Custom Shader Mod Tool!

[Viper85626]

Select the target shader folder in which to install your shader mod (preferably in "core/shaders.")

I would personally not recommend putting the colorconv_sepia.tga file in the core/shaders folder (if this is what you are saying, because that's what it seems like). If you're replacing, it will go in textures/shaders/, otherwise you can 'trick' Amnesia by putting the effect in another folder, and having that placed above the textures entry in the resources.cfg. I'm sorry if that sounds like gibberish, but give it a few reads and you'll understand.

Haha, I completely understand what you're saying. I've been developing an FC for the past 6 months already But this app doesn't deal with .tga files yet. It only deals with .glsl files. That's why I wanted to target the shaders folder.

Your tool is requesting administrator credentials. Would this be possible to rid? I'm currently unable to run it from here because of this, and it would probably get somewhat annoying to have to write your admin name + password, or press "Yes" (depending) every time it's started.

I added admin rights because some people may have the target folder somewhere like the Steam directory where the app may not be able to write to without those privileges. I can take them off and reupload if you want. But if it can't write somewhere because of permissions, then you'll need admin rights.

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.

Okay, I get what you're saying. Thanks for the feedback! This app will definitely have future updates, so I'll keep all of that in mind.