Custom Shader Mod Tool!

[Daemian]

Good job. Rep+
But let me say I think we are going in the wrong direction.

about making a tool that could manage these shader mods and incorporate them into FCs since the "/core/shaders" folder is hardcoded into the game

In my opinion I don't think that's precisely what we need. You see, our main concern it's the player, cause we can copy files around, but we can't bother the player with tools and programs to have our mod working. If anyone skips this part -of using a given tool-, or gets confused on how to use it, or what it is, he won't be able to see the custom effects we wanted.
So what khutulu suggested is to make one single loader program that could handle all this kind of stuff -invisible to the users-, so they only have to press play.
This loader should handle custom shaders and other stuff by just reading a config file the modder includes in his mod. A flag, a file check, whatever.

That's just my opinion on the subject, if we want players to use custom shaders, we have to make a loader. Just one, friendly, intuitive, simple.