The GUI embeds its shaders' GLSL from shaders/ always: the 14 prebuilt copies, identical to their sources, go, and so does the label saying which was used

2026-10-01T03:12:17Z

shaders/prebuilt/*.glsl were byte-identical to shaders/X.glsl or to prefix.glsl + post/X.glsl (checked with cmp, all 14), kept only so a -Dprebuilt-shaders build could name them; EffectCode and Config then labelled the GUI's shader source as live or prebuilt. The GUI embeds shaderSource (a concatenation, no glslc) either way now; the prebuilt SPIR-V stays, and zig build shaders refreshes only it. Config's report and EffectCode lose their GUI shader source line. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

Post chain: Shadertoy passes compiled by glslc; Crt, Ripple and Glitch rewritten as Shadertoy files

2026-10-01T03:12:15Z

Stage 9 of docs/render-pipeline.md. src/gui/Post.zig runs the chain over the finished frame: each pass reads the one before, ping-pong textures between, the last writes the window; an empty chain is the direct path. The prefix (shaders/post/prefix.glsl) is ghostty's uniform block, name for name and offset for offset (tested against a copy of its Uniforms, the selection colours by their GLSL names), at SDL GPU's bindings, y down. A user's file (Shader ) is compiled by glslc with compileGlsl's own flags on a thread of its own, taken in at the next loop step; errors name the file's own lines; a failed compile keeps the last good pipeline; glslc missing is said once. The bundled passes compile with the build, through the same prefix. Crt, Ripple and Glitch are Shadertoy files, rewritten: no barrel (input is identity, tested), everything in linear light and dithered, keyed to iTime. scene_effects, crt.zig and crt.frag.glsl are gone; the core keeps no clock for the chain. ShaderAnimation off|on|always drives redraw level A: the chain alone over the retained frame (34 us CPU a redraw, measured). Shared files touched: pardes.zig (nextWake loses the scene line, disableSceneEffects empties the chain, two tests), builtins.zig (one switch arm), ninep/ctl.zig (two switch arms), macos.zig (flags from the chain), gui.zig. Not touched: Messages.zig, mouse.zig, detached/*, host_io, tty.

pardes.git/shaders/prebuilt/post.vert.glsl, branch release-0.24

The GUI embeds its shaders' GLSL from shaders/ always: the 14 prebuilt copies, identical to their sources, go, and so does the label saying which was used

Post chain: Shadertoy passes compiled by glslc; Crt, Ripple and Glitch rewritten as Shadertoy files