Brlcad/How to mged/shader

Shader types

There are three types of shaders available from within mged:

• Paint shaders
• Plastic shaders
• Light shaders

Paint shaders

Paint shaders apply pigment and texture to object surfaces.

• bwtexture -- black and white texture maps.
• camo -- camouflage shader.
• checker -- checkerboard shader.
• cloud -- Geoffrey Gardner 2d style cloud texture map.
• fakestar -- fake star pattern.
• texture -- full colour texture mapping.

Plastic shaders

The three plastic shaders are:

• mirror -- mirror surface.
• glass -- simulated grass.
• plastic -- simulated plastic.

Light shader

The light shader provides a complex facility for producing image illumination.

Full list of shaders

The mged tool provides support for the following shader types:

• bump -- The bump map shader.
• bwtexture -- black and white texture maps.
• camo -- camouflage shader.
• checker -- checkerboard shader.
• cloud -- Geoffrey Gardner 2d style cloud texture map.
• envmap -- environment mapping shader.
• fakestar -- fake star pattern.
• fbmbump -- fractional brownian motion noise applied to a normal.
• fbmcolor -- fractional brownian motion noise applied to colour.
• fire -- simulated flames.
• glass -- simulated grass.
• gravel -- gravel noiset applied to color and normal.
• light -- light source.
• marble -- marble texture.
• mirror -- mirror surface.
• plastic -- simulated plastic.
• rtrans -- random transparency.
• scloud -- 3D cloud shader.
• spm -- spherical texture maps.
• stack -- stacking shader.
• stxt -- shape texture mapping.
• texture -- full colour texture mapping.
• turbump -- turbulence noise applied to normals.
• turcolor -- turbulence noise applied to colour.
• wood -- wooden texture.

See also

• shader properties