When you work with Microsoft DirectX 11 hlsl shaders, you have to constantly restart the application to see the result in the modified shaders. This Single Header file(.h) file will fix everything and speed up your shader development by 80%.
I have to work quite often with .hlsl shaders and sometimes it starts to get "annoying" to constantly reboot the application in order to apply changes to .in the hlsl shader, I came up with the idea to automate this and add hot reload for .hlsl to speed up your development, and I'll say this - it really speeds up shader development a lot.
- ❌ Constant application restarts
- ❌ Wasting time on recompilation
- ❌ Interrupting the workflow
- ✅ Automatic recompilation of shaders
- ✅ Instant update in runtime
- ✅ Continuous workflow
- Load/parse .hlsl shaders
- Watcher for the specified files
- The ability to specify a callback that will be called when the shaders are compiled in a new way.
- Full automatic control, you need to specify the shader data and update it new ones in your render after compiling the shaders.
- Bug Fixes
- Support for Geometry, Hull, Compute shaders
- In far future add support for DirectX 12 and OpenGL
- Automatic shader binding after compilation.( at the moment, you are manually getting shaders and binding )
It's simple, clone the repository, take it.open the file and include it in your project.
OR
Without cloning the repository, go to the src folder and open it.open the file and copy the contents.
There is a simple example in the demo folder where a 3D cube is spinning on the stage, just clone the repository, run .sln and assemble the project, launch the application, open .hlsl it in a text editor, edit file and after saving, you will immediately see the result on the screen. Without recompilation.
Hot Reloadable Shaders is licensed under the MIT License, see LICENSE.txt for more information.