Shading language

Xenko provides a superset of the HLSL Shading language, bringing advanced and higher level language constructions, with:

• extensibility to allow shaders to be extended easily using object-oriented programming concepts such as classes, inheritance, and composition
• modularity to provide a set modular shaders each focusing on a single rendering technique, more easily manageable
• reusability to maximize code reuse between shaders

Xenko Shading Language (XSL) is automatically transformed to an existing shading language (HLSL, GLSL, GLSL ES).

In this section

• Shader classes, mixins, and inheritance
• Composition
• Templates
• Shader stage input/output automatic management