders? Just going straight to OpenGL tooling and

• joenot443 2y ago
  Book of Shaders + ShaderToy is how a lot of people cut their teeth.
  • animal531 2y ago
    What makes ShaderToy great is the extremely fast turnaround time. Make changes, compile (in e.g. < 0.1s) and you immediately see the result. In Unity/Unreal you can also work on them, and in certain places you can see results in near real time too, but it takes a few more clicks and saves etc.
• doctorhandshake 2y ago
  Depending on what you’re after, the common recommendation to start with book of shaders or shadertoy may be counterproductive. In my experience using shaders, fragment shaders are a place where I spend a lot of time and effort, and I do a decent amount of computation directly on textures, but the sort of stuff done in fullscreen quad ‘picture in a box’ shaders as in Book of Shaders and ShaderToy is, I believe, unproductively mind-shattering and abstract for beginners. To learn shader fundamentals I’d suggest you write a particle system (in compute or in vertex+frag) or even a raymarching renderer or something, rather than just bang your head against animating patterns on a single frag.