Shader

Available since LÖVE 0.9.0
This type is not supported in earlier versions.

A Shader is used for advanced hardware-accelerated pixel or vertex manipulation. These effects are written in a language based on GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language) with a few things simplified for easier coding.

Potential uses for shaders include HDR/bloom, motion blur, grayscale/invert/sepia/any kind of color effect, reflection/refraction, distortions, bump mapping, and much more! Here is a collection of basic shaders and good starting point to learn: https://github.com/vrld/moonshine

Constructors

love.graphics.newShader

Creates a new Shader.

0.9.0

Functions

Object:release	Immediately destroys the object's Lua reference.	11.0
Object:type	Gets the type of the object as a string.
Object:typeOf	Checks whether an object is of a certain type.
Shader:getExternVariable	Gets information about an 'extern' ('uniform') variable in the Shader.	0.9.2	11.0
Shader:getWarnings	Gets warning and error messages (if any).	0.9.0
Shader:hasUniform	Gets whether a uniform / extern variable exists in the Shader.	11.0
Shader:send	Sends one or more values to the shader.	0.9.0
Shader:sendColor	Sends one or more colors to the shader.	0.10.0

Supertypes

• Object

See Also

• love.graphics
• love.graphics.setShader
• Shader Variables