About 4.0 alpha

UpAllNight

I understand that 4.0 is a preview release. Eventually I'll change over to it when it's released but in the mean time I'm rather weary of spending time making shaders and other things if it's going to be irrelevant in 4.0.

Example, this scene has a few shaders in it that no longer work in 4.0

Looking at most likely a year or more finishing my current project so it may never become a problem for me, I just cant stand the though of losing all the hours of work on shaders and other stuff if it's going to be nulled.

cybereality

So the shader system I think was totally rewritten for 4.0. And it won't be feature locked until beta, which means the API might change in the next 6 months or so.

UpAllNight

So pretty much best not to spend hours writing shader code until the lock lands.. hmmm good to know !

cybereality

It all depends. I think if you game release is far out (more than 6 months) then it might make sense to port it now and get some experience and report bugs and things like that. The changes are not so bad, yes it takes effort and the documentation has not all be updated, but it's not impossible. But if you are close to finishing your game it's not worth the risk.