Add fragment shaders to Blender

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Hi,

Blender uses a basic set of fragment shaders and theese are useful for a lot of stuff, But there are so many beautiful shaders on shadertoy and other sources, I would like to know if there’s a possibilty to add (adapted versions) of them to Blender ? (maybe as an addon).

Before going deeper to that: Are there any plans to make adding shaders possible as a core function in Blender, or could this be a nice idea for others too ?

But however, it woul be nice to get some basic help where to begin to play around with the source code try things myself

Cheers Peter

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Cycles has OSL support for this purpose. There was some work towards custom GLSL shader support, but this is not being actively worked on and there were a bunch of design issue to resolve:
https://developer.blender.org/D2577

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Thanks for your hint !
But unfortunately the links in D2577 (as most or all of the wiki links) are dead