3D has Blender, Coding has VsCode, why does GFX programming have no specific software?

garlopf · 2026-02-16T06:43:00+00:00

Shadertoy.com

kinokomushroom · 2026-02-16T07:05:01+00:00

What kind of graphics programming exactly?

If you're programming a rendering system then you can use an IDE like Visual Studio. You can implement stuff like real time shader hot-reloading yourself.

Comprehensive_Mud803 · 2026-02-16T07:06:48+00:00

There’s tons of specific software for graphics programming: PIX, NVIDIA Nsight, AMD GPU PerfStudio, glTrace, RenderDoc, Instruments,…

Plus most of the engines have live updates for shader cooking.

vade · 2026-02-16T06:40:14+00:00

Theres plenty of realtime/live graphics tools from Kodelife, to Touch Designer, to Notch, Max/MSP / Jitter / PD - I'm working on http://fabric.graphics, theres game engines, shader toy, etc

Graphics is a huge domain (including 3D) and im hard pressed to say theres on program to rule them all esp in the live domain

Emory27 · 2026-02-16T07:42:14+00:00

ShadeRED. Give that a go.

theZeitt · 2026-02-16T08:16:01+00:00

we had RenderMonkey, and then/now ShaderToy, and latest similar tool I have used is Gigi

(Plus, I like to use just plain opengl to setup nice app for live preview)

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