For anyone who wants to learn shaders in Godot I wholeheartedly recommend a relatively new video (two months ago) by Christian Koch (youtube channel ‘Clear Code’). The video is called ‘The ultimate introduction to shaders in Godot’.
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fwiw, I bought the book and have now worked through most of it. I find it helpful.
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Is there are reason you don’t want to just link the video?
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would you recommend it to a total beginner of shaders? I have never written one.
Yes, I have also never written one 
It’s clear enough for beginners. You can try it yourself, the first parts of the first few chapters are free.
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I’d recommend that beginners start with the free “The Book of Shaders” — it’ll give you a general idea. In general, it’s better to start with something free (well, unless you have a lot of spare cash).
I tried porting some of it over to Godot, but since it didn’t get any response, I gave up on it.
Since I did that, they’ve changed the formatting, and the code layout has gone haywire.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-to-rotate-91037820
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TBH I found it rather dense and difficult to get into. I ended up learning by watching videos of old Godot 3 shaders and converting them to Godot 4 Visual Shaders.
Where do you get the free version?
Best thing for shaders is chatGTP…
I think reading a shaders bible is not a good choice; theres so much stuff to do, and reading is not going to solve anything. Unless someone is aiming to be another intelectual butterfly, that speaks and dances about (things)
… But there are already do many intelectual butterflies out there, and intelectual deities, and intelectual gurus… I dont think its a good choice…
just make a game thats it !!! better for you, for everyone, etc… but your college teacher and your parents might crucify you !!!
maybe a good choice right now for anyone aming to be an intelectual butterfly would be to read a bible about AI, and of how AI is going to end the world… or something like that…
It was linked on the download page.
I is intellectual.
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This is bad advice. First, ChatGPT is not the best model for stuff like this. Second, LLMs do not understand complex shaders and you end up dancing around the result you want because you don’t know enough.
Also, being on a thread about how to learn something and telling people to not learn and instead have an LLM do it for you it pretty tone deaf. That’s like someone asking for a driving school and you telling them to just take robo taxis. They weren’t asking how to get somewhere. They were asking how to learn a skill.
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