Trying to obtain Panda3ds synthesized shaders (or looks)

[Thaumaturge]

I believe that one can indeed export the shaders produced by the shader generator!

Based on the following (admittedly old) forum-post, it looks like it’s done via a configuration variable. See the post for details!

Large number of texture swaps causing big performance drop

You can dump all of the shaders by (temporarily) putting “dump-generated-shaders 1” in your Config.prc file, then you can choose the appropriate shaders from the result and load them as shader files directly. But you also can solve this problem by simply holding onto the RenderState that corresponds to the previous state, which will allow it to re-use the previous shader when you return to that state. One way to do this is instead of calling setTexture() on the fly, walk through all of your te…