Learning more about Babylon material plugins

Questions
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I was recently exposed to the material plugins feature that came with Babylon 5.0, and have read through the documentation here Material Plugins | Babylon.js Documentation

When attempting to add invalid shader code, the entire shader GLSL source is outputted to the browser console, so I’ve been able to get a hold of it that way and have a look at it. I’ve got a couple of questions;

  • is there a better way to get the shader code for a Material?

  • is there any specific documentation on the process by which this shader code is generated, and how existing Babylon shaders work internally? or will this just require having a look through the Babylon documentation and the source code to piece it all together?

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AFAIK, there is no other way to see, quickly, the code generated. Maybe I’m wrong. ping @sebavan

is there any specific documentation on the process by which this shader code is generated

Do you have something specific in mind?

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You can use Spector.js to see the generated code (this is usually how I do it).

MaterialPlugins is an extremely advanced way of customizing materials requiring some knowledge about the framework in any mid/complex scenarios.

The code will definitely be the best way to check what is happening in this case.

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You can also use material.onCompiled to log the shader code after it’s compiled like on line 28.

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