Choose Pixel Shader by expression

[Raylax]

I was wondering if there was someway to set a pixel shader by an expression (much like when you use "Set Alterable Value," you can pick one from the list or use the "Use Expression" button to type an expression of which value to use)? If there is, how does the system work? Are they all indexed by number, or would it need to be chosen by a string?

I was just thinking about making a tool for playing around with the Pixel Shaders and seeing what they all do (along with messing around with the params), as I thought it'd be useful to quickly use when you're trying to decide what effect to use, but became unstuck when I couldn't work out if there was such a way to choose them.

Cheers

[xyzzy]

i think MMF only includes shaders that are directly referenced when it builds an app, so with expressions, you'd end up running into the same problem that you would when referencing external files through expressions (MMF not being able to "read" the expression and include those shaders)

in any case, you'd probably have to have a load of dummy objects, each of which would have a different shader you plan on using, unless there are plans to add something like an "Include shaders" section to Data Elements

though it would be useful once you had the references set up

[Looki]

MMF would need to pre-compile them, ending up in a long freeze at start, I guess.

[Sphax]

I think, it's already planned by Clickteam to add a preview system to the window which list all the pixel-shaders.