Textures:Shaders

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What is a shader?

Shaders are short text scripts that define the properties of a surface as it appears and functions in a game world or radiant.

By convention, the documents that contain these scripts usually has the same name as the texture set which contains the textures being modified (e.g; ut4_mymap, bobsmap, castle, etc,). Several specific script documents have also been created to handle special cases, like liquids, sky and special effects.

These are called the common shaders. Their definition comes from a textfile, normally found in your mapping/scripts folder called common.shader.

The bitmap images for common shaders can be found in the common-sprog.pk3.

Reference

The complete manual is available here