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And if you find something not being possible in scripting space, you could either fire up your IDE and extend the interpreter or ask another contributor to provide a corresponding patch. | And if you find something not being possible in scripting space, you could either fire up your IDE and extend the interpreter or ask another contributor to provide a corresponding patch. | ||
== Shader programming == | |||
If you are not interested in C++ programming, but also not in Nasal scripting, there's another option: [[Shader|GLSL Shader programming]]. FlightGear has an extremely powerful "effects" framework and support for running GLSL shaders. While programming shaders for FlightGear doesn't by default require an ability to be a C++ developer, being able to build FG from source and knowing C++ can be really helpful though, especially in order to expose new properties to shaders (i.e. improving the property tree <-> shader interface). | |||
= Hacking the C++ code = | = Hacking the C++ code = | ||