Godot Shaders

Godot Shaders is a repository of Free shaders, part of which we made for our course Godot Shader Secrets.

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The shaders

Here's a list of available shaders and demos.

3D Shaders

• 3D dissolve
• 3D outline
• 3D shockwave
• 3D stylized fire
• Advanced toon shader
• Force field
• Stencil mask (impossible cube)
• Stylized fire
• Stylized bottled liquid
• Interactive snow
• Unlit directional tint
• Texture mixing methods
• Stylized waterfall shader
• Spherical mask shader
• Particle bridge: process to canvas_item/spatial communication

2D Shaders

• 2D baked-in-texture glow control
• 2D clouds: noise-based cloud shadows cast over the game world
• 2D dissolve
• 2D glow
• 2D outline
• 2D palette swap
• 2D reflection
• 2D water for side-scrolling games
• 2D water in top-down view
• 2D x-ray (masking)

Screen shaders

• Gaussian blur
• Inverted colors
• Pointilism
• Screen distortion (2D shockwave)

How to use

You can find the shaders in the Shaders/ directory. Most shaders come with a demo scene. All demos are in the Demos/ directory.

The Intro/ directory contains an intro animation to the shader pipeline, that we use in our shader course.

Contributing

Contributors are welcome!

If you encounter a bug, please open an issue.

If you want to contribute to the project, for instance by fixing a bug or adding a feature, check out our:

1. Contributor guidelines.
2. GDScript style guide

Credits

Stylized fire adapted from a Unity tutorial by @minionsart.

Licenses

This project is dual-licensed:

• The source code is available under the MIT license.
• Art assets (images, audio files) are CC-By 4.0. You can attribute them to GDQuest and contributors (https://www.gdquest.com/).