Right now, the official recommended way to use a specific shader from C++ is via the IMPLEMENT_SHADER_TYPE macro. This macro (once all is said and done) looks for a specific filename within the Engine/Shaders directory. This is a very awkward place for plugins, since it requires that any user of th…

This is a feature that would need to be developed, I know I read somewhere that they were in fact investigating a way to accomplish this, so in future we may have “Engine/Shaders” for engine shaders, then “[PLUGIN]/Shaders” for specific plugin shaders.

Using C++ shaders from within a plugin

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darkgaze (darkgaze) February 15, 2018, 4:42pm 5

More on that: An official blog post with not many information, hard to make it compile, a little.