I really want to make/import a custom shader because the shaders in gg classic doesnt match my project much. So how do i do that? Someone please respond.

Making a custom shader or even converting an existing one is a very specialist skill.

If you want to try and have no experience of HLSL or shaders then start by trying to analyse the existing GG shaders and gently changing some of the values, recompiling and observe the results.

You will often encounter hard crashes and green screens unless/until you understand how they hang together.

Honestly not an easy or quick job, so only go down this path if you’re ready for a lot of coding and testing.

Cheers.

Thanks,welp i love hard work over smart work. So time to get working.

Good luck with that, i've seen people with advanced degrees in computer science quietly go sit in a corner and cry after trying to crmake their own HLSL shaders

it used be a lot easier in DX9 version of GG Classsic. Current GG Classic uses HLSL 5. I use ShaderToy purchased from steam a while back. But still have to convert to HLSL version 5. Tricky stuff, but managed to do water effects and other. There are some default shaders like fur etc. It's lot of hard work.

Hahaha nice ill try that shader toy thing

Hello,

( I am posting this comment with a touch of humour)

I cannot compete with the programming skills of Bored of the Rings (a highly skilled software engineer) but my ego is probably bigger than his.

Nice demo of ShaderToy. It seems to provide a user friendly solution to create shaders.

A few months ago I found a free toolsuite (unfortunately it is deprecated for the newest game engines ) with which I was able to learn the method for the creation of shaders in GLSL (OpenGL 2.0) and HLSL (DirectX 9.1) formats.
RenderMonkey is the name of that toolsuite and it is still available on the archives of "gpuopen.com" : https://gpuopen.com/archived/rendermonkey-toolsuite/

Here is a link to a short video clip ( 7 MBytes = 6 seconds) showing one of my experiments of a GLSL shader in a video game's project (OpenGL 2.0) : .

In the time when I liked programming with Dark Basic Pro I found that the tool provided by Lee Bamber to create ones own shaders was a good one to study how shaders are coded.
Anyway it is time consuming and I don't want to learn the coding of shaders anymore. Testing and fine tuning them is difficult.
I think that it is matter that is better reserved for the game engines developers ( https://www.thegamecreators.com/team ).

I see in this forum three main categories of members : the 3D artists, the programmers and the true video games developers.
GameGuru forum and its boards have a nice community.

oh nice